PhD student
University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio, United States
Awurama Ofori – Kwafo is a second year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering. Born and raised in Ghana, she obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. She worked at the Biomedical Engineering Unit at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the third largest teaching hospital in Africa, working with the installation, monitoring and maintenance of hospital equipment. Subsequently, she worked as a research assistant at the Whitaker Group, an American consultancy which provides project development and investment facilitation in Africa, in the Ghanaian office. Awurama joined the University of Toledo in January 2021 as a Graduate assistant and PhD student and immediately joined the Biofluidics Lab.Her research projects include working on a pumpless high throughput microfluidic platform co-culture module and optimising a gut brain axis on a chip model to understand various pathophysiologies relating to the bidirectional communication between the brain and gut.
Simulating the effect of the gut microbiome on the gut brain axis on a chip
Thursday, October 12, 2023
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT