Kabir Grewal, UPitt Lab, Weeks 1,2,3, and some of 4
As it turns out, my previous blogs didn't save/upload correctly, so here I am writing my first blog going into my fifth week in the lab. The first two weeks in the lab involved a lot of basic training, so there is not too much to write about there; I will mainly focus on the third and fourth week. Because of this, this post is going to be a bit lengthy, so bear with me. Fortunately, however, this bad luck is not at all representative of how my first four weeks in the Du lab at the University of Pittsburgh have gone thus far. The Du Lab is a small lab (8 people total including myself) in which there are two main focal points; the first is harnessing the regenerative capabilities of stem cells to try and treat the dysfunctional trabecular mesh work that causes Glaucoma, and the second being trying to find an ethical yet effective way to regenerate lost corneal endothelial cells. For the first 1-2 weeks, most of my days were spent learning my way around the lab/finding all ...