Research areas
Students may contribute to projects in:
- Trauma and hemorrhagic shock
- Resuscitation strategies and blood product innovation
- Endothelial glycocalyx biology and inflammation
- Pharmacokinetics in critical illness
- Monitoring and diagnostic validation (tissue oxygenation, point-of-care platforms)
Graduate and DVM Students
VECCTTR supports graduate trainees working in comparative translational models of injury and critical illness. Projects span in vivo and ex vivo models, biospecimen science, and device/diagnostic validation, all of which are built to answer clinically relevant questions in both veterinary and human medicine.
What graduate and DVM students do:
- Contribute to study design, protocol development, and hands-on data collection
- Learn biospecimen handling, biobanking workflows, and reproducible research practices
- Build skills in statistics, figure generation, and scientific writing
- Present at lab meetings, and (when applicable) conferences
Undergraduate students
Undergraduate students can gain research experience in a fast-paced translational lab environment, or on the clinic floor within the emergency room. Roles may include sample processing, data entry/quality control, basic bench techniques, and support for ongoing studies.
Typical undergraduate projects/tasks:
- Participate within a robust clinical trials team
- Sample processing support (labeling, aliquoting, inventory)
- Database curation and basic analysis
- Literature review, figure, and table preparation for manuscripts
- Assisting with method validation and bench workflows under supervision