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Jasson Crentsil
Phase 1 Second Year Student
Locations
- Medical Scientist Training Program
Contact Information
Education
Research Interests
Alzheimer's Disease, aging populations, biomedical imaging
Research Experience
Northwestern University, June 2022-August 2022
Advisor: Gayle Woloschak, PhD
Project: Characterizing the Elemental Signature of a Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) Sample, Lymph Node Sample Using Low- and High-Resolution X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy
Northwestern University, June 2021-August 2021
Advisor: Gayle Woloschak, PhD
Project: Introducing X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Evaluation of Metal Element Content into Biology and Medicine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, June 2019-February 2020
Advisor: Aldo Badano, PhD
Project: Evaluation of Spectral Small-angle X-ray Scattering (sSAXS) for Characterizing Amyloid Plaques
Publications
Breedlove S, Crentsil J, Dahal E, Badano A. Small-angle X-ray scattering characterization of a [Formula: see text]-amyloid model in phantoms. BMC Res Notes. 2020 Mar 4;13(1):128. doi: 10.1186/s13104-020-04969-8. PMID: 32131889; PMCID: PMC7057533.
Copeland-Hardin L, Paunesku T, Murley JS, Crentsil J, Antipova O, Li L, Maxey E, Jin Q, Hooper D, Lai B, Chen S, Woloschak GE. Proof of principle study: synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy for identification of previously radioactive microparticles and elemental mapping of FFPE tissues. Sci Rep. 2023 May 13;13(1):7806. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-34890-6. PMID: 37179410; PMCID: PMC10183016.
Meeting Abstracts
Dahal E, Crentsil J, Ghammraoui B, Badano A. Label-free X-ray Technique for Distinguishing 5XFAD from Wild-Type Mice (Abstract). In: 2020 Alzheimer's Association International Conference; Netherlands; 2020
Northwestern University Cancer- Focused Undergraduate Research Experience (NU-CURE) Symposium, August 2022 [Oral Presentation]
The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Virtual Meeting, November 2020 [Oral Presentation]
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Annual Meeting, October 2019 [Oral Presentation]
General Interests
Watching movies, playing basketball, tennis, and reading