“I got the opportunity to intern for this lab during my senior year of high school and I've been interning here for two summers. For those two summers, I worked on targeted nanoparticle delivery for treating venous malformations. Each summer I did a different subsection of work on that subject. The first year I was helping create nanoparticles to deliver drug to the VM, and in my second year, I was working on creating a different type of nanomaterial to destroy the VM.
It was SUPER COOL! I honestly learned so many skills that I will be keeping with me for life. Things like creating standard curves, culturing cells, dissections, and using various lab machines. It's quite easy to say that you learned a bunch of skills over the summer, but I can also say that I have been able to apply them in all of my lab classes in college so far. All of the new lab techniques they teach us are things that I have already been practicing in the Kohane Lab. So I genuinely value all of the experiences that I have had in this lab and the mentors that I have gained from it!” – Nikki Okoli, Kohane Lab, 2021 & 2022.