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Danessa graduated cum laude from UCI with a Bachelor's of Science in Biomedical Engineering in June 2020. She has worked previously as a Group Processing Engineering Intern for Applied Medical, as well as an undergraduate research assistant for both the Ray Luo Computational Biology Lab and the Henry Hirschberg Multiplidiscinary Project. She is well-versed in Python, C/C++, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Java, Javascript, and PHP.
As a Group Processing Intern, Danessa worked on several fixtures and test validation methods for several devices. She has modified and tested the trocar fit test, designing a fixture for it. She has also designed a pin-holding fixture to ensure that the company's graspers can withstand compressive and tensile loads. She has worked on CAD models and drawings for products such as the Epix Probe and annotated it for other engineers to use.
As Team AER's prototype developer, Danessa analyzed the risk and failure modes of the device. She made sure that the project adhered to FDA guidelines and general course outlines for the project. She also compiled several reports and edited them to ensure that these reports and presentations were designed with high quality.
As a member of the Computational Biology Lab, Danessa worked on building algorithms to find protein interactions between two proteins. She especially worked on the Mob1-Lats protein complex, with a large data set, performing analyses on the conformational changes in the structure.
As a member of the Henry Hirschberg Lab at Beckman Laser Institute, Danessa has worked on testing drug delivery vectors using macrophages. She subcultured F98 rat tumor cells and performed laser treatments on each plate using gold nanoparticles inserted into each tumor spheroid. She also worked on the SURP summer project "Sonochemical Internalization Project", creating a mechanical setup for monitoring tumor spheroids under sonochemical ultrasound treatment and plasmid-directed gene therapy.
