Current Research Fellows

Ryan was raised in Greenville, South Carolina. He studied Biomedical engineering in undergrad and loves to build and create things. Ryan is currently a medical student at UofSC SOM Greenville. In his spare time if he’s not studying, Ryan loves to hike trails, build computers, build various home projects, and spending time with his fiancé Gianna and Dachshund Maisy. Ryan visited Virginia during a four-day backpacking trip along the Appalachian trail many years ago but distinctly remembers how beautiful it is in the surrounding Charlottesville area. Ryan’s areas of interest in research include the application of clinical engineering, biomaterial creation, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and bioinstrumentation.

Noah was raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi before attending the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) for college where he studied Biology and Society and Health. Noah has just finished his third year of medical school at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and has a M.A. in Urban Bioethics program. In his free time, Noah enjoys attending live sporting events, especially college baseball (Go Hoos!), as well as running half marathons or reading about bioethics, medical non-fiction, and anything from Paul Farmer or Arthur Kleinman. Noah is looking forward to spending the year in Charlottesville with the department of Otolaryngology as a research fellow.