MSTP students in the Sahoo lab
Medical Scientist Training Program
Jasson Crentsil

Jasson Crentsil

Phase 1 Student

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 2023

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