Award to Sophia Orbach

Sophia Orbach receives the "Outstanding Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student" award from the Virginia Tech Graduate School. The goal of her research is to use a 3D multicellular liver culture and transcriptomic analysis (RNA-seq) to develop a model for predicting hepatotoxicity (chemical-driven liver damage) in humans. She is co-advised by Prof. Padma Rajagopalan in Chemical Engineering and Prof. Marion Ehrich in the Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.