{"id":21649,"date":"2019-11-25T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T19:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:10:39","slug":"student-spotlight-rami-chakroun","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/student-spotlight-rami-chakroun\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Rami Chakroun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Rami Chakroun, fifth year PhD candidate at INBT and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/\">Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department.<\/a> This Hopkins engineer is using nanotechnology to develop a biodegradable hydrogel, a highly dense network of nanofibers, to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer that grows and spreads rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37591\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Chakroun-Rami-cropped-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Chakroun-Rami-cropped-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Chakroun-Rami-cropped.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/>The primary treatment for most patients with glioblastoma is surgical removal of the tumor. However, because this cancer is so aggressive and grows into healthy brain tissue, complete removal of the tumor is difficult and often results in the tumor growing back. With the help of his mentor,<a href=\"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/people\/honggang-cui\/\"> Honggang Cui,<\/a> Rami is working to reformulate current cancer drugs to form a degradable hydrogel that surgeons can implant in the brain to kill remaining cancer cells and to stop the tumor from growing back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">YouTube: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h845nTlkqtA&amp;t=6s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h845nTlkqtA&amp;t=6s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-21649","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Student Spotlight: Rami Chakroun - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/student-spotlight-rami-chakroun\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Student Spotlight: Rami Chakroun - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meet Rami Chakroun, fifth year PhD candidate at INBT and in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. 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