Wilfred Manzano - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Jill Helms, Professor of Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery)
Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Fecal pollution in the urban ocean: predictors of enterococci and a human marker
Event: UNC Water Microbiology Conference 2018
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Hetero-assembling protein-engineered physical hydrogels to improve injectable therapy
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society 2012 Annual Meeting
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Mentor: Cory Shain (Linguistics)
Awarded in 2025
Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisors: Casey Gifford (Pediatrics – Cardiology and Genetics) and Michael Bassik (Genetics)
Dr. Wendy Liu, MD, PhD, is a fellowship-trained glaucoma and cataract surgeon. Her clinical practice focuses on management of adult glaucoma and cataracts. She specializes in traditional glaucoma surgery as well as minimally-invasive glaucoma surgery, such as iStent, Hydrus, Xen, KDB, OMNI, and GATT. Her goal is to work together with patients to determine what the best treatment options are for them, so they can maintain the best vision and quality of life.