Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant
NC A&T State University
I am Oluseyi Valerie Alagbe, a second year PhD student. I am in the lab of Dr. Kuila, my advisor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in USA, where my main research focus is development of microfluidic organ on chip devices to study kidney disease progression, toxicity studies, and drug metabolism. My research interests are widely in the applications of technology to the field of cell biology, everything ranging from the cellular composition and characteristics to its functions and applications. From studies at the cellular level some disease conditions can be avoided due to prompt detection and treatment of some of the disease conditions' biomarkers present. These biomarkers can be detected via the metabolomics study that can be done using the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.