Remziye Wessel
BME Ph.D. Student
UVA Engineering School Dean’s Scholar (2020-2022)
NIH T32 Systems Biology and Data Science Training Grant T32GM145443 (2022-2023)
Remziye is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and joined the Dolatshahi lab in Fall 2020. She grew up in Rochester, NY, and graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, PA in 2020 with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Studio Art.
As a member of the Systems Immunology Lab at UVA, her research focuses on maternal-neonatal immunology. Specifically, she is using systems biology approaches to uncover the mechanism of transplacental antibody transfer from mothers to their fetuses. She is also investigating immune-related mechanisms that contribute to preterm birth, a pregnancy pathology that disproportionately affects African American women in the United States.
Outside of the lab, you can find Remziye baking, painting, or running the many trails of Charlottesville with her rescue dog, Rosie.