A North Carolina State University biomedical engineering student will travel to Germany for a meeting of Nobel laureates, an opportunity awarded annually to a select group of young researchers from around the world.

Josephine Bodle, a doctoral student, was awarded a week-long trip to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting that begins in late June. The gathering emphasizes a transfer of knowledge between generations of scientists and features interdisciplinary panel discussions, lectures, and seminars by more than 20 Nobel laureates.

While there, Bodle and other attendees can attend social events that promote intensive discussions and exchange of scientific information between other young scholars and the laureates. The students were chosen from a large number of promising young researchers around the world after being nominated by a global network of academic partners and then evaluated by a review panel.

Bodle, who works with Dr. Elizabeth Loboa, associate professor of biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering, focuses on the role of primary cilia in mediating chemical and mechanically induced human adipose-derived stem cell (hASC) lineage specification in order to optimize hASC use as a cell source for potential engineered tissue replacements.