Cedra Jazayerli
Senior Undergraduate Researcher
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
About
Cedra Jazayerli is an undergraduate student in her last year at UIC, majoring in biological sciences. She is a member of the Honors College as well as a GPPA Medical Scholar. In the Jalilian Lab, Cedra works in cell culture, cornea dissections, and EV collections. She is involved in many ongoing projects including EV isolation for nerve regeneration in vivo, and her current project is investigating gold nanoparticles as a means for cell tracking. She is passionate about medicine, fluent in Arabic, a certified yoga instructor, and is excited to continue her research throughout medical school.