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-% Thank you to Lex Fridman and Devin Townsend for being awesome and inspirational.
+There are many people without which this work would not have been possible.
+Firstly, I would like to thank my advisor, Krish Roy, for his mentoring and
+guidance as well as his support in my exploring my own ideas throughout this
+project. In addition to the Roy lab as a whole, I should specifically recognize
+Dr's Ranjna Madan-Lala and Kyung-Ho Roh for writing the NSF EAGER grant that
+initially funded this work and providing the foundation of ideas, Dr Hannah
+Wilson Song for assisting me with much of the cell-based work, Dr Pallab Pradhan
+for assisting with the animal studies, and Miguel Armenta Ochoa and Ritika Jain
+for their assistance as well as their ideas for new directions of this work as
+they continue it beyond my tenure. I would also like to thank the undergraduates
+and high school students I had the pleasure of mentoring, Anokhi Patel, Kate
+Richardson, Zahra Mousavi Karimi, Sambhav Jain, Lauren Bailey.
+
+Beyond the Roy lab, I should thank the Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT)
+family at large, especially our collaborators Art Edison, Max Colonna, Wandaliz
+Torres-Garcia, Valerie Odeh-Couvertier, Theresa Kotanchek, and Bruce Levine.
+Additionally, I would like to thank the staff and faculty who fundamentally
+supported this work, including Andrea Soyland, Punya Mardhanan, Carol Mills,
+Carla Zachery, Adrienne Williams,  Sommer Durham, Laxmi Krishnan, Andrew Shaw,
+Aaron Lifland, and Paramita Chatterjee.
+
+Finally, I would like to thank my friends and family for their unconditional
+support throughout this process, as well as Arch Enemy and Megadeth
+for obvious reasons :)
 
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