• Royce Fellowship
Gerasimos
Bastas

Concentration 

Biochemistry

Award Year 

2001

Gerasimos demonstrated the site-specific decoration of proteins with a single sugar. His experimentation contributed to the development of a prototype drug that enlists the immune system against progressed stages of cancer, substituting for the toxic agents currently used during treatment.

Gerasimos received his M.D./Ph.D. from Boston University School of Medicine in 2010. While at BU he was awarded the Wein Student Research Award. He is currently a Resident Physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical interests include amputee care, musculoskeletal and neuromuscular medicine, specifically in the longitudinal maintenance of function and quality of life. His research interests include lower extremity robotically actuated prosthetics, socket biomechanics and design, gait, technology in rehabilitation and a contextualized reframing in the quantification of functional status/ability.