Major: Kinesiology - Sports Medicine concentration
Research Advisor: Roberta Anding

Edgar Cedeno is a Kinesiology major with a concentration in Sports Medicine. He is particularly interested in the influences of proper nutrition, body composition, and hydration and how they affect the performance of athletes.

During Edgar’s freshman year, he began working in the Braam Lab under Dr. Wassim Chehab with the idea that if they could understand how the embryos developed independent of fertilization by the endosperm in plants in relation to the four subunits of the PCR2 complex, they could genetically modify plants to develop embryos without male fertilization.

In his junior year, Edgar has transitioned into working under the guidance of Roberta Anding, nutritionist for Rice athletics, as a clinical and sports nutrition intern. He has been working in the development of hydration protocols for the Rice baseball and football teams along with research into the role of body composition in the frequency of cramping. In addition to this work, he is also working with Roberta to create infographics and the revamping of the exercise component at the Baylor College of Medicine Diabetes Prevention Program for employees.

Edgar competed in the 2018 Texas ACSM Quiz Bowl in Austin, TX along with presenting a research poster on patellofemoral pain syndrome and its treatment under the guidance of Zacharias Papadakis. In addition to his involvement in the department, he is the historian for Jones College as well as the Off-Campus student representative. He has served as an Orientation Advisor at Lovett College and is a member of the various organizations across campus such as Global Brigades and Rice Recreation Intramural Supervising staff.

After graduating from Rice, Edgar plans on attending medical school in his path to becoming an orthopedic surgeon with an emphasis on the development of cartilage treatments for regeneration.