Experience

The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• T32 CBT@EmTech NIH Trainee

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Cardiovascular Biomechanics Graduate Training Program at Emory and Georgia Tech (CBT@EmTech) Mentor: Dr. Hanjoong Jo Co-Mentor: Dr. Saurabh Sinha

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Cardiovascular Mechanobiology, Therapeutics, and Nanomedicine Lab PI: Dr. Hanjoong Jo Lab Website: https://www.jolabwebpage.com/

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2022 - May 2023

  Undergraduate Systems Physiology



Nucleate

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Operations Lead, Nucleate Atlanta

  • Jan 2023 - Present



Seoul National University Hospital

• South Korea
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Researcher

  • Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

  Pediatric Neurology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics at Seoul National University College of Medicine (PI: Professor Jonghee Chae) • Create cortical organoids from iPSCs of rare genetic disease patients reproducibly for disease modeling • Evaluate bulk RNA-Seq data using various bioinformatics tools to examine and compare transcriptomic profiles of rare genetic disease patient organoids and control organoids • Analyze 10X scRNA-Seq data with Seurat package to compare cell type… Show more Pediatric Neurology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics at Seoul National University College of Medicine (PI: Professor Jonghee Chae) • Create cortical organoids from iPSCs of rare genetic disease patients reproducibly for disease modeling • Evaluate bulk RNA-Seq data using various bioinformatics tools to examine and compare transcriptomic profiles of rare genetic disease patient organoids and control organoids • Analyze 10X scRNA-Seq data with Seurat package to compare cell type populations of muscle biopsy samples from healthy controls, DMD, and BMD patients • Observe developing structures and orientation of different cell types surrounding ventricles within organoids through both 2D and 3D imaging of immunofluorescence (IF) stained organoids with confocal microscope • Perform extracellular flux (XF) analysis on primary dermal fibroblasts to measure oxygen consumption rate (OCR) to diagnose patients with metabolic disorders Show less Pediatric Neurology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics at Seoul National University College of Medicine (PI: Professor Jonghee Chae) • Create cortical organoids from iPSCs of rare genetic disease patients reproducibly for disease modeling • Evaluate bulk RNA-Seq data using various bioinformatics tools to examine and compare transcriptomic profiles of rare genetic disease patient organoids and control organoids • Analyze 10X scRNA-Seq data with Seurat package to compare cell type… Show more Pediatric Neurology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics at Seoul National University College of Medicine (PI: Professor Jonghee Chae) • Create cortical organoids from iPSCs of rare genetic disease patients reproducibly for disease modeling • Evaluate bulk RNA-Seq data using various bioinformatics tools to examine and compare transcriptomic profiles of rare genetic disease patient organoids and control organoids • Analyze 10X scRNA-Seq data with Seurat package to compare cell type populations of muscle biopsy samples from healthy controls, DMD, and BMD patients • Observe developing structures and orientation of different cell types surrounding ventricles within organoids through both 2D and 3D imaging of immunofluorescence (IF) stained organoids with confocal microscope • Perform extracellular flux (XF) analysis on primary dermal fibroblasts to measure oxygen consumption rate (OCR) to diagnose patients with metabolic disorders Show less



Columbia University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Associate

  • Jul 2019 - Apr 2020

  Molecular and Microscale Bioengineering Laboratory of Samuel Sia, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University •Generate organoids composed of pancreatic beta cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and endothelial cells (ECs) to treat type 1 diabetes •Evaluate glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) of organoids using ELISA •Develop a protocol to fabricate microscale hydrogel beads to controllably deliver drugs for DARPA Bioelectronics for Tissue Regeneration (BETR)… Show more Molecular and Microscale Bioengineering Laboratory of Samuel Sia, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University •Generate organoids composed of pancreatic beta cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and endothelial cells (ECs) to treat type 1 diabetes •Evaluate glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) of organoids using ELISA •Develop a protocol to fabricate microscale hydrogel beads to controllably deliver drugs for DARPA Bioelectronics for Tissue Regeneration (BETR) program •Perform endothelial cell tube formation assay using Matrigel •Wrote MATLAB script to process images of mouse hindlimbs acquired from laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI)

• Student Research Assistant

  • Jul 2018 - Jun 2019

  Molecular and Microscale Bioengineering Laboratory of Samuel Sia, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University •Generate organoids composed of MSCs and ECs to treat critical limb ischemia (CLI), and monitor their formation and development •Produce alginate microwell scaffolds crosslinked with CaCl2 for organoid formation •Conduct fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiments on alginate microwell scaffolds with FITC-dextran using confocal… Show more Molecular and Microscale Bioengineering Laboratory of Samuel Sia, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University •Generate organoids composed of MSCs and ECs to treat critical limb ischemia (CLI), and monitor their formation and development •Produce alginate microwell scaffolds crosslinked with CaCl2 for organoid formation •Conduct fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiments on alginate microwell scaffolds with FITC-dextran using confocal microscope •Examined the uncrosslinking behavior of alginate microwell scaffold using various concentrations of sodium citrate