Experience

IVIVA Medical Inc

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Beverly, MA Engineering functional organs using emerging technologies in the fields of 3D printing, tissue engineering, and stem cell biology. Designing and developing custom bioreactors to perfuse engineered vascular 3D tissues.



Boston University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Researcher

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2018

  Boston, MA Worked in Dr. Christopher Chen’s Lab developing systems for tissue engineering and vascular cell biology Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering / Relocated from UPenn to BU in 2013 with Chen Lab • Project 1: Built custom 3D printer and Python code to fabricate 3D cellularized tissues with embedded vasculature, one of the central challenges in the field of tissue engineering • Utilized CAD (Solidworks), soft lithography, microfluidics, and peristaltic… Show more Worked in Dr. Christopher Chen’s Lab developing systems for tissue engineering and vascular cell biology Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering / Relocated from UPenn to BU in 2013 with Chen Lab • Project 1: Built custom 3D printer and Python code to fabricate 3D cellularized tissues with embedded vasculature, one of the central challenges in the field of tissue engineering • Utilized CAD (Solidworks), soft lithography, microfluidics, and peristaltic pumps to incorporate blood flow • Used in vitro diagnostics, cell culture techniques, fluorescence and confocal microscopy to evaluate tissues • Collaborated with vascular surgeons to implant vascularized tissues in vivo to treat ischemia in both a mouse hind-limb ischemia model and in a myocardial-infarcted rat heart model (published in Nature BME) • Project 2: Utilized 3D printing to generate biocompatible substrates that can direct endothelial cell migration within medical devices (collaboration with BU Mech. Eng. dept., manuscript in submission) Show less



Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Wyss Institute

• Laboratory Technician

  • Sep 2010 - Aug 2012

  Boston, MA Worked in Dr. Wesley Wong’s Lab developing novel instrumentation for single molecule biophysics • Worked on microscope instrumentation utilizing centrifugal force to parallelize single-molecule force measurements, enabling high-throughput study of molecular interactions and kinetics under force • Invented a custom microscope to observe molecular kinetics of biological molecules under shear flow



Brown University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2008 - May 2010

  Providence, RI • Investigated inhibition of bacteria on endotracheal tubes using nanoscale surface modification to prevent infection during patient intubation (collaboration with RI Children’s Hospital, published)



Rowland Institute at Harvard

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  Cambridge, MA • Designed and constructed an apparatus and method to precisely sort microspheres by size for use in single-molecule force studies where precise microsphere mass is necessary (published and provisional patent granted)