PhD Student
University of Illinois Chicago
Dinithi Samarasekera is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in the Microfabricated Tissue Models Lab (MTM Lab) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. She specializes in hepatic, intestinal, and placental tissue culture to develop models of in-vitro disease progression, organ-organ cross-talk, and drug toxicity.