Postdoctoral research fellow
Boston University
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Mai Ngo is currently an NIH NRSA postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University, and she will be joining the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assitant professor in August 2024. At Boston University, her research focuses on employing synthetic biology and cell engineering tools to control vascularization within engineered tissues. As a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she was an Illinois Distinguished Fellow and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, she focused on building biomaterial models to understand how vascular signals contribute to the progression of brain cancer. Her future lab will combine synthetic biology, cell engineering, and tissue engineering tools to study and control cell-cell communication to understand disease progression and develop regenerative therapies. Throughout her training, Mai has served as a mentor and educator, and she is passionate about contributing to efforts to recruit and retain individuals from diverse backgrounds into STEM.
Engineering vascularized tissues by synthetic control of paracrine signaling
Friday, October 13, 2023
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT
Engineered Cancer Models for In Vitro Studies II
Friday, October 13, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT