Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Samir Mitragotri lab in the Bioengineering department at Harvard University. I received my Ph.D. from the Elizabeth Nance lab in the Chemical Engineering department at the University of Washington. My research expertise includes nanotechnology- and cell therapy-mediated drug delivery for the treatment of traumatic brain injury and other related neurological diseases, leveraging expertise from the fields of neurobiology, immunoengineering, and biomaterials. I work with in vitro cell culture, ex vivo organotypic brain slices, and in vivo controlled cortical impact models of brain injury. I study and treat neurological disease from a local and systemic holistic perspective. To achieve neuroprotection, I am interested in drug delivery approaches that involve targeting injured brain tissue directly via chemotactic cell therapy as well as targeting peripheral organs and the immune system via nanoparticle interventions focused on modulating brain-periphery crosstalk that do not require overcoming the blood-brain barrier. I aspire to obtain a tenure-track position in BME or related departments to continue pursuing my passions of researching, mentoring, and teaching.
Anti-inflammatory backpack-carrying macrophages for porcine traumatic brain injury
Friday, October 13, 2023
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT