Stem Cell & Tissue Engineering Researcher

Period: May, 2024 - Present (PAID)

    ❖ Leading various projects related to wound healing, specifically with ECM skin grafts
        ❖ Achieved various successes with metrics related to biomimetic ECM
        ❖ Including 67% increase in "stretch" and the creation of highly anisotropic ECM
    ❖ Mentored, Trained, and Managed (-ing) 2 undergraduates and 1 highschool student
    ❖ Major contributor to other projects including but not limited to:
        ❖ Bioreactor for mass cell culture of multiple ECM scaffolds
        ❖ Characterization of different cardiac fibroblasts (CF) on various scaffolds
        ❖ Studying macrophage migration on scaffolds of variable porosity

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SKILLS OBTAINED

Trainings:

    ❖ Plasma Cleaner: Harrick Plasma PDC-001
    ❖ Optical Tensiometer: NanoScience Atension Theta Flex
    ❖ Ethylene Oxide Sterilizer: Anprolene AN75i
    ❖ Confocal Microscope: Molecular Devices IXM

Lab Protocols:

    ❖ DNA Assays
    ❖ Water Contact Angle (WCA)
    ❖ Cardiac Fibroblast (from hiPSC) cell culture

Other Skills:

    ❖ Project Management, Mentorship, and Training
    ❖ Experimental design
    ❖ Protocol Generation
    ❖ Full Gowning protocol for fabrication labs (AggieFab)
    ❖ Figure Generation via R

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