Berkeley, California, United States
I am currently pursuing a PhD in bioengineering at UC Berkeley; I previously completed a master's at Imperial College London and a bachelor's at Georgia Tech, both in biomedical engineering. My research has been awarded internationally and I have worked in locations across the world, including the US, Japan, Switzerland, and the UK. I hold multiple of the world's most prestigious graduate awards, including the Marshall Scholarship, United Nations Millennium Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Amgen Scholarship, and ThinkSwiss Fellowship. Through my research, I aim to push the boundaries of human healing by developing minimally invasive biomaterial-based therapies for currently devastating musculoskeletal injuries. I have a strong and diverse research background, with expertise in biomaterial characterization, iPSC derivation, image-based tissue modeling, and gene editing. Beyond my science, I am an entrepreneur and part-time consultant. I am also an active writer and student on topics including history, Islamic theology, and mental health; my work has been published in various media. I view my career as a combination of science and service.
MRes student under Dr. Claire Higgins. Funded by Marshall Scholarship. Awarded EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. Project: "Investigating Mechanisms of Pain and Itch in Keloid Scarring"
Summer researcher under Dr. Christian Stockmann. Funded by ThinkSwiss Scholarship. Project: "Hypoxic Response in Natural Killer Cell Co-cultures"
Undergraduate research assistant under Dr. Johnna Temenoff. Funded by President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) and Stamps President's Scholarship. Awarded multiple poster awards, PURA grants. Project: "Biomaterial-based Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Manufacturing".
Morrison Lab; Dr. Sean Morrison - Injected mice with growth inhibitors, harvested bone, blood, and organ samples from injected and control mice - Stained and imaged harvested tissue samples, analyzed changes in bone marrow cell population density in injected mice - Used microCT to determine changes in bone morphology and density in femur, tibia, spine samples of injected mice