I currently work in Doctor Rubenstein’s Tissue and Cardiovascular Engineering Lab

My work focuses on electrospinning polymers into scaffolds that can be used in a cardiovascular environment

As of today, I am currently working on acetone-dissolved scaffolds of varying combinations in an attempt to see how mechanical properties such as Young’s modulus, which can be altered by varying the degree of alignment of the scaffold along the major axis, will impact the rate of adhesion that endothelial cells will go through.

In the future, I will be performing experiments to test the adhesion of cells to the scaffold, by culturing endothelial cells onto the scaffolds and testing how well they adhere using Resazurin Salts. I look forward to finally testing how well my creations perform in reality!

I am also coding in MATLAB in order to automatically determine the fiber alignment in scaffolds, as coding is another passion of mine.