Download my resume here: RESUME – Sarah Spinelli

Volunteering as a Visiting Scholar at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research exposed me to the inner-workings of a professional laboratory, and allowed me to improve my wet lab skills such as aseptic cell culture, PCR, nucleic acid purification and more. I participated in the lab of Dr. Daniel Grande, and assisted with a project that focused on bio-printing cell-laden droplets to enhance cartilage regeneration in patients suffering from osteoarthritis. Bioprinting and tissue engineering in general is a significant interest of mine, so much so that I have decided to focus on bioprinting for my master’s research.

Furthermore, participating on one of Stony Brook University’s Vertically Integrated Project teams since 2019 has already provided me with a significant amount of engineering experience. The goal of this team is to manufacture devices that aid laboratory researchers in the culturing of kidney cells. Therefore, being an active member on this team has increased my ability to recognize problems with a biological aspect, find simple solutions to those problems, and then effectively manufacture those solutions. In general, participating on this research team has not only increased my ability to prototype but has also allowed me to improve my project management and leadership skills.

I have also interned for an ergonomics company, in which I performed data collection, data reduction and analysis. This internship introduced me to the industrial aspect of biomedical engineering. It allowed me to improve upon my detail orientation and time management skills, as well as increased my experimental planning abilities.

My experiences so far within the biomedical engineering field have been broad, but all of these experiences as well as my engineering background have provided me with many transferrable skills.