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Application Scientist
Brainxell, Inc
I am currently an Application Scientist at BrainXell, where my responsibilities are to (1) develop, carry-out, and analyze a BBB model with TEER assay protocols using our in-house cell bank of iPSC derived endothelial cells, pericytes, and astrocytes. I earned a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering Biotechnology with specific focus on disease modeling and tissue engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. My research interests include cell signaling mechanisms between peripheral or central neurons and glial cells involved in pain pathologies and neurological disorders as well as programming human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) derived progenitors into neuronal disease states for phenotypic screening platforms for novel therapeutic development and screening. I received a master’s in biomedical engineering from UTD where I studied BBB integrity and immune response to traumatic brain injury. I hold a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of North Texas at Denton.