After earning her B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2000, Wendy attended the Johns Hopkins University, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 as a National Science Fellow. Her doctoral work was completed in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher Chen. Following her Ph.D., Wendy completed postdoctoral positions at Arsenal Medical Inc., a biomedical start-up company developing cardiovascular devices, and at MIT, where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Langer. Wendy’s work has been recognized by a number of awards including the 2012 National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award, the 2013 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award, and the 2014 UCI HSSoE Junior Faculty Research Award.