She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney and a subsequent postdoc at Harvard Medical School before joining Northeastern in Jan. 2015. Her research focuses on the design and synthesis of microengineered biomaterials for tissue engineering applications as well as development of in vitro bioengineering platforms for drug discovery and screening. In addition to a new R01 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, she has received an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant (2016) and a FY17 TIER 1 Award.