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Principal Investigator

Kevin E. Healy

Jan Fandrianto and Selfia Halim Distinguished Professorship in Engineering
Professor of Bioengineering, and Materials Science and Engineering

Email: kehealy@berkeley.edu

Phone: 510-643-3559

Office: 370 Hearst Memorial Mining Building #1760, Berkeley, CA 94720


Academic Program Manager

Thembi Anne Jackson

Academic Program Manager

Email: thembianne@berkeley.edu

For inquiries about the Healy lab or ATP-Bio at Berkeley,
please contact: thembianne@berkeley.edu

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Postdoctoral Scholars

Ishan Goswami

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech
M.S. Mechanical Engineering at University of Cincinnati
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology

Email: ishangoswami@berkeley.edu

Research: Modeling and micro-fabrication of micro-physiological systems


Gabriel Neiman

Ph.D. Biological Chemistry at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
B.S. Biological Sciences at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Email: gneiman@berkeley.edu

Research: Development of novel delivery vehicles for the cardiac muscle using cardiac micro-physiological systems as a testbed.


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Yongdeok Kim

Ph.D. Materials Science & Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.S. Materials Science & Engineering at Hanyang University, Seoul
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering at Hanyang University, Seoul

Email: yd.kim@berkeley.edu
Research: Optimize Novel Isochoric Supercooling of Heart-On-a-Chip Technology to Model Cardiac and Endothelial Microtissue and its Revival Post-Preservation.


Graduate Students

Jazmin Velazquez

Ph.D. Bioengineering Student at UC Berkeley (Joint UCSF)

B.S. Biochemistry, San Francisco State University

B.S. Cell and Molecular Biology, San Francisco State University

Email: jazminv@berkeley.edu

Research: Optimize Novel Isochoric Supercooling of Heart-On-a-Chip Technology to Model Cardiac Microtissue and its Revival Post-Preservation./


Morgan Pfaff

Ph.D. Bioengineering Student at UC Berkeley (Joint UCSF)

B.S. Biochemistry, Northeastern University

Email: morgan.pfaff@berkeley.edu
Research: Development of Engineered Hydrogels for in-vitro Tissue Regeneration Studies./


Tammy Ng

Ph.D. Materials Science & Engineering Student at UC Berkeley

B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Email: tammyng@berkeley.edu
Research: Delivery of mRNA-Lipid Nanoparticles for Cardioprotection Post Myocardial Infarction


 

Kavita Parekh 

Ph.D. Bioengineering Student at UC Berkeley (Joint UCSF)

B.S. Biochemistry with honors, The University of Chicago

Email: kavitaparekh@berkeley.edu

Research: Development of Engineered Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration              


Ningxin Chen (Charlotte)
Ph.D Materials Science & Engineering student at UC Berkeley
 
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Email: charchen@berkeley.edu
 
Research: Development of Engineered Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration
 

 

Undergraduate Students

    Brandon Andrade

     B.S. Bioengineering Student at UC Berkeley

     Email: brandonandrade@berkeley.edu

     Research: Micro-fabrication of microphysiological systems

 
 
 

 

    Kerem Yazgan

     B.S. Bioengineering Student at UC Berkeley

     Email: kyazgan@berkeley.edu

     Research: Delivery of mRNA-Lipid Nanoparticles for Cardioprotection Post Myocardial Infarction

 

 


    Alexis Alburo

 
     B.S. Bioengineering + Data Science Student at UC Berkeley
 

     Email: alexis.alburo@berkeley.edu

     Research: Transcriptome analysis of the 3D cardiac micromuscle

 


Former Lab Members

Wesley Jackson
Tony Zhang
Kaifeng Shao
James Lin
Naomi Kohen

Postdoctoral Scholars:

  • Yang Zhu
  • Nate Huebsch
  • Felipe Lee Montiel
  • Zhen Ma
  • Amit K Jha
  • Peter Loskill
  • Kento Onishi
  • Pia N. Rodriguez
  • Chelsea S. Bahney
  • Shane Browne
  • Verena Charwat
  • Elisabeth Gill
  • Reza Mahmoodi

Research Associates: 

  • Natalie C. Marks
  • Cara Brown
  • Bruce W. Han
  • Tafadzwa Amani
  • Dolphin Nitinkumar Patel

Masters of Engineering Students:

  • Joel Hayashi
  • Marycruz Alvarez V.
  • Zhuri Solan
  • Pengliang Xu
  • Ling Zhou
  • Ian Sicher
  • Curran Shah

Graduate Students: 

  • Sylvia L. Natividad-Diaz
  • Anusaya Ramasubramanian
  • Willie M. Reese
  • Felicia Svedlund
  • Kevin Tharp
  • Eda Altiok
  • Anurag Mathur
  • Mariana Garcia
  • Nikhil A. Rode
  • Raymond C. Schmidt
  • Jacob F. Pollock
  • Hoi S. Yau
  • Samuel T. Wall
  • Krishanu Saha
  • Ranee Stile

Visiting Students/Scholars: 

  • Paula Schultheiss
  • David Cleres
  • Simone de Jong
  • Silvio Weber
  • Oscar Castaño
  • Aline Zbinden
  • Alexandre Barros
  • Lucilia Pereira
  • Hannah Riedle

Undergraduates: 

  • Kevin Luong
  • Avni Singhal
  • Brenda Yang
  • Nikko Jeffreys
  • Gina Sakoda
  • Samir Hossainy
  • Caleb Lee
  • Pooja Prazid
  • Nikhil Deveshwar
  • Matthew Buckley
  • Sivan Marcus
  • Min Ju Lee
  • Alex Najibi
  • Amy Lyden
  • Thiagarajan Sezhian
  • Deepika Bhatnagar
  • Christine Lam
  • Connor H. Ludwig
  • Jonathan W. Kim
  • Jason Wang
  • Micaela Finnegan
  • Kim Li
  • Derek Ning
  • Shreya Ramesh
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