People
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
Lab Manager
Brian Siemons
LVN/Biotechnologist
Email: briansiemons@berkeley.edu
Research: Production and Characterization of hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes
for the Development of Heart-On-A-Chip Technology
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.
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
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
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
Research Associates
Joseph Liu
B.S. Biological Sciences at University of California Berkeley
Email: joseph22@berkeley.edu
Research: Development of Engineered Hydrogels for in-vitro Tissue Regeneration Studies.
Undergraduate Students
Could be you! 🙂 Email Joseph Liu : joseph22@berkeley.edu
Former Lab Members
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
Reza Mahmoodi
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
Masters of Engineering Students:
Joel Hayashi
Marycruz Alvarez V.
Zhuri Solan
Pengliang Xu
Ling Zhou
Ian Sicher
Curran Shah
Visiting Students/Scholars:
Paula Schultheiss
David Cleres
Simone de Jong
Silvio Weber
Oscar Castaño
Aline Zbinden
Alexandre Barros
Lucilia Pereira
Hannah Riedle
Research Associates:
Natalie C. Marks
Cara Brown
Bruce W. Han
Tafadzwa Amani
Dolphin Nitinkumar Patel
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