About Us
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
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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
Ph.D Materials Science & Engineering student at UC Berkeley
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
Shreya Ramesh
Email: shreya.ramesh18@berkeley.edu
Research: Development of Engineered Hydrogels for in-vitro Tissue Regeneration Studies
Alexis Alburo
Email: alexis.alburo@berkeley.edu
Research: Transcriptome analysis of the 3D cardiac micromuscle
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
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