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
Shane Browne
Ph.D. Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering at National University of Ireland, Galway
B.Eng. Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering atNational University of Ireland, Galway
Email: shanebrowne@berkeley.edu
Research: Development of Engineered Hydrogels for in-vitro Tissue Regeneration Studies
Verena Charwat
Training background, Medical Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology
Training background, Bioengineering at University of Applied Sciences, Vienna
Ph.D. Molecular Signal Transduction at Medical University Vienna, Austria
Email: verena.charwat@berkeley.edu
Research: Optimization of heart-on-a-chip technology for reliable drug screening and human disease modeling
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 RNPs that diffuse through cardiac micro-physiological systems
Elisabeth Gill
Ph.D. Engineering at University of Cambridge, UK
M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering with Systems Engineering at University of Warwick, UK
Email: elisabeth.gill@berkeley.edu
Research: Integration of endothelial and vascular stromal cells in microphysiological systems
Graduate Students
Berenice Charrez
Ph.D. Bioengineering Candidate at UC Berkeley
M.S. Biomedical Engineering at EPFL, Switzerland
B.S. Biomedical Engineering at EPFL, Switzerland
Email: berenicecharrez@berkeley.edu
Research: Optimize and Automate Heart-On-a-Chip Technology for Efficient and Reliable Drug Screening and Disease Modeling
Research Associates
Tafadzwa Amani
M.S. Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University
B.S. Biological Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology
Email: tamani22@berkeley.edu
Research: Production and Characterization of hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes for the Development of Heart-On-A-Chip Technology
Dolphin Nitinkumar Patel
M.S. Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University
B.Eng. Electrical Engineering at Gujarat Technological University
Email: dolphin_patel@berkeley.edu
Research: Microfabrication of microphysiological systems and MEMS
Undergraduate Students
Nicole Lee
B.S. Bioengineering Candidate at UC Berkeley, Class of 2021
Email: nicoleslee@berkeley.edu
Research: Cardiac Micro-physiological system for drug screening and disease modeling
Jason Feinberg
B.S. Nutritional Science-Physiology and Metabolism Candidate at UC Berkeley, Class of 2021
Email: jasonfeinberg@berkeley.edu
Research: Developing an Islet MPS to Model Metabolic Diseases and Perform Drug Screenings
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
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
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