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About Me

From building cutting-edge PET/CT scanners to researching innovative drug delivery systems to treat childhood cancer, I am excited to advance as a biomedical engineer and be a contributor to the education, research, and innovations of medical research and biotechnology.

I received my Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University at Tennessee at Knoxville in 2022. I was the first graduate research assistant for the Engineered Designs in Biomedicine lab. I enjoyed using my leadership and technical skills to plan and develop the lab foundation for pre-clinical experiments involving biomaterials, drug delivery systems, oncology, and pediatrics. I successfully defended in December of 2021 on my dissertation titled A Local Drug Delivery Approach for Enhancing Tissue Penetration of Chemotherapy to Improve Treatment Outcomes of Pediatric Brain Tumors.

I graduated with my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2017. During undergraduate, I gained industry experience in managing prototypes for product development and research experience in publishing for a heart valve cellular characterization lab. Learn more about my experience here.

I am also passionate about STEM outreach and education. Growing up with limited access to a supportive STEM community and knowing others around the world do not have access to a STEM community fuels me to build one for them. I want to expand the STEM community and make engineering a field accessible for everyone.

During both my undergraduate and graduate degree, I initiated 2 mentoring programs for a total of over 200 students to each have their own mentor and directed over 40 professional development events with some events reaching near 200 people in an event.

Towards the end of my PhD, I realized I wanted to continue providing mentorship opportunities which led me to create STEM with Jen where I now aim to make STEM fun and accessible for everyone.

The goal for STEM with Jen is to share my learnings from my career as I engineer medical innovations, educate and build a supportive STEM community, and empower others that they can have a STEM career. I want to provide the resources needed to make STEM accessible for everyone around the world.