Arianna McCarty
Graduating in May with a BS degree in chemical and biological engineering
Future Plans
Earn a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in biological sciences from the Wellcome Sanger Institute at the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar
Affiliated Lab
Professor Jason Burdick
Burdick Biomaterials and Biofabrication Laboratory
What does receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowships award mean to you?
Current Research Focus
In the Burdick Biomaterials and Biofabrication Laboratory, I engineer heart tissues with specific regions of scarring to model what happens to the heart following a heart attack. Using biomaterials and 3D bioprinting techniques, we fabricate these tissues to closely mimic the architecture of a damaged heart and subsequently investigate how specific proteins might be targeted to reverse scarring. I have also contributed to research in the Clark Lab at CU Anschutz, where I investigate how our respiratory microbiome (the collection of bacteria naturally present in our airway) interacts with and protects against pathogens, with implications for how we understand and treat respiratory infections.
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