Tori Barnhouse graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2017 where she worked as a research assistant under Dr. Jennifer Leight. She will be working on a project tracing the behavior of hematopoietic stem cells encapsulated within 3D hydrogels.
Samantha Zambuto received a B.S. in Biological Engineering from Cornell University in 2015 and a Sc.M. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in 2017. At Brown, she worked in Dr. Diane Hoffman-Kim’s lab and wrote a thesis titled “Advancing Tissue Engineered Neural Platforms to Explore Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury.” Samantha will be expanding our efforts to generate models of the endometrium.