Tissue Engineering Career Conversations
Tissue Engineering Career Conversations
Tissue Engineering Resource Center (TERC)
Interested in a biomedical career in academia, entrepreneurship, science communication, or everything in between? The Tissue Engineering Resource Center (TERC), located at Columbia and Tufts Universities, is launching a new series, the “Career Conversations” podcast, which welcomes a new guest each episode to discuss their career choices, day-to-day tasks, and the challenges involved. We will talk to some of the most inspiring leaders in bioengineering and begin to understand the many career options available to early-stage scientists. Our goal in this podcast is to help shed light on a wide range of career trajectories, academic and non-academic, that have emerged from the bioengineering community. The podcast is hosted by early career bioengineers and funded by support from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the NIH (grant number P41EB027062). For more information on the Tissue Engineering Resource Center, check out our website, nextgenterc.com 
Ep 19. Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Irene de Lazaro, Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Our latest episode features Dr. Irene de Lázaro, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Dr. Lázaro leads the NanoBioEngineering for Tissue Reprogramming and Regeneration laboratory at NYU since 2023. Her team investigates the influence of genetic, biochemical, and mechanical signals on cell plasticity, identity, and function. Their mission is to leverage this understanding, integrating nanomedicine and bioengineering approache...
Feb 10, 2025
48 min
Ep 18. Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Brooke Coley, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University
In our latest episode, we feature Dr. Brooke Coley, a bioengineer and social justice scholar. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Research Advancing Racial Equity, Justice, and Sociotechnical Innovation Centered in Engineering (RARE JUSTICE). Dr. Coley earned her Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a concentration in Biomechanics from t...
Jun 19, 2024
44 min
Ep 17. Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Elisa Cimetta, Associate Professor at University of Padua, Italy
In our latest episode, we feature Dr. Elisa Cimetta, an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Padua and Principal Investigator of the BIAMET laboratory (Biomedical Applications of Multiscale Engineering Technologies). Dr. Cimetta obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Padua and conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University, where she co-founded EpiBone, a Columbia University spinoff devoted to producing engineered bone and osteochondr...
Mar 11, 2024
42 min
Ep 16. Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Hunter Rogers, Investment Research Analyst
Our new episode features Dr. Hunter Rogers, Investment Research Analyst at a globally and nationally ranked academic medical center. Prior to this role, Dr. Rogers was an Equity Research Associate with a focus on biotech investment opportunities at William Blair. Previously, Dr. Rogers also served as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Northwestern University. Dr. Rogers has a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University, and a PhD in Life Sc...
Jan 15, 2024
38 min
Ep 15. Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, Assistant Professor at Lehigh University
Our latest episode features Dr. Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez who started his role as an Assistant Professor at the Bioengineering Department at Lehigh University in 2022. Gonzalez-Fernandez received his PhD in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in 2018 from Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Kelly and Fergal O’Brien. After completing his PhD, Tomas joined the Leach lab at UC Davis. During his career he has been honored with prestigious awards and fellowships such a...
Nov 7, 2023
46 min
Ep 14. Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Guillermo Ameer, Professor at Northwestern University
Our latest episode features Dr. Guellermo Ameer, the Daniel Hale Williams professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the McCormick School of Engineering and the Department of Surgery in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Dr. Ameer is the founding director of the Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE). His research interests include biomaterials, tissue engineering, regenerative engineering, and bio/nanotech...
Oct 11, 2023
29 min
Ep. 13 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Kara Spiller, Professor at Drexel University
Our latest episode features Dr. Kara Spiller, Professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She is a leader in the biomedical engineering community, known for her passion and focus on building an immunoengineering community within the field. She obtained her Bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University, where she also completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2010. In this episode we discuss with Dr. Spiller about her journey from being a graduate student at Drexel...
Aug 15, 2023
39 min
Ep. 12 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Kelsey Kennedy, Associate at McKinsey & Company
In this month’s episode, we are delighted to host Dr. Kelsey Kennedy, a valued consultant at McKinsey & Company. Dr. Kennedy specializes in providing commercial guidance to medical device companies. Additionally, she is a co-founder of OncoRes Medical, a start-up that develops intraoperative imaging technology to provide surgeons with realtime assessment of tissue microstructure. During this episode, Dr. Kennedy shares her fascinating journey from academia to consulting, shedding li...
Jun 13, 2023
39 min
Ep. 11 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Misti Ushio, Managing Partner at Digitalis Ventures
Our new episode features Dr. Misti Ushio, Managing Partner at Digitalis Ventures. Prior to joining Digitalis Ventures, Dr. Ushio was the founding CEO of TARA Biosystems, which was acquired by ValoHealth in 2022. TARA Biosystems was spun out of Prof. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic’s lab at Columbia University and Prof. Milica Radisic’s lab at the University of Toronto. TARA developed physiologically relevant 3D cardiac tissue models for cardiac risk assessment and drug discovery applications. Previo...
Mar 7, 2023
47 min
Ep. 10 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Chris Ghadban, Chief of Staff, Alix Ventures
Our latest episode features Chris Ghadban, Chief of Staff at Alix Ventures. He joined the company as a Venture Follow in the summer of 2021 and has been working as Chief of Staff since February 2022. Mr. Ghadban is focused on techbio platforms and on supporting early-stage life science startups. Prior to Alix Ventures, Chris was a Senior Strategy & Innovation Associate with AstraZeneca’s Emerging Innovations Unit, where he scouted early-stage technologies to catalyze through collaborative...
Feb 8, 2023
44 min
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