Dr. Wendy Brown is a translational postdoctoral fellow at DELTAi (Driving Engineering & Life-science Advances @Irvine) in the Biomedical Engineering Department under Professor Kyriacos A. Athanasiou. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from UC Davis in 2017 and cheered professionally for the Oakland Raiders and Sacramento Kings while in school. Wendy’s Ph.D. research focused on engineering articular cartilage and subchondral bone to create osteochondral constructs to treat focal cartilage defects in the knee. Her research now focuses on engineering nasal septal cartilage, using rib cartilage as a cell source for cartilage engineering efforts, and learning about technology transfer and commercialization processes through UCI Applied Innovation.
Wendy is also devoted to STEM outreach and mentoring young women. She is heavily involved with the Science Cheerleaders, a non-profit organization of over 300 current and former professional cheerleaders with degrees and careers in STEM fields who lead aim to make science fun and approachable and playfully challenge stereotypes. With the Science Cheerleaders, Wendy was a co-principal investigator of Project MERCCURI, a citizen science-based research project conducted on the International Space Station that studied microbial ecology and growth kinetics.
Wendy was recently featured on the Beyond the Microscope Podcast and by UCI AI’s Tech Currents. Read more here and here.