Ep. 4 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Jenny Munson, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech
Description
Our fourth episode features Dr. Jennifer Munson, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Tech, the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and an affiliate member of the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Institute. She received her Ph.D. from Georgia institute of Technology in 2011 and completed her postdoctoral training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). During her training, she was supported by the NSF GRFP, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Whitaker Scholarship. Her laboratory studies the role of fluid flow in tissue homeostasis and disease with a specific focus on cancer and neurological disorders. She uses tissue engineered cell culture models, in vivo imaging methodology, and computational modeling to explore the nature and impact of interstitial fluid flow on cells and tissues. In 2016, Dr. Munson was awarded the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society, and in 2017, she was awarded the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award. In this episode, we learn from Dr. Munson about the importance of exploring new and exciting opportunities in your early academic career, as well as balancing life and work as an early career faculty starting up a new research group.
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