Is an engineer in the ART Bioprint team. She works on the EIC Pathfinder project 4DBR project (www.4dbr.org) that seeks to use innovative bioprinting strategies using stem cell derived cells to recreate the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) that is destroyed in neurological diseases such as Huntington’s disease. These miniature BBB constructs which are incorporated with decellularized pig brain matrix and optochip technologies will then be transplanted into rat striatums to study their suitability in ameliorating disease phenotypes. Previously, she worked at Poietis, a bioprinting company in Bordeaux, as the project lead for 4DBR where she used laser assisted bioprinting to create neuronal organoids to study Huntington’s disease in different contexts including spheroid and organoid bioprinting. With a B.Tech in Biotechnology from NIT Warangal and an Erasmus Mundus Master’s (Neurasmus) from VU Amsterdam and Charité Berlin, she is passionate about open science, health technology, and translating therapies from the lab to the clinic.
