My research interests in the STEMD lab center on studying the effects of PAR1 gene overexpression on early development, using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) as cellular models.

Maggiore, J. C., LeGraw, R., Aneta Przepiorski, Velazquez, J., Chaney, C., Thitinee Vanichapol, Streeter, E., Almuallim, Z., Oda, A., Chiba, T., Silva-Barbosa, A., Franks, J., Hislop, J., Hill, A., Wu, H., Pfister, K., Howden, S. E., Watkins, S. C., Little, M. H., & Humphreys, B. D. (2024). A genetically inducible endothelial niche enables vascularization of human kidney organoids with multilineage maturation and emergence of renin expressing cells. Kidney International.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.05.026

• 2024 - present - MS/ PhD, Bioengineering, BESE, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 

• 2020 - 2024 - Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering (Minor in Chemistry), University of Pittsburgh, United States of America

May 2023- May 2024- Undergraduate Researcher. Hukriede Laboratory, Integrative Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

June 2022- April 2023- Undergraduate Researcher. Sensorimotor Learning Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Summer 2021- Undergraduate Researcher. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

Swanson School of Engineering Fall 2023 Design Expo 2023

Awarded First Place in the Bioengineering department for our team's Senior Design project, titled "Foley Bag Support Box: Accurate Volumetric and Color-based Measurements." 

National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibdaa) 2019

Participated in an annual scientific competition that drew 5,813 participants across 21 diverse scientific fields. 

Achieved 3rd place with my scientific project, "Visual Monitoring of Neural Activity in Hydra.”

The Society For In Vitro Biology 2019

Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE)