I am currently a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in the Chemical Engineering department at UMass Amherst. I have previous research experience in development of nanoparticle systems for overcoming limitations in pulmonary hypertension and cystic fibrosis, and have used that to my advantage in the realm of immunoengineering. I work on developing novel platforms that increase immune cell-cancer cell interactions and hope to use my experience to branch out into other, under-researched illnesses, in hopes of improving the quality-of-life of patients that are unable to receive proper treatments.