Keerthana Elango Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Creating Target Product Profiles (TPPs) for early-stage digital health startups receiving the UCSF Catalyst Award

Santa Clara, California, United States

Berkeley, California, United States

Instructor for Bioengineering 115, a tissue engineering lab technique and experimental design course. Taught in a hybrid remote and in-person environment.

Hayward, California, United States

Characterized samples using Qubit fluorometry, Nanodrop, and refractive index for instrument performance diagnostics. Project-managed characterization team in Asana. Built internal python application to identify performance trends from instrument logs.

Berkeley, CA

As the president of this club, I got to work with students from diverse backgrounds on a wide range of projects, from designing and building our own desktop bioprinters to performing 3D cell culture experiments on C2C12 cells. The group was supported by CellInk, and I had the opportunity to present at their annual conferences in 2018 and 2019 (2019 poster.

Berkeley, CA

• I first joined the O'Connell lab as a mentee to a graduate student for the Student Mentorship And Research Teams program. My two years with this lab culminated in a short talk, poster presentation, and first-person.
• Designed and independently performed experiments for cartilage and intervertebral disc tissue engineering
• Analyzed cell behavior and mechanical properties of casted and bioprinted hydrogel constructs in MATLAB
• Trained new and existing lab members on protocols and data analysis techniques
• Developed and optimized protocols for cell-gel integration, bioprinting, and tensile testing of soft hydrogels
• Wrote code packages speeding up data processing to take ¼ time with well-documented changes

University Of California, Berkeley

I taught a two-unit undergraduate course on bioprinting through the Bioengineering Department, focusing on biomaterials and cell engineering. I created, presented, and delivered lectures, lab sections, and project groups of fellow undergraduate students interested in bioprinting and tissue engineering in general. My lectures and labs focused on.

San Francisco Bay Area

Master'S Degree, Translational Medicine, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Women in EngineeringBlending the engineering, clinical, and entrepreneurial aspects of translating.

Master'S Degree, Translational Medicine, 4.0

Blending the engineering, clinical, and entrepreneurial aspects of translating medical innovation into clinical reality

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Bioprinting at Berkeley (Founding Officer, President, DeCal Instructor) Bioengineering Honor Society BioEHSC.