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Meet the team
principal investigator
Cathal J. Kearney, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UMass Amherst
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Investigator, Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research Center
Investigator, Trinity Biomedical Engineering
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Senior Research Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Postdoc, Mooney Lab and Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Ph.D., Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A., B.A.I., Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Fun Fact: I still daydream that I should have gone for American Idol over Grad school...then I recall that Carrie Underwood won idol that year and I get back to work!
Graduate students
John J. Amante
BS Biomedical Engineering
Project: Revascularization of diabetic foot ulcers
Fun Fact: I'm allergic to Christmas trees
Tailynn McCarty
BS Chemical Engineering
Project: Impact of age in full-thickness skin transplant healing
Fun Fact: I'm the funniest in the lab :)
Juan Carlos Palomeque
BS Materials Science and Engineering
MS Advanced Materials Science and Eng.
Project: Biomimetic multi-layered scaffolds for wound healing
Fun Fact: I enjoy working out, playing sports, photography and cooking. Proud Ecuadorian and Latino!
Chanelle A. Moise
BS Biomedical Engineering
Project: Circadian rhythm in wound healing/ tissue repair
Fun Fact: My favorite sport is badminton, and I have 2 chinchillas <3
Kaiyin (Kelly) Zhang
BA Engineering
Project: Impact of circadian rhythm in tissue engineering
Fun Fact: I love animals! I have one cat (Karkar) here in New England and 10 cats as well as 3 dogs at home in Guangzhou, China.
Laura Casado Mayo
BS Biomedical Engineering
MS Management and Development of Biomedical Technologies
Project: Extracellular vesicles in aging and wound healing.
Fun Fact: I am Spanish and my favorite food is sushi!
Micah M. Wingell
BS Engineering
Project: Effect of circadian rhythm on bone formation
Fun Fact: I have too many fun facts! I am a world ranked yoyoer, I play disk golf, and my great uncle invented the smiley face.
Undergraduate students
Class of 2026
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Fun Fact: I love being active: soccer, tennis, skiing, polo. My random talents include winning every card game, speaking french, and knowing world capitals.
Aoife Ruth
Class of 2027
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Fun Fact: I love hiking, practicing martial arts, and filming/editing videos! I also really like music - in my free time I love dancing, playing my guitar, and DJing!
Class of 2026
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Fun Fact: I've competed in multiple half-marathons, I am trilingual, and I'm really good at baking sourdough. I also love to spend time outdoors (hike, ski, swim in the ocean) and hangout with my friends :)!
Karina Kruchynska
Dylan Yee
Lab alumni
Graduate Students
RCSI
Francesco Santarella, Ph.D.
Emily Ryan, Ph.D.
Catherine Sirafim, Ph.D.
Sean McGrath
Badriah Ali
Fionnuala O'Gorman
Darina Gilroy
Seán Kelley
Haritha Jacob
Postdoctoral Fellows
RCSI
Tauseef Ahmed
Rukmani Sridharan
Milica Marinkovic
Ronaldo do Amaral
Undergraduate sTudents
UMass Amherst
Loria DiMartino
Julia Burke
Ishmael Adibuah
Emily Berestesky
Esha Uddin
Iris Schellenberg
Kaleb Seifert
Alexander Gottlieb
Naaz Thotathil
Sophia Millan
Haylee Wagner
Bridgit Twombly
RCSI
Shifaa Turkistani
Renuka Chintapalli
Shin Loong Song
Renuka Sitram
Syama Gollapalli
Harumi Ramanayake
Jack Donohue
Guiqin Wang
WaiYi Feng
Heng Min Lim
Eileen Whittle
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