She was born and raised in Kenya. Nancy received a BEng from the University of New South Wales, and her PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Chemical Engineering. After finishing her dissertation, Nancy spent four years as a research associate at Princeton University as a member of Jean Schwarzbauer’s research group in Molecular Biology before joining IIT’s faculty in 2009. Her research is focused on engineering therapeutic materials for chronic wound care that are based on an understanding of the wound environment. She has taught several courses in the ChBE department, including an introductory biology course for engineers (CHE 311), Heat and Mass Transfer (CHE 302), and a graduate-level tissue engineering course (CHE 584).