She joined CCNY/CUNY in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. She obtained her PhD degree in BME from the University of Texas at Austin and her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital as well as Shriner’s Hospital for Children at Boston, working on microfluidic cell chips and bioartificial liver engineering. Currently, her research focuses are the development of microfluidic devices for drug screening and discovery, the thermal enhancement of stem cells in bone and cartilage regeneration, and medical applications of nanodiamonds. She has been funded by the New York State Health Department, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation, from whom she received her NSF CAREER award.