She is a Project Leader within the Cornell Center on Microenvironment and Metastasis and a member of the Cornell Nanobiotechnology Center and Cornell Center for Materials Research. She obtained undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering and biology at MIT and a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania working with Daniel Hammer. She completed postdoctoral training at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of Rochester working with Brad Berk and Keigi Fujiwara before coming to Cornell in 2008. Her lab has received funding from the American Heart Association, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the American Federation for Aging Research. She currently serves as a member of the National BMES Board of Directors.