Rahul Subramaniam

I am a DPhil student in the joint NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars program, which is an accelerated doctoral program between the National Institutes of Health in the United States and the University of Oxford. My work with Prof. Dame Molly Stevens at Oxford and Dr. Manu Platt at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) centers around arteriopathy and stroke secondary to sickle cell disease, one of the most common blood disorders in the world. I am interested in using 3D bioprinting to produce patient-specific artery models that can be used to better understand patient-to-patient heterogeneity in large artery damage and stroke risk in sickle cell disease. This research is also being performed in collaboration with (and is partly funded by a fellowship from) Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, CA. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude with highest honors with a double major in Biomedical Engineering and Physics from Harvard University in 2023. My professional interests lie in using biomedical engineering techniques, especially 3D bioprinting, to produce more sophisticated models of human disease.