Kara E McCloskey
Associate Professor
University of California-Merced
USA
Biography
Kara E. McCloskey, PhD, is a Founding and Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of California, Merced. She received her BS and an MS in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University and her PhD through a joint program with Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Biomedical Engineering Department and Ohio State University. She then completed her postdoctoral training in vascular stem cell and tissue engineering with Dr. Robert Nerem at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research is in the field of cardiovascular tissue engineering with a specific focus on deriving functional cell products from stem cells. Dr. Kara McCloskey has over 15 years of experience in the area of endothelial cell (EC) fate and cardiovascular tissue engineering.
Research Interest
Tissue Engineering,Cell therapy,Stem cells,Regenerative Medicine