She’s giving Mother in the lab (and she literally is a mom). Andrea earned her Bachelor’s in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2018, where she first interacted with biomaterials in the brain building microtissue brain cancer models. She spent her graduate school years in Dr. Ariella Shikanov’s lab at the University of Michigan applying tissue engineering principles to ovarian follicle culture for fertility restoration and building the first single-cell and spatial transcriptomics atlas of the human ovary. She earned her Master’s (2020) and PhD (2023) in Biomedical Engineering before bringing her passion for women’s health and reproductive biology to the Segura Lab. She’s come full-circle back to the biology of the brain, where she is exploring estrogen receptor modulation at the stroke site using MAP technology. When she’s not in the lab, you can find Andrea chasing her daughters around the house, out for a long hike with her husband Chris, or camped out in her sewing room (after bedtime!).