Postdoctoral Research Associate 
(2025):   

I joined Dr. Shireman’s laboratory in October 2025 to gain advanced clinical and translational research expertise in wound healing under the guidance of Dr. Shireman, a vascular surgeon with extensive experience in regenerative medicine and tissue repair. My postdoctoral research focuses on large-animal (porcine) wound-healing models, bridging the gap between bench-scale biomaterial design and clinically relevant wound physiology.

During this time, I have developed and refined a diverse technical skill set encompassing both surgical and analytical methodologies. My hands-on experience includes performing sterile surgical procedures, administering and monitoring general anesthesia, conducting tissue harvests, and processing specimens for histological and molecular analyses. I have also gained extensive experience with dermatome-based wound creation, cell isolation from skin tissues, and tissue fixation, embedding, and sectioning for subsequent immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence studies.

In parallel, I have expanded my background in cell and molecular biology, including protein quantification (BCA and ELISA), cytokine and growth factor profiling, in vitro cell culture, and assay development for translational wound-healing applications. My work also integrates imaging and biosensing technologies, including hyperspectral imaging, microscopy-based tissue characterization, and biosensor-based detection platforms for quantifying inflammation and angiogenesis markers.

Throughout this postdoctoral training, I have collaborated with multidisciplinary teams comprising clinicians, physiologists, immunologists, and biomedical engineers, allowing me to contribute to the design and interpretation of preclinical wound-healing studies and to strengthen the translational relevance of my biomaterials expertise.