Morgan Benson, CEO
Morgan is a student in the five year BS/MSE program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University expecting to graduate in 2022. She has been working on our Organ-Chip technology for the last 4 years in Dr. Sean Sun’s lab in the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins. She has experience in microfluidic device design and computational analysis. She is also a co-author in the paper “Trans-epithelial Fluid Pumping Performance of Renal Epithelial Cells and Mechanics of Cystic Expansion.” She has a strong background in classical chemical engineering concepts supplemented by her interest in biological systems.
Ikbal Choudhury, CTO
Ikbal is a final year Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Sean Sun in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His primary research interest is mechanics of trans-epithelial fluid pumping at a tissue scale. Ikbal is a published scientist and inventor with scientific papers and patents (approved and pending) on a wide variety of topics, including the fabrication of self-healing polymeric materials, low-cost blood pressure monitoring wearable devices, measuring stiffness of cancer cells, and developing organ-chips to study genetically inherited diseases.
Sean X. Sun, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor
Research Interests: Mechanobiology of the cell, molecular biomechanics and biophysics, molecular motors and muscle, statistical mechanics and nonlinear phenomena.
Owen M. Woodward, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor
Director of the Cell Culture and Engineering Core of the Baltimore PKD Research and Clinical Core Center