Karen Xu

I’m an engineer, researcher and MD-PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. My expertise is in cell-material interactions, engineering polymer networks as cell substrates and programming extracellular environments for therapeutic and disease modeling applications. In the future, I hope to clinically specialize in internal medicine and run an engineering lab geared towards addressing medicine’s most pressing issues.

If interested in learning more about my work, feel free to contact me.