Katrina is originally from Chugiak, Alaska and graduated from Washington State University in 2012 with a degree in bioengineering and began at WPI in the Fall of 2012. Her work seeks to answer how the efficient delivery, using fibrin microthreads, of human mesenchymal stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (iPS-CM) affect cardiac function post myocardial infarction.