Josh is originally from Peabody, Massachusetts. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University in 2011 and his master’s degree from Tufts University in 2014, both in biomedical engineering. He joined the WPI Myocardial Regeneration Lab in the summer of 2014 for his PhD. Josh’s research focuses on adapting decellularization techniques to plants in order to create new, sustainable, and perfusable scaffolds for different tissue engineering applications.