Ep. 4 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Jenny Munson, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech
Tissue Engineering Career ConversationsShow Notes
Our fourth episode features Dr. Jennifer Munson, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Tech, the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and an affiliate member of the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Institute. She received her Ph.D. from Georgia institute of Technology in 2011 and completed her postdoctoral training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). During her training, she was supported...
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