Maya Rowell

Maya Rowell is a Ph.D. candidate in bioengineering with a concentration on cancer cell migration at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on the development of a microfluidic model system to study metastatic cancer phenotypes and their migration patterns. Maya received an NIH Quantitative Integrative Biology (QIB) training grant in her first year of her PhD, and was recently awarded the Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine INclusion Initiative (GEMINI) Fellowship. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in chemical and biomolecular engineering from New York University, where she was a recipient of the University Honors Scholarship and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholarship.  Maya is thoroughly involved within the engineering community, and she is passionate about making graduate education more accessible and inclusive.