Dr Katie Edmondson - Hematology/Bioengineering/Biophysics

Dr Katie Edmondson has a B.Sc. from Cornell University in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Bioengineering. Her thesis work involved researching P-selectin/PSGL-1 bond mechanics and force dynamics with isolated neutrophils. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she is studying the structure of blood clots formed in environments similar to those found in venous or arterial flow in the body. She has also worked with the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), and is active in the Postdoctoral Editorial Club (PEC) at the University of Pennsylvania. She will complete her postdoctoral work in May 2008 and will focus thereafter on scientific writing and editing.