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Jonah Rosas

Graduate Researcher (2019-2024)
Department of Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Co-advised by Prof. Denise Montell
[RROH-sahs] he/him/his
Next position: Postdoc in Prof. Maria Akhmanova's group at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Sloan Kettering Institute
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Education

2024, Ph.D., Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

2019, B.S./M.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Awards

Gates Millennium Scholar, Connie Frank Biomedical Engineering Fellow (2021), NIH IPERT Awardee, 2022 Art of Science Winner, UCSB Academic Senate Grant Awardee

Programs

American Society of Cell Biologists

Research

Jonah's work focuses on developing, characterizing, and implementing granular hydrogel technologies for applications in biomedicine. Bridging material characterization and cancer biology, Jonah seeks to enhance our appreciation for how microenvironmental changes impart fitness to cancer cells. His current work leverages 3D organotypic culture techniques to  investigate how a dynamic extracellular matrix impacts cancers of the pancreas.