Graduate student

Alana Mermin-Bunnell is currently a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology (HST) MEMP Program. She completed her undergraduate degree in bioengineering at Stanford University in 2023, where her thesis described building a low cost, open-source, multimaterial bioprinter. Alana is delighted to be a part of the Pépin lab and pursue her research interests in women’s health, menopause, tissue engineering, and reproductive developmental biology.

Project: Reprogrammed steroidogenic stroma in follicle-depleted ovaries maintains estrogen and testosterone production