Chelsea Gibbs, BS, PhD

Chelsea is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. She graduated with an Honors Bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Spanish from the University of Utah in 2019. Her undergraduate research focused on building and characterizing novel genetic circuits to manipulate mammalian stem cell differentiation.

Chelsea was an 2021 awardee of the NSF Graduate Research Foundation Fellowship to help fund her excellent research projects, which focus on using computational modeling and simulation to better understand the mechanisms of arrhythmia following cell therapy. As a postdoctoral fellow in the lab (effective late 2024, following the successful defense of her PhD dissertation), Chelsea has taken on a new role as a lead researcher in charge of our PULSE-SVA project.

Outside of research, Chelsea enjoys skiing, baking, knitting, and exploring the great outdoors.

Education:

B.S.: Biomedical Engineering, Honors Bachelor’s, with a Minor in Spanish; University of Utah, 2019