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Kareen Coulombe, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Brown University in the Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine (I-BEAM). She earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester summa cum laude in 2001 and was a Whitaker Pre-doctoral Fellow, earning a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Washington in 2007. She was an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein post-doctoral fellow in Pathology at the University of Washington where she won an NIH Pathway to Independence K99/R00 award in 2012, and started her research program at Brown in 2014. She was named a Rising Star in 2017 by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Group of BMES; was a Finalist for the Young Investigator Award at the Regenerative Medicine Workshop at Charleston (2019); was awarded a 2021 NSF CAREER Award; and was named as a 2021 Young Innovator of the CMBE. Dr. Coulombe served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering for five years (2019 – 2024), holds a leadership certificate from the Leadership Institute for Tomorrow (2006) and facilitated these workshops (2007-2009), was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring in Engineering (2019), and won an I-BEAM Leadership Award (2024). She received facilitator training from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research at the University of Wisconsin Madison.