Julianna Buchwald B.S.

Julianna Buchwald received her BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017. While at Pitt, she conducted research in the Thoracic Aortic Disease Research Lab of Dr. Thomas Gleason and Dr. Julie Phillippi studying bicuspid aortic valve aortopathy. Before matriculating at the MD/PhD program at UMass Chan Medical School in 2018, she conducted research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under a Post-Bacc Training Award in the lab of Dr. Peter Sun studying mechanisms of HIV viral release. Julianna's current research interest focuses on transplant medicine and therapeutics for organ preservation. Her desire to bridge patient care with translational organ transplant research led her to join the lab of Dr. Anastasia Khvorova of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School. Her thesis aims to develop novel RNAi therapeutics for the treatment of ischemia-reperfusion injury during the organ preservation and transplantation process.