Varsha Rao portrait
Anseth Group
varsha.rao@colorado.edu

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering and B.S. Biological Engineering, Honor Baccalaureate (Highest Distinction), Montana State University, 2015

Awards

  • U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need August 2017 (GAANN) in Biomaterials 
  • CU Boulder Dept. of Chemical and Biological Eng Doctoral Fellowship August 2016 - Awarded to incoming doctoral students 
  • Montana State University Award of Excellence April 2015

Selected Publications

Rao, V. V., Vu, M. K., Ma, H., Killaars, A. R. & Anseth, K. S. Rescuing mesenchymal stem cell regenerative properties on hydrogel substrates post serial expansion. Bioeng. Transl. Med. 1–10 (2018). doi:10.1002/btm2.10104

Research Interests

My project is focused on developing biomaterial systems to study and control the hMSC secretome for therapeutic and regenerative medicine applications.