Ande Marini is a current PhD Candidate in the Vascular Bioengineering Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work focuses on creating a controlled delivery system of mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EVs) for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm. She is interested in the degradative mechanisms of AAA, mitigation of these degradative enzymes with MSC-EVs, investigation of extracellular matrix production following EV treatment in AAA, and restoration of vascular wall integrity. In addition to EV work, she is also interested in drug delivery of regenerative factors to treat other cardiovascular diseases.
