Hailing from central Pennsylvania, John is an active runner and maintains an interest in politics and the financial restructuring of Wall Street. His past research stints include work in construction material regulation, high power laser machining, as well as microfluidics in the Whitesides and Huang Labs. His current research entails the pursuit of nanoparticle enabled biodiagnostics. He is also a frequent contributor to the BioPOEMS newsfeed.