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Sarah Van Houten

Sarah Van Houten

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Institution

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Introduction

Sarah enjoys hiking, reading, writing, baking, and spending time with her two kids and dog.

Top Fields

Engineering, Medicine & Public Health, Biology & Life Sciences

Research Areas

This mentor can support projects in medical device development, public health, and robotics. Their broader interests include biomedical engineering, medicine, public health, and drug development.

Background

Sarah’s research and applied analytics background includes designing and implementing data analytics systems to track website traffic, user behavior, and subscriber conversion, as well as developing customer satisfaction surveys to improve retention and reduce churn. She has also translated complex medical research into clear, parent-facing educational content and summarized key findings to help pediatricians stay current with evolving clinical knowledge.

Her biomedical and engineering experience includes leading multidisciplinary teams to design and test behavioral studies for a potential Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic, contributing to an innovative diabetes treatment, engineering cardiac spheroids to study cardiac amyloidosis, and building a bioreactor integrating mechanical and electrical stimulation. She has also engineered scaffold-free skeletal muscle fibers, contributed to studies on cardiac muscle phenomena, breast cancer benchtop models, microfluidic devices for detecting calcium levels in blood, and wearable medical devices for measuring pain levels in comatose patients.

• Designed and implemented data analytics systems to track website traffic, user behavior, and subscriber conversion, enabling data-driven growth strategy.

• Developed and deployed customer satisfaction surveys to gather actionable feedback, enhance user retention, and reduce churn.

• Translated complex medical research into clear, parent-facing educational content and summarized key findings to support pediatricians in staying current with evolving clinical knowledge.

• Led multidisciplinary teams to design and test behavioral studies evaluating a potential Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutic.

• Collaborated with a team to develop an innovative diabetes treatment.

• Engineered cardiac spheroids to study cardiac amyloidosis.

• Designed and implemented a novel bioreactor, integrating mechanical and electrical stimulation techniques.

• Engineered scaffold-free skeletal muscle fibers with functional properties surpassing benchmarks

• Collaborated on cardiac muscle history-dependent phenomena studies.

• Collaborated on research for breast cancer benchtop models and potential therapeutics.

• Won an entrepreneurship award for developing a paper-based microfluidic device to detect calcium levels in blood.

• Programmed a wearable medical device to subjectively measure pain levels in comatose patients.

• Aided in regulatory documentation formation and competitive market research for paper-based microfluidic devices and wearable medical devices

• Conducted data collection, behavioral studies, and technical troubleshooting for many research projects.