Dr. Ngan F Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University and Principal Investigator at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. She completed her B.Sc. (2002) in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Ph.D. (2006) in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley and University of California San Francisco Joint Program in Bioengineering. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University. She has received numerous honors, including an NIH K99/R00 Career Development Award, a Fellow of the American Heart Association Award, a Young Investigator Award from the Society for Vascular Medicine, a Young Investigator Award from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas, and a Rising Star Award at the Cell & Molecular Bioengineering conference. Her laboratory aims to understand the chemical and mechanical interactions between extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and pluripotent stem cells that regulate vascular and myogenic function.