Shyni Varghese joined the Jacobs School Bioengineering faculty in 2007. She comes to the Bioengineering department following a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University. She received a Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering from National Chemical Laboratory, India. She has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and over a dozen patent disclosures. She is a recipient of CIRM New Faculty Award for Stem Cell research.