# @nu_cheme on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-11-19T15:13:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** ChemE-Northeastern University (@nu_cheme) — https://gondola.cc/nu_cheme

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Last but certainly not least in our Fall 2025 ChemE Seminar Series is Marjan Rafat mrafat1 , PhD. She is the Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University! Held in conjunction with BioE nu_bioe, we're happy to have her on campus (but sad to see the end of our fall seminar series).

Biography: Dr. Marjan Rafat is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She has courtesy appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Oncology and is a member of the Program in Cancer Biology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the Breast Cancer Research Program at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Among other recognitions, she has received the NIH Pathway to Independence award, the Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering award, Breast Cancer Alliance Young Investigator award, Concern Foundation Conquer Cancer Now award, METAvivor Early Career Investigator award, and the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant. She received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT, a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University, and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Rafat currently applies chemical and biomedical engineering concepts toward understanding the mechanisms driving breast cancer recurrence and metastasis. Her interdisciplinary laboratory at Vanderbilt examines and models the tumor and tissue microenvironment. She has contributed over 50 peer-reviewed publications, 7 book chapters, and over 85 conference presentations and proceedings.

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