Rosana Alfaro is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering. She earned her BE in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University in 2024. During her undergraduate studies, she worked on developing point-of-care technologies for the diagnosis of infectious diseases in low-resource settings. As an international student from Nicaragua, Rosana is deeply interested in low-resource engineering and global health innovation. Through the Clinton Global Initiative University Fellowship, she collaborated with healthcare professionals in Nicaragua to create specialized 3D-printed wearables for low-income patients. From this experience, she became increasingly passionate about making science communication more accessible and decided to pursue a PhD focused on biomedical instrumentation. Now at the Z-lab for Biophotonics, her research focuses on using optical clearing agents to enhance Optical Coherence Tomography imaging for translational applications in research and healthcare.
