Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida
Age: 31
Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Duke University; and postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Career mentors: Dr. Jennifer West, University of Virginia; Dr. Warren Grayson and Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff, The Johns Hopkins University; and Dr. Michele Manuel and Dr. Cammy Abernathy, both of University of Florida
Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Feel the fear and do it anyway! You are capable of more than you can imagine.”
Dr. Erika Moore co-founded the group Black in Biomedical Engineering (BlackInBME) to amplify, support, and foster community. She uses her visibility as a Black female scientist at the University of Florida, a Research 1 institution, to advocate for others.
“In our field of biomedical engineering there are all these aspects of hidden curriculum that we wanted to be able to address by creating a community,” Moore said.
