Megan Swim

Megan’s recurring goal for her career would be to improve the life of one sick child, and hopefully, by extension, many more. She focuses on using in vitro and cell culture methods to investigate potential treatments for children. As a scientist at Creyon, she is confident that the unique and accomplished multi-disciplinary team can work together to attain the vision of creating effective treatments through innovative science. Working with a pediatric surgeon at the University of Bristol, she started pursuing this line of research with a Ph.D. focused on creating tissue engineered constructs for babies born with heart defects. This work led to more technical post-doctorate work, using differentiation of pluripotent cells and bioprinting to create three-dimensional models of early cardiac development. Her knowledge of cells led to continuing her research at a non-profit where she studied potential methods of extending the health and viability of donated tissue. This expanded her expertise by introducing her to the FDA approval process and to physician and patient-oriented services.