Joel Lusk

Joel Lusk's work experience starts in 2012 when they worked as a Virology/Serology Technician at the Arizona State Public Health Laboratory. In this role, they prepared media, performed daily QC on mammalian cell culture, worked in a BSL 3 laboratory, and aided in the isolation of viruses from cell culture.

In 2013, Lusk volunteered as a Clinical Research Technician at the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDs for a brief period.

From 2013 to 2015, they served as a Lead Research Technician at Panaridus. Joel'sresponsibilities included designing reactor, processing, and solvent reclamation systems, developing SOPs, and increasing yields from plant material on a large scale reactor system.

In 2015, they joined Click Chemistry Tools, LLC as a Research and Development Technician. Joel optimized techniques to produce organic compounds more effectively and efficiently, gained experience with organic synthesis, and developed methods to produce fluorescent compounds at large scales.

Starting in 2017, Lusk worked as a Graduate Research Associate at Arizona State University. In this role, they developed nanoparticle contrast agents for cell type detection, designed cell culture experiments for metabolomic studies of cancer, and fabricated a photoacoustic flow system for detecting ovarian cancer cells.

Most recently, in 2022, Lusk joined Microvascular Therapeutics as a Senior Lead Scientist, where their current role and responsibilities are not specified.

Joel Lusk attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from Arizona State University in the years 2007 to 2012. Following this, Joel pursued further academic achievement and successfully completed a Ph.D. in Biological Design from Arizona State University from 2016 to 2022.