Owen Brown

Owen is a first-year biomedical engineering graduate student and Provost Fellow at the University of Virginia. He received his bachelor's of science in biomedical engineering similarly from the University of Virginia. During his undergraduate tenure, he worked with the Sheybani Lab to investigate myriad ways to enhance CAR T cells using focused ultrasound. His current personal projects include an investigation of how thermally ablative FUS can be leveraged to enhance CAR-T cell efficacy in triple negative breast cancer, the exploration of how FUS BBBO can bolster alpha-v-beta-3 CAR T cell efficacy against breast cancer brain metastases, the development of an effective sonogenetic CAR-T cell-FUS combinatorial, and the creation of a series of varying post experimental analysis programs to quantify IF, MRI, and IHC images. Outside of lab work, he enjoys weightlifting, pickleball, hiking, playing guitar, volunteering at a dog rescue, and amateur website creation.​​​​​