Jade Webb, Peer Concentration Advisor on Influential Women

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Jade Webb

Peer Concentration Advisor, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Cambridge, MA

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Degree Harvard Degree University of North Texas

Her Story

About Jade

Jade Webb is a senior undergraduate student at Harvard University. She has spent the last six years working in the organ-on-a-chip field, beginning her research at the University of North Texas before transitioning to Emulate, where she spent about a year creating and validating testing protocols to make organ-on-chip technology accessible to other academic institutions. She has continued this work through much of her academic career while gaining broader experience across the life science and medical industries. Her notable professional achievement includes contributing to the early stages of product development on the AVA system at Emulate, a platform that enables running the equivalent of 96 organ chips at a time, which launched around two years ago. Looking ahead, she aims to work in translational technology at the interface of bench to bedside, addressing bottlenecks in regulatory policy to bring innovations to market.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Jade

01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?

There's not a linear path to wherever you want to go. Oftentimes, just exploring and bouncing around will open a lot more doors.

02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

Take chances on yourself, and walk into rooms, even whenever we think that they're not made for you.

03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?

Data is always a big one, especially in bio. There's a lot of issues with lack of large amounts of data sets, proprietary and ownership of where things are, also other ethical concerns. We just never know what will or won't work. Machine learning is a really big topic in bioengineering but it's only as good as the data sets that we can put into it, and because there's so much variance in environment and how experiments are set up, it's really hard to get really accurate models.

04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?

Authenticity, the willingness to try new things, and curiosity in general.

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