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Taking Measure

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Mandy Esch

Mandy B. Esch is a project leader in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division at NIST. She received an M.S. in biology and a Ph.D. in biotechnology from the Julius Maximilians University in Wurzburg, Germany. Mandy has developed several patents for multi-organ body-on-a-chip systems and as part of a team that develops MPS systems, she received the 2015 Lush Science Prize.