Dr. Katie Hixon was born and raised in Iowa, where she received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (University of Iowa). She then earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Saint Louis University) and completed her postdoctoral training in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine). Here, she was awarded the NIH F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. Dr. Hixon first began her appointment at Dartmouth College in January of 2022 and is excited to continue to focus research efforts on novel dental-, oral-, craniofacial-, and musculoskeletal-focused tissue engineering/regenerative medicine intervention strategies.

Originally from the Windy City suburb of Naperville, IL, Sreejith is a Research Assistant in the Hixon Lab. Sreejith recently received his master's in Biomedical Engineering from Tandon School of Engineering at New York University in 2022 with a focus on Biomaterials. His interests are in core bone biology, signaling and osteo cell-cell communications and its interrelation with hematologic disorders such as multiple myeloma, myeloid and lymphoblastic leukemia.