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Megan L. McCain earned her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2006. As an undergraduate, she worked as a summer intern in the Worldwide Safety Sciences Department at Pfizer, Inc., and in the Research Resources Branch at the National Institute on Aging. She completed her doctoral studies in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, including one year abroad in the Department of Physiology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. While a graduate student, Megan was the recipient of an American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship and the Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. She received her PhD in Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2012 and continued at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. McCain joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California in January 2014. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and the American Heart Association (AHA).