Jonathan Diaz

2nd year MS student – Matriculated 2018

Mentor(s): Chris Porada, PhD and Graҫa Almeida-Porada, MD, PhD

Program: Biomedical Engineering 

Jonathan received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

He is currently a 2nd year MS student in the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Program.  He currently researches at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine under principal investigators Dr. Graҫa Almeida-Porada and Dr. Christopher Porada. His main area of study is space radiation health effects in astronauts during long-term space travel on the gastrointestinal tract.