Sharada Narayanan

I received my BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University where I worked in multiple areas including materials engineering and planetary science. In the summer of 2019 I interned at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (imec) in Leuven, Belgium where I developed an interest in BioMEMS/lab-on-a-chip technologies. After graduating in 2020, I spent two years working in R&D at Terray Therapeutics, a Los Angeles based start-up, to improve a novel microfluidic and microbead-based high-throughput drug discovery platform. I am now a neural engineering PhD student in Dr. Tracy Cui's lab at the University of Pittsburgh working at the microdevice-neural tissue interface. I work on designing novel electrodes for chemical sensing and neuromodulation.

  • BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 2016 - 2020

  • Dhawan, V., Narayanan, S., Thompson, C.H., Shi, D., Patel, Y., McClung, C.A., & Cui, X.T. (2026). Impact of ClockΔ19 Mutation on Neural Recording Performance and Neural Inflammatory Responses. In Elsevier BV. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.6251979.
  • Dhawan, V., Wu, B., Narayanan, S., Shi, D., Patel, Y., & Cui, X.T. (2026). A comparative study assessing neural recording quality and inflammatory tissue response between stiff and flexible microelectrode arrays. Biomaterials, 329, 123929.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2025.123929.
  • Shi, D., Narayanan, S., Woeppel, K., & Cui, X.T. (2024). Improving the Biocompatibility and Functionality of Neural Interface Devices with Silica Nanoparticles. Acc Chem Res, 57(12), 1684-1695.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00160.
  • Arlington, S.Q., Lakshman, S.V., Barron, S.C., DeLisio, J.B., Rodriguez, J.C., Narayanan, S., Fritz, G.M., & Weihs, T.P. (2020). Exploring material chemistry for direct ink writing of reactively formed conductors. MATERIALS ADVANCES, 1(5), 1151-1160.Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). doi: 10.1039/d0ma00148a.

  • Narayanan, S., Beck, A., Peplowski, P., & Lawrence, D. (2020). Mapping igneous components in Vesta regolith using GRaND data. In 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.Texas.
headshot of Sharada Narayanan
Contact Sharada Narayanan
Pre-Doctoral Fellow Certificate
Graduate student researcher
Linkedin
Bioengineering Department