Joseph Borrello, PhD
About Me
Joseph Borrello is an Instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai and Head of Engineering for Mount Sinai BioDesign, a medical device incubator and prototyping center housed within the Mount Sinai Health System. He also recently completed his PhD at Mount Sinai in the labs of Drs. Kevin Costa and Junqian Xu, with a focus on biomechanics and medical device development. In addition to his graduate research and engineering efforts within the Sinai BioDesign innovation team, Joe has been involved for many years in the leadership of GRO-Biotech, an inter-institutional, student-lead consortium focused on expanding career development opportunities for graduate students in and around the life sciences. More recently, he has also helped start the NYC chapter of Nucleate, a student-lead bio-entrepreneurship program focused on helping first-time scientific founders. Previously, Joe has worked at 3D Systems on technical development in the consumer marketing department and as a liaison with engineering project management teams, in addition to an earlier stint at experiential marketing firm Affinitive.
Joe received his bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, where he remains active in the Zahn Innovation Center, an on-campus tech startup incubator.
He has also been involved in several startup ventures in the hardware and biotech spaces. Several years ago, Joe took Proto-Sauce, through NYCEDC’s Futureworks Incubator, with the goal of developing new materials for resin-based 3D printing. More recently, he served as the founding CTO of Biosapien, using advanced manufacturing to create new devices for the treatment of cancer. Beyond his direct startup work, he has also continued to participate in Futureworks as a mentor, as well as other programs in the New York City startup community.
Last, but not least, Joe is the writer and publisher of Magnitude and Direction (and it’s long-form companion Moment of Inertia), a bi-weekly email newsletter that focuses on some of his primary areas of interest, including bioengineering, data science, history, and cartography, as well as various events, opportunities, and goings-on in NYC revolving around the city’s growing technology and startup communities.
Language
Position
Research Topics
Biomechanics/Bioengineering, Biomedical Sciences, Biophysics, Cardiovascular, Computer Simulation, Imaging, MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nanotechnology, Spinal Cord, Spine, Tissue Engineering, Translation, Translational Research
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics (DMT)
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About Me
Joseph Borrello is an Instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai and Head of Engineering for Mount Sinai BioDesign, a medical device incubator and prototyping center housed within the Mount Sinai Health System. He also recently completed his PhD at Mount Sinai in the labs of Drs. Kevin Costa and Junqian Xu, with a focus on biomechanics and medical device development. In addition to his graduate research and engineering efforts within the Sinai BioDesign innovation team, Joe has been involved for many years in the leadership of GRO-Biotech, an inter-institutional, student-lead consortium focused on expanding career development opportunities for graduate students in and around the life sciences. More recently, he has also helped start the NYC chapter of Nucleate, a student-lead bio-entrepreneurship program focused on helping first-time scientific founders. Previously, Joe has worked at 3D Systems on technical development in the consumer marketing department and as a liaison with engineering project management teams, in addition to an earlier stint at experiential marketing firm Affinitive.
Joe received his bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, where he remains active in the Zahn Innovation Center, an on-campus tech startup incubator.
He has also been involved in several startup ventures in the hardware and biotech spaces. Several years ago, Joe took Proto-Sauce, through NYCEDC’s Futureworks Incubator, with the goal of developing new materials for resin-based 3D printing. More recently, he served as the founding CTO of Biosapien, using advanced manufacturing to create new devices for the treatment of cancer. Beyond his direct startup work, he has also continued to participate in Futureworks as a mentor, as well as other programs in the New York City startup community.
Last, but not least, Joe is the writer and publisher of Magnitude and Direction (and it’s long-form companion Moment of Inertia), a bi-weekly email newsletter that focuses on some of his primary areas of interest, including bioengineering, data science, history, and cartography, as well as various events, opportunities, and goings-on in NYC revolving around the city’s growing technology and startup communities.
Language
Position
Research Topics
Biomechanics/Bioengineering, Biomedical Sciences, Biophysics, Cardiovascular, Computer Simulation, Imaging, MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nanotechnology, Spinal Cord, Spine, Tissue Engineering, Translation, Translational Research
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics (DMT)
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