Alice TIan

Bioengineering, William Marsh Rice University

Alice Tian is from Houston, TX and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from Rice University. During undergrad, Alice co-founded a medical device startup, AnchorCat, filing a provisional patent for her novel catheter fixation device for intracardiac echocardiography procedures. As part of team AnchorCat, she won the 3rd place Excellence in Capstone Engineering Award and was a finalist in the Design of Medical Devices competition.

Alice has also contributed to research in many areas, including creating a genomic atlas of the eye and studying marker genes for eye disease in the Rui Chen lab at Baylor College of Medicine, modeling ion transport in the Raphael lab at Rice University, and improving image reconstruction for PET/CT in the Pan lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She volunteers in the inpatient wings at MD Anderson and works part time as a piano teacher for elementary students.

Alice came to EnMed because she is passionate about combining her engineering background with clinical training to drive meaningful innovation in healthcare. She hopes to employ her knowledge and skills to shape the future of medical technology in clinical practice.

In her free time, Alice enjoys expressing herself creatively by dancing, crocheting, crafting, and playing the piano. She can usually be found cuddling with her cats or trying out new places to eat around town with friends.