Joscelyn Mejías is an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She received a BS in bioengineering with the Distinction in Research and Creative Works and a BA in asian studies from Rice University; she earned her MS and Ph.D. from the joint Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Mejías has been supported by a number of awards including the GT Presidents Fellowship and Goizueta Foundation Fellowship, NSF-GRFP, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Minority Ph.D. Fellowship. She has received the 2023 L’Oréal For Women in Science for her work in Uterine Fibroids and NIA MOSAIC K99 to study age and sex differences in the immune response to biomaterials. Her lab focuses on biomaterials, immune mediated tissue regeneration, and developing in vitro models of fibrosis (uterine fibroids).