Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Alyssa earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Colorado State University in 2022. In her doctoral work, Alyssa studied the use of nitric oxide as an antithrombotic and antibacterial agent for the development of materials with enhanced blood compatibility. Her research involved the development and evaluation of nitric oxide–generating composite materials for medical devices including catheters, glucose biosensors, and extracorporeal circuitry.
As an undergrad, her research focused on environmental applications including the development of analytical methods to detect toxins in freshwater, evaluation of pharmaceutical and personal care product concentrations in drinking water, and fabrication of ion-exchange materials for membrane capacitive deionization for desalination technologies.
Alyssa has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications, including “Achieving Biomedically Desirable Nitric Oxide Release from Glucose Monitor Surfaces Via a Cu-Based Catalyst Coating” in ACS Applied Bio Materials (2024); “MOF Polymer Composites Exhibit Faster Nitric Oxide Catalysis than MOF Crystallites” in ACS Materials Letters (2022); “Systematic Exploration of a Catalytic Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)/Polyurethane Composite for Medical Device Applications: Effects of MOF Particle Size, MOF Loading, and Polymer Concentration on Composite Material Activity” in Frontiers in Physics (2022); “Development and Blood Compatibility of a Stable and Bioactive Metal–Organic Framework Composite Coating for Blood-Circulation Tubing” in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2022); “Surface Catalyzed Nitric Oxide Release via a Metal Organic Framework Enhances Antibacterial Surface Effects” in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2021); “Blood-Compatible Materials: Vascular Endothelium-Mimetic Surfaces that Mitigate Multiple Cell-Material Interactions” in Advanced Healthcare Materials (2021); “S-Nitrosoglutathione exhibits greater stability than S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine under common laboratory conditions: A comparative stability study” in Nitric Oxide (2019); and “Nitric oxide generation from S-nitrosoglutathione: New activity of indium and a survey of metal ion effects” in Nitric Oxide (2018).