Kelly Horn
Technical Adviser
horn@fyiplaw.com

Kelly Horn

Kelly graduated from Rutgers University in May 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering with a concentration in medical imaging and a Bachelor of Arts in political science with a concentration in international relations. Kelly was awarded high honors in political science for her honors thesis on the development of a quantitative measure of labor union strength and was chosen as a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society. During her tenure at Rutgers, she was selected for the James J. Slade Scholar program through which she completed a research project in the field of bioinformatics on the classification and selection of maximally informative genes from a microarray dataset of temporal gene expression. Her senior design project, through which her team designed and built a novel proof-of-concept 3D maxillofacial imaging system, was recognized with the Creativity in Engineering Design Award from an industrial engineering panel.

After her second year at Rutgers, she began interning with Robert Flavors where she assisted in the development of novel food engineering prototypes. During her final year in the program, she worked as a corporate product characterization engineer for Johnson & Johnson in their medical device division. She performed research on the stress relaxation and fatigue properties of polypropylene mesh and the biomechanical properties of calf pericardium, the results of which ultimately withstood peer review at the Society of Biomaterials Annual Meeting.

After receiving her undergraduate degrees, Kelly attended Rice University and graduated with a Master of Science degree in bioengineering. She completed a research thesis on the engineering of magnetic viral nanoheaters for the targeted hyperthermic treatment of cancer. Kelly served the department by contributing to the development of a new module for an undergraduate bioprocessing laboratory course and by acting as a teaching assistant for two semesters of the bioprocessing laboratory and one semester of graduate systems physiology. For her service, she was honored with the 2008 departmental award, which recognizes outstanding bioengineering teaching assistants.

Upon graduation in January 2009, Kelly joined the firm of Fletcher Yoder as a technical adviser.