MayLin Howard is a graduate student in the Hammond Lab at the Koch Institute for Cancer Integrative Research. MayLin's research works towards improving current bone regeneration treatments by using chemical engineering principles to build coatings onto synthetic, degradable implants. These coatings deliver different drugs over different time frames to determine the optimal treatment. MayLin's work is truly interdisciplinary, bringing together materials science, chemical engineering, and medicine with the ultimate goal of helping bone trauma patients. In her free time, MayLin volunteers as a board member of the Graduate Women at MIT group, which promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on Campus.