Ian McLean graduated from Washington State University with a bachelor's degree in bioengineering. He worked for four years as a manufacturing engineer at a medical device company based in Seattle. He then spent two years at Colorado State University developing a microfluidic device for culturing tissue explants. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and is interested in single cell sequencing and machine learning, and how they can be applied to understanding the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer.