Aran received her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the City University of New York in 2007 and her PhD in biomedical engineering at Rutgers University in 2012. She then continued her postdoctoral studies in bioengineering at the University of California Berkeley and was a recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral training fellowship at the Buck Institute for Age Research in 2015. She joined KGI in January 2017 as an Assistant Professor. Aran also serves as the director of KGI’s High School Summer STEM program.