Cosgriff-Hernandez was an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University, majoring in biomedical engineering.
Cosgriff-Hernandez was appointed as a UT-TORCH postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, where she focused on orthopaedic tissue engineering under the direction of Dr. Tony Mikos.
Dr. Cosgriff-Hernandez is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry B and has previously served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Part B and chair of the NIH study section on Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering.
[1] Alongside her research on novel materials, Cosgriff-Hernandez is involved with initiatives to promote equity and diversity within the sciences.
In 2020, she partnered with Kelly Stevens, Karmella Haynes, Lola Eniola-Adefeso to investigate disparities in National Institutes of Health funding for Black researchers.