OUR TEAM
CURRENT MEMBERS
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator
Research Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
BME Ph.D. Candidate
NSF GRFP
BME Ph.D. Candidate
NIH T32
NSF GRFP
ChBE Ph.D. Candidate
NIH T32
NSF GRFP
PMI Graduate
Student
NIH T32
PMI Graduate
Student
NIH T32
BME Graduate Student
M.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
ChBE Undergraduate
PhD and MS in Biomedical Engineering
Postdoctoral Fellow
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Visiting Assistant Professor
BSE in Biomedical Engineering
PhD in Polymer Chemistry
B.S. Polymer Science and Engineering
LAB ALUMNI
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Faculty
Vijaya Bharti, Ph.D.
Blaise Kimmel, Ph.D.
Lucinda Pastora
Feng Qiu, Ph.D. (current: Principal Investigator at Sichaun University)
Moe Wehbe, Ph.D. (current: Senior Scientist at Flagship Pioneering)
Sema Sevimli, Ph.D. (current: Senior Medical Science Liaison – Breast Oncology at Daiichi Sankyo)
Lihong Bishop, M.D., Ph.D. (current: Research Scientist at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute)
Graduate students
Dan Shae, Ph.D. (current: Scientist at Amgen)
Max Jacobson, Ph.D. (current: Scientist Biosurgery R&D at Ethicon)
Frances Knight, Ph.D. (current: Fogarty Global Health Research Fellow at NIH)
Kyle Garland, Ph.D. (current: Senior Scientist I, Genetic Medicine at Eterna Therapeutics)
Carcia Carson, Ph.D. (current: Medical Science Liaison – Oncology at Natera)
Jessalyn Baljon, Ph.D.
Christian Palmer, Ph.D.
Research Staff
Kyle Becker (current: Biological Safety Officer at Vanderbilt University)
Undergraduates
Pedro Seber (current: Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program, MIT)
Chuong (Ben) Nguyen (SyBBURE Program; current: U. Washington MolE Ph.D. program)
Xinyi He (current: Associate Software Engineer at Capital One)
Jonah Levine (current: EDI Engineer at Epic)
Duncan Morgan (current: Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program, MIT)
Khloe Gordan (current: Bioengineering Ph.D. program, MIT)
Zachary Morrisey (current: Project and Process Engineering at FOCUS)
Anna Caldwell (current: Georgia-Pacific LLC)
Gilda Naka (current: Johnson Matthey)
Vivek Shah (current: Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellow)
Harrison Paul (current: Molecular Engineering Ph.D. program, University of Chicago)
Lorena Cruz (current: Chemical and Biological Engineering B.S. program, Vanderbilt University)
Summer programs
Aamina Dandy, Tuskegee University (current: Vanderbilt MSTP student)
Casey Van Kaer, Northeastern University
Kasey Coleman, Michigan State University (current: Collins Aerospace)
Kathryn (Bumila) Collins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (current: Sanofi Genzyme)
Lauren Hubert, University of Rhode Island