People / AlumniMBP Class of 2017-2018/19
People
/ Alumni
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Simi Abraham
- BS Biology, University of Colorado (Denver) - Denver, CO
- MBP Research Project: Effects of silver and titanium dioxide nanoparticles on environmental microorganisms and the transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes (K. Gray)
Ibrahim Alqemlas
- BS Biotechnology, University of Nottingham - Nottingham, United Kingdom
- MBP Research Project: Characterizing biological and drug recalls (A. Felse)
Tanner Cook
- BS Biochemistry, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
- MBP Research Project: Determining the effect of needle length of the Type III secretion system on secretion titers in Salmonella (D. Tullman-Ercek)
Daniel Fernandez
- BS Biology, Boston College - Chestnut Hill, MA
- MBP Research Project: Engineered extracellular vesicles as novel therapeutics (J. Leonard)
Xiaozhi (Kevin) Gao
- BS Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - Terre Haute, IN
- MBP Research Project: Optimization of cardiomyocyte differentiation and proliferation (P. Burridge)
- Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences - Rochester, MN (2019 - )
Maya Halthore
- BS Biology & BA Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Blacksburg, VA
- MBP Research Project: Investigation of solid lipid nanoparticle (SLN) based spherical Nucleic acids (D. Giljohann)
Ning Han
- BS Biopharmaceutical Technology, China Pharmaceutical University - Nanjing, Jiangsu (China)
- MBP Research Project: Spatial distribution and function of spicule matrix proteins in the sea urchin embryo (D. Joester)
Giulia Hindermann
- BS Neuroscience, University of Illinois (Chicago) - Chicago, IL
- MBP Research Project: Dynamics of migration and connectivity in newly born hippocampal neurons (Y. Kozoroviskiy)
- Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Tübingen - Baden-Württemberg, Germany (2019 - )
Frederick Hsu
- BS Biochemistry, University of California (Los Angeles) - Los Angeles, CA
- MBP Research Project: Synthesis, purification, and characterization of oligonucleotides for spherical nucleic acid (SNA) therapeutic Application (D. Giljohann)
Yaroslav Kaminskiy
- Certificate in Biotechnology, Columbia University - New York City, NY
- BS Global Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations - Moscow, Russia
- MBP Research Project: A combinatorial nanomaterial strategy to alleviate off-target effects of drug therapy (E. Scott)
Michelle Koford
- BS Human Nutrition, The Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
- MS Health Promotion and Education & Exercise Management, University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH
- MBP Research Project: Role of NF90 in prostate cancer (J. Yu)
Chuanlu (Jason) Liu
- BS Biotechnology, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
- MBP Research Project: The correlation between patterns and products in the business developments of the pharmaceutical industry (S. Moreira)
Jessica Long
- BS Biology, University of North Carolina (Greensboro) - Greensboro, NC
- MBP Research Project: The role of DYRK1A phosphorylation of UTX in DS-ALL (J. Crispino)
Nikhil Maheshwari
- BS Genetics and Genomics, University of California (Davis) - Davis, CA
- MBP Research Project: Rare cancer clinical trials and mechanism of action approval trends (A. Felse)
Austin Miller
- BS Biochemistry and Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY
- MBP Research Project: Engineering metabolite-responsive biosensors (J. Leonard and K. Tyo)
- Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA (2019 - )
Rohan Mohindroo
- BS Biomedical Sciences, Dominican University - River Forest, IL
- BS Finance, Elmhurst College - Elmhurst, IL
- MBP Research Project: Nanoparticles for measuring human performance (S. Thaxton)
Cameron Niazi
- BS Biological Sciences, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
- MBP Research Project: Targeted epigenetic modification using CRISPR-Cas system (A. Yemelyanov)
Faith Ogungbe
- BA Anthropology, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
- MBP Research Project: Therapeutically targeting diapedisis and the inflammatory response (W. Muller)
Nisar Parekh
- BS Neurobiology, University of Texas (Austin) - Austin, TX
- MBP Research Project: Management of biopharmaceutical projects (B. Bernat)
Zachary Paul
- BS Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rolla, MO
- MBP Research Project: The effect jet lag has on performance in major league baseball (R. Allada)
Michael Reed
- BS Environmental Engineering, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
- MBP Research Project: The role of engrailed homeobox 2 on glioblastoma (A. Ahmed)
Suchitra Sankaranarayan
- BS Pharmacy, Institute of Chemical Technology - Mumbai, Maharashtra (India)
- MBP Research Project: Elucidating a novel regulator of inflammation: the TLR4 Inhibitory Complex (TIC) (J. Leonard)
Afra Siddiqui
- BFA Art, University of Illinois (Chicago) - Chicago, IL
- MBP Research Project: Micro Bioreactor development for ex vivo platelet production (W. Miller)
Xiaolei Situ
- BS Animal Science, China Agricultural University - Haidian, Beijing (China)
- MBP Research Project: The molecular mechanisms of the autophagy protein Beclin 2 in the regulation of Alzheimer’s disease (C. He)
Susmit Sukthankar
- BS Chemical Engineering, Rice University - Houston, TX
- MBP Research Project: The integration of automated liquid handling for bioassay development (J. TerWee)
Katherine Tan
- BA Biochemistry, University of Texas (Austin) - Austin, TX
- MBP Research Project: Application of surface plasmon resonance technology (BiaCore) in biosimilars pharmaceutical product development (J. TerWee)
- Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL (2019 - )
Yidan Wang
- BS Biotechnology, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
- MBP Research Project: Modulation of inhibitory pathways for reversing T cell exhaustion (P. Penaloza-McMaster)
- Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Life Sciences, Driskill Graduate Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University - Chicago, IL (2019 - )
Yifan Xu
- BS Pharmaceutics, East China University of Science and Technology - Xuhui, Shanghai (China)
- MBP Research Project: High throughput screen of small organic molecules for inhibition of AβO’s binding with NaKATPase (W. Klein)
Danielle Yoesep
- BS Neuroscience, University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA
- MBP Research Project: Ribosome engineering (M. Jewett)
Dian Zhang
- BS Biochemistry & BS Nutritional Science, University of Wisconsin (Madison) - Madison, WI
- MBP Research Project: Centromere dysfunction in cancer (D. Foltz)
