People / AlumniMBP Class of 2022-2023/24
Abdulaziz Alzeer
Undergraduate: BS Microbiology, King Saud University
Research: "Evaluating the Functional Properties of the Novel Tri-Specific T Cell Engager for GBM Treatment" (I. Balyasnikova)
Internship: Research Assistant at Northwestern University
Tarlan Arjmandi
Undergraduate: BS Molecular and Cellular Biology-Genetics, Islamic Azad University Tehran Medical Science
Research: "Immunopeptidomics and B cells - Discovery of tumor-specific antigen"
Internship: Graduate Research Assistant at Northwestern University
Gunjan Bagri
Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, MAHE Manipal Institute of Technology
Research: "Development of Media for Cultivated Meat" (A. Felse)
Internship: Research Associate Co-Op at WuXi Biologics
Kishan Batcheldor
Undergraduate: BS Biology, Northern Arizona University
Research: "Genetic Engineering of Clostridium autoethanogenum for the Production of Target Alcohol" (M. Koepke)
Internship: Process Engineering Co-Op at Abbott
Xiaoyang Chen
Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, McGill University
Research: "LNP Screening for RNA Therapeutics" (P. Zhang)
Internship: Summer Intern at Eli Lilly and Company
Yuheng Geng
Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, University of California Irvine
Research: "Creatine metabolism and a new creatine kinanse inhibitor in treating human GBM" (J. Miska)
Internship: Graduate Researcher at Northwestern University
Xiangyu Gu
Undergraduate: BS Biology and Vertebrate Physiology, Pennsylvania State University University Park
Research: "The Recombinant Antibody Approach to Mapping Spicule Matrix Protein Distribution in Sea Urchin"
Brendan Hood
Undergraduate: BS Biotechnology, Pennsylvania State University
Research: "Investigation on the Role of Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Amyloid Beta Oligomers (AbOs) in Neural Development"
Yuyun Huang
Undergraduate: BAgric Agriculture Science, China Agricultural University
Research: "The role of QSOX1 in regulation of Tumor growth and Macrophage Immunosuppressive Polarization in Glioblastoma"
Leila Irvani
Undergraduate: BS Laboratory Sciences, Islamic Azad University
Research: "Finding the specific adaptor protein for CUL3 E3 ligase that links it to RNA Polymerase II" (A. Shilatifard)
Internship: Research Intern at Northwestern University
Ananya Joshi
Undergraduate: BTech Biomedical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology
Sayali Kulkarni
Research: "A comprehensive comparative analysis of novel human monoclonal antibodies in B cell function" (L. Castillo-Menendez)
Internship: Research Associate at Octagon Therapeutics
Tanasha Lertjanyarak
Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Research: "Engineering next generation exosome therapeutics" (H. Liu)
Internship: Process Engineering Co-Op at Abbott Laboratories
Hanchen Lin
Undergraduate: BS Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University
Research: "Nano-therapeutic Targeting of Immunosuppressive Myeloid Cells Synergizes with Radiotherapy for Glioblastoma"
Yisong Lin
Undergraduate: BS Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Xuhao Liu
Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, Beijing Forestry University
Research: "Optimize Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) Platforms for B Cell Engineering" (C. Lee-Chang)
Internship: Immunology Discovery Co-Op at Merck & Co.
Huyun Lu
Undergraduate: BS Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Junlin Lu
Undergraduate: BS Animal Behavior, Indiana University - Bloomington
Research: "Reducing toxicity of chemotherapeutics via Indirect Targeting"
Viktor Maciag
Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
Research: "Biprocess and Media Development for Scale Up of Stem Cells for
Laboratory Grown Meat"
Ava Mendoza
Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Research: "An Analysis of Pharmaceutical Weight Loss Market to Determine if Unmet Medical Needs Exist for a New Product Entry" (W. Sargent)
Internship: Data Analyst Intern at UCB
Weronika Ptaszek
Undergraduate: BS Integrated Health Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sudharsana Ravisankar
Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, Anna University
Research: "Development of Inducible dTAG Cell Lines to Analayze CRAMP1 and PRSAP fucntions" (D. Foltz)
Internship: Cell/Molecular Biology Co-Op at Exo Therapeutics
Sayani Saha
Undergraduate: BTech Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Durgapur
Research: "Ex vivo Reprogramming of CB8 T cells for adoptive cell therapy for solid tumors" (J. Wu)
Internship: Immunology Co-Op at Mercek & Co.
Erica Satchell
Undergraduate: BA General Science - Biology, Grinnell College
Internship: Data Process Scientist Intern at UCB UK
Zainab Hazique Shaikh
Undergraduate: BS Neurobiology and Physiology, Purdue University
Research: "Scaling BVax for Clinical Application and Evaluating Other Indications Across Non-GBM Cancer Types" (C. Chang)
Internship: Drug and Discovery Intern at Eli Lilly and Company
Iyappan Annamalai Subbiah
Undergraduate: BS Biomedical Science, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research
Research: "Unmasking the Value: A Pharmacoeconomic Exploration of ARDS Interventions"
Internship: Contracting Business Analyst at Deloitte
Hanxiao Sun
Undergraduate: BS Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles
Research: "Quantitative biology of therapeutic resistance in cancer cells through single-cell analyses enables exploration of cell plasticity"
Suemeng Vang
Undergraduate: BS Microbiology, North Dakota State University
Research: "Development of a functional assay to predict in vivo performance of tolerogenic nanoparticles"
Larry Wang
Undergraduate: BA Biological Sciences - Northwestern University
Research: "Neonatal Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Ileitis"
Matt Williams
Undergraduate: BA Biology, University of Chicago
Da Yang
Undergraduate: BS Biology, University of California Los Angeles
Research: "PdNA with dPAOs for Sustainable Phosphorus and Nitrogen Removal"
Ellen Zhang
Undergraduate: BS Neuroscience, University of Toronto
Research: "Investigating the Clinical Significance of the MIC-NKG2D Immune
Axis in Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) Metastasis Using
Comprehensive Data Analysis and Nanostring RNA Analysis"