Students, Fellows & Scholars

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  Technology Development Fellow
  Mingjie Dai, Ph.D.
  Mingjie Dai received his B.A. and M.Sci. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University. During his graduate work, he developed new methods for DNA-PAINT high-sensitivity super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, as well as directed DNA nanostructure self-assembly. As a Wyss Technology Development Fellow, and jointly as a Departmental...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Melvin Gauci, Ph.D.
  Melvin received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Malta in 2009 and an M.S. in control systems engineering from the University of Sheffield in 2010. He carried out his Ph.D. work at the Natural Robotics Lab at the University of Sheffield between 2010 and 2015, where he worked on collective robotics systems...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Denitsa Milanova, Ph.D., MScM
  Denitsa received B.S. in Mechanical Eng. from University of Central Florida, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Eng. from Stanford University. Denitsa also holds a M.Sc. in Management from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. At the lab of George Church, Denitsa works on a platform technology for genetic engineering of skin. Broadly, her research focus...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Peter Q. Nguyen, Ph.D.
  Peter received a B.S. in Biochemistry and B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Texas, his M.Bs. from the Keck Graduate Institute, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Rice University. At the Wyss Institute, Peter currently works on programmable probiotics and freeze-dried cell-free manufacturing technology across multiple platforms. His research interests also include engineering systems...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Dmitry Popov, Ph.D.
  Dmitry received his BS and MS degrees in Robotics and Mechatronics from the Moscow State Technical University ”STANKIN” in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Korea University of Technology and Education in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He has developed portable soft robotics systems for upper limb rehabilitation...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Tanya Shirman, Ph.D.
  Tanya received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. As a graduate student, Tanya developed new strategies utilizing supramolecular interactions for assembling novel organic and hybrid metal-organic materials. Tanya was awarded the Israel...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  David B. Thompson, Ph.D.
  David received his B.S. in Microbiology from Michigan State University, and his Ph.D. in Biological & Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University. As a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. David R. Liu, David used protein engineering and directed evolution to develop therapeutic protein delivery strategies, and to improve the safety profile of genome editing...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Hua Wang, Ph.D.
  Hua Wang’s Ph.D. projects were centered around metabolic labeling and targeting of cancer cells, in an effort to develop a strategy that can selectively label cancer cells with chemical tags in vivo and enable cancer-targeted delivery of chemotherapeutics. At the Wyss Institute, he aims to integrate his research background in chemistry and chemical biology with...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Amy M. Wen, Ph.D.
  Amy received her Bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics from Duke University and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. Her graduate work was performed under Dr. Nicole Steinmetz and focused on engineering new designs of plant virus-based nanoparticles for applications in tissue-specific imaging and targeted drug delivery. Amy was...