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
  Jocelyn (Josie) Kishi, Ph.D.
  Josie received her B.S. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2014, she joined Prof. Peng Yin’s laboratory as a graduate student to research molecular programming. She developed the Primer Exchange Reaction (PER) method for synthesizing single-stranded DNA and later worked with collaborators to apply PER for signal amplification in fluorescence...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Angelo Mao, Ph.D.
  Angelo received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Harvard University. His graduate work under the mentorship of Dr. David Mooney focused on developing a microfluidic-based technology for single-cell encapsulation in tunable hydrogels for studying cell behavior in vitro and improving cell therapies in vivo. As a Wyss Technology Development Fellow, Angelo is working on...
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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
  Sungmin Nam, Ph.D.
  Sungmin Nam received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. His PhD work was centered around the mechanical characterization of biomaterials, the study of mechanobiology, and the development of new biomaterial platforms, in an effort to understand the biological impacts of the material’s...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Ida Pavlichenko, Ph.D.
  Dr. Ida Pavlichenko is a technology development fellow at the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering working in the group of Prof. Joanna Aizenberg. Ida harnesses the principles of bio-inspired design and engineering to achieve a paradigm shift in the materials, design, and function of tympanostomy implants. Together with the researchers at the Massachusetts...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Longlong Si, Ph.D.
  Longlong Si received his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Demin Zhou from Peking University in June 2017 before he moved to Harvard University and joined Dr. Donald Ingber’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow (2017-2019). One part of his Ph.D. work focused on developing genetic codon expansion technology for manipulating viral life processes...
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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...