Students, Fellows & Scholars
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Technology Development Fellow
Jianyu Li, Ph.D.
Jianyu received his B.S. in Polymer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2015. His thesis work involved developing novel biomaterials with unprecedented mechanical properties, in particular, stiff and tough hydrogels for cartilage replacement. He joined the Programmable Nanomaterials Focus Area as a...
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Technology Development Fellow
Dan Mandell, Ph.D.
Dan received his Bachelors degree from Stanford University in 2002 and a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 2003. His Ph.D. work at UCSF coupled inverse kinematics techniques from robotics with protein modeling and design to allow prediction of flexible protein structures to atomic accuracy, earning him the Julius R....
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Technology Development Fellow
Ben M. Maoz, Ph.D.
Ben M. Maoz received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 2008 and 2010, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Tel Aviv University, Israel. His thesis work on the “preparation and characterization of chiral metal nanostructures and their interaction with chiral molecules” enabled him to understand fundamental properties...
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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
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...
