Students, Fellows & Scholars

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  Technology Development Fellow
  Makoto Lalwani, Ph.D.
  Makoto received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. His Ph.D. research focused on the development of optogenetic tools in bacteria and yeast for metabolic engineering applications. As a Technology Development Fellow, he has been focusing on the design of controllable RNA modalities in mammalian...
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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
  Ana Raquel P. Santa Maria, Ph.D.
  Ana Raquel P. Santa Maria received her M.Sc. in Bioengineering from University of Algarve Portugal, and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Szeged, Hungary. During her Ph.D. she studied the role of brain endothelial surface charge and glycocalyx in the function and integrity of the blood-brain barrier using an organ-on-a-chip device. As a...
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  Technology Development Fellow
  Yunhao Zhai
  Yunhao Zhai received his dual B.S. in Bioengineering and B.A. in English from Shandong Agricultural University, dual M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from East China Normal University and Ecoles Normales Supérieures, and Ph.D. in Immunology from Aix Marseille University. His PhD work was focusing on investigating the novel combination of therapeutics targeting T cell...