Principal Investigator
Efie Kokkoli, Ph.D.
Diploma, Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering & Material Science, University of Minnesota, 1998-1999
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 1999-2001
Postdoctoral Fellows
Puja Sandbhor, Ph.D.
B. Pharm., Pharmaceutical Science, Bombay College of Pharmacy, India, 2010
M. Pharm., Pharmaceutical Sciences & Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology Bombay, India, 2012
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2021-2022
Project: Evaluation of nucleic acid nanotubes in animal models of GBM
Ph.D. Graduate Students
Siwei Chen
B.S., Chemical Engineering & Technology, East China University of Science and Technology, 2019
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2022
Project: Local delivery of therapeutics
Andrew Fugetta
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Notre Dame, 2022
Project: Design of siRNA nanoparticles
Aditya Venkatraman
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2020
Project: Targeting tumor‐associated macrophages with ssDNA nanoparticles
Nanlan Yang
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2021
Project: Design of tumor organoids
M.S. Graduate Students
Kieren Collins
B.S., ChemBE, Johns Hopkins University, 2023
Project: Methods for evaluating BBB penetration of ssDNA nanotubes
Undergraduate Students
Lydia Tolerico
B.S., ChemBE, Johns Hopkins University, 2026
Project: Methods for evaluating tumor‐associated macrophage repolarization
Luke Simsiman
B.S., ChemBE, Johns Hopkins University, 2025
Project: Methods for evaluating cancer cell invasion in tumor organoid models