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 ssDNA 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 RNA nanoparticles

Paul Kuhn
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 2018
Project: Design of a hydrogel-nanoparticle system for local delivery of therapeutics to triple negative breast cancer

Zachary Schneiderman
B.S., Chemistry, University of Georgia, 2014
MAT, University of Georgia, 2014
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016
Project: Design of self-assembled ssDNA nanostructures for gene delivery to brain cancer

Aditya Venkatraman
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2020
Project: Targeting tumor‐associated macrophages with ssDNA nanoparticles

Danyu Wang
(co-advised with Prof. Michael Tsapatsis)
B.S., Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2018
Project: Synthesis and characterization of ssDNA-amphiphiles for catalysis

Nanlan Yang
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2021
Project: Targeted therapies to treat cancer
M.S. Graduate Students

Keilany Lightsey
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2021
Project: Design of targeted nanoparticles for gene therapy
Undergraduate Students

Kieren Collins
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
High School Students

Maria Chen
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute