We welcome to our group REU participant Harsha Rajkumar (premedical student at Duke University).
Zack and Natalie surprised us with a visit and it was an absolute delight to meet Elliott. Congratulations Zack and Natalie!
April 2024
Maria placed 3rd in the engineering category at the Morgan State Science Fair, and in the Fall she will be attending the University of Maryland, studying bioengineering. Congratulations Maria!
February 2024
We welcome to our group Lydia Tolerico (ChemBE undergraduate student).
January 2024
We welcome to our group Luke Simsiman (ChemBE undergraduate student).
We celebrated the completion of Danyu and Paul’s Ph.D. with a great dinner at Estiatorio Plaka. Congratulations Danyu and Paul!
October 2023
Paul successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Applications of a Thermosensitive Hydrogel: From Cancer to Skin Rejuvenation” in front of his committee members: Professors Rebecca, Cui, Kokkoli, Rangaramanujam and Wirtz. Congratulations Pauland good luck at TD Cowen as an Equity Research Associate!
July 2023
Danyu successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Artificial Metalloenzymes for Enantioselective Catalysis”. Congratulations Danyu and good luck at Amgen as a Process Development Senior Scientist!
June 2023
Zack successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Development of Self-Assembling Nucleic Acid Nanotherapeutics for the Treatment of Cancer”, and we celebrated the completion of his Ph.D. with a great lunch at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Congratulations Zack and good luck at your new job as Scientist II High Throughput Process Development at Sarepta Therapeutics!
Maria did a great job presenting the work she did in our lab under Paul’s mentorship, entitled “Developing 6-Gingerol and EGCG Loaded Liposomes to Target Breast Cancer”. She presented her poster at the Ingenuity Research Symposium of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. Congratulations Maria!
April 2023
Keilany will be joining the Bioengineering Department at the University of Notre Dame in the Fall for her Ph.D. studies. She was awarded the Dean’s Fellowship and was elected as a GEM Associate Fellow. Congratulations Keilany!
Danyu presented her work at the 2022 Annual AIChE Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Congratulations!
We welcome to our group Siwei Chen (M.S. from Columbia University) and Andrew Fugetta(B.S. from Notre Dame).
September 2022
Zack is a recipient of the 2023 Siebel Scholars award. The Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering, & energy science.Zack is one of 5 recipients from JHU. Congratulations Zack!
We welcome to our group Keilany Lightsey (M.S. student at BME, JHU) and Dr. Pooja Sandbhor(Ph.D. from BME at IIT Bombay).
June 2022
We welcome to our group Maria Chen (High School student at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute), Dana Allababidi (ChE student at University of Rhode Island,REUparticipant 6/6-7/13) and Kieren Collins (ChemBE student at JHU).
Lucy successfully defended her MS thesis entitled “ssDNA nanotubes as a targeted drug delivery vehicle for triple negative breast cancer”. Congratulations Lucy!
Lucy received an award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant. Congratulations Lucy!
March 2021
Connor received a Biomedical Research Fellowship from The Hartwell Foundation for his work entitled “Developing Methods of Drug Delivery for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)“. Congratulations Connor!
Congratulations to Ahmed for his new job as a Scientist in the Vaccine Drug Product Development group at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)!
August 2020
Dr. Connor Hall is a clinical fellow in Pediatric Hematology & Oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital/National Institutes of Health and will join our group for his postdoc. Welcome Connor!
February 2020
Ahmed won one of the Whiting School of Engineering Trainee Awards at the 2020 Department of Medicine/Whiting School of Engineering Research Retreat for his work entitled “Engineering of a Thermosensitive and Biodegradable Hydrogel Encapsulating Targeted Nanoparticles for the Sustained Delivery of Gemcitabine and Paclitaxel to Pancreatic Cancer “. Congratulations Ahmed!
Zack has been accepted into the NIH funded training program in Nanotechnology for Cancer Research (NTCR), offered through the Institute for NanoBioTechnology. Congratulations Zack!
July 2019
The Kokkoli lab welcomes Therese Harris from Baltimore
Leadership School for Young Women as a Women in Science &
Engineering (WISE) student for the summer.
June 2019
The Kokkoli lab welcomes Kenneth Adusei from Yale University as an REU student for the summer.
May 2019
Huihui gave an oral presentation at the 8th International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology under the title “ssDNA-Amphiphile Architecture Used to Control Dimensions of DNA Nanotubes”. Congratulations!
: Nanotechnology offers new route for delivering cancer treatments across the blood brain barrier. 
