Summer of 2019, Ithaca, New York
Program Director/Principal Investigator
Ankur Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory Medicine
Office: 1306, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB)
Georgia Institute of Technology
315 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0363
email: ankur.singh@gatech.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Grazia Marsico, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (To join September 2020; Georgia Tech)
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway
Previous awards: DAAD Fellow, Marie Curie ITN AngioMatTrain fellow, European Microbiology Organization (EMBO) fellowship
Research: Lymphoid Tissues
Ph.D. Students
Zhe (Monica) Zhong
2nd Yr BioEngineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
Research: Germinal Center B Cell Organoids
BS: Boston University
Liana Kramer
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
Co-advisor: Prof. Krishnendu Roy
Research: B Cell Biomanufacturing
B.S & M.S: Brown University
Zixing (Vincent) Fan
1st Yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immune technologies
MS: Cornell University
BS: University of Michigan
Jessica Elmore
5th yr Immunology Ph.D. (Cornell)
Sloan Fellow
Co-advisor: Prof. Avery August
Research: New Inflammatory Mouse Model and
Hydrogels for inflammation
B.S: Howard University
Tibra Wheeler
4th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Cornell)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2018-2021)
Sloan Fellow
Co-advisor: Prof. Marjolein van der Meulen
Research: Nanogels for anti-inflammatory responses
B.S: University Of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Sungwoong Kim
4th yr Material Science and Engineering Ph.D. (Cornell)
Research: Dynamic Living Hydrogels for Immune Regulation
B.S and M.S: Hanyang University
Kristine Lai
4th Yr Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. (Cornell)
BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
Research: Microfluidics for immune tissues
Dr. Shivem Bharat Shah
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
NIH T32 Fellow
Presidential Life Science Fellow
Dept. of Education GAANN Fellow
Research: Immune & Lymphoma Organoids
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Current position: Starting Aug 2020, Dr. Shah will join Columbia University MD Program.
Dr. Matthew Mosquera
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. (Cornell)l
NIH T32 Fellow
’19 BMES Career Development Award
Research: Gut Microbiome, vaccines, and prostate cancer
BS: Mechanical Engineering, Bucknell University
Current position: Starting Aug 2020, Dr. Mosquera will join Teva Pharmaceutical, Philadelphia.
Master of Science (Thesis)
Zhonghao (Eric) Dai
1st year MS, Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immunoengineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Undergraduate Researchers
Thi Dao (Biochemistry, Georgia Tech)
Anjum Alam (Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech)
Nicole Felix-Velez (Biological Engineering, Cornell University, LSAMP Scholar, Winner of 2019 Engineering learning Initiatives award)