Principal Investigator
Theresa M. Raimondo
Sc.B., Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Brown University
Ph.D., Engineering Sciences – Biomedical Engineering, Harvard (Advisor: Prof. David J. Mooney)
Post-doctoral studies, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Advisors: Prof. Daniel G. Anderson, Prof. Robert Langer)
Graduate Students
Angelina Schorr
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Brown University 2024
NSF GRFP fellow, HSU Engineering fellow
Current Research: Therapeutic applications of siRNA for macrophage-driven cancer immunotherapy
Connor Purcell
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Brown University 2024
co-advisor: Prof. Wafik S. El-Deiry
Current Research: Targeted delivery of microRNA to colorectal cancer and immunotherapy
Joshua Acosta Gonzalez
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez 2024
GEM fellow
Current Research: Design of lipid nanoparticle platforms for nucleic acid delivery towards macrophage immunotherapies
ShuLan Holmes-Farley
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Boston University 2022
Current Research: Design of siRNA and lipid nanoparticle delivery system for therapeutic silencing in ovarian cancer.
Undergraduate Students
Adelaide Poulson
B.S. Health and Human Biology, Brown University 2026
Current Research: Optimization of in vitro models of ovarian and breast cancer, and design of lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery into solid tumors.
Eric Yang
B.S. Applied Mathematics: Biology, Brown University 2028
Current Research: siRNA-based therapeutic targeting of molecular mechanisms underlying macrophage plasticity.
Jimmy Lee
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Brown University 2027
Current Research: Optimization of lipid nanoparticles for targeted delivery of nucleic acids for cancer immunotherapy.