Research interests: cancer therapeutics, antibody-drug conjugates, protein engineering
Hsin-Ting (Dennis) Chen
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)
University of Michigan (2020-current)
B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
email: htdennis “@” umich.edu
Research interests: machine learning, computational modeling, prediction of antibody affinity and specificity, antibody engineering
Layne Bond
Doctoral Student (Chemical Biology), co-advised by Dr. Colin Greineder
University of Michigan (2020-current)
M.S., Chemical Biology of Cancer, University of Michigan
B.S., Neuroscience, University of Michigan
email: lgbond “@” umich.edu
Research interests: neuroscience, targeted drug delivery, neurodegeneration, therapeutic antibodies, blood brain barrier
Yun-Huai (Wade) Kuo
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)
University of Michigan (2021-current)
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
email: ywadekuo “@” umich.edu
Research interests: Antibody engineering, antibody-drug conjugates, bispecific antibodies for brain delivery of neuroprotective antibodies
Yunxuan Xie
Doctoral Student (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
University of Michigan (2021-current)
M.S.E., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
B.E., Pharmaceutical Engineering, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine
email: yunxuan “@” umich.edu
Research interests: Antibody engineering, drug delivery, blood-brain barrier, bispecific antibody shuttles, antibody-drug conjugates
Cecilia Spesia
Doctoral Student (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
University of Michigan (2021-current)
B.S., Biochemistry, Villanova University
email: cspesia “@” umich.edu
Research interests: Drug delivery, bispecific antibody shuttles, blood-brain barrier, bispecific antibodies for brain delivery
Namir Khalasawi
Doctoral Student (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
University of Michigan (2021-current)
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
email: namirk “@” umich.edu
Research interests: Immunoengineering, agonist antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, cancer therapeutics, brain delivery of biologics and antibody-drug conjugates
Omar Abed
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering), co-advised with Drs. James Moon and Colin Greineder
University of Michigan (2021-current)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University
email: oabed “@” umich.edu
Research interests: inflammatory disorders, neuroinflammation, immunoengineering, cytokine engineering
Ece Akin
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)
University of Michigan (2022-current)
BS, Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University
email: eceakin “@” umich.edu
Research interests: directed evolution, machine learning, antibody multiobjective optimization, brain drug delivery, bispecific antibodies, nanobodies, VHHs
Chloe Brown
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)
University of Michigan (2023-current)
MChE, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
email: chloebr “@” umich.edu
Research interests: protein computational design and analysis, protein language models, machine learning and artificial intelligence, antibody engineering and optimization
Yu-Hui (Eva)Huang
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)
University of Michigan (2023-current)
MS, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
BS, Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University