Research interests: cancer therapeutics, antibody-drug conjugates, protein engineering
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
BS, Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University
email: ddoi “@” umich.edu
Research interests: bispecific antibodies, brain drug delivery, directed evolution, antibody engineering, machine learning
Juan Jiménez Mejía
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering), co-advised with Dr. Thurber
University of Michigan (2023-current)
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
email: juanjim “@” umich.edu
Research interests: brain drug delivery, antibody therapeutics, pharmacokinetic modeling, cancer
Dana Allababidi
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)
University of Michigan (2024-current)
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
email: dallabab “@” umich.edu
Research interests: brain drug delivery, antibody therapeutics, antibody-nucleic acid conjugates, antisense oligonucleotides
Hannah Wolfgang
Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering), co-advised with Dr. Thurber
University of Michigan (2024-current)
BS, Chemical Engineering, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
email: hewolf “@” umich.edu
Research interests: brain drug delivery, antibody therapeutics, antibody-nucleic acid conjugates, antisense oligonucleotides, immunocytokines
Jett Stad
Doctoral Student (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
University of Michigan (2024-current)
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
email: jstad “@” umich.edu
Research interests: directed evolution, protein engineering, bispecific antibodies, blood-brain barrier, CNS drug delivery, therapeutics, commercialization
Hongru Zheng
Doctoral Student (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
University of Michigan (2024-current)
M.S., Pharmaceutics, Peking University
B.S., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University
email: zhenghr “@” umich.edu
Research interests: CNS drug delivery, bispecific antibodies, blood-brain barrier, nucleic acid therapeutics, antisense oligonucleotides, neurodegenerative disease