Lab members

Michael (Mike) Lucas

NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

email: miclucas “@” umich.edu

Research interests: Conformational antibodies, neurodegenerative disease, targeted drug delivery, directed evolution, protein engineering

Na-Young Kwon

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

B.S., Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

email: kwonn “@” umich.edu

Research interests: Structural biology, biophysics, antibody engineering, antibody drug development

Murat Karadag

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Molecular Biology and Genetics, Dokuz Eylul University Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute, Turkey

M.S., Biochemistry, Ege University, Turkey

B.S., Biochemistry, Ege University, Turkey

email: muratkar “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody engineering and developability analysis, protein stability, aggregation-resistant antibodies, directed evolution, cancer imaging and therapeutics

Wen-Hao Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, China

B.S., Chemistry, Renmin University of China

email: wenhaow “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody engineering, directed evolution, machine learning, brain drug delivery, bispecific antibodies

Hye Jin Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Pharm.D., College of Pharmacy, Korea University, South Korea

email: leehye “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody-drug conjugates, brain drug delivery, precision gene silencing, therapeutics

Neelan Sivaneri

Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)

University of Michigan (2020-current)

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Rutgers

email: neelans “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody engineering, directed evolution, antibody brain targeting, co-optimization of antibody affinity and specificity

Tiexin Wang

Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)

University of Michigan (2020-current)

M.S., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

B.S., Pharmaceutical Engineering, Tianjin Univerisity

email: txwang “@” umich.edu

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

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

email: evahuang “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody therapeutics, antibody engineering, developability analysis, high-throughput screening, machine learning

Dat Le Quoc Doi

Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)

University of Michigan (2023-current)

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