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

University of Michigan (starting Fall 2022)

Ph.D., Biochemistry, Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Turkey

M.S., Biochemistry, Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Turkey

B.S., Biochemistry, Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Turkey

email: muratkar “@” umich.edu

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

Ghasidit (Meu) Pornnoppadol

Doctoral Student (Pharmaceutical Sciences)

University of Michigan (2017-current)

M.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

B.E., Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

email: ghasidit “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody discovery, conformational antibodies, Alzheimer’s disease, tauopathies, therapeutics, physicochemical analysis of monoclonal antibodies

Matthew Smith

Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)

NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2019-2022)

University of Michigan (2018-current)

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Michigan State

email: mduncans “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody discovery, antibody library design, next-generation sequencing, computational antibody design, conformational antibodies, functional screens for antibody discovery

Jennifer Zupancic

Doctoral Student (Chemical Engineering)

University of Michigan (2018-current)

B.S., Bioengineering and Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

email: jenzup “@” umich.edu

Research interests: antibody discovery, conformational antibodies, Alzheimer’s disease, tauopathies, therapeutics, physicochemical analysis of monoclonal antibodies

Emily Makowski

NIH T32 Doctoral student (Pharmaceutical Sciences)

University of Michigan (2018-current)

B.S., Chemistry, The Ohio State University

email: emilymak “@” med.umich.edu

Research interests: antibody stability, protein engineering, bioinformatics, prediction of drug-like antibody properties

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 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

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