Leadership
Daeyeon Lee, PhD
AIRFoundry Director Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Penn Expertise: Nano/biomanufacturing, Microfluidics, LNP Production
Claribel Acevedo-Vélez, PhD
Associate Director of Education Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, UPRM Expertise: Nanotechnology, Colloids, Liquid Crystals, Biosensors
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Sr. Associate Director of Technology Development Coordination Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Penn Director, Institute for RNA Innovation, Penn Expertise: mRNA Vaccines, Lipid Nanoparticles, RNA Design & Synthesis
David Issadore, PhD
Associate Director of Research Coordination Professor, Bioengineering, Penn Expertise: Microfluidics, Diagnostics, Nanofabrication, LNP Production (TIG-2 Lead)
Zachary G. Ives, PhD
Associate Director of Knowledge Sharing Adani President’s Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Computer & Information Science, Penn Expertise: Data Integration & Sharing, Data Provenance & Trustworthiness, Artificial Intelligence (MRG-3 Lead)
Annie Jeong, PhD
Managing Director
Benjamin Davis, PhD
User Facility Director
Faculty
Camilo Mora Navarro, PhD
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, UPRM Expertise: Tissue-specific Lipid Nanoparticles, Microfluidics, LNP Production (MRG-2)
Jacob Gardner, PhD
Assistant Professor, CIS, Penn Expertise: Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, AI & Knowledge Sharing (MRG-1)
Joost Wagenaar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Informatics, Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Penn Expertise: Biomedical Data Sharing/Hosting Platform, AI & Knowledge Sharing (MRG-3, TIG-3)
Kathy Fange Liu, PhD
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Penn Expertise: RNA Biology & Enzymology, RNA Design & Synthesis (MRG-1)
Lijun Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Penn Expertise: Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Non-natural Nucleic Acids, RNA Design & Synthesis (MRG-1)
Maribella Domenech, PhD
Professor, Chemical Engineering, UPRM Expertise: Lipid Nanoparticles, Cytotoxic Response, LNP Design & Testing (MRG-2 Lead)
Masoud Soroush, PhD
George B. Francis Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel Expertise: Process Modeling, Optimization & Automation (TIG-3 Lead)
Michael Mitchell, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioengineering, Penn Expertise: Lipid Nanoparticles, LNP Design & Testing (MRG-2)
Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Penn, CHOP Expertise: mRNA Production, Ionizable Lipids, RNA Production & Purification (TIG-1 Lead)
Rodolfo Romañach, PhD
Professor, Chemistry, UPRM Expertise: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Inline Analytics (TIG-3, Industry Liaison)
Sagar Yadavali, PhD
CEO and Co-Founder, InfiniFluidics Expertise: Nano/Microparticle Manufacturing, LNP Production (TIG-2)
Sharath Guntuku, PhD
Assistant Professor, CIS, Penn Expertise: AI for Health, Data Science Hub, AI & Knowledge Sharing (MRG-3, TIG-3)
Vladimir Muzykantov, MD, PhD
Founders Professor in Nanoparticle Research, Pharmacology, Penn Founding Co-Director, Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine (CT3N), Penn Expertise: Targeted Drug Delivery, Vascular Biology, LNP Design & Testing (MRG-2)
Yoseph Barash, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Penn Expertise: Machine Learning, RNA Biogenesis & Function, RNA Design & Synthesis (MRG-1 Lead)
Education
Julee Farley, PhD
Education and Outreach Coordinator Director, Science Outreach Initiative, Penn
Trainees & Research Contributors
Andrew Hanna
PhD student, Issadore and Mitchell Labs, Penn MRG-2
Austin Wang
Undergraduate Researcher, Ives Lab, Penn MRG-3
Daniel Strickland, PhD
InfiniFluidics TIG-2
Gijung Kim, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lee and Issadore Labs, Penn MRG-2
Hardik Singhal, MSE
Infini Fluidics TIG-2
Haydn Jones
PhD student, Gardner Lab, Penn MRG-1
Hoang Dinh
PhD student, Lee Lab, Penn MRG-2
James Robinson
Visiting Masters Student, Zhou Lab, Penn
Jiaming Liang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ives Lab, Penn MRG-3
Jing Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Muzykantov Lab, Penn MRG-2
Jorelys De Jesús-González
Undergraduate researcher, Mora Lab, UPRM
Juncheng Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Zhou Lab, Penn MRG-1
Leonel Velez
PhD Student, Domenech Lab, UPRM MRG-2
Lisa Nakayama
PhD student, Zhou Lab, Penn MRG-1
María del Carmen Ramos
PhD student, Mora Lab, UPRM
Maria K. Oñate-Socarras
PhD student, Acevedo Lab, UPRM MRG-2
Mike Siedlik, PhD
Senior Scientist, InfiniFluidics TIG-2
Nan Zheng, PhD
Faculty Collaborator, Ives Lab, Penn MRG-3
Ori Chalom
PhD student, Mitchell Lab, Penn MRG-2
Oscar Piñeres-Quiñones
PhD student, Acevedo Lab, UPRM MRG-2
Sahil Makhijani
Undergraduate Researcher, Ives Lab, Penn MRG-3
Talbot Stone
Postbac Researcher, Zhou Lab, Penn
Taylor Brysgel
PhD student, Muzykantov Lab, Penn MRG-2
Varun Jana
Software Developer
Yimeng Zeng
PhD student, Gardner Lab, Penn MRG-1