Meet the Team

Leadership

Daeyeon Lee, PhD

AIRFoundry Director Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Penn

Claribel Acevedo-Vélez, PhD

Associate Director of Education Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, UPRM

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD

Sr. Associate Director of Technology Development Coordination Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Penn Director, Institute for RNA Innovation, Penn

David Issadore, PhD

Associate Director of Research Coordination TIG-2 Lead Professor, Bioengineering, Penn

Zachary G. Ives, PhD

Associate Director of Knowledge Sharing MRG-3 Lead Adani President’s Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Computer & Information Science, Penn

Annie Jeong, PhD

Managing Director

annjeong@upenn.edu

Faculty

Camilo Mora Navarro, PhD

MRG-2 Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, UPRM

Jacob Gardner, PhD

MRG-1 Assistant Professor, CIS, Penn

Joost Wagenaar, PhD

MRG-3, TIG-3 Assistant Professor of Informatics, Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Penn

Kathy Fange Liu, PhD

MRG-1 Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Penn

Lijun Zhou, PhD

MRG-1 Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Penn

Maribella Domenech, PhD

MRG-2 Lead Professor, Chemical Engineering, UPRM

Masoud Soroush, PhD

TIG-3 Lead George B. Francis Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel

Michael Mitchell, PhD

MRG-2 Associate Professor, Bioengineering, Penn

Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, PhD

TIG-1 Lead Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Penn, CHOP

Rodolfo Romañach, PhD

TIG-3, Industry Liaison Professor, Chemistry, UPRM

Sagar Yadavali, PhD

TIG-2 CEO and Co-Founder, InfiniFluidics

Sharath Guntuku, PhD

MRG-3, TIG-3 Assistant Professor, CIS, Penn

Vladimir Muzykantov, MD, PhD

MRG-2 Founders Professor in Nanoparticle Research, Pharmacology, Penn Founding Co-Director, Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine (CT3N), Penn