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)
User Facility Staff
Benjamin Davis, PhD
User Facility Director
Garima Dwivedi, PhD
Senior Research Investigator, Weissman Lab, Penn Associate Director, mRNA Core (Penn Institute of RNA Innovation)
Minsoo Kim
User Facility Technician
Education
Julee Farley, PhD
Education and Outreach Coordinator Director, Science Outreach Initiative, Penn
Trainees & Research Contributors
Andrea Hernandez-Diaz
AIRFoundry Undergraduate Fellow ’25, Lee Lab Acevedo lab, UPRM
Andrew Hanna
PhD student, Issadore and Mitchell Labs, Penn MRG-2
Arash Adhamijamali
PhD student, Soroush Lab, Drexel TIG-3
Austin Wang
Undergraduate Researcher, Ives Lab, Penn MRG-3
Daniel Strickland, PhD
InfiniFluidics TIG-2
Di Wu
PhD student, Barash and Gardner Labs, Penn MRG-1
Farica Zhuang
PhD student, Barash Lab, Penn MRG-1
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
Jiaming Liang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ives Lab, Penn MRG-3
Jiatao Liang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Barash Lab, Penn MRG-1
Jing Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Muzykantov Lab, Penn MRG-2
Jorelys De Jesús-González
Undergraduate researcher, Mora Lab, UPRM AIRFoundry Undergraduate Fellow ’25, Issadore lab
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 MRG-2
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
Saraí Mendoza-Figueroa, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Barash Lab, Penn MRG-1
Seongsu Cho, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lee and Issadore Labs, Penn MRG-2
Taylor Brysgel
PhD student, Muzykantov Lab, Penn MRG-2
Varun Chandrasekar
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Soroush Lab, Drexel TIG-3
Varun Jana
Software Developer
Yimeng Zeng
PhD student, Gardner Lab, Penn MRG-1
External Advisory Board
Juliana Freire, PhD
Institute Professor and Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University
Katalin Karikó, PhD
University of Pennsylvania 2023 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Gerald Lopez, PhD
Director of Operations and Business Development, Singh Center for Nanotechnology Associate Director, Singh Center, University of Pennsylvania
Darius Melvin
Assistant Director for Centerwide Engagement and Partnerships, NSF-CROPPS, Cornell University
Wilson Rivera-Gonzalez
Associate Manager, Bayer President, Puerto Rico Agricultural Biotechnology Industry Association (PRABIA)