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MBP Class of 2010-2011/12

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Salina Abusali

• BS Food Technology, Assumption University - Bangkok, Thailand
• MBP Research Project: Study of Clathrin and Caveolin mediated endocytosis in PC-12 cells (G. Woloschak)

Yi (Amy) Ai

• BS Biotechnology, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Improvement of hemocompatibility of a cell receptor-based bioadsorbent (G. Ameer)

Resham Singh Banga

• BTech Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology - Mumbai, India
• MBP Research Project: Therapeutic delivery of pre-microRNA using DNA oligonucleotide-gold nanoparticle conjugates (C. Mirkin)
• Continued Education: PhD Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (2012 - 2016)

Richard Bellin

• BS Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin (Madison) - Madison, WI
• MBP Research Project: Ribosome assembly (M. Jewett)

Bexeitov Yergali

• BS Biotechnology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University - Almaty, Kazakhstan
• MBP Research Project: Studies of HoxA10 induced myeloid leukemogenesis (E. Eklund)

Deepika Bhatia (neé Govind)

• BS Chemical Engineering, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
• MBP Research Project: Biochemical processing and applications of carbon-based nanomaterials (M. Hersam)

Michael Born

• BS Bioengineering, San Diego State University - San Diego, CA
• MBP Research Project: Biochemical processing and applications of carbon-based nanomaterials (M. Hersam)

Cheng Cheng

• BS Biochemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology - Xuhui, Shanghai (China)
• MBP Research Project: Directed differentiation of neural progenitor cells using three-dimensional scaffolds (L. Shea)
• Continued Education: MBA, Indiana University Kelley School of Business - Bloomington, IN (2015 - 2017)

Chintan Chheda

• BE Biotechnology, Dr. DY Patil Vidyapeeth University - Pune, Maharashtra (India)
• MBP Research Project: TBA (P. Grippo)

Phillip Chu

• BAS Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia - Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
• MBP Research Project: New mass spectrometric methods for identifying peptide and polyketide natural products (N. Kelleher)

Nidhi Doshi

• BS Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin (Madison) - Madison, WI
• MBP Research Project: TBA (J. Bass)

Brendon Dusel

• BA Philosophy, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
• MBP Research Project: Synthetic band-pass design for examining real-time cell-cell signalling (J. Leonard)

Clair Gameng (neé Tartell)

• BS Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University - Syracuse, NY
• MBP Research Project: Molecular analysis of paraffin embedded tissues (G. Woloschak)

Shawn Gray

• BS Biology, State University of New York (Oswego) - Oswego, NY
• MBP Research Project: Cellular application of biofunctionalized nanoparticles (D. Giljohann)

Leigh Ann Guennewig-Kowalski

• BS Biology, Eureka College - Eureka, Illinois
• MBP Research Project: Circadian clocks and neurogeneration (R. Allada)
• Continued Education: MD, Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences - Kansas City, MO (2012 - 2016)

Zofia Gwarnicki

• BS Biology, University of Illinois (Chicago) - Chicago, IL
• MBP Research Project: 1) Downstream Processing of Phytol 2) Evaluation of Current Efficiency in Electrodialysis Process (S. Snyder)

Nizamuddin Hashemi

• BE Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal, Karnataka (India)
• MBP Research Project: Transcription arrays (L. Shea)

Di Huang (Chu*)

• BS Molecular Genetics, University of Alberta - Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)
• MBP Research Project: Gene expression profiling of chronic allograft rejections (H. Jiang)
• Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) - Amherst, MA (2013 - )

Kenichi Iwadate

• BS Biotechnology, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
• MBP Research Project: Novel steroid receptor ligauds (I. Budunova & A. Yemelyanov)

Shweta Iyer

• BE Biotechnology, Thadomal Shahani Engineering College - Mumbai, Maharashtra (India)
• MBP Research Project: Cellular application of biofunctionalized nanoparticles (D. Giljohann)

Genevieve (Jenna) Jouandet

• BS Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
• MBP Research Project: Building nanotechnology and proteomic tools for understanding developmental and pathological EMTs (C. LaBonne) 
• Continued Education: PhD Neuroscience, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (2012 - 2017)

Sayali Kale Kandari

• BTech Biotechnology, Sinhgad College of Engineering - Pune, Maharashtra (India)
• MBP Research Project: Effects of shear forces on platelet production (S. Corey) 

Stefanie Kall

• BS Biochemistry, Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
• MBP Research Project: The role of Syndecans in migration of breast cancer cells across the blood brain barrier (J. Koblinski)

Louis Kauffman

• BS Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
• MBP Research Project: Role of CNS clock in metabolism (J. Bass)

Rachit Kumar

• BTech Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (Trichy) - Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu (India)
• MBP Research Project: Expression of anti-miRNA antibodies in cancer cells (M. Peter)

Qi Li

• BS Biotechnology, Wuhan University of Technology - Wuhan, Hubei (China)
• MBP Research Project: Effect of siRNA length on knockdown efficiency and activation of the innate immune response (C. Mirkin)
• Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University (New Brunswick) - New Brunswick, NJ

Chen-Chen (Rita) Liao

• BS Biomedical Lab Science, Kaohsiung Medical University - Sanmin District, Kaohsiung City (Taiwan)
• MBP Research Project: Biomimetic high density lipoprotein nanoparticles – Synthesis, properties, and gene delivery (S. Thaxton)

Zachary Mays

• BS Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Boston University - Boston, MA
• MBP Research Project: High-throughput transcription factor activity analysis in multiple differentiating megakaryocytic cell lines (W. Miller)
• Continued Education: PhD Synthetic Biology and Systems Bioengineering, Tufts University - Medford, MA (2014 - 2019)

Daniel Medrano

• BS Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University - New York, NY
• MBP Research Project: Fapl as a therapeutic target in chronic mjeloid leukemia (E. Eklund)

Sean Pruell

• BS Biochemistry, Boston College - Chestnut Hill, MA
• MBP Research Project: Developing new methods to evaluate single cell motility (R. Bergan)

Chitra Saran

• BTech Biotechnology, Amity University - Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India) 
• MBP Research Project: Study of cellular aspects of biofunctionalized nanoparticles (D. Giljohann)
• Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) - Chapel Hill, NC (2017 - )

Harmanjeet (Harman) Singh

• BS Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois (Chicago) - Chicago, IL
• MBP Research Project: Developing a webtool for estimating intracellular metabolic flux using standard fermentation measurements (K. Tyo)

Vikramaditya Singh

• BE Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal, Karnataka (India)
• MBP Research Project: Tweaking RNA interference to bolster antiviral immunity in mammalian cells (R. Carthew)

Yi Song

• BS Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Minhang, Shanghai (China)
• MBP Research Project: Molecular and cellular basis of chronic allograft vasculopathy (H. Jiang)
• Continued Education: MS Statistics, University of Illinois (Chicago) - Chicago, IL (2014 - 2016)

Vibha Tamboli

• BTech Biotechnology Engineering, Pune University - Pune, Maharashtra (India)
• MBP Research Project: Study of Nitric oxide release using diazeniumdiaolate functionalised Peptide Amphiphile (S. Stupp)
• Continued Education: PhD Pharmacy, Cardiff University - Cardiff, United Kingdom (2013 - 2016)

Sihan Teng

• BA Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Molecular genetics of general anesthesia (R. Allada)

Brittany Vallette

• BS Neuroscience and Kinesiology, College of William and Mary - Williamsburg, VA
• MBP Research Project: Glycogene-based therapeutic development for gliobastoma (R. Kroes)

Eric Van Groll

• BS Biological Sciences, Butler University - Indianapolis, IN
• MBP Research Project: Development of a commercially viable eukaryotic cell-free protein synthesis system (M. Jewett)

He Zheng

• BS Biotechnology, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
• MBP Research Project: 1. Roles of redox-active “antibiotics” in microbial physiology 2. Engineering bactericidal steel surfaces for medical applications (Y. Wang)
• Continued Education: PhD Environmental Engineering and Science, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (2012 - 2015)

Yuan Zhou

• BS Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
• MBP Research Project: Molecular analysis of schizophrenia-related gene mutant mice (M. Matsumoto)