(Top Left to Top Right): Koji Foreman, Douglas Chang, James Rolland, Sean Palcek (PI), Andy Zhang, Bill Ding, Aaron Simmons,
(Bottom Left to Right): Fathima Shabnam, Hope Holt, Abigail Cordiner, Soniya Tamhankar, Austin Feeney, Sarah Boutom
Principal Investigator
- Sean Palecek
Email: sppalecek@wisc.edu
Education
- Ph.D in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware.
Post-doctoral Research Associates
- Hope Holt
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells, blood brain barrier
Email: hholt@wisc.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University
Graduate Students
- Sarah Boutom
Research Interests: Blood-brain barrier modeling with human pluripotent stem cells; brain vascularization/BBB development
Email: boutom@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. in Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Fathima Shabnam
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells, cardiomyocyte differentiation, coculture models
Email: shabnam@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, minor in Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh - Soniya Tamhankar
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells, blood-brain barrier
Email: soniya.tamhankar@wisc.edu
Education
- M.S. in Biotechnology, Pennsylvania State University
- B.Tech in Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India - Austin Feeney
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells, cardiomyocyte differentiation, metabolism
Email: afeeney@wisc.edu
Education
- M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison - James Rolland
Research Interests: mRNA delivery via lipid nano particles; stem cell biology; genetic manipulation of stem cells
Email: jrrolland@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. in Biochemistry, Valparaiso University - Valparaiso IN - Andy Zhang
Research Interests: Induced pluripotent stem cells, cardiomyocyte differentiation, metabolism, mitochondria
Email: xzhang2555@wisc.edu
Education
- M.Phil. in Biomedical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Abigail Cordiner
Research Interests: Induced pluripotent stem cells, cardiomyocyte differentiation, genetic engineering, synthetic biology
Email: cordiner@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, NC State University - Fatemeh Yaghoobi
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells, blood-brain barrier
Email: yaghoobihash@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran - Chanhyung Park
Research Interests: Pluripotent stem cells, cardiomyocyte differentiation, synthetic biology, quantitative biology
Email: cpark277@wisc.edu
Education
- B.Eng. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Current Undergraduates
- Dhvani Trivedi
- Maxwell Herman
- Claire Peplinski
- Ellison Emrick
- Sydney Erickson
- Kenneth Sun
- Evan Tian
- Amaya Stanley
- Luke Walsh