(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
- Aaron D. Simmons
Research Interests: hPSC-derived cardiomyocyte differentiation/maturation; metabolism; mitochondria
Email: adsimmons2@wisc.edu
Education
- M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma - Norman, OK
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma - Norman, OK
- Bill Ding
Research Interests: Induced pluripotent stem cells, blood brain barrier
Email: ding52@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
- Feifan Du
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells, blood-brain barrier
Email: fdu3@wisc.edu
Education
- B.Ch.E. (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering), University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- B.S. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
- 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: cardiomyocyte differentiation, metabolomics
Email: shabnam@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, minor in Bioengineering - University of Pittsburgh
- Douglas Chang
Research Interests: Antifungal α/β-peptides, polyelectrolyte multilayer coatings
Email: dhchang2@wisc.edu
Education
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
- 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
Current Undergraduates
- Shreeya Rajesh
- Dhvani Trivedi
- Maxwell Herman
- Alexandra Steinberg
- Will Friedrich
- Nate Schlueter
- Tessa Christopherson