The People with passion for scientific inquiry
Meet our team
We are united by curiosity, creativity, optimism, collaboration, and friendship.
Daniel J. Siegwart, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
B.S. Lehigh University
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
NSF Fellow University of Tokyo
NIH Postdoc Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Lukas Farbiak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
B.S. Baylor University
M.S. University of North Texas Health Science Center
Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sumanta Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Instructor
B.S., Ph.D. University of Calcutta
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Manitoba
Pratima Basak, Ph.D.
Laboratory Manager
Ph.D. University of Calcutta
Jing Liu, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D. Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
Jada McFeders, M.A., B.A.
Senior Administrative Assistant II
B.A. University of Texas at Arlington
M.A. University of North Texas
Gabriela Ayala Pazzi
Graduate Student
B.S. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Xiaoyan Bian
Graduate Student
B.S. National University of Singapore
Madeline Brown
MD/PhD Student
Short bio.
Zexiang Chen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S. Fudan University
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Jackson Coyne
Graduate Student
B.S. Lehigh University
M.S. University of Pennsylvania
Yaou Duan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S. University of California-Berkeley
Ph.D. University of California-San Diego
Swapnamoy Ganguly
Graduate Student
B.S., M.S. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Mustafa Ghanem, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Doctor, Postdoctoral Researcher
Short bio.
Erick Guerrero
Graduate Student
B.S. University of Texas at El Paso
Haixia He
Research Associate
B.S. Hebei University
Lindsay Hill, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Doctor, Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S. New York University
M.D./Ph.D. State University of New York Downstate
Hsi-Chien Huang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. National Tsing Hua University
Michaela Jeong, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Ewha Womans University
Lisa Kim
Graduate Student
B.S. Southern Methodist University
Minwoo Kim
Graduate Student
B.S. Baylor University
Koki Kunitake, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. The University of Tokyo
Tsung Ying Lee
Graduate Student
B.E. National Yang Ming University
M.E. National Tsing Hua University
Xi Liu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S. China Three Gorges University
M.S. Chongqing University
Ph.D. Aix-Marseille University
Ashley Merriweather
Graduate Student
B.S. Louisiana State University,
M.B.A. Louisiana State University-Shreveport
William Miller
Graduate Student
B.S. Duquesne University
Yulin Mo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. University of Toronto
Stephen Moore
Graduate Student
B.S. Indiana University
Alexis Pacheco Benitez
Graduate Student
B.S. Rowan University
Priyanka Patel
Research Associate
M.S. Pune University
Joshua Robinson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S. Baylor University
Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Julien Santelli, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
M.S., Ph.D. Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse
Eunice Song
Graduate Student
B.S. Seoul National University
Yehui Sun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S. Northeastern University
M.S. Northeastern University
Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Yun-Chieh Sung, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. National Tsing Hua University
Zeru Tian, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xu Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. University of Science and Technology of China and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
AP Wang
Graduate Student
B.S. Whitworth University
M.S. Western Washington University
Jingwen (Mike) Wei, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. University of South Florida
Postdoctoral Fellow University of Maryland
Shiying Wu
Graduate Student
B.S. China Pharmaceutical University
Kohki Yamada
Graduate Student
B.E. The University of Tokyo
Victoria Yang
Graduate Student
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
| Name | Year(s) | Current Known Position |
| Graduate Students | ||
| Jason B. Miller | 2012 – 2018 Organic Chemistry Program | Associate Director, Research Pipeline Development, OncoNano Medicine |
| Sussana Elkassih | 2013 – 2018 Organic Chemistry Program | |
| Lukas Farbiak | 2016 – 2021 Biomedical Engineering Program | Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern |
| Lindsay Johnson | 2017 – 2022 Biomedical Engineering Program | Senior Scientist, Gilead Sciences |
| Sang Lee | 2017 – 2022 Organic Chemistry Program | Scientist, Signify Bio |
| Sean Dilliard | 2018 – 2023 Biomedical Engineering Program | Senior Scientist, Nava Therapeutics |
| Ester Alvarez Benedicto | 2019 – 2023 Cancer Biology Program | Senior Manager, Search and Evaluation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) |
| Amogh Vaidya | 2020 – 2025 Biomedical Engineering Program | Scientist I, Signify Bio |
| Joshua Robinson. | 2020 – 2025 Biomedical Engineering Program | Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern |
| Yehui Sun | 2020 – 2026 Biological Chemistry Program | Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern |
| Postdoctoral Fellows | ||
| Jing Hao, Ph.D. | 2012 – 2014 | Associate Professor, George Fox University, Department of Chemistry |
| Yunfeng Yan, Ph.D. | 2012 – 2016 | Professor, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology |
| Lian Xue, Ph.D. | 2014 – 2015 | |
| Kejin Zhou, Ph.D. | 2012 – 2020 | Founder, Reinvigoron TheraTech Inc. |
| Petra Kos, Ph.D. | 2014 – 2018 | Marketing and Product Management, Sandoz |
| Hu Xiong, Ph.D. | 2014 – 2018 | Professor, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University |
| Qiang Cheng, Ph.D. | 2017 – 2021 | Professor, Peking University |
| Tuo Wei, Ph.D. | 2017 – 2021 | Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Beijing |
| Xueliang Yu, Ph.D. | 2017 – 2020 | |
| Shuai Liu, Ph.D. | 2017 – 2021 | Professor, Zhejiang University |
| Di Zhang, Ph.D. | 2018 – 2023 | Scientist II, AskBio |
| Domenico Orlando, Ph.D. | 2019 – 2020 | Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca |
| Junyu Gong, Ph.D. | 2020 – 2020 | Senior Scientist, Millipore Sigma |
| Xizhen Lian, Ph.D | 2021 – 2024 | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University |
| Yufen Xiao, Ph.D. | 2022 – 2026 | Professor, East China University of Science and Technology |
| Minjeong Kim, Ph.D. | 2022 – 2025 | Professor, The Catholic University of Korea (CUK) |
| Yangyang Yang, Ph.D. | 2022 – 2023 | Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Fangyu Zhang, Ph.D. | 2023 – 2025 | Professor, Westlake University |
| Chuhan Zhang, Ph.D. | 2023 – 2025 | Investigator, 3SBio |
| Undergraduate Research Fellows | ||
| Victor Tieu | 2015 – 2015 | Senior Scientist, Site Therapeutics |
| Jonathan Minnig | 2015 – 2016 | Radiochemist, Kansas Health and Environmental Laboratories |
| Karina Kinghorn | 2016 – 2017 | Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow, Novartis |
| Siva Venigalla | 2016 – 2016 | Analyst, Kalehua Capital |
| Gino Occhialini | 2016 – 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, CalTech |
| Sergio Barrios | 2016 – 2016 | Institute Research Investigator, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| John Liu | 2019 – 2019 | MD Student, Creighton University School of Medicine |
| Martha Marquez Ramirez | 2019 – 2019 | Graduate Student, San Francisco State University |
| Tina Lin | 2020 – 2020 | Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Madeline Brown | 2022 – 2022 | MD/PhD Student, UT Southwestern |
| Isaac Quinonez | 2023 – 2023 | Production Chemist, Macrocyclics |
| Ava Lin Robertson | 2024 – 2025 | Undergraduate Student, University of Florida |
| Benjamin Raufman | 2025 – 2025 | MD/PhD Student, UT Southwestern |
| Visiting Graduate Students | ||
| Denise (Bamberger) Fabian | 2015 – 2015 | Lead, QPPV Office, Boehringer Ingelheim |
| Research Staff | ||
| Kels Kaiser | 2016 – 2017 | Director, Research Planning and Development, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Melissa Coquelin | 2016 – 2019 | Scientist, Colossal Biosciences |
| Rhapsede Noldan | 2018 – 2020 | Texas A&M University |
| Sandhya Sattiraju | 2024 – 2025 | Grants Specialist |
| High School Research Fellows | ||
| John Norman | 2015 – 2015 | Physician Assistant, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| Bethanie Abram | 2016 – 2016 | Nurse, JPS Health Network |
| Mina Kwun | 2026 – 2026 | The Hockaday School |
| Medical Doctor Residents | ||
| Faaiz Enam, M.D. | 2022 – 2025 | Neuro-Oncology Fellow, UCLA Health |