Personnel

Principal Investigator 

Nisarg J. Shah, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
Department of NanoEngineering
Chemical Engineering Program
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Bioengineering
Program in Immunology
Member, Center for Nano-enabled Immune Engineering
Member, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute

University of California, San Diego

Postdoc, Bioengineering/Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Maksim Dolmat

Education
B.S. Chemistry, Belarusian State University
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Wade Johnson

Education
B.S. Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
UCSD T32 Rheumatic Disease NRSA Fellow
ARCS Scholar

Melissa Gillis

Education
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Elizabeth Wilkinson

Education
M.S.E. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University

Neha Iyer


Education

B.S. Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Ryan Jones

Education
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2024)
UCSD Chancellor’s Scholar

Alumni

Matthew Kerr
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2023)

David McBride
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2023)

James Wang
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2023)
Last known position: NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Columbia University

Martina Zoccheddu
Staff Research Associate, University of California, San Diego
Last known position: NGS Core Director at the Immunology Center of Georgia

Arun Chumber
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Last known position: Staff Research Associate, University of California, San Francisco

Nicholas Dorn
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Last known position: NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Stanford University

Dora Ogbonna
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Last known position: MD/PhD student, University of California, San Francisco

Shinya Wai
B.S. NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego
Last known position: NDSEG Fellow, University of Chicago

Yvonne Yee
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Last known position: Ph.D. student, Northeastern University