MEET THE TEAM

  • Kuo-Ching Mei, PhD

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
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  • Pu-Sheng (Vincent) Wei, PhD

    POSTDOC
    Molecular Pharmaceutics
    Drug/Gene Delivery
    Immunoengineering
    🇹🇼🇺🇸
    PhD | Taipei Medical University
    MPharm | National Taiwan University
    BPharm | Taipei Medical University
    Certified Pharmacist - Taiwan

  • Tyler Friedlander

    BS Biochem 25
    |BCHM497|

  • Moe Fakhri

    BA Chemistry 25
    | CHEM497 |

    Adv. Bridges Program

  • Yuanjun Wang

    BS Biochem 25
    | BCHM497 |

    2024 SUNY Binghamton SOPPS
    SURF Fellow in Pharm. Sci.

  • Evelyn Chang

    BS Neuroscience 25
    |PSYC397|BIOL497|

    2024 IBMS-Academic Sinica
    Summer Research Intern - Viral Immunology

  • Shotaro Odaka

    BS Biochem 25

  • Maeko Plotena

    BS Biochem 26
    | BCHM497 |

    2024 SUNY Upstate Medica University
    SURF - Cancer Research Fellow

  • Sherman Yan

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

    2024 SUNY Upstate Medical University
    SURF Fellow

  • Arian Rahman

    BS Neuroscience 26
    |PSYC397|

    2024 SUNY Binghamton SOPPS
    SURF Fellow in Pharm. Sci.

  • Joseph M Galperin

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Shivani Manimaran

    BS Biochem 27

mRNA Vaccines Capstone Projet Team

  • Cierra Girardi

    PharmD 26

  • Akeile Smith

    PharmD 26

  • Nikki Crowley

    PharmD 26

  • Mariya Khan

    PharmD 26

Lab Photos

  • June 2023

    Willis (back), Nagasri Moe (blue coat), James, Katelyn, and Evelyn (front)

  • May 2024

    Jo, Sherman, Arian, Willis, Aarnav
    Arianna, Sho
    Sunny, Greshma,
    Sri, Maeko, Vincent
    Katelyn, Shannon, Evelyn
    (Missing: Yuanjun, Shivani, Moe & Tylor)
    *Nagasri, Greshma, Sunny, and Arianna are graduating from BU
    **     Katelyn is entering the PharmD program

Alumni

MSc Student
Nagasri (Sri) Thota | MS Pharm. Sci. 24, Binghamton ⇨ Scientist II, Parexel/Merck, Philadelphia, USA

Undergraduate Research Assistants
Arianna Anderson | BIOL497/498 | BS Biology 24 ⇨ RA, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Amor Lab)
Katelyn Woo | BCHM497 | BS Biochem 25 ⇨ PharmD 28, SUNY Binghamton
Sunjae (Sunny) Lee | BCHM497 | BS Biochem 24 ⇨ RA, Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine (Béguelin Lab)
Greshma John | PSYC397/BIOL497/498 | BS Neuroscience 24 ⇨ Mount Sinai Hospital

Mercedeh Khazaieli | SRP99/199 | BS Biophys, UCLA ⇨ MS, Duke ⇨ MD, CUSM
Michelle Chiang | SRP99/199 | BS MCDB, UCLA ⇨ DDS, School of Dentistry, UCLA
Branda Melano | SRP99/199 | BS MCDB, Amgen Scholar, UCLA ⇨ Ph.D., School of Pharmacy, UCSF (Sweed-Cordero Lab)

Undergraduate Research Trainees
Shannon Wodicka | Spring 24 BUPNUR Award |
Willis Ng | BCHM497 | Fall 22 - Spring 24 |
Aarnav Gharse | PSYC397 | Fall 23, Spring 24 | Fall 24 Guthrie Scholars Pre-Med Intern |
Jeffery Purnomo | Fall 22, Spring 23, Fall 23 |
Allen Ni | BCHM497 | Spring 23, Fall 23 |

Summer Research Intern
James Johnson | MS Biomed Anthropology 23 via Fleishman Center Internship Fund

Visiting Scholar
Enoch Appiah, Ph.D. | 2023 ⇨ Postdoc, Uni. of Gothenburg