MEET THE TEAM

  • KC Mei, PhD

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Postdoc
    UNC-Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy
    UCLA School of Medicine & CNSI

    PhD Pharm. Sci.
    King’s College London, UK

    MRes (dist.) NanoMedicne
    University College London, UK

    BScPharm
    Taipei Medical University

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  • Vincent Wei, PhD

    POSTDOC
    2024 NSF I-Crops
    2024 SUNY S4

    PhD Pharm. Sci.
    Taipei Medical University

    MS Pharmaceutics
    National Taiwan University

    BScPharm
    Taipei Medical University

  • Reena Jatyan, PhD

    POSTDOC
    PhD Pharm. Sci.
    BITS-Pilani

    MSc Pharm. Biotech.
    Jamia Hamdard


    BScPharm
    UHSR

  • Zitao Ma, MSc

    PHD STUDENT
    Pharm. Sci. 29
    2024 NSF I-Crops
    2024 SUNY S4

    MS Pharmacology & Toxicology
    LIU Brooklyn

    BScPharm
    Xinhua College of Sun Yat-Sen University

  • Arielle Tsai, MSc

    RESEARCH SPECIALIST
    2024 NSF I-Crops
    2024 SUNY S4

    MSc Clinical Pharmacy
    University College London, UK

    BScPharm
    Taipei Medical University

  • Evelyn Chang

    BS Neuroscience 25
    |PSYC397|BIOL497/498|

    2024 IBMS-Academia Sinica
    Summer Research Intern - Viral Immunology

    2024 Undergraduate Research Award

  • Shotaro Odaka

    BS Biochem 25
    |BCHM497|

  • Shannon Wodicka

    BA Biology 25
    Pre-Pharmacy
    2024 BUPNUR Award
    |BIOL497|

  • Damian Zhao

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Sherman Yen

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Maeko Plotena

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Joseph Galperin

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Shivani Manimaran

    BS Biochem 27
    |BCHM497|

  • Amira Castillo

    BS Biology 27

  • Jackie Li

    BS Biochem 27
    |BCHM497|

  • Sophia Kladias

    BS Biological Chemistry 26

  • Mariya Khan

    PharmD 26

  • Cierra Girardi

    PharmD 26

  • Nikki Crowley

    PharmD 26

  • Akeile Smith

    PharmD 26

Lab Photos

  • MEI Lab Jan 2025

    Jan 2025

    Busy working on primary cell isolation and immune analysis!

    Maeko, Sherman, Vincnet, Reena, Zitao

  • Dec 2024

    End-of-year dinner after our last lab meeting of 2024
    Zitao, Reena, Vincent, KC

  • July 2024

    We are celebrating our first NIH grant - and the successful completion of a new in vivo experiment.

  • June 2024

    Attending the annual Cell and Gene Therapy conference in Philidephilia

    Ziitao, Yuanjun, Arian, Mei, Arielle, Yuli, Vincent

  • 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 at Binghamton University

  • June 2023

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

Alumni

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

Undergraduate Research Assistants
Binghamton University-SUNY
Tyler Friedlander | BCHM497 | BS Biochem 25
Arianna Anderson | BIOL497/498 | BS Biology 24 ⇨ RA, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Amor Lab)
Katelyn Woo | BCHM497 | BA Biochem 25 (PEAP 3+4) ⇨ PharmD 28, 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

UCLA
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, UCLA ⇨ Ph.D., School of Pharmacy, UCSF (Sweed-Cordero Lab)

Undergraduate Research Trainees
Binghamton University-SUNY
Yuanjun Wang | BCHM497 | Fall 2023 - Summer 24 |
Arian Rahman | PSYC397 | Fall 23 - Summer 24 |
Moe Fakhri | BCHM497 | Summer 23 - Spring 24 |
Willis Ng | BCHM497 | Fall 22 - Spring 24 |
Aarnav Gharse | PSYC397 | Fall 23 - Spring 24 | BS Neuroscience 25 ⇨ MD, Rutgers NJMS
Jeffery Purnomo | Fall 22, Sprinzg 23, Fall 23 |
Allen Ni | BCHM497 | Spring 23, Fall 23 |

Summer Research Intern
Binghamton University-SUNY
James Johnson | ANTH595 | MS Biomed Anthropology 24 (via the Fleishman Center Internship Fund)