Members

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

James Dahlman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University

Dr. James Dahlman completed his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University in 2009. He went on to complete his PhD under Dr. Robert Langer at MIT in 2015. Dr. Dahlman conducted post-doctoral work at the Zhang Lab at the Broad Institute in 2016 before going on to become a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Fun Fact: "Whenever I publish a paper, I celebrate with ribs from Community Q."

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Kalina Paunovska

PhD STUDENT, T32 FELLOW
BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami. 2016

Research: The role that cholesterol plays in LNP trafficking & delivery

Fun Fact: "I'm a true North Macedonian."

Melissa Lokugamage

PhD STUDENT, T32 FELLOW
BS in Bioengineering, University of Missouri, 2017

Research: Non-liver delivery, novel DNA-barcoded screening systems, RNA biology

Fun Fact: "The last 10k I ran was for a Lululemon discount."

Alejandro Da Silva Sanchez

PhD STUDENT
BS in Chemical / Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2018

Research: Lipid signaling, non-liver functional LNP delivery, therapeutic RNA delivery

Fun Fact: "I ate live worms bathed in fish sauce and drank snake wine during a trip to Southeast Asia."

Jack Feldman

MASTERS STUDENT, GRA FELLOW
BS in Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research: Bioinformatics, automation

Fun Fact: "I biked from NYC to San Francisco during the summer of 2015"

Ada Del Cid

MASTERS STUDENT
BA and BS in Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Florida State University, 2018

Research: Nanoparticle drug delivery

Fun Fact: "I put 🌶️🌶️ on everything I can."

POST-DOCS

Zubao Gan, PhD

CHEMIST
BS in Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2010

MS / PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, Sichuan University, 2016

Senior Research at Hitgen, 2018

Research: DNA barcoding, nanoparticle delivery, genetic therapeutics and precision medicine

Fun Fact: "I enjoy swimming, singing, and football."

Kun Zhao, PhD

CHEMIST
BS in Chinese Materia Medica

MS in Medicinal Chemistry

PhD in Dieter Enders Lab at RWTH Aachen University

Research: DNA barcoding and genetic therapies

Fun Fact: "I like playing and watching soccer."

David Loughrey, PhD

RNA BIOLOGIST
BE at University College Dublin

PhD in Julius Lucks Lab, Cornell University, 2016

Postdoc fellowship in Alan Lambowitz Lab, UT, Austin, 2018

Research: Using Next Generation Sequencing technologies to answer questions about nanomedicine

Fun Fact: "I once came last out of 350+ people in the swimming portion of an Olympic-length triathlon - Athlete!"

Marine Hatit, PhD

CHEMIST
BS 2012, MS 2014 in Organic/Bioorganic Chemistry at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)

PhD in Chemical Biology at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK), 2018

Research: Bioconjugation, genetic therapies and DNA barcoded technology

Fun Fact: "I have been chased out of France and UK for saying that the best mac and cheese are made with Velveeta cheese."

Huanzhen Ni, PhD

CHEMIST
BS in Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 2014

PhD in Chemistry at Yixin Lu Lab, National University of Singapore, 2018

Research: DNA barcoding technology and gene therapies

Fun Fact: "I am crazy about dogs/cats that are fluffy, and my dream pet is a Corgi."

LAB STAFF

Sujay Kalathoor

LAB TECH
BS in Chemical / Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2018

Research: Functional tumor delivery, CRISPR, robotics

Fun Fact: "I have self-diagnosed narcolepsy."

Fatima Islam

LAB TECH
BS in Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Tech. 2018

Research: Cas9 Optimization, translational application of nanoparticles

Fun Fact: "I can and will flip you over with my sick jujitsu skills."

UNDERGRADUATES

Manaka Sato

Fun Fact: "I am on the dance team at GT and a 4-year student athlete."

Ana Cristian

Fun Fact: "I was born in Transylvania and lived there until I was eight. No, vampires aren't real. What is real is my love for garlic."