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Principle Investigator

Yoonjee Park, PhD

Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Chemical Engineering Program

University of Cincinnati

Secondary Appointment:

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Ophthalmology

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

584 Engineering Research Center (ERC)

2901 Woodside Drive

Cincinnati, OH 45221

(513) 556-1359

yoonjee.park@uc.edu

Postdoc, MIT, Biological Engineering,

                Boston University, Biomedical Engineering..

PhD, Purdue University, Chemical Engineering, 2010.

BS, Seoul National University, Chemical & Biological Engineering, 2006.

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Tilahun Debele

 

PhD National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, 2017.

BS  Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia, 2008. 

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Graduate Students

Thomas (TJ) Waterkotte (PhD Program),

Thesis Topic: Long-term drug delivery systems

BS Ohio State University, Chemical Engineering

Avery (Zhiwei) Zheng (PhD Program),

Thesis Topic: Light-activatable drug delivery systems

BS Penn State University, Chemical Engineering

Sayma Afrin (PhD Program),

Thesis Topic: Anti-biofilm strategies

MS University of Kentucky, Chemical Engineering

Natalie Wehrle (MS Program),

Thesis Topic: Reversible drug delivery systems

BS Northern Kentucky University, Chemistry

Denzel Ryan Cruz (MD/PhD Program)

Thesis Topic: SMAD siRNA delivery implant systems

BS Illinois Institute of Technology, Bioengineering

David Adenuga (PhD Program)

Thesis Topic: Long-term Antibody-Drug Systems

Arjun Dheenan (MS Program)

Thesis Topic: Biodegradable Hollow Fiber Membrane Implants

Joseph Mwaniki (PhD Program)

Thesis Topic: Antibacterial coating

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Undergraduate Students

Ruchika Pissay
Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate researcher, Summer 2022~current.

 

Alumni

Graduate students

Zishu Cao

Student worker

(Current position: PhD Program at Chemical Engineering)

 

Ruibo Qin

MEng Chemical Engineering

Hsuan-Yeh Pan

Research Assistant

(Current position: PhD Program at Vision Science in School of Optometry , Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)

Zhe Zhang

MS Chemical Engineering

Thesis: "Quantitative Analysis of Phase-Transition Process of Light-Activatable Theranostic Agents by Pulsed Laser"

(Current position: PhD Program at Environmental Engineering)

Xingyu He

PhD Chemical Engineering

Thesis: "Long-term Light-Activated Drug Delivery Systems"

BS Dong Hua University, Materials Science & Engineering

(Current: Postdoc at Department of Pathology Wang Lab)

 

Zheng Yuan

PhD Chemical Engineering

Thesis Topic: "Light-activatable drug delivery systems"

MS University of Cincinnati, Materials Science

      Thesis: Impact of Colloidal Silica on Silicone Oil -Silica Mixed Antifoam (Advisor: Dr. Dale Schaefer)

BS Dong Hua University, Polymer Science & Engineering

(Current: Omega Therapeutics, MA)

Aditya Sriram Challa

MENG Chemical Engineering

Thesis Topic: Novel stent design and Flow rate/Drug resistance Modeling

BS Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Chemical Engineering

Zachary Mount (MS Program)

Thesis Topic: Effect of dosing methods on chronic eye disease treatment

BS Ohio State University, Biological Engineering

(Current: Research Assistant at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA)

 

Madeleine Debrosse (PhD Program),

Co-advised with Dr. Jason Heikenfeld

BS Wright State University

 

Undergraduate students

Courtney Collins

BS Biochemisty

(Current position: College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati)

Aiden Nguyen

Tiffany Brooks

Nhung Tran

Madison Taylor

BS Chemical Engineering

(Current position: Ethicon, OH)

Khoi Nguyen

BS Biomedical Engineering

Alec Demith

BS Medical Sciences

(Current position: College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati)

Ryan Stoffel

BS Chemical Engineering

(Current position: College of Medicine, Indiana University)

Ryan Heitkamp

Chemical Engineering

Prasad Nithianandam

BS Biomedical Engineering

(Current position: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)

Karman Ghuman

Medical Sciences

Bijeta Pradhan

Biological Sciences

Catherine Gottsacker

Chemical Engineering, Protege program,

 

Majd Alslaiti 

Chemical Engineering, Co-op, 2021

 

Jonathan Raj

Biomedical Engineering, 2021 summer.

 

Simhya Karthikeyan

Medical Sciences, 2021 summer.

Linh Tran 

Chemistry, Undergraduate researcher, 2020~Fall 2022.

Research topic: Reversible drug release liposomes.

(current: Graduate School at University of Minnesota)

Postdoctoral Associates

Dr. Saikat Das

current position: Intel

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