Congratulations to Anirudh Sivakumar for defending his Ph.D. thesis! Anirudh presented his outstanding thesis titled “Logic-gated activity sensors for programmable detection of antitumor immunity” on June 27, 2024 to friends, family, and thesis committee. We look forward to your future success!
Tyler grew up in Lyndhurst, New Jersey and graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. After graduation, he completed an M.S.E. degree in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in improving the safety and efficacy of adoptive cell therapies through gene editing and combination therapies. Outside of the lab, he likes to cook, hike, and watch basketball or rugby with his friends. Welcome to LSI!
Congratulations to graduate students Eric Lee, Riya Sen, and Matthew Wang as well as undergraduate researchers Noah Campbell and Abbey Oliver for winning fellowships from the NSF GRFP! Noah and Abbey will be pursuing their PhD’s at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, respectively, starting this fall. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is a prestigious program that recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines, supporting their tuition and stipend for three years during a five-year fellowship period. Read more here.
Dr. Gabe Kwong is elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological (AIMBE) College of Fellows for his work in clinically translating advancements in immunoengineering and early cancer detection. He joins 162 other fellows who represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers and include numerous Nobel Prize laureates and Presidential Medal of Science winners.
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LSI returned to the Atlanta Science Festival with our booth titled, “A Closer Look at Your Microscopic Kingdom”. K-12 students learned about the different cells that make up our immune systems and looked at their own cells using microscopes!
Dr. Ying “Olina” Chen and Dr. Lina Mancipe join the Project CODA team as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Scientist, respectively. LSI also welcomes new Research Technicians Justin Bromell and Claire Wang. Read more about the new lab members here.
Dr. Mor Paldor joins the Project CODA team as a Research Scientist while Brendt Wang and Elif Kulaksizoglu (a former undergraduate researcher in LSI) will be new Research Technicians. Read more about the new lab members here.