Congrats to Ali and Anirudh on getting hooded! We are so proud of you and excited to see what you accomplish next!

Sisa grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in Biology with an Immunology specialization. After graduation, she worked as a research technician under Dr. Adam Sperling at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she studied the mechanisms of resistance to immunomodulatory drugs in Multiple Myeloma. Sisa is interested […]

Congratulations to these LSI members who presented their work at the 2024 BMES Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD: Gabe Kwong - "In Vivo T Cell Display of Masked Protease-Activatable Receptors for Deep Profiling of the Substrate Repertoire in Cancer" Ali Zamat - "Image-Guided Sonogenetic Control of CAR T Cells to Produce NKG2D Bispecific T Cell […]

Congratulations to Ali Zamat for defending his Ph.D. thesis! Ali presented his exceptional thesis titled “Tumor-Localized Control of CAR T cells to Potentiate Solid Tumor Immunotherapy” to friends, family, and thesis committee. We are so excited to see what you do next!

This fall, LSI welcomes two new Ph.D. students, Claire Su and Jicheng You, who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University, respectively. We are excited to work with you and see everything you will accomplish! Read more about the new lab members here.

Over the past ten years, LSI has worked at the interface of immunology and engineering to develop programmable cytometry technologies, synthetic biomarkers, targeted delivery systems, and T cell therapies to advance human disease diagnosis and treatment. Congratulations to Gabe and the lab for this milestone!

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, […]

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 […]

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.