Prof. Joerg Lahann, PhD

Director, Biointerfaces Institute

Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering

University of Michigan

Co-Director, Institute of Functional Interfaces

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology


Research Staff

 
 

Michael Triebwasser, MD/PhD

Research Fellow, Clinical Instructor

Mike focuses on developing the building blocks for genetic medicines that can realize the promise of curative therapy for individuals with both common and rare disorders.


Postdoctoral Researchers

 
 

Seongjun Moon, PhD

Chemical Engineering


Graduate Students

Ava Mauser

Biomedical Engineering

Ava conducts research focused on developing protein-based nanoparticles for the delivery of therapeutic cargo in diffuse astrocytoma and glioblastoma.

Yao Yao

Oral Health Sciences

Yao develops novel biomaterial strategies for tissue regeneration including scaffolds and gene delivery.

Anthony Berardi

Macromolecular Science & Engineering

Anthony uses synthetic polymer chemistry and bioengineering techniques to understand how the physicochemical properties of polymeric- and protein-based nanocarrier systems influence their success in nanomedicine and biotechnology applications.

 

Do Hoon (Chris) Kim

Chemical Engineering

Chris investigates novel methods to engineer extracellular matrices for cardiac tissue regeneration.

John Kim

Materials Science & Engineering

John studies the surface chemistry of polymer nanofibers templated by liquid crystals.

Albert Chang

Materials Science & Engineering

Albert works in the nanoparticle subgroup. He is interested in devising novel nanoparticles with different surface properties for therapeutic purposes.

Fjorela Xhyliu

Chemical Engineering

Fjorela works on engineering protein nanoparticle systems for bioimaging and therapeutic purposes.

 
 
 
 

Arit Patra

Chemical Engineering

Arit studies the chemical vapor deposition synthesis of nanofiber arrays templated by a bilayer of cholesteric liquid crystals.

Julio Zelaya

Macromolecular Science & Engineering

Josh Flint

Macromolecular Science & Engineering

Yuxuan Deng

Materials Science & Engineering


Current Undergraduate Students

Ryan Tippy (mentored by Anthony Berardi) | Sophomore in Chemistry | rytipp@umich.edu

Grant Grasman (mentored by Yao Yao) | Sophomore in Chemical Engineering | ggrasman@umich.edu

Alumni

Graduate students & Post-docs

Yeongun Ko | Assistant Professor at Chonnam National University in Korea (2022)

Dylan Neale | Scientist at Sanofi (2022)

Laura Sanders | Scientist at Tessera Therapeutics (2022)

Nahal Habibi | Scientist at Laronde (2021)

Ayse Muniz | Associate at Flagship Pioneering (2021)

Jason Gregory | Senior Engineer at Laronde (2021)

Danny Quevedo | Senior Consultant at Trinity (2020)

Undergraduate students

Malini Mukherji (mentored by Dylan Neale) | Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering (2022)

Now at Harvard University for Bioengineering PhD program!

Yazmin Hernandez (mentored by Ava Mauser)| Biomedical Engineering (2020)

Now at University of California at San Diego for Biomedical Engineering PhD program!