Category: PhD Trainees

Jodi Belz E-mail: belz.j@husky.neu.edu Department: Bioengineering Advisor: Sri Sridhar Collaborators: Sri Sridhar Biography Jodi received her BS in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University where she minored in chemistry and mathematics. It was there she first discovered nanomedicine, at which point she decided to pursue her PhD in Bioengineering. Projects Implantable Nanoparticles Doped Brachytherapy Spacers for…

Codi Gharagouzloo E-mail: gharagouzloo.c@husky.neu.edu Department: Bioengineering Advisor: Sri Sridhar Biography Codi Amir Gharagouzloo received a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Nuclear Engineering and a BS in Physics with a French minor after four years of study at Kansas State University. Following his undergraduate studies he received an MSc in Bio-Photonics from l’Ecole…

Kate Balaconis E-mail: balaconis.m@husky.neu.edu Department: Bioengineering Advisor: Heather Clark Biography Boston University, College of Engineering Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering (May 2009) My research interest is in the development of fluorescent nanosensors for monitoring and detecting physiological analytes such as sodium and glucose. I specifically work on the development of glucose nanosensors that can be…

Matt Dubach E-mail: dubach.j@husky.neu.edu Department: Bioengineering Advisor: Heather Clark Biography My research focuses on developing novel fluorescent nanoparticles to use as tools for measurement of chemical concentrations in biological samples. With these nanoparticles, we have measured sodium dynamics in excitable cells and sodium concentrations in the skin of mice, which correlate to blood concentrations. I…

Liam Timms E-mail: timms.l@husky.neu.edu Department: Physics Advisor: Sri Sridhar…

Amina Wofford E-mail: Tuskegee University Department: Integrated Biosciences Advisor: Deloris Alexander Biography Captopril and calcium carbonate nanoparticles as novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of HSV-1 infection According to Xu et al. (2006), it is estimated that approximately 60% of Americans are infected with Herpes Simplex Virus Type I (HSV-1) and that number is expected…

Lisa Torres E-mail: University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Department: Chemistry Advisor: Juan Lopez-Garriga Biography Chemical communications between H2S, electrode surface, gold nanoparticles and Tag (His and Lys) proteins moieties Hemoglobin I (HbI) from Lucina Pectinata is one of the few known H2S carriers in organism which have very high affinity to hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and…

Gino Karlo Delos Reyes E-mail: delosreyes.g@husky.neu.edu Department: Chemical Engineering Advisor: Hicham Fenniri Collaborators: Hicham Fenniri Biography Gino Karlo Delos Reyes is a first year graduate student in the Fenniri Lab from San Francisco, California. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California, San Diego, double majoring in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry and Cellular…

Autumn Paro E-mail: paro.a@husky.neu.edu Department: Chemical Engineering Advisor: Sri Sridhar Collaborators: Sri Sridhar Biography Autumn received her BS and MS in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2012 and 2014 respectively. She then decided to pursue her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. Projects Enhanced radiation therapy with location-selectively delivered nanoparticles…

Ming Cheng E-mail: cheng.m@husky.neu.edu Department: Chemical Engineering Advisor: Eno Ebong Collaborators: Thomas Webster Biography Ming received his BS in biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, and math from Vanderbilt University in 2013. He is pursuing a chemical engineering PhD at Northeastern University under Prof. Eno Ebong. Projects Nanoparticle induced glycocalyx regeneration to combat atherosclerosis…