Lab Alumni

edith.jpg

Chris A. Stevens

BS Chemical Engineering, U Kentucky

PhD ChE, 2018

  • ​Now: Scientist, Levitas, Menlo Park, CA

Elissa K. Leonard

BS Molecular Systems & Design, with Distinction, Harvey Mudd

PhD BME, 2018

  • 2014 NSF GRFP

Post-doc, Spangler lab at John's Hopkins

Ellen K. Wagner

BS ChBE with honors, CU Boulder

PhD ChE, 2017

  • 2014 NSF GRFP

  • 2016 NSF GROW

Gigagen, S. San Fran, CA

Edith Acquaye-Seedah

​

BS, Biochemistry, University of Ghana

MS, Biochemistry, Texas A&M University

PhD, Biochemistry, UT Austin, 2015

Post-doc, UT Austin, 2016-2018

 

Current: Molecular Templates, Austin, TX

Photo_KCL.jpg

Kevin C. Le

​

BS, Chemical Engineering with Highest Honors, UT Austin (2019)

​

Research Associate, 2019-2020

​

Current: MD-PhD student, Mayo Institute, Rochester, MN

profile_Andrea_DiVenere_Chemical_and_Bio

Andrea DiVenere

​

BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut
BS, Molecular Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut
PhD Chemical Engineering, 2020

​

  • 2017 NSF GRFP award recipient

  • 2018 NSF GROW award

​

Current: Sr. Scientist, Abbvie, Boston, MA 

yimin.JPG

Yimin Huang

​

BM, Huazhong University of Science and Technology 

​

PhD, Cell Molec Bio, UT Austin, 2020

​

Current: Post-doctoral fellow, Prog Greg Ippolito/ George Georgiou lab, UT Austin 

chris_2014.jpg

Chris A. Stevens

BS Chemical Engineering, U Kentucky

PhD ChE, 2018

 

​Scientist, Levitas, Menlo Park, CA

elissa_climbing.jpg

Elissa K. Leonard

BS Molecular Systems & Design, with Distinction, Harvey Mudd

PhD BME, 2018

  • 2014 NSF GRFP

 

Post-doc, Spangler lab at John's Hopkins

Ellen K. Wagner

BS ChBE with honors, CU Boulder

PhD ChE, 2017

  • 2014 NSF GRFP

  • 2016 NSF GROW

 

Gigagen, S. San Fran, CA

Josh R. Laber 

BS ChE, UC Berkeley 

PhD ChE,  2016

  • Baxter Young Investigator award, 2016

 

Post-doc: Abbvie, Boston

Scientist, BioMarin, CA

Jeong-min Hyun 

BS and MS, Biotech, Yongsei University

PhD Cell Molec Bio,  2016​

 

Principal Scientist, Samsung, Bioepis, S. Korea

​

​

Xianzhe Wang

BS Biotechnology, Wuhan

MS Biochem & Mol Bio, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.

PhD Biochemistry, 2015

  • PhD Internship at Regeneron (Sum 2014)

 

Sr. Scientist, Compass Therapeutics, Boston, MA

Zach Frye

BS ChE, Virginia Tech

PhD ChE, 2015

 

Antibody Discovery Specialist, Compass Therapeutics, Boston, MA

​

​

Kevin C. Entzminger 

BS Biochemistry with Honors, Loyola Marymount

PhD Biochemistry,  2014

 

Director of Antibody Engineering, Abwiz Bio, San Diego, CA 

​

​

Tarik Khan

BS ChE, NC State

PhD ChE, 2012 

 

Whitaker International Post-doctoral Scholar at ETH Zürich

 

Group leader & Scientist at Roche, Late-Stage Pharmaceutical Processing & Development, Basel, Switzerland

​

Jen Pai Wang

BS ChE, Cornell

PhD ChE, 2010

 

Senior Specialist, Engineering,  Merck

  • Elizabeth Bogardus, MS Biochemistry, 2015

      High school chemistry teacher, Round Rock ISD

 

  • Aileen Dinin, MS, ChE, 2013 (co-supervisor)

      Current position: Technical writer & editor

​

  • Maria Andrea Miller, PhD ChE 2011 (co-supervisor)

       Current position: Scientist II, MedImmune, MD​

​

  • Christine Chang, BS, ChE, Columbia University, Technician

        Current: Vet School, UC Davis

​​

  • Ryan Myhre, ChE MS 

​

  • Rakesh Motani, Microb Eng MS 

        Engineer, Amgen

​

  • Kavita Ramalingam Iyer, Post-doc
    Merck

​​

Jamie Sutherland

BS ChE, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

PhD ChE, 2010

 

Process Engineer, Chevron Phillips, Houston TX

Ben Roy

BS ChE Calvin College

MS ChE, Vanderbilt

PhD ChE, 2011

Super undergraduate researchers

  • Kimiya Monfared, ChE Class of 2022

  • Shlok Mohanty, ChE Class of 2021, CAR-T engineering at Umoja Biopharma in Seattle

  • Kyle Kaeo, ChE, Class of 2021,  ChE grad student at John's Hopkins 

  • ShaoPo Huang, BME, Class of 2020, applying to med school

  • Kevin C. Le, ChE, URF,  2016-2019, MD-PhD student at Mayo Clinic, Rochester Mn

  • Sam & Cina Karimaghaei, ChE 2018, med school students

  • Theresa Wang, ChE 2019, URF

  • Ankur Annapareddy, ChE 2018; URF, grad student in ILS at UT Austin

  • Xinleu Liu, ChE 2016

  • Luciano Posada, ChE 2016, URF, Texas 4000 and Baylor med school research associate

  • Alexis Prybutok, ChE and Biochem 2016, URF and NSF GRFP, ChE graduate school at Northwestern

  • Kristen Arnold, Plan II Honors Thesis 2015, University of Texas at Houston Medical School

  • Devin Jackson, Bio 2014, now grad student in tumor biology at Georgetown

  • Elizabeth Orth, ChE 2014, NSF GRFP honoroble mention, PhD program in Chemical Biology, Gerstner Sloan Kettering, Weill Cornell tri-institutional program

  • Wesley Beckner, ChE 2014, NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, ChE graduate school at U Washington

  • Brennan Hodgson, ChE 2014, U Chicago medical school

  • Devin Jackson, Biochem 2014, PhD student in tumor biology at Georgetown/ NIH

  • Julie A. Fogarty, ChE 2013, URF and NSF GRFP, ChE graduate school at Stanford

  • Dmitriy Zhukov, URF and NSF GRFP, ChE graduate school at CalTech

  • Jeff Coursen, Biochem 2013, Baylor Medical School

  • Sam Parnell, ChE 2012, UTSW Medical School

  • Kevin Kaczorowski, ChE 2011, URF and NSF GRFP, ChE graduate school at MIT

  • Katie McCallum, Microbiology 2010, URF, MD Anderson/ UT Houston PhD program

  • Carly Smith, Biochem 2010, chemistry graduate school, U Michigan

  • Brittany Delforge, ChE 2009, Luminex, Austin

  • Adam Romman, ChE 2009, UTSW medical school​