Current Members

2020

• Congratulations to Ryan Hall for receiving the Summa Cum Laude honor for his presentation at ISMRM 2020. 
• Congratulations to Ryan Hall and Dr. Nadia Ayat for their posters being selected for ISMRM 2020.
• Welcome to our new post-doctoral scientist, Dr. Sangjoon Lee.
• Congratulations to Dr. Amita Vaidya for being promoted to research assistant professor.
• Farewell to Dr. Xujie Liu and Dr. Nadia Ayat.
• Farewell to Josef Scheidt.

2019

• Welcome new graduate students Victoria Laney and Zheng Ding!
• Congratulations to Dr. Nadia Ayat for successfully defending your PhD thesis titled "Image Guided Non-Viral Gene Therapy of Triple Negative Breast Cancer" 
• Welcome to our new post-doctoral scientist, Wenyu Sun! 
• Farewell to Sarah Roelle.

2018

• Congratulations to Dr. Amita Vaidya and Nadia Ayat for winning poster awards at the 14th annual Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society (OTS) meeting held in Seattle, WA.
• A warm welcome to our new graduate students, Ryan Hall and Calin Nicolescu.   
• Congratulations Da Sun for successfully defending your PhD thesis titled: “Development of Gene Therapies for Inherited Retinal Degenerations: A Non-Viral Approach”
• Welcome to our new post-doctoral scientist, Xujie Liu! 

2017

• Congratulations Rebecca Schur for successfully defending your PhD thesis titled: Design and evaluation of prophylactic therapies to prevent retinal degeneration in mouse models of Stargardt disease. 
• Runjie Yang successfully defended her Masters thesis on March 30, 2017. 
• Zheng Han successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Design and Evaluation of Novel Contrast Agents for MR Molecular Imaging of Cancer”

2016

• A special welcome to our new lab member, Peter Qiao, who joins the lab as an MSTP student. 
• A farewell to Drs Xiaohui Wu, Yajuan Li and Jenny Parvani

2015

• Andrew Schilb joins the lab as a PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering
• Dr. Maneesh Gujrati for completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering on May 6, 2015.