Awesome Team
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
— Steve Jobs
Active Minds
Active Graduate Scholars

ADWAIT PRADHAN
Graduate Student
Research Interest:
Melt Granulation | Twin screw processing | Amorphous Solid Dispersions

ZIYUE ZHONG
Graduate Student
Research Interest:
Non-Biodegradable Long-acting Drug Delivery Systems | Drug Release Mechanism | Modelling/FE Simulation

HALA ABDELHAKK
Graduate Student
Research Interest:
Hot Melt Extrusion | PLGA Controlled Release Systems | Drug Delivery

NIYATI NIRANJAN KODANGE
Graduate Student
Research Interest:
Twin-Screw Melt Granulation | Rheology | Long-Acting Drug Delivery

ANUJ BISWAS
Graduate Student
Research Interest:
Biodegradable Implants | Drug Delivery System | Scientific Machine Learning | AI

YI REN
Graduate Student
Research Interest:
PLGA implants
Active Undergraduate Scholars

NICHOLAS JAMES (NICK) DOLUISIO
Undergraduate Research Assistant

AANYA BHALLA
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Trailblazers of the Lab
Post-Doctoral Scholars
Beibei Chen (2020-2022)

BEIBEI CHEN
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2020-2022)
Scientist, SpyGlass Pharma, Inc.
Shahab Rahimi (2018-2020)

SHAHAB RAHIMI
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2018-2020)
Principal Scientist, Catalent
Graduate Scholars
Coleman Johnson (2022-2025)

COLEMAN JOHNSON
Graduate Scholar (2022-2025)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, FDA
Angela Ren (2020-2025)

ANGELA REN
Graduate Scholar (2020-2025)
Advisor, Synthetic Molecule Design and Development, Eli Lilly and Company
Jamie Spahn (2019-2024)

JAMIE SPAHN
Graduate Scholar (2019-2024)
Scientific Program Manager, Hugh Smyth LLC
Mark Costello (2020-2023)

MARK COSTELLO
Graduate Scholar (2020-2023)
Sr. Manager – BridgeBio
Tongzhou Liu (2016-2021)

TONGZHOU LIU
Graduate Scholar (2016-2021)
Senior Scientist, AbbVie
Nada Kittikunakorn (2016-2020)

NADA KITTIKUNAKORN
Graduate Scholar (2016-2020)
Researcher, Government Pharmaceutical Organization, Thailand
Fan Meng (2015-2019)

FAN MENG
Graduate Scholar (2015-2019)
Scientist, Sanofi
Xu Liu (2014-2019)

Xu Liu
Graduate Scholar (2014-2019)
Research Investigator, Arvinas
Michael Lowinger (2017-2019)

MICHAEL LOWINGER
Graduate Scholar (2017-2019)
Executive Director, Merck
Abbe Haser (2014-2017)

ABBE HASER
Graduate Scholar (2014-2017)
Director, Organon, US
Undergraduate Scholars
Maggie Magaw (2024-2025)

MAGGIE MAGAW
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2024-2025)
PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill
Aanya Bhalla (2023-2025)

AANYA BHALLA
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2023-2025)
Lance Arbilo (2022-2024)

LANCE ARBILO
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2022-2024)
Joseph Liu (2022-2023)

JOSEPH LIU
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2022-2023)
Joseph Koleng

JOSEPH KOLENG
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Chemical Engineer, Exfluor Research Corporation
Izzy Schneider (2016-2017)

IZZY SCHNEIDER
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016-2017)
Senior Manager, Commercial Data Science, Pfizer
Tu Cao (2014-2017)

TU CAO
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2014-2017)
Flight Software Integration Engineer, KBR. Inc.
