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Team Members

Principal Investigator
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Asher Williams

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, 2020-2023

Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2020

B.S. New York University, 2015

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Postdoctoral Research Associates

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Mengwan Li

Chemical Engineering

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Ph.D. UC Riverside, 2022

B.S. Harbin Institute of Technology, 2017

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Research interests: Platform innovation; development of therapeutics and novel biomarkers

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Email: ml5229@columbia.edu

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Graduate Research Assistants

Max Kearns

Max Kearns

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Chemical Engineering

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2023

B.S. University of Rochester, 2020

 

Research interests: Engineering

immune responses via dendritic

cell targeting vaccine strategies

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Email: mwk2134@columbia.edu

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Caleb Sanders

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Chemical Engineering​

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2026

B.A. University of Redlands, 2023

B.S. Columbia University, 2024

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Email: cvs2136@columbia.edu

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Yue Jiao

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Chemical Engineering

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M.S. Columbia University, 2023

B.S. UC Irvine, 2022

 

Research interests: Bio-machine learning, chemistry, and biology

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Email: yj2722@columbia.edu

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Kevin Lam

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Chemical Engineering​

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2024

B.S. UC Berkeley, 2023

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Email: krl2135@columbia.edu

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Runjia Yu

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Chemical Engineering​

 

M.S. Columbia University, 2024

B.S. China University of Petroleum

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Email: ry2474@columbia.edu

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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Ana Anariba

Biomedical Engineering '27

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Research interests:​ Vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases

 

Email: asa2293@columbia.edu

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Akshi Khowala

Biomedical Engineering '27

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Email: ak5128@columbia.edu

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Merene Atterh

Chemical Engineering '26

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Research interests:​ Therapeutic applications of proteins and drug delivery

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Email: maa2363@columbia.edu

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Briana Cabrera

Chemical Engineering '26

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Email: bnc2118@columbia.edu

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