People

Jonathan N. Sachs, Ph.D.

Professor
[email protected]
7-126 Hasselmo Hall
612/624-7158

NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, 3/04 - 8/06
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2003
B.S., Mathematical Biochemistry, University of Michigan, 1996

Nagamani Vunnam, Ph.D.
Researcher 6
[email protected]

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2014-2016
• Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 2010

Research Interests: Inflammation, neuroinflammation, Apoptosis, engineering of affibody molecules for therapeutics.

Anthony R. Braun, Ph.D.
Researcher 6
[email protected]

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2014-2016
• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2014
• NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 5/12 - 7/14
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2008

Research Interests: neurodegeneration, fluorescent cellular biosensor engineering, monitoring protein-protein interactions via fluorescent cellular biosensors

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-r-braun

Elly Liao, Ph.D.
Researcher 6
[email protected]

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
• Ph.D., Biomedical/Medical Engineering, University of Michigan

Research Interests: neurodegeneration, iPSC, neurospheres and brain organoids, 3D printed cellular matrices, tissue regeneration

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellyeliao

Carolyn Paulson, Ph.D.
Researcher 5
[email protected]

• Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
• M.S., Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
• B.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Noah Nathan Kochen 

• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2020

Research Interests: neurodegeneration, intrinsically disordered proteins, biomolecular condensates, molecular dynamics.

Sophia Zafari

• Biomedical Engineering

Marguerite Murray

• Biomedical Engineering

Jane Been, M.S.

• B.S., Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2015
• M.S.,  Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2022

Evan Huber, M.S.

• M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2022
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2020

Malaney Young, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2021
• B.S., Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2015

Ben Brummel, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2020
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2013

Chih Hung Lo, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2019
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2014
• B.B.A., Operation Management, National University of Singapore, 2014

Breeanne Brand, M.S.

• M.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2019
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 2017

Tiffany Senkow, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2020
• B.S., Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2013

Andrew Lewis, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2016
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2007

Anthony R. Braun, Ph.D.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 2014-2016
• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2014
• NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 5/12 - 7/14
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2008

Deepti Mudaliar, M.S.

• M.S., Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2005

Chris Valley, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2012
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 2004

Jason D. Perlmutter, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2011
• B.S., Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2006

Will Drasler, M.S.

• M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2011

Karen Smith, Ph.D.

• Researcher 6
   

Anil K. Pandey, Ph.D.

• Researcher 5

Mu Yang, Ph.D.

• Postdoctoral Fellow

Larry Bastidas, Ph.D.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2018-present

Ana West, Ph. D.

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2015-2016

Darren Seaney

Vivek Vasandani

James Erler

Leah Baker

Noah Nathan

Evan Huber

Colin LIm

Quynh Nguyen

Sophia Szymonski

Cecily Bezat

Kevin Hughes

Pierre Sebastian

Kiva Forsmark

Elliott Surber

Daniel Jacobsen

Shubham Debnath

Mona Majid

Steve Peery

Chris Hillesheim