Members

Principal Investigator

Urara Hasegawa

Assistant Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Other affiliations:

Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Regenerative Engineering and Translational Ecosystem Forum,

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (MCIBS) Graduate Program

Materials Research Institute

 

Office: 331 Steidle Building

Email:  uph5002@psu.edu

 

 

Research/work experience:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2020 – present
  • Lecturer (Part-time), Department of Biological Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, Fall 2021
  • Assistant Professor, Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, USA, 2017 – 2020
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, Japan, 2011-2016
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2007-2011
Education:
  • Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
  • M.Eng. in Applied Chemistry, Waseda University, Japan
  • B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Waseda University, Japan
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Lab members

 

Amira Ben Mabrouk

PhD  candidate (MATSE)

Research/work experience:

Research Associate, Nanyang Technological University, 2016 – 2020

Research Engineer, University of Tunis el Manar, 2014 – 2016

Education:

Eng. D in Bioengineering, National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia

Research Interest:

Rational design of long-circulating nanomedicines. Interaction between cells and polymeric nanoparticles.

 

 

Binru Han

PhD  candidate (MATSE)

Education:

M.S., University of Florida

B.S., Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Research Interest:

Injectable thermosensitive hydrogels composed of polymeric micelles.

 

 

 

Elmira Abbasi GharehTapeh

PhD  student (MATSE)

Research/work experience:

Research Assistant, Institute of Polymeric Materials

Education:

M.S. in Polymer Engineering, Sahand University of Technology

B.S. in Polymer Engineering, Science and Research branch of Azad University of Tehran

 

Research Interest:

Polymeric nanosystems for delivery of reactive sulfur species.

 

 

 

Po-yu (Bernie) Chen

PhD  student (MATSE)

Co-advised by Dr. Enrique Gomez

Education: 

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng kung University, Taiwan, 2021

 

Research Interest:

Detection systems for intracellular reactive species.

 

 

 

Cagdas Aksit

Master  student (ESM)

Education: 

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2022

 

Research Interest:

Development of oxidation sensitive nanoparticles.

 

 

 

Xiaoyue Liang

Accelerated Master student (MATSE)

Education:

 

Research Interest:

Modification of metal oxide nanoparticles for prolonged blood circulation.

 

 

 

Molly Smock

Undergraduate student, Department of Chemistry, Penn State

Research Interest:

Development of porphyrin-containing nanoparticles.

 

Lily Umbel

Undergraduate student, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

Research Interest:

Development of conjugated polymer-based biosensors.

 

 

 

Isabelle Fetzer

Undergraduate student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Penn State

Research Interest:

ZIF-8 nanoparticles for drug delivery

 

 

Amira Shakur

NASA Research Internship (WISER, MURE, and FURP Program)

Undergraduate student,  , Penn State

Research Interest:

Evaluation of drug release from injectable hydrogels.

 

 

Shri Vennu

Undergraduate student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Penn State

Research Interest:

Evaluation of cellular uptake of polymer brush-modified nanoparicles.

 

 

 

Alumni

Marianna Lucia Olaya, NASA Research Internship (2023)

Alex Sawyers, McNair Scholar (Summer 2023)

Roujia Chang, Master Student (2022-2023), Undergraduate Research Assistant, Senior thesis (2021-2022)

Dr. Setsuko Yamane, Visiting Scholar (2022-2023)

Abdul Hadi Bin (Sibah) Yusri, MCREU, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Senior thesis (2022-2023)

Brian Chou, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2022-2023)

Gabriel Valentin, Undergraduate research assistant (2022-2023)

Bethany Kuhns, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2022)

Kemper J. Young, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Senior thesis (2021-2022)

Sahil Tandale, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Senior thesis (2021 – 2022)

Nini Nguyen, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021 – 2022)

Tyler Woolsey, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2022)

Joshua Wick, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2022)

Ziyuan Qin, MatSE Undergraduate Research Fellow (2021-2022)

Niki Taherian, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021-2022)

Amanda Krueger, Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021-2022)