Graduate Students

Name: Timothy (‘Ty’) Maughon III
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia ‘17
Project: Improved manufacturing of MSC-based therapeutics through identification of critical quality attributes predictive of immunomodulatory capacity

Name: Kanupriya Daga
Undergraduate Degree: B.Tech Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology ‘16
Project: Development of high-throughput image-based potency assays to assess MSC immunomodulatory capacity in the context of neurodegenerative diseases.

Name: Courtney Campagna
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ’20
Project: Pericyte-mediation of MSC therapeutic function.

Name: Andrew Larey
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas ’20
Project: High-throughput screening to identify key regulators of MSC function in large-scale manufacturing systems.

Undergraduate Students

Full Name: Karen Maybeth Mancera Azamar
Major: Biological Engineering
Expected Graduation Date: May 2021
Favorite things to do at UGA: attend football games and Dawgs After Dark events
Hobbies: origami, shopping, soccer, arts and crafts

Name: Jon Mallory McRae III
Major: English, psychology (neuroscience emphasis)
Expected graduation date: December 2020
Favorite thing about going to UGA: the incredible people I have met
Hobbies: Basketball, guitar, poetry

Name: Adam Samuel Whitsett
Major: Biology
Expected Graduation Date: May 2020
Favorite thing about UGA: Going to the football games!
Hobbies: Reading, video games, and movies. Lots of movies!

 

Lab Alumnae/Alumni

Seth Andrews, Ph.D. post-doc 2019-2020 (currently @ Precision BioSciences, Inc.)

Lauren Jennings, UGA NanoBio REU student 2019 (currently PhD student at Mayo Clinic)

Arafat Fasuyi, CMaT REU student 2019 (currently research scientist at ThermoFisher)

Gianna Busch, UGA NanoBio REU student 2020 (currently applying to PhD programs)

Andrew Brock, UGA ’19 (currently PhD student at University of Florida)