Graduate Students

Name: Timothy (‘Ty’) Maughon III (PhD Candidate)
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 (PhD Candidate)
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 (PhD Candidate)
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ’20
Project: Pericyte-mediation of MSC therapeutic function.

Name: Andrew Larey (PhD Candidate)
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.

Name: Thomas Spoerer (PhD Candidate)
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biology/Environmental Engineering (Spanish Minor), University of Georgia ’21
Project: Identification of soluble and material cues that control MSC growth and metabolism in 3D porous hydrogel systems.

Undergraduate/Postbac Students

Name: Maria (Mia) Morfín (UGA PREP Scholar)
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia ’22
Project: Defining the effects of MSC extracellular vesicles on microglia metabolism.

 

Name: Kailin (Kai) Chen
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. University of Georgia ’22
Project: Morphological profiling of microglia response to inflammatory signals.

 

Name: Chaudhry Nicolas (Nic) Gibran Rasool (CURO Award Recipient)
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biological Engineering, University of Georgia ’23
Project: High throughput screening of MSC morphological responses to inflammatory signals.

Name: Charlotte Conway Williams (UGA Foundation Fellow)
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biochemical Engineering, University of Georgia ’24
Project: Optimization of MSC seeding parameters and characterization in 3D granular hydrogels

 

 

 

Lab Alumnae/Alumni

Courtney Manning, UGA PREP Scholar ’21-’22 (PhD Student at Duke University)

Rohan Vuppala, UGA ’22 (Medical Assistant, Summit Spine and Joint Centers)

Karen Maybeth Mancera Azamar, UGA ’21 (PhD student at University of Florida)

Adam Samuel Whitsett, UGA ’20 (Morehouse School of Medicine)

Jon Mallory McRae III, UGA ’20 (applying to medical schools)

Jendayia Taylor, CMaT REU student 2021 (undergraduate at Georgia Tech)

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

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

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

Gianna Busch, UGA NanoBio REU student 2020 (PhD student at University of Pennsylvania)

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