Current Members

Principal Investigator

David Putnam, Ph.D.

Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, College of Engineering
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

 


Post Doctoral Researchers

Nisha Kannan, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, 2018

Research focus: Designing and implementing vaccine strategies for mucosal diseases like urinary tract infection and Chlamydia
nk489@cornell.edu

 

Ph.D. Students

Hania Koziol

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Montana State University, 2017
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2019

Research focus: Synthesis and design of polymers for lubrication of biointerfaces
hjk68@cornell.edu

 

Mariela Rivera De Jesus

B.S., Industrial Biotechnology, University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez, 2018
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2020

Research focus: Drug and antigen delivery using outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) and bacterial lipopolysaccharides
mar524@cornell.edu

Ruben Trujillo

B.S., Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of New Mexico, 2019
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2021

Research focus: Polymer-based strategies for drug delivery
rt465@cornell.edu

 

Cara Robertus

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Montana State University, 2019
B.S., Bioengineering, Montana State University, 2019
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2021

Research focus: Polymer-based targeting and inhibition of multidrug resistant cancer
cr546@cornell.edu

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