The Salem Laboratory of Advanced Drug and Gene Delivery

Former Members:

Postdoctoral Fellows

XueQing Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interest: Gene Delivery/Immunocancer Therapy

Current placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School/MIT (In the lab of Omid Farokhzad and Robert Langer, MIT)

Postgraduate students

Treniece Terry

NSF AGEP Fellow Graduate Student (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)

Research Interest: Gene Delivery and Pulmonary Drug Delivery

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass Amherst

Janjira Intra

Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) Journal of Science and Technology Pre-Doctoral Fellow Graduate Student (Pharmaceutics)

Research Interest: Drug and Gene Delivery

Initial Placement: Senior Scientist, Formulations, Alticor, California.

Aiman Abbas

Center of Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Pre-Doctoral Fellow and Fulbright Fellow Graduate Student (Pharmaceutics) - aiman-abbas @ uiowa.edu

Research Interest: Gene Delivery and Vaccine Development

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Southern Nevada College of Pharmacy

Jessica Graham née Melanko

Presidential Fellow Graduate Student (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) - jessica-melanko @ uiowa.edu

Research Interest: Gene Delivery and Cancer Vaccine Development

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington

Yogita Krishnamachari

Guillory Fellowship Graduate Student (Pharmaceutics) - yogita-krishnamachari @ uiowa.edu

Research Interest: Gene Delivery and Vaccine Development

Initial Placement: Senior Scientist in Formulations, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

NaJung Kim

Graduate Student (Biomedical Engineering) - nkim2 @ engineering.uiowa.edu

Research Interest: siRNA Delivery

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow in Tissue Engineering at Wake Forest University

Dahai Jiang

Graduate Student (Pharmaceutics) - dahai-jiang @ uiowa.edu

Research Interest: Gene Delivery and Vaccine Development

Past experience:

MSc (Pharmaceutics), National University of Singapore

Masters students

Megan Pearce

NSF NER Graduate Masters Student (Biomedical Engineering)

Research Interest: Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery

Initial Placement: MD program at the University of Iowa

Nicki Baman

Graduate Masters Student (Biomedical Engineering, Iowa)

Research Interest: Tissue Engineering and Immunocancer Therapeutics

Initial Placement: Researcher in the inflammation program at Oakdale, UI.

Research Assistants

Denison John Kuruvilla

Graduate Student (Pharmaceutics)

Research Interest: Gene Delivery and Vaccine Development

Jason Sinclair

Student Researcher (Pharmaceutics, Iowa)

Undergraduate students

Brian Lewis

SROP/McNair Scholars Program (Columbia University)

Research Interest: Cancer Vaccines

Candice Lynch

Iowa/Lincoln Prostate Cancer Summer Research Program

Research Interest: Prostate Cancer Vaccines

Samantha Humpal

Undergraduate researcher (Chemistry)

Research Interest: Cancer Vaccines

Keyana Tyree

Iowa/Lincoln Prostate Cancer Summer Research Program undergraduate researcher

LaKeisha M. Sparks

NSF AGEP undergraduate researcher

Research Interest: Drug Delivery Vehicles

Tiara Thompson

NSF AGEP Undergraduate Student

Research Interest: Drug Delivery

Ashlee Stewart

NSF AGEP undergraduate researcher (Biology at Jackson State University: Mississippi's Urban University)

Teysha Richardson

NSF AGEP undergraduate researcher (Pre-pharmacy/Biology at Albany State University)

Zsalanda Dixon

Iowa Biosciences Advantage undergraduate researcher

Bukola Fatunmbi

Iowa/Lincoln Prostate Cancer Summer Research Program

Research Interest: Prostate Cancer Vaccines

Danielle Holsey

Iowa/Lincoln Prostate Cancer Summer Research Program (co-advised by Lyse Norian)

Research Interest: Prostate Cancer Vaccines

Megan Butzke

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Researcher (Augustana College )

Research Interest: Self-assembly and Cancer Vaccines

Nicholas Dyson

National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Researcher (Biology Major, Monmouth College)

Research Interest: Self-assembly and Cancer Vaccines

Julie Mowers

IREU undergraduate researcher (Biomedical Engineering, Iowa)

Kevin Stichter

Undergraduate researcher (Biomedical Engineering)

Research Interest: Nanoparticle Synthesis

Andrew Petersen

Summer undergraduate researcher (Biochemistry, Iowa)

David Sharma

IREU undergraduate researcher (Pre-Pharmacy, Iowa)

J. Cagley, A. Ingham, C. Rabinak, A. Loffler

Undergraduate Research Design Group (Biomedical Engineering)

Research Project: Nanotechnology and Self-Assembly

Hoang Q Mai

Undergraduate Researcher (Chemical Engineering)

Research Interest: Nanotechnology and Gene Delivery

Tyler Gunn

Honors Undergraduate Researcher (Chemical Engineering)

Research Interest: Vaccine Delivery Vehicles

Amy Rowe

Undergraduate Researcher (Biology)

Research Interest: Gene Delivery and Vaccine Development

Nghia Tran

UI McNair Program Undergraduate researcher (Engineering)

Research Interest: Drug Delivery

Laura Northrup

ICRU Fellow Undergraduate researcher (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)

Research Interest: Self-assembly and Cancer Vaccines

PharmD students