Members

  • Raiees Andrabi, PhD

    Principal Investigator (raiees.andrabi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: Immunology, Infectious diseases, Viruses, Vaccines, Rational protein engineering, B cell immunology, Antibodies and Glycans

  • Rebecca Nedellec

    Laboratory Manager (rebecca.nedellec@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

  • Anjali Somanathan, PhD

    Postdoctoral fellow (anjali.somanathan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: B cell immunology, Antibody engineering, Vaccine design, Molecular biology

  • Bo Liang, PhD

    Postdoctoral fellow (bo.liang@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: B Cell Immunology, HIV Vaccine Design, Directed Evolution, animal models for HIV vaccine.

  • Rohan Roy Chowdhury, PhD

    Postdoctoral fellow (rohan.roychowdhury@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: B-cell biology, antibody affinity maturation, structure-based immunogen design, protein engineering, structural biology, directed evolution, deep mutational scanning.

  • Yuexiu Zhang, PhD

    Postdoctoral fellow (yuexiu.zhang@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: B cell Immunology, Antibodies, Virology, Vaccinology, Pan-coronavirus Vaccine Design.

  • Jasper Li

    Research Specialist B (jasper.li@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: Protein Engineering, Directed Evolution, B cell Immunology, Antibodies.

  • Khaled Amereh

    Research Specialist A (khaled.amereh@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research Interests: Protein Engineering,  Directed evolution, Immunology, Regenerative Medicine

  • Kyra Zhu

    Research Specialist A (kyra.zhu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: Computational Biology, B cell Immunology, Antibodies, Cell Biology.

  • Lifei Tjio

    Research Specialist A (lifei.tjio@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)

    Research interests: Structural biology, Protein engineering, Host-pathogen interactions, Cell biology, Immunology

Lab Alumni

Prabhgun Oberoi (Undergraduate Researcher) (University of Pittsburg)

Gabriella Giese (Research Specialist) - (Current : Graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder)

Ahn Lina Vo (Research Assistant/Specialist) - (Current : MD student at the University of California San Diego (UCSD))

Gabriel Avillion (Research Assistant) - (Current : Graduate student at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF))

Nitesh Mishra (Post-doctoral fellow) - (Current : Post-doctoral fellow at Scripps Research)

Sean Callaghan (Graduate student) - (Current : Graduate student at Scripps Research)

Katharina Dueker (Graduate student  & post-doctoral fellow) - (Current : Scientist - Takeda Pharmaceuticals)

Panpan Zhou (Post-doctoral fellow) - (Current : Faculty - Shanghai Institute of Virology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Muzamil Makhdoomi (Visiting Scientist) (Assistant Professor at Government Degree College for Women, Srinagar, India)

Ethan Westfall (Undergraduate Researcher) (Current : University of Irvine)

Rami Musharrafieh (Post-doctoral fellow) - (Current : Scientist - Lawrence Livermore National Labs)

Wan-Ting He (Post-doctoral fellow) - (Current : Scientist - Cibus)

Tazio Capozzola (Research Assistant) - (Current : MD student at Loyola University Chicago)

Ge Song (Graduate student & post-doctoral fellow) - (Current : Scientist I - Vir Biotechnology, Inc.)

Fabio Anzanello (Research Assistant) - (Current : Senior Research Associate at Exact Sciences, La Jolla)

Peter Yong (Research Assistant) - (Current : MD/PhD student at University of Washington)

Jonathan Cassell (Research Assistant) - (Current : NA)