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 Mark R Prausnitz

 Professor    

   PhD: MIT        

   B.S: Stanford University

  *prausnitz@gatech.edu

 

    

 

Donna Bondy

 Administrative Coordinator

 *bondy@gatech.edu

 

    Phone: (404) 385-2944

    4 Fax: (404) 894-2291

 

 

 

 

Ying Liu
 Ph.D candidate

 

   MS: Zhejiang University (China)

   BS: Zhejiang University (China)

   *Ying.Liu@chbe.gatech.edu

 

   Ultrasound mediated gene

  transfection of cells

 

    

   

 

  James Norman
 
Ph.D candidate

 

   BS: The University of Texas

   *jnorman3@mail.gatech.edu

 

   Microfabrication of hollow   

  microneedles

 
 

 

Samirkumar R.  Patel   

 Ph.D candidate

 

 BS: University of California at Berkeley

* Samirkumar.Patel@chbe.gatech.edu

 

   Ocular drug delivery using  

  microneedles

 

 

 

Samantha Andrews   

 Ph.D candidate

 

   BS : University of Florida

  *gtg909v@mail.gatech.edu

 

   Microdermabrasion for  

  transdermal drug delivery

 

 

 

 

 

Yoo-Chun Kim   

 Ph.D candidate

 

 BS: Washington State University

 *yoochun.kim@chbe.gatech.edu

 

Ophthalmic drug delivery

    

  

 

Chris Edens
 Ph.D candidate

 

 BS: Univerisut of Texas (Austin)

 *wedens@gatech.edu

 

 

 

 

 

      Aritra Sengupta       Ph.D candidate

 

 BS: IIT KHARAGPUR

*aritrasengupta@gatech.edu

 

Photoacoustic Drug Delivery Using Carbon Nanoparticles

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leonard Yi Chu
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 MS & BS : University of Michigan

 *gtg433v@mail.gatech.edu

 

   Vaccine delivery using 

  dissolvable microneedles

 

 

 

Jeong Woo Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

   BS: Korea University (Korea)

*jwlee@chbe.gatech.edu

 

  Rapidly dissolving microneedle for self administration

 

 

Yeu-Chun Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

  PhD: Georgia Institute of  Technology

  MS: KAIST (Korea)

  BS: Yonsei University (Korea)

  *yckim@chbe.gatech.edu

 

Various influenza vaccination

with coated microneedles

    

  

 

Seong-O Choi

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

  PhD: Georgia Institute of  Technology

  MS: University of Southern California

  BS: Yonsei University (Korea)

 *sc222@mail.gatech.edu

     Electroporation using microneedle array for vaccine delivery

 

 

  Vladimir Zarnitsyn

 Research Scientist II

 

   PhD: Moscow Institute of Physics and  

         Technology, Russia
   LLM: Moscow State University, Russia
   BS/MS: Moscow Institute of Physics and

        Technology, Russia  *vz6@mail.gatech.edu
     
    Vaccination with the use of 

                    microneedles

 

           

 

  Hyo-Jick Choi
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

   PhD: University of Cincinnati

   MS: Yonsei University (Korea)

   BS: Yonsei University (Korea)

 *hyojick.choi@chbe.gatech.edu

 

             Vaccine stability

 

 

 

 

Robyn Schlicher

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 PhD: Georgia Institute of  Technology

 BS: 
           
*rs217@prism.gatech.edu
  

          

 

 

Yasuhiro Hiraishi     Visiting Researcher

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

  

 

 

 

 

Saffar Mansoor

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

   PhD: Sungkyunkwan University (Korea)

   B Pharm/M Phil : Bahauddin Zakariya

                                     University (Pakistan)

 *saffar@gatech.edu

 

       Ocular Drug Delivery Using    

                    Microneedle 
  

          

 

 

         Tanicia Daley           Medical Fellow



  

 

 
 

 

    

 

    Sebastien Henry     Visiting Assistant Professor

          

 

 

           Cetin Tas                       Visiting Researcher

  

 

 
 
   

 

   Graduate Students

 

   Sebastien Henry, MS 1997

       “Microfabricated Device for Transdermal Drug Delivery”

   Jin Liu, MS 1997

       “Ultrasound Mediated Permeabilization of Cell Membranes”

   Paul Canatella, PhD 2000

       “Control and Optimization of Electroporation-Mediated Drug and Gene Delivery”

   Stephen Cochran, MS 2000

       “Sonoluminescence as an indicator of cell membrane disruption by acoustic cavitation”

   Devin McAllister, PhD 2000

       “Microfabricated Microneedles for Transdermal Drug Delivery”

   Robyn Schlicher, MS 2000

       “Size and Lifetime of Transient Cell Membrane Disruptions Created By Acoustic Cavitation”

   Hector Guzman, PhD 2001

       “Cavitation-Mediated Transient Permeabilization of Cell Membranes with Ultrasound”

   Arlena Coulberson, MS 2002

       “Packaging DNA for Delivery to Cells by Electroporation”

   Shawn Davis, PhD 2003

       “Hollow Microneedles for Molecular Transport Across Skin”

   Delfi Krishna, PhD

       “Quantitative Analysis of Targeted Retrovirus Infection” 

   Harold Azencott, MS 2003

       “Influence of the Cell Wall on Intracellular Delivery by Electroporation and Acoustic Cavitation”

   Christina Easley, MS 2003

       “Electrically-Assisted Enhancement of Transdermal Drug Delivery Using Magainin Peptides” 

   Esi Ghartey-Tagoe, PhD 2004          

       “Electroporation-Mediated Delivery of Macromolecules to Intestinal Epithelia”

   Junghwan Park, PhD 2005

      "Polymeric microneedles for transdermal drug delivery"

   Wijaya Martanto, PhD 2005

       "Microinjection into skin using microneedles"

   Robyn K. Schlicher, PhD 2006

       "Mechanisms of Ultrasound-Mediated Bioeffects"

   Daniel Hollow, PhD 2006

       "Measurement and correlation of acoustic cavitation with cellular and tissue bioeffects"

   Ninghao (Jason) Jiang, PhD 2006

       "Ocular Drug Delivery Using Microneedle"

   Harvinder Singh Gill, PhD 2007

       "Coated Microneedles and Microdermabrasion for Transdermal Delivery"

   Yeu-Chun Kim, PhD 2007

       "Transdermal drug delivery enhanced by magainin peptide"

   Joshua Hutcheson, MS 2008

       “Quantification and Control of Ultrasound-Mediated Cell Death Modes”

   Prerona Chakravarty, PhD 2009

       “Photoacoustic drug delivery using carbon nanoparticles activated by femtosecond and nanosecond laser  

        pulses”

   Sean Sullivan, PhD 2009

      "Polymer Microneedles for Transdermal Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals"
   Jeong Woo Lee , PhD 2009
      "Physical enhancement of transdermal drug delivery: polysaccharide dissolving microneedles and micro

       thermal skin ablation"

   Jyoti Gupta, PhD 2009

      "Microneedles for transdermal drug delivery in human subjects"

   Leonard Yi Chu, PhD 2009   

     "Dissolving Microneedles for Cutaneous Drug and Vaccine Delivery"

 

  Postdoctral Fellows and Other Research Associates

 

   Keyvan Keyhani, 1997-1998          David Rudnick, 1997-1998                 Sudhasinee Smitra, 1997-2000

  Jeremy Noonan, 1998-1999           Shilpa Kaushik, 1998-2000                 Ellen Jett, 1999-2000

  Joseph Cooke, 1999-2001             Pavel Kamaev, 2001 - 2004                 Ping Wang, 2001-2004

  Mangesh Deshpande, 2002-2003   Vladimir G. Zarnitsyn,  2002-2005        Angela Phillips Gulino, 2004

  John Bennett, 2004-2005               Jung-Hwan Park, 2004- 2007              Yong-Kyu Yoon, 2005 -2006

  Seong-O Choi, 2008-                     Young Bin Choy, 2007-2009               Robyn Schlicher, 2007-

  Yeu chun Kim, 2008-                     Jeong Woo Lee, 2009-                       Hyo Jick Choi, 2009-

  

 

   

 

 Donald Betah, BS 1998

 David Bonnichsen, BS 1998

 Jeremy Noonan, BS 1998

 Debalina Siddeeq, BS 1998

 Teresa Smith, BS 1998

 Robert Broadnax, BS 1999

 Heather Ledbetter, BS 1999

 Jennifer Mayberry, BS 1999

 Aimee Parsons, BS 1999

 Parul Patel, BS 1999

 Kashif Ahmed, BS 2000

 Christina Cole, BS 2000

 Arthi R. Krishnan, BS 2000

 Nirav Patel, BS 2000

 Janelle Saulter, BS 2000

 Derek Atkinson, BS 2001

 Matthew Black, BS 2001

 Monali Desai, BS 2001

 Conor McKenna, BS 2001

 Daniel Nguyen, BS 2001

 Christopher Cummings, BS 2002

 Edward Green BS 2002

 Sohail Khan, BS 2002

 Sandra Kaye, BS 2002

 Jeremy Morgan, BS 2002

 Lily Tong, BS 2002  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  Zachary Adams, BS 2003

  Stephen Baisch, BS 2003

  Edward Kunkes, BS 2003

  Benjamin Landis, BS 2003

  Andrew MaNamara, BS 2003

  Salman Mian, BS 2003

  Bradley Welchel, BS 2003

  Jason Boyce, BS 2004

  Megan Cornwell, BS 2004

  James Hill, BS 2004

  Nicholas Holiday, BS 2004

  Udi Vermesh, BS 2004

  Justin Ford, BS 2005

  Jillian Martell, BS 2005
  Anuj Mahajan, BS 2005
  Jessica O’Neal, BS 2005
  Jenny Wang, BS 2005
  Michelle Wilson Baglia, BS 2006
  Shane Bechler, BS 2006
  Joshua Hutcheson, BS 2006
  Rachna Kamath, BS 2006
  Osama Kashlan, BS 2006
  Christina Allen Rostad, BS 2006
  Rich Seeger, BS 2006
  Brett Burris, BS 2007
  Jason Moore, BS 2007
  Andria Pate, BS 2007
 

 

  Graham Thorsteinson, BS  

     2006/MS 2007
  Youn Kim, BS 2008
  Abigail Pynn, BS 2006/MS 2008
  Sahaja Bandari, BS candidate
  Aria Behrouzi, BS candidate
  Nicole Devlin, BS candidate
  Steven Edgar, BS candidate
  Erika Gemzer, BS candidate
  Holly Hicks, BS candidate
  Eunhye Jeong, BS candidate
  Anastasia Marchenkova, BS

     candidate
  Sohyun Park, BS candidate
  Chetsi Patel, BS candidate
  Ginger Tsai, BS candidate
  Rantanath Venkataraman, BS  

    candidate
  Pieter Vismans, BS candidate
  Merin Zachariah, BS candidate

  Cory Silva, BS candidate