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Mark R Prausnitz
Professor
PhD: MIT
B.S: Stanford University
Donna Bondy
Administrative Coordinator
☎ Phone: (404) 385-2944
4 Fax: (404) 894-2291
Ying Liu
Ph.D candidate
MS: Zhejiang University (China)
BS: Zhejiang University (China)
Ultrasound mediated gene
transfection of cells
James Norman
Ph.D candidate
BS: The University of Texas
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
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
Photoacoustic Drug Delivery Using Carbon Nanoparticles
Leonard Yi Chu
Postdoctoral Fellow
MS & BS : University of Michigan
Vaccine delivery using
dissolvable microneedles
Jeong Woo Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
BS: Korea University (Korea)
Rapidly dissolving microneedle for self administration
Yeu-Chun Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology
MS: KAIST (Korea)
BS: Yonsei University (Korea)
Various influenza vaccination
with coated microneedles
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Seong-O Choi
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology
MS: University of Southern California
BS: Yonsei University (Korea)
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 andTechnology, Russia *vz6@mail.gatech.edu
Vaccination with the use ofmicroneedles
Hyo-Jick Choi
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: University of Cincinnati
MS: Yonsei University (Korea)
BS: Yonsei University (Korea)
Vaccine stability
Robyn Schlicher
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology
Yasuhiro Hiraishi Visiting Researcher
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Saffar Mansoor
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Sungkyunkwan University (Korea)
B Pharm/M Phil : Bahauddin Zakariya
University (Pakistan)
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 microthermal 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, BScandidate
Sohyun Park, BS candidate
Chetsi Patel, BS candidate
Ginger Tsai, BS candidate
Rantanath Venkataraman, BScandidate
Pieter Vismans, BS candidate
Merin Zachariah, BS candidateCory Silva, BS candidate