Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Joint appointment in Bioengineering, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Deepak Nagrath is an Assistant Professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and holds a joint appointment in the Bioengineering department. He received his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India in 1992, M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 2003. He then conducted postdoctoral studies from 2003-2006 and was a research associate from 2007-2009 at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Burns Hospital.
Email: Deepak.Nagrath@rice.edu
Graduate Students
Bahar Salimian Rizi
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Amirkabir Technology of Tehran, Iran (2010)
Ph.D Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2015)
E-mail: bs13@rice.edu
Joelle Baddour
B.S. Chemical Engineering (2010)
M.S. Bioengineering (2012)
University of Dayton
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering(expected 2016)
E-mail: jb52@rice.edu
Lifeng Yang
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Tianjin University, China (2010)
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2015)
E-mail: ly10@rice.edu
Abhinav Achreja
B.Tech. Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2012)
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2017)
E-mail: aa43@rice.edu
Hongyun Zhao
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Tianjin University, China (2011)
Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2016)
E-mail: hz15@rice.edu
Undergraduate Students
Kevin Chen
B.S. Bioengineering
(expected 2017)
E-mail: kmc9@rice.edu
Seth Padmabandu
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2016)
E-mail: spp2@rice.edu
Mathew Derichsweiler
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2016)
E-mail: mtd42@rice.edu
Katherine Stiles
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2016)
E-mail: kas19@rice.edu
Joseph Ni
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2017)
E-mail: Joseph.Ni@rice.edu
Ryuichi Nakahara
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2017)
E-mail: rn12@rice.edu
Radina Khalid
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2016)
E-mail: radina@rice.edu
Thomas Plackemeier
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2016)
E-mail: tdp2@rice.edu
Lab Alumni
Stephen Wahlig
B.S. Bioengineering, 2015
M.D. program at Duke Univ., School of Medicine
E-mail: sgw1@rice.edu
Xinran Lie
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2015
Graduate student, Caltech
Email: xl26@rice.edu
Nadege Bellance
PhD, Inserm, FranceLisa Pabst
B.S. Chemistry 2012
Rice University
Email: Lisa.M.Pabst@rice.eduTejus Mane
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 2012, Rice University
Email: tejus.mane@rice.edu
Delisa Somoye
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 2012, Rice University
Email: delisa.o.somoye@rice.edu
Aaron Damm
B.S. Chemical Engineering 2010, University of Houston
M.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 2012, Rice University
Rebecca Curtis
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2015
E-mail: rnc2@rice.edu
Pari Shah
B.S. Biochemistry, U. of Houston (expected 2016)
E-mail: pari.shah@rice.edu
Josh Eames-Cepero
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2013)
Email: jea3@rice.eduThasni Karedath
PhD, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India
Senior Research specialist, Weill Cornell Medical Center (Genomics Division).
Email: tk9@rice.eduPrabha Ramakrishnan
B.S. Chemical Engineering 2009, NITK Suratkal
Email: prabharamakrishnan@gmail.com
Alona Bozhchenko
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 2013, Rice University
Email: Alona.I.Bozhchenko@rice.edu
Lisa Jiang
B.S. Bioengineering 2011, Rice University
Currently an Applications Engineer at National Instruments
Email: Lisa.Jiang@rice.edu
Julia Win
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2008
E-mail: jlw4@rice.edu
Christine Caneba
Post-doctoral position at Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Cornell University (2008).
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Rice University (2013)
E-mail: cac@rice.edu
Lisa Chiba
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2016)
Email: lc35@rice.edu
Jordan Harrell
Currently working at Opexa Therapeutics
Jingting Lu (Nicole)
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 2013, Rice University
Email: jingtinglu@gmail.com
Shidong Chen
B.S. Bioengineering 2012, Rice University
Email: Shidong.Chen@rice.edu
Syed Asad Hussain
B.S. Biochemistry 2012, Rice University
Email: sah3@rice.edu
John Cocjin
B.S. Bioengineering (expected 2014), Rice University
Email: john.b.cocjin@rice.edu