Translational Protein Therapeutics Lab

Undergraduate Researcher Justin Mirazee awarded ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship and URF Fellowship

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Justin Mirazee, Undergraduate Researcher, was awarded the ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship to assist research in Dr. Sai Reddy’s lab at ETH-Zürich for Summer 2018. Justin will be learning how to use CRISPR-Cas9 to modify antibody expression in murine hybridoma cell lines and engineer other complex proteins such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) for immunotherapy.

In addition, Justin was awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) from UT Austin to support the T-cell Fc gamma receptor project with Wissam Charab.

Congratulations, Justin!

Dr. Everett Stone Named Emerging Inventor of the Year

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Congratulations to Dr. Everett Stone, Emerging Inventor of the Year!

On November 2, 2017, the UT Austin Office of Technology Commercialization hosted the 7th Annual Inventor Award Ceremony & Reception. The prestigious Inventor of the Year Award, honors a researcher whose discoveries have made a significant impact, and the Emerging Inventor of the Year Award, acknowledges a researcher who has made substantial contributions early in their career.

https://cns.utexas.edu/news/stone-named-emerging-innovator-of-the-year?

 

Undergraduate Researcher Justin Mirazee wins a Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Best Presentation Award!

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Congratulations to Undergraduate Researcher Justin Mirazee who recently won the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Award for Best Presentation in his Session. Justin is working with Graduate Researcher Wissam Charab and Undergraduate Researcher Matthew Rosenbeger.

The Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium is a chance for students to present a highlight reel of their research at UT to underscore the importance of academic involvement for undergraduates.

Dr. Georgiou Delivers Prestigious Global Distinguished Lecture at KAIST

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Dr. Georgiou was selected to deliver the Prestigious 2017 Global Distinguished Lecture in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST.

His lecture Discovery, Preclinical and Clinical Development of Therapeutic Treatment for Cancer Therapy focused on the pioneering methods he has developed to engineer therapeutic enzymes capable of degrading specific amino acids related to disease pathology, studies that have led to one protein therapeutic that is currently being evaluated in 3 Phase I clinical trials and two preclinical stage therapeutics that will enter human trials in 2018. In addition, he discussed his development of improved therapeutic antibodies that have been engineered for enhanced killing of target pathogenic cells and other properties that are critical for the pharmacology of antibody drugs.

His lecture What’s in your Blood? Molecular Analysis of the Serum Antibody Repertoire for Developing Better Vaccines and Therapeutics discussed the diverse ensemble of antibody proteins (immunoglobulins) that circulate in all physiological fluids and play a central role in protection against disease. His lab has developed an integrated technology workflow that combines high mass accuracy LC-MS/MS proteomics, with microfluidics and bioinformatics tools for the molecular-level deconvolution of the identities, relative amounts and functions of antibodies in human blood and also for the delineation of the relationships between antibody production and the relevant B cell immunological mechanisms.

About “The KAIST CBE Global Distinguished Lectureship”
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST proudly presents the 7th KAIST CBE Global Distinguished Lectureship series. The lectureship is an annual event in which an internationally leading researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at a foreign institution is selected and invited to give a series of lectures. The lectures are open to students and faculty as well as alumni and friends. The visiting lecturer, in addition to giving the seminars on recent trends and advances in his / her field is asked to participate in informal discussions with KAIST faculty and students.

Previous lecturers include Bill Koros (GT), Manfred Morari (ETH), Gregory Stephanopoulos (MIT), Rakesh Agrawal (Purdue), and Ignacio Grossmann (CMU).

While visiting Korea, Dr. Georgiou was delighted to reconnect with several Georgiou Lab Alumni.

Left to Right: Assoc. Prof. Ki Jun Jeong (KAIST), Assoc. Prof. Tae Hyeon Yoo (Ajou Univ.), Dr. George Georgiou, Asst. Prof. Xin Ge (UC Riverside), Assoc. Prof. Sang Taek Jung (Kookmin Univ.), Dr. Tae Hyun Kang (Sr. Researcher, CJ HealthCare), Dr. Daechan Park (Sr. Research Scientist, KIST).

Undergraduate Researcher Anirudh placed in the top 3 of his division in the SEC PEER Poster Exhibition

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Anirudh is a third-year undergraduate working in Dr. John Blazeck’s team to engineer an enzyme for a cancer immunotherapy. He placed first among upperclassmen in the annual Student Engineering Council Poster Exhibition on Engineering Research. His poster, titled “Directed evolution of an enzyme to fight cancer immune suppression,” outlines the team’s protein engineering techniques to develop a protein to degrade kynurenine, an immunosuppressive molecule synthesized by 11+ types of cancer.

Congratulations, Anirudh!

Graduate Researcher Matthew Bonem has been awarded the Helmsley Fellowship to attend the Cold Spring Harbor Metabolomics course this summer. Congratulations, Matthew!

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Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology. Home to eight Nobel Prize winners, the private, not-for-profit Laboratory employs 1,100 people including 600 scientists, students and technicians. The Meetings & Courses Program hosts more than 12,000 scientists from around the world each year on its campuses in Long Island and in Suzhou, China. The Laboratory’s education arm also includes an academic publishing house, a graduate school and programs for middle and high school students and teachers.

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Previous Post-Doctoral Fellows, Research Associates, and Visiting Scientists:

Name Position Dates Next Adventure
Dr. Juyeon Park Postdoctoral Fellow 08/2024-01/2026 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Scripps Research Institute
Dr. Winnie Pickens Postdoctoral Fellow 01/2025-10/2025
Dr. H. Edward Satterwhite Sr. Research Scientist 12/2021-08/2025 Retired
Dr. Daechan Park Visiting Professor 09/2024-08/2025 Assoc. Professor, Ajou University, S. Korea
Dr. Sanghee Ki Visiting Scholar 09/2024-08/2025 Principal Scientist, Samsung Bioepis, S. Korea
Daeun Kim Visiting Scholar 09/2024-08/2025 Ph.D. Candidate, Ajou University, S. Korea
Dr. Sang Taek Jung Visiting Professor 09/2023-08/2024 Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Sci., Korea Univ., S. Korea
Eric McKnight Research Technician 03/2022-04/2024 IT Development
Dr. Jie Li Research Technician 11/2017-0/2022 Senior Scientist, Fortis Life Sciences, Houston, TX
Jessica Kain, M.S. Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III 09/2019-05/2022 Medical School
Kendra Garrison Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III 09/2012-10/2021 Scientist, Molecular Templates
Candice Lamb, M.S. Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III 06/2009-09/2021 Senior Associate, Translational Sciences, Amicus Therapeutics
Dr. Hidetaka Tanno Research Associate Postdoctoral Fellow 07/2018-02/2021 07/2013-06/2018 Assistant Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
Yuri Tanno Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III 06/2015-02/2021 Research Scientist, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Jiwon Jung Postdoctoral Fellow 12/2019-05/2020 Scientist, Merck, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Chang-Han Lee Research Associate 03/2013-01/2020 Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Dr. Jonathan McDaniel Postdoctoral Fellow 11/2013-12/2017 Principal Scientist, Pfizer, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Andrew Horton Postdoctoral Fellow 05/2017-07/2019 Self Employed
Kyle Ford Research Technician 01/2017-08/2017 Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Dr. Jiwon Lee Postdoctoral Fellow 01/2017-07/2019 Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Dr. Wei-Cheng Lu Postdoctoral Fellow 06/2014-07/2019 Protein Engineer, Arbor Technologies, Boston, MA
Dr. Wissam Charab Postdoctoral Fellow 09/2018-12/2018 T-cell Scientist, Juno Therapeutics, Seattle, WA
Dr. Matthew Bonem Postdoctoral Fellow 01/2019-02/2019 Scientist, KBI Biopharma, Durham, NC
Dr. Christos Karamitros Postdoctoral Fellow 03/2016-01/2019 Senior Scientist, Aeglea Biotherapeutics, Austin, TX
Dr. John Blazeck Postdoctoral Fellow 09/2013-12/2018 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
William Voss Research Engineering/Scientist Associate II 10/2016-08/2018 Graduate Student, Molecular Biosciences, UT Austin
Dr. Joseph Dekker Research Associate 03/2016-08/2018 Director, Immunotherapy, Molecular Templates, Austin, TX
Dr. Erik Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow 02/2018-04/2018 Data Scientist II, Epic Systems, Madison, WI
Catrina Somody Research Engineering/Scientist Associate II 01/2017-06/2018 Scientist, Aeglea Biotherapeutics, Austin, TX
Dr. Yoichi Kumada Visiting Scientist 01/2017-11/2017 Assoc. Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
Dr. Oana Lungu Postdoctoral Fellow 03/2012-05/2017 Staff Scientist, Bioinformatics, Signature Sciences, Austin, TX
Dr. Makiko Watanabe Research Associate 03/2015-10/2017 Assistant Research Scientist, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
Dr. Sebastian Schaetzle Postdoctoral Fellow 06/2012-05/2017 Senior Scientist, Alchemab Therapeutics
Dr. Tae Hyun Kang Postdoctoral Fellow 01/2014-12/2016 Assistant Professor, Kookmin University
Dr. Jason Lavinder Research Associate 10/2009-07/2016 Research Associate, UT Austin
Dr. Daechan Park Postdoctoral Fellow 06/2011-06/2016 Assistant Professor, Ajou University
Dr. Shira Cramer Postdoctoral Fellow 06/2017-08/2017 Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Constantine Chrysostomou Postdoctoral Fellow 06/2014-12/2016 Research Scientist, Bluebird Bio
Jonathan Huang Research Technician
B.Sc. Wash. U., Physics		 09/2015-05/2016 Researcher, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr. Nicholas Marshall Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Chemistry		 03/2012–06/2015 Group Leader in Protein Engineering, Invenra, Madison, WI
Dr. Ellen Murrin Research Technician
B.Sc. Cornell U., Bioengineering		 10/11-06/15 Doctor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Falsl Church, VA
Megan Wirth Research Technician
B.Sc. U.C. Carolina, Biology		 05/12-12/15 Marketing Associate, Sartorius AG
Dr. Moses Donkor Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. MSKCC, Immunology		 8/12-12/15 Staff Scientist, Incyte Inc, Alapocas, DE
Dr. Yariv Wine Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University, Israel		 09/10-08/14 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Takaashi Kojima Visiting Scientist
Ph.D. Nagoya Univerity, Japan		 03/12-09/12 Asst. Professor, Biotechnology, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Christos Karamitros Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Biophysical Chemistry, Max Plank Institute		 06/12-09/12 Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Austin
Dr. Sang Taek Jung Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., UT Austin		 05/11-08/12 Assoc. Professor, Korea University
Dr. Tae Hyun Yoo Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Cal Tech		 05/08-07/11 Professor, Ajou Univ. Applied & Biological Chemistry
Dr. Sai Reddy Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland		 11/08-06/10 Asst. Professor, ETH, Zurich
Dr. Supriya Pai Research Associate
Ph.D. Microbiology, UT Austin		 05/10-11/11 Associate, SAI Medical Partners, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Marsha Lewis Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, UT Austin		 05/10-05/11 Instructor, School of Biological Sciences, UT Austin
Dr. Mridula Rani Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D.,Molecular Biology, UT Austin		 01/10-05/11 Scientist, Theranos, Palo Alto, CA
Dr. Xin Ge Research Associate
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, McMaster Univ., Canada		 09/08-06/10 Asst. Professor, UC Riverside, Chemical Engineering
Dr. Seung Hyun Kang Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine		 08/09-02/11 Research Engineer, LG Life Sciences, Daejeon, Korea
Dr. Silvia Arredondo Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, UT Austin		 02/10-05/10 Postdoctoral Fellow, NIAID/NIH
Dr. Tomohiro Makino Visiting Scientist 05/09-05/10 Senior Scientist, Asubio Pharmaceuticals, Japan
Dr. Jack Borrok Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin		 07/07-05/10 Scientist, MedImmune, MD
Dr. George Skretas Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Princeton		 06/06-06/09 Research Assistant Professor, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Dr. Yariv Mazor Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Tel Aviv University		 01/06-01/09 Scientist, MedImmune, MD
Dr. Ki Jun Jeong Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., KAIST, Korea		 09/02-08/05              10/05-06/08 Asst. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, KAIST, Taejon, Korea
Dr. Bum-Yeol Hwang Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Seoul National Univ.		 08/04-04/08 Research Associate, UC Berkeley
Dr. Lluis Masip Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, UT Austin		 09/06-05/07 Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Universitat Tarragona, Spain
Dr. Vasso Skouridou Postdoctoral Fellow 01/05-05/07 Research Asst Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Tarragona, Spain
Dr. Jamie Link Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Caltech		 08/05-07/07 Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Princeton, NJ
Dr. Karl Griswold Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemistry & Biochemistry, UT Austin		 08/05-05/07 Assoc. Professor, School of Engineering, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Dr. Philip Lee Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Microbiology, John Innes Inst., UK		 01/04-09/06 Senior Scientist, Saphire Energy, CA
Dr. Robert Mabry Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Biochemistry, UT Austin		 08/05-01/06 Senior Scientist, Adimab, Hanover, NH
Dr. Arti Pothukuchy Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, India		 11/04-05/05 Research Scientist, Accacia International, Austin,TX
Dr. Barrett Harvey Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, UT Austin		 01/04-08/04 Asst. Professor, Dept of Molecular Medicine, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX
Dr. Yasuaki Kawarasaki Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, Nagoya U., Japan		 07/02-07/04 Assoc. Professor, Genetic Engineering, Shizuoka U., Shizuoka, Japan
Dr. Edgardo Farinas Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemistry, U. Illinois- Chicago		 05/03-07/04 Assoc. Professor, Department of Chemistry, NJ Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Dr. Andrew Hayhurst Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., National Inst for Medical Research, UK		 09/98-12/03 Assoc. Scientist, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research & Adjunt Professor, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
Dr. Matt P. Delisa Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., U. Maryland		 01/01-06/03 Assoc. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Dr. Kitty Braat Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Uttracth		 11/00-10/02 Principal Scientist, Symbiogen, Netherlands
Dr. Eva Strauch Exchange Student
Ph.D. student, U. Wurzburg, Germany		 10/01-07/02 Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Washington
Zephyr Koch Research Assistant 05/01-05/02 unknown
Dr. Patrik Samuelson Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Royal Inst. Of Technology, Sweden		 09/99-12/01 Assoc. Professor, Dept of Biotechnology, Royal Inst. Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Scott Happe Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., St. Louis Univ.		 04/99-4/01 Sr. Scientist, Stratagene, Austin, TX
Dr. Gang Chen Research Scientist
Ph.D. UT Austin		 05/97-06/00 Sr. Scientist, Pfizer, San Diego, CA
Dr. Richard Loo Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., U. Tronto		 05/97-06/00 Co-founder, Vive Nano, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Laura Segatori Exchange Student
Ph.D. student, U. Bologna, Italy		 06/99-05/00 Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Rice Univ., Houston, TX
Dr. Michael Cieslewitz Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., U. Illinois		 05/97-02/99 Group Leader, GSK, Chapel Hill, NC
Eileen Fehskens Research Scientist
M.S. Yale		 08/97-05/99 Self employed
Dr. Hua Zhang Postdoctoral Fellow 11/96-9/98 unknown
Anna Maria Caruana Research Associate
M.S.., U. of Malta, Malta		 03/98-10/98 Research Assocaite, University College, London, England
Dr. Jose Cotto Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Northwestern U.		 08/97-08/98 Research Scientist, Abbott Labs, Puerto Rico
Dr. Amihay Freeman Visiting Professor 10/95-5/96 Professor, Dept of Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Pascal Valax Research Associate
Ph.D. UT Austin		 01/95-11/96 Director of Bioprocessing, Merck-Serono, Vevey, Switzerland
Dr. Patricia Phelps Research Associate
Ph.D.,		 10/90-08/93 Instructor, Biology, Austin Community College, Austin, TX

Previous Graduate Students:

Name, Dissertation Date Next Adventure
Jeffrey Marchioni, Ph.D.: “Elucidating Properties of the Plasma Antibody Repertoire Response Following Erythocytic-Stage Malaria Vaccination and Infection” 11/2025 Post-Doctoral Fellow @ UT Austin
Dalton Towers, Ph.D.: “Polyreactivity, Polarization and Developability Features of the Vaccine Elicited IgG Serological Repertoire” 05/2025 Post-Doctoral Fellow @ NYU, Dept of Pathology
Winnie Pickens, Ph.D.: “Clonal Overlap and Discordance of the IgG and IgA Serological Repertoires Following Influenza Vaccination” 11/2024
Katia George, Ph.D.: “Clarifying the precise effector phenotypes elicited upon engagement of FcγRI or FcγRIIa by monocytes and macrophages using engineered Fc domains” 09/2024 Associate, McKinsey & Company, Boston, MA
William N. Voss, Ph.D.: “Molecular Characterization of Serological Antibody Responses to Viral and Parasitic Disease Vaccination and Infection” 08/2024 Post-Doctoral Fellow @ UT Austin
Juyeon Park, Ph.D.: “Deconvolution of the Antigen-Specific Serum Antibody Repertoire Following Influenza or Norovirus Vaccination” 08/2024 Post-Doctoral Fellow @ UT Austin
Jin-Eyun Kim, Ph.D.: “Identification of the Effector Phenotypes Triggered by Engagement of FcγRIIb in B cells” 12/2023 Scientist, Astra Zeneca, Rockville MD
Foteini Bartzoka, Ph.D.: “Facets of Receptor Signaling and Anti-viral Receptor Humoral Responses” 08/2022
Jule Goike, Ph.D.: “Methods in Antibody Discovery” 05/2022 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Texas Methodist Hospital
George Delidakis, Ph.D.: “Engineering Antibody Fc Domains to Study and Improve Myeloid Cell Effector Function” 12/2021 Research Scientist II, Gilead, Foster City CA
Ebru Cayir-Cengiz, Ph.D.: “Engineering of Human Enzymes for Amino Acid Depletion Therapy in Cancer” 07/2021 Scientist, Generate Biomedicines, Somerville, MA
Donjeta Gjuka, Ph.D.: “Enzyme-mediated Methylthioadenosine Depletion as a Novel Immune Checkpoint Therapy” 03/2021 Scientist, Cell Therapy Innovation and Discovery, Takeda Oncology, Cambridge, MA
Norah Ashoura, Ph.D.
“The Force Awakens: Exploring and Translating the Role of Kynurenine in Tumor Tolerance”		 08/2020 Scientist, Immunotherapy, Elevate BIO, Cambridge MA
Jiwon Jung, Ph.D.
“Proteomic Analysis of Antibody Repertoire to Influenza and Engineering a Bifunctional Fc for Cancer Therapeutics”		 11/2019 Scientist, Merck, San Francisco, CA
Matthew Bonem, Ph.D.
“Development of Human Enzyme Therapeutics and the Tools for their Engineering”		 11/2018 Research Engineer, KBI BioPharma, Durham NC
Wissam Charab, Ph.D.
“In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization of Fc-Receptor Expression
and Function on Various Immune Cell Subsets”		 08/2018 Senior Scientist, Juno Therapeutics
Erik Johnson, Ph.D.
“Characterizing the Maturation Routes of HIV-Neutralizing Antibodies Using Intronic Mutations”		 12/2017 Technical Services Analyst Team Lead at Epic
Shira Cramer, Ph.D.
“Engineering and Validation of a Human Cyst(e)ine Degrading Enzyme as a Novel Cancer Therapeutic”		 05/2017 Scientist II, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Bo Wang, Ph.D.
“High-throughput Analysis of Native Antibody Repertoires for Therapeutics Discovery” (co-supervised with A.D. Ellington)		 12/16 Scientist I, Medimmune, MD
Jiwon Lee, Ph.D.
“The molecular-level characterization of the serum antibody repertoire to influenza”		 12/2016 Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, NH
Scott Kerr, Ph.D.
“Trade-offs in New World Arenaviruses and Discovery of Antibodies against Ebola Virus and Norovirus”		 07/2016 Senior Product Manager, Research Instruments
Giulia Agnello, Ph.D.
“Development of Human Enzymes for Amino Acid Depletion Therapy”		 04/2016 Director, Protein Engineering & Biochemistry at Aeglea BioTherapeutics
Brandon DeKosky, Ph.D.
“Decoding the Antibody Repertoire: High-throughput Sequencing of Multiple Transcripts form Single B Cells”		 12/2014 Assistant Professor at MIT and The Ragon Institute/MGH
Kam Hon Hoi, Ph.D.
“Global Survey of the Immunoglobulin Repertoire Using Next Generation Sequencing”		 12/2014 Scientist (Antibody Engineering/Bioinformatics) at Genentech, Inc.
Tae Hyun Kang, Ph.D.
“Fc Engineering for the Reprogramming of the Effector Functions of Antibodies for Improved Therapeutic Potency”		 12/2013 Assistant Professor at Kookmin University
Erik Quandt, Ph.D.
“Genetic and Biocehmical Dissection of Complex Evolved Traits in Bacteria”		 08/2014 Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Olga Paley, Ph.D.
“Engineering a Novel Human Methionine Degrading Enzyme as a Broadly Effective Cancer Therapeutic		 08/2014 Director, Head mAb Derived Biologics Process Development at Takeda
Constantine Chrysostomou, Ph.D.
“Addressing Intrinsic Challenes for next Generation Sequencing of Immunoglobulin Repertoirse”		 06/2014 Computational biologist
Sean Carroll, Ph.D.
“Antibody Engineering for Complement Inhibition Therapy”		 08/2012 Vice President at Seranova Bio
Mark Pogson, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised with B.L. Iverson)
“Novel Approaches Towards Engineering Therapeutic Proteases”		 05/2012 Director, Oncology Research, 2seventy Bio
William Kelton, Ph.D.
“Engineering Antibody Fc Domains for Improved Therapeutic Function”		 12/2013 Lecturer, Waikito University
Mark Gebhard, Ph.D.
“Novel High Throughput Methods for the Engineering of Hydrolases”		 05/2011 Production Manager at Cellecta, Inc.
Haixin Li, Ph.D.
“Protease Engineering in E.Coli“		 12/2012 Partner at Hospital Internists Of Texas
Jason Cantor, Ph.D.
“Novel Strategies Towards Engineering Therapeutic Enzymes with Reduced Immunogenicity for Cancer Therapy”		 12/2012 Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Li Zhou, Ph.D.
“Mechanistic Analysis of Selective Inhibition of RNA Processing in E.coli“		 08/2010 Senior Scientist at Zai Lab US LLC
Marsha Lewis, Ph.D.
“Engineering Peptide Detection and Allosteric Activation”		 05/2012 Research Manager at Green and Grow, Inc.
Karthik Veeravalli, Ph.D.
“Engineering of De Novo Pathways for Biosynthesis of Glutathione Analogues in E.coli“		 05/2012 Principal Engineer, Genentech
Mridula Rani, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson)
“Engineering Antibodies for Pathogen Neutralization and Detection”		 12/2009 Consultant
Sang Taek Jung, Ph.D.
“Engineering og Agylcosylated Antibody Fc for Effector Functions”		 08/2009 Assoc. Professor, Kookmin University, Bioengineering Dept., S. Korea
Tom Van Blarcom, Ph.D.
“Antibody Discovery and Engineering Using the Anchored Periplasmic Expression (APEx) E.coli“		 06/2009 Executive Director, Head of Protein Engineering and Research Operations at Allogene Therapeutics
Silvia Arredondo, Ph.D.
“Engineering and Characterization of Disulfide Bond Isomerases inE.coli“		 05/2009 Protein and Molecular Biology Scientist, Janssen
Clinton E. Leysath, Ph.D.
“Structure and Engineering of Antibodies to the Protective Antigen of theB. Anthracis Toxin”		 08/2008 Program Director at The University of Texas at Austin
Min-Jeong Seo, Ph.D.
“Development of Screening Systems for Optimizing the Expressionof Antibodies in E.coli“		 08/2008 Management Consultant, Capital Management, Seoul, S. Korea
Eva-Maria Strauch, Ph.D.
“Characterization and Application of the Twin Arginine Transporter (TAT) Pathway for Protein Secretion)”		 12/2007 Assistant Professor at University of Georgia
Christian Cobaugh, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson)
“Single Scaffold Antibody Libraries Created with High Rates of Mutagenesis or Diversity Focused for Peptide Recognition”		 12/2007 Chief Executive Officer & Founder at Vernal Biosciences
Meng Zhao, Ph.D.
“The Role of RNase E Inhibitors RraA and RraB ont he Degradation of RNA in Bacteria”		 05/2007 Data Scientist at Climate LLC
Navin Varadarajan, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson)
“Engineering Substrate Selectivity in the Protease OmpT”		 12/2006 Assoc. Professor, Chemical Engineering Dept, Univ. of Houston
Brian Ribnicky, Ph.D.
“Engineering Protein Function and Expression by Flow Cytometry”		 12/2006 Senior Director of Engineering, Dynavax
Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Ph.D.
“The Twin Arginine Transporter (TAT) Pathway of E.coli“		 12/2006 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University
Lluis Masip, Ph.D.
“Engineering of Novel Pathways for Protein Oxidation”		 08/2006 Asst. Professor, Universitat Tarragona (Rovira I Virgilli), Spain
Robert Mabry, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson)
“Engineering Therapeutic Antibody Fragments Targeting the Antrax Toxin”		 08/2005 Chief Scientific Officer at Orna Therapeutics, Inc.
Junjun Gao, Ph.D.
“Functional and Structural Studies of Proetin Inhibitors of RNase E activity that Globally Modulate mRNA abundance in E.coli“		 08/2005 Senior Associate Director, Boehringer Ingelheim
Rozamond Sweeney, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson)
“Biological Approaches to Synthesis and ASsembly of Semiconductor and Metallic Nanomaterials”		 08/2005 Biotech Equities Research
Laura Segatori, Ph.D.
“Structure, Function and Engineering of Disulfide Bond Isomerization in E.coli“		 08/2005 Associate Professor at Rice University
Karl Griswold, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson)
“Engineering Highly Active Enzymes with Altered Substrate Selectivities”		 08/2005 Executive Director Biologics Research, Insmed Incorporated
Raphael Levy, Ph.D.
“Enhancement of Antibody Fragments Expression in E.coli: Innovative Cytoplasmic Screening Approaches”		 05/2004 Associate Director at Bristol Myers Squibb
Jongsik Gam, Ph.D.
(Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson)
“Toward High Throughput Directed Evolution of Protease Specificity Using Flourescence Activated Sorting”		 05/2004 Research Associate, KRIBB, Korea