MEET THE TEAM

  • KC Mei, PhD

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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  • Vincent Wei, PhD

    POSTDOC
    2024 NSF I-Crops
    2024 SUNY S4

    PhD Pharm. Sci.
    Taipei Medical University

    MS Pharmaceutics
    National Taiwan University

    BScPharm
    Taipei Medical University

  • Reena Jatyan, PhD

    POSTDOC
    PhD Pharm. Sci.
    BITS-Pilani

    MSc Pharm. Biotech.
    Jamia Hamdard


    BScPharm
    UHSR

  • Zitao Ma, MSc

    PHD STUDENT
    Pharm. Sci. 29
    2024 NSF I-Crops
    2024 SUNY S4

    MS Pharmacology & Toxicology
    LIU Brooklyn

    BScPharm
    Xinhua College of Sun Yat-Sen University

  • Arielle Tsai, MSc

    RESEARCH SPECIALIST
    2024 NSF I-Crops
    2024 SUNY S4

    MSc Clinical Pharmacy
    University College London, UK

    BScPharm
    Taipei Medical University

  • Evelyn Chang

    BS Neuroscience 25
    |PSYC397|BIOL497/498|

  • Shotaro Odaka

    BS Biochem 25
    |BCHM497|

  • Shannon Wodicka

    BA Biology 25
    |BIOL497|

  • Damian Zhao

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Sherman Yen

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Maeko Plotena

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Joseph Galperin

    BS Biochem 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Sophia Kladias

    BS Biological Chemistry 26
    |BCHM497|

  • Shivani Manimaran

    BS Biochem 27
    |BCHM497|

  • Amira Castillo

    BS Biology 27
    |BIOL497|

  • Mia Chen

    BS Biochem 27

  • MEI Lab Jan 2025

    Jan 2025

    Busy working on primary cell isolation and immune analysis!

    Maeko, Sherman, Vincnet, Reena, Zitao

  • Dec 2024

    End-of-year dinner after our last lab meeting of 2024
    Zitao, Reena, Vincent, KC

  • July 2024

    We are celebrating our first NIH grant - and the successful completion of a new in vivo experiment.

  • June 2024

    Attending the annual Cell and Gene Therapy conference in Philidephilia

    Ziitao, Yuanjun, Arian, Mei, Arielle, Yuli, Vincent

  • May 2024

    Jo, Sherman, Arian, Willis, Aarnav
    Arianna, Sho
    Sunny, Greshma,
    Sri, Maeko, Vincent
    Katelyn, Shannon, Evelyn
    (Missing: Yuanjun, Shivani, Moe & Tylor)
    *Nagasri, Greshma, Sunny, and Arianna are graduating from BU
    **     Katelyn is entering the PharmD program at Binghamton University

  • June 2023

    Willis (back), Nagasri Moe (blue coat), James, Katelyn, and Evelyn (front)

Alumni

SUNY Binghamton

Postdoc
Pu-Sheng (Vincent) Wei, PhD ⇨ Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University

MSc Student
Nagasri (Sri) Thota | MS Pharm. Sci. 24 ⇨ Scientist II, Parexel/Merck, Philadelphia ⇨ Scientist, Alta Sciences, Seattle

Undergraduate Research Assistants
Class of 2027
Shivani Manimaran | BS Biochem 27
Amira Castillo | BS Biology 27
Mia Chen | BS Biochem 27

Class of 2026
Maeko Plotena | BS Biochem 26
Sherman Yen | BS Biochem 26
Joseph Galperin | BS Biochem 26
Damian Zhao | BS Biochem 26
Sophia Kladias | BS Biol. Chem. 26

Class of 2025
Shotaro Odaka | BS Biochem 25 ⇨
Shannon Wodicka | BA Biology 25 ⇨ PharmD, SUNY Buffalo
Evelyn Chang | BS Neuroscience 25 ⇨ PhD Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, U Florida
Tyler Friedlander | BS Biochem 25 ⇨ PhD Med Chem & Mol. Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Purdue
Moe Fakhri | BS Chemistry 25 ⇨
Aarnav Gharse | BS Neuroscience 25 ⇨ MD, Rutgers NJMS

Class of 2024
Arianna Anderson | BS Biology 24 ⇨ RA, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Amor Lab)
Katelyn Woo | BA Biochem 25 ⇨ PharmD, SUNY Binghamton 28
Sunjae (Sunny) Lee | BS Biochem 24 ⇨ RA, Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine (Béguelin Lab)
Greshma John | BS Neuroscience 24 ⇨ Mount Sinai

Yuanjun Wang | BCHM497 | Fall 2023 - Summer 24 |
Arian Rahman | PSYC397 | Fall 23 - Summer 24 |
Willis Ng | BCHM497 | Fall 22 - Spring 24 |
Jeffery Purnomo | Fall 22, Sprinzg 23, Fall 23 |
Allen Ni | BCHM497 | Spring 23, Fall 23 |

Summer Intern
James Johnson | ANTH595 | MS Biomed Anthropology 24 (via the Fleishman Center Internship Fund)

PharmD
Kahaan Shah, PharmD 28
Mariya Khan, PharmD 26
Cierra Girardi, PharmD 26
Nikki Crowley, PharmD 26
Akeile Smith, PharmD 26

UCLA

Undergraduate Research Assistants
Mercedeh Khazaieli | BS Biophys ⇨ MS, Duke ⇨ MD, CUSM
Michelle Chiang | BS MCDB ⇨ DDS, School of Dentistry, UCLA
Branda Melano | BS MCDB ⇨ Ph.D., School of Pharmacy, UCSF (Sweed-Cordero Lab)