People
Aniruddha Adhikari
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (biochemistry)
Email: aniruddhacbe at g.ucla.edu
Irene A. Chen
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
MD, PhD (biophysics)
Email: ireneachen at ucla.edu
Google Scholar, CBE profile, UCLA Profile
Additional affiliations: Chemistry & Biochemistry, Molecular Biology Institute, Bioengineering
Andrew Choi
Graduate Student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Email: c.jongsuk at ucla.edu
Ayanna Kerr
Graduate Student (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Katherine McCarthy
Graduate Student (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Email: katherine9 at g.ucla.edu
Ranajay Saha
Project Scientist
PhD (biophysics)
Email: ranajay11 at ucla.edu
Alex Seder
Graduate Student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Email: sedera1121@ucla.edu
Alberto Vazquez-Salazar
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (evolutionary biology)
Email: albertovazquez at ucla.edu
Shelby Vexler
Graduate Student (Chemistry: Biophysics)
Email: vexler at ucla.edu
Steven Yanxi Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: yanxiyang at g.ucla.edu
Nick Zhang
Graduate Student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Email: nickzhang99 at g.ucla.edu
Ruoxin Zhou
Graduate Student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering MS)
Email: ruoxinzhou at g.ucla.edu
Beatrice Mihalache
Undergraduate Student
Rebecca Lee
Undergraduate Student
Kruthica Dama
Undergraduate Student
Alonzo Valenzuela
Undergraduate Student
Lexis Hsieh
Undergraduate Student
Claire Bilter
Undergraduate Student
Visitors
Celia Blanco
Visiting Scientist; Research Investigator, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
Email: celiablanco at ucla.edu
Alumni
Ruoxin Zhou (Development QA associate, BeOne Medicines Ltd)
Beatrice Mihalache (graduate student, UCSF Biophysics)
Dr. Alberto Vázquez-Salazar (Principal Investigator, Department of Biochemistry, Cinvestav Zacatenco, Mexico)
Diane Kang (Graduate student, Caltech)
Prof. Bo Zhu (Visitor from Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Muadh Elyamani (Undergraduate student, Johns Hopkins)
Samuel Tzeng (Graduate Student, Columbia)
Dr. Josh Kenchel (Scientific Developer, Emerald Cloud Lab)
Dr. Damayanti Bagchi (Engineer, Intel)
Sandy He (undergraduate student, UCLA)
Krishna Burton (Graduate Student, UCSD Bioengineering)
Dr. Huan Peng (Associate Professor, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Dr. Yuning Shen (Research Scientist, ByteDance)
Dr. Yei-Chen Lai (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
Dr. Baoqing Zhou (Scientist, Phaeno)
Dr. Ray Borg (Lecturer, University of Hawaii Maui College)
Dr. Samuel Verbanic (Scientist, 4D Molecular Therapeutics)
Dr. Evan Janzen (Research Scientist, New England Biolabs)
Nadine Wells (Research associate, Orbital Therapeutics)
Kelly Shi (Process Engineer, BillionToOne)
Alanna Stull (Graduate Student, Rice University)
Dr. Claire Tran (Research Scientist, i2o Therapeutics)
Dr. Jen Mobberley (Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Dr. Abe Pressman (National Institute of Standards and Technology, NRC Fellow)
Jeffrey Hall (Lead Scientist, Technical Manufacturing, Abbott Laboratories)
Dr. Colin Kim (Postdoctoral fellow, MIT)
Brandon Malady (Graduate student, UT Austin)
Thomas Nguyen (Consultant, Aarete)
D. Michael Devano (Student, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine)
Allison Tam (Data analyst, Novacoast)
Daniel Chu (MD-PhD Program, U. Wisconsin)
Dr. Shreyas Athavale (Cherokee Christian School, Faculty)
Bradley Spicer (Graduate Student, SOAS University of London)
Ervin Poorghasamians (student; USC)
Dr. Jose Jimenez (Imperial College of London, Faculty)
Dr. Ramon Xulvi-Brunet (Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Ecuador; Professor)
Dr. Rebecca Turk-MacLeod (Scientist, Detect)
Dr. Nikola Ivica (Indura Therapeutics)
Dr. Peter Freese (Software Engineer, Meta)
Dr. Sudha Rajamani (IISER Pune, Professor)
Dr. Kevin Leu (Physician, UCSF)
Dr. Julien Derr (University of Paris 7, Professor)
Dr. Alex Xu (Instructor, Cedars-Sinai)
Dr. Pedro Vera (Physician, Northwestern Medicine)
Dr. Abraham Lin (Physician, Boston Medical Center)
Dr. Laura Villanueva (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Research Scientist)
Dr. Kelley Harris (U. Washington, Professor)
Dr. Isaac Joseph (Affirm, Software Engineer)
Weike Wang (author)
Kezia Alexander (Senior Research Associate, MedStar Health)
2025
Steven at the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
2025
Celebrating Beto, Steven, Ruoxin, and Beatrice!
2024
Bo’s visit
2024 MAC
2024
May 2024
2024 Grad Slam
2023
2022
Dr. Kenchel
Dr. Shen
2018
adenine
2016
micelle
double helix?
