Andy Simnick tel.  (919) 660-5378  fax. (919) 613-9116 office:  3325 CIEMAS

Andy is the lab's head Duke Guru.  He's considered a member of the Krzyzewski Chefs and can frequently been seen on the local news and ESPN waving cooking utensils at opposing basketball teams.  He does lots of drug delivery stuff, ranging from affinity-modulation micelle design to imaging tumor vasculature, and is also proficient at creating bionic mice.

Daniel Callahan

tel.  (919) 660-5391
fax. (919) 660-9116
office:  3325 CIEMAS

Dan is a new father!  He works on pH sensitive ELP design.

Greg Nusz

tel.  (919) 660-5179
fax. (919) 660-9116
office:  3325 CIEMAS

Greg can definitely beat you in soccer so don't even try.  He's also quite the artisan who's constantly refining his skills in such things as surrealism, postimpressionism, primitivism, metalism, and graphic novelism.  In lab he studies the peculiar sensing abilities of single nanoparticles.

Angus Hucknall

tel.  (919) 660-5494
fax. (919) 660-9116
office:  3325 CIEMAS

Angus is so stealthy that some group members don't realize he's a group member.  As such, his research remains top secret.

Sarah Reagan Mac Ewan

tel.  (919) 660-5469
fax. (919) 613-9116
office:  3332 CIEMAS

Sarah is a nationally contending rider of horses and a state champion (Ohio) track runner!  She works on novel ELP designs and drug delivery.

Vinalia Tjong

tel.  (919) 660-5469
fax. (919) 613-9116
office:  3332 CIEMAS

Vina sometimes sings in the lab while she works on functional biomolecular patterning of surfaces.

Wafa Hassouneh

tel.  919-660-5469
fax. (919) 613-9116
office:  3332 CIEMAS

Wafa is generally not a fan of shenanigans, however, she gets super-pumped about working on ELPs.

Miriam Amiram

tel.  (919) 660-5469
fax. (919) 613-9116
office:  3332 CIEMAS

Mira came all the way from Israel to work on ELPs with us!

Jonathan McDaniel

tel.  (919) 660-5469
fax. (919) 613-9116
office:  3332 CIEMAS

Jonathan helps out Ryan with the website and also works on developing novel, time-saving ways to purify ELP.

Felipe Garcia Quiroz

tel.  (919) 660-5469
fax. (919) 613-9116
office:  3332 CIEMAS

Felipe is from Colombia where he studied lots of biomedical engineering as an undergrad.  Since, he's explored more northern territories; stopping first in Michigan to do some patch clamping and then settling here in Durham to return back to his scholarly roots in biomedical engineering.  When he's not biomedical engineering he can be found ripping it up on his guitarra clásica.

Te-Wei Chu

tel.  (919) 660-5268
fax. (919) 613-9116
office:  3309 CIEMAS

Te-Wei is a master's student from Taiwan where, according to Te-Wei, "the best food in the world" exists!  In lab he is extremely proficient at fixing printers as well as studying ELP anti-cancer drug carriers.  He is also a baller and is super excited about the next Duke/Carolina game!  Sometimes Te-Wei goes by "Dennis", so if you find your shot blocked at a pickup game by a "Dennis" from Taiwan, you can be assured that it was also blocked by Te-Wei.  Double Trouble!