I absolutely love what I do! I am an interdisciplinary scientist and engineer at the frontier of the biology of our cells and tissues pushing the envelope on technology development, computational tools, and cell engineering approaches to improve therapies. I feel incredibly fortunate to have the privilege to work alongside a talented and equally interdisciplinary team of lab members, colleagues, collaborators, and students who inspire and drive innovation every day. 

Bio: John completed his postdoctoral training in Garry Nolan's lab at Stanford University, where he used and developed systems biology tools to analyze spatial relationships among cells in tissues. Prior to that, he pursued his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University under the guidance of Dr. Jonathan Schneck and Hai-Quan Mao. During his doctoral studies, he developed magnetic nanoparticles for enriching and expanding rare antigen-specific T cells, as well as the design of hydrogels for adoptive T cell therapy.

Our Fanatastic Group!

Alumni & Next Position

Senior Scientists

Yi-Hsin Lin, MD, PhD - Chief of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Tr-Service General Hospital

Medical Students

Marian Khalil, BS - Medical Student at Northeast Ohio Medical University

Masters Students

Fuyao Li  

Seijung Kim - Engineer

Jiaqi Liu - Research Associate at UT Southwestern

Undergraduate

Shelby Cherkas - PhD Candidate at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Roy Chen - PhD Candidate at University of Pennsylvania

Justin Zhao - PostBac National Institutes of Health

Debosir Ghosh - Epic Systems