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Biological and Applied Nanotechnology People

Director

Principle Investigator

Jessica Winter is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the Chemical Engineering Technical Operating Council (CTOC) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation at the Boston VA Hospital in 2006. Her research interests include nanoparticles for cancer imaging, diagnostics, and drug delivery; and cell migration in the brain tumor microenvironment. She is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Core Quantum Technologies, a company commercializing nanoparticle reagents for cancer diagnostics. She was named TechColumbus Innovator of the Year, Columbus Business First 40 under 40, and Columbus Business First 20 People to Know in Technology. In addition, she has received the American Physical Society (APS) Five Sigma Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) Rising Star Award and the Engineering DesignNews Golden Mouse Trap Rising Star Award; she was named to Top 25 STEM professors in Ohio; and is a fellow of the AAAS, AIMBE, the RSC, BMES, and AIChE, and senior member of the IEEE.

Lab Members

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Elizabeth Jergens
Elizabeth Jergens
Graduate Researcher
Ms. Jergen's research is focused on the interface of DNA with nanomaterials. She is developing methods to cage nanoparticles using DNA nanostructures for applications in imaging, separations, and energy storage.
Paul Lee
Graduate Researcher
Mr. Lee is developing 3D models to study migration of glioblastoma brain cancer cells. His work is focused on investigating the effects of different tumor microenvironment cues on these migration patterns toward anti-invasion therapies.
Savannah White
Undergraduate Researcher
Ms. White's research investigates migration patterns of breast cancer cells in models that mimic the brain metastatic site.
Jack Reardon
Undergraduate Researcher
Mr. Reardon is developing methods to purify and extract RNA molecules from dirty solutions. Such approaches could enhance single cell RNA genomics and improve sensitivity of infectious disease detection.
Winter group in the lab
Winter group in the lab 2
Dr. Winter showing off our quantum dots
Skylar culturing cells
Nico pipetting
Winter lab at Dave and Busters