People
Current Group Members
Alice van der Ende
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Alice is a graduate student from British Columbia and started in 2006 from British Columbia, Canada.
She received her bachelor's degree from Trinity Western University, BC, Canada and her research pioneered the preparation of “nanosponges” for the delivery of chemotherapeutics to cancer.
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Julia Meyer
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Julia received her B.S. 2007, from Convenant College, Chattanooga, TN and her M.S. in 2009 from Vanderbilt University. She works as an Research Assistant and is interested in the development of star polymer architectures for imaging and in vitro testing of drug delivery systems. |
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Artez Sims
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Artez graduated from Savanna State University and started his graduate studies in 2008 at Vanderbilt. He is investigating dendritic molecular transporter molecules in its efficacy to form bioconjugates and their transport activity of bioactive cargo into infected cells. |
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Jameson “Jamey” Harell
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Jamey graduated from Mercier University and started in 2009. His research explores novel methodologies to prepare polyester-based nanosponges and especially the delivery of molecules with low bioavailability. |
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Ghazal Hariri
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Ghazal is a graduate student in the Chemical and Physical Biology Program (CPBP) and received her M.S. from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt in 2009. Her research focuses on the drug delivery systems towards cancer in in vivo models. |
David Stevens
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David graduated from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX in 2009 with a double major in Chemistry and Biochemistry. He just started as a CPB graduate student in the Pharmacology Department (2010) and is working on polyester based delivery systems. | |
Undergraduate Students
- Sam Wiener
- Jared Kat
- Brian Mayrsohn
- Jenna Donavan
- Scott Brown
- Vasanth Sathiyakumar (honors thesis)
Alumni
Graduates
- Kui Huang: moved back to Chicago and started family
- Mitchell Cohen: graduate student 2006-2007
- Hubert Muchalski: visiting research scientist June 2006-Jan 2007

Teresa Croce, Ph.D. Defended in July 2009: current position:
Staff Fellow at the FDA as CSO (Chief Food Safety Officer) |
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Sharon K. Hamilton, Ph.D. Defended in July 2009: Current position: postdoctoral fellow at Emory /Georgia Tech University |
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Chinessa T. Adkins, Ph.D.
Defended in August 2009: Current position: postdoctoral fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) |
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Undergraduates
- Fiona Denham: honors thesis completed June 2007, now at LSU Medical school
- Matthew Chen, now at UT Memphis, Medical school
- Disha Kumar, now Vanderbilt Medical school
- Chris Stensland
- Kinshal Shah
- Rachel Ruckstuhl
- Claire Noelle
- Evan Kravitz
- Ariel Kravitz
- Kasey Caszewszki
- Christian Wallen
Summer Students
- Michael Funk: VUSRP program 2005, working with Teresa
- Matthew Chen: VUSRP program 2006, working with Sharon
- Julia Meyer Covenant College, Chattanooga, Summer 2006 (VICB supported)
- Paul Enns: VSSA, (Kansas State University, Premed)
- Vasanth Sathiyakumar(Vanderbilt University,Premed)
- Felicia Udoji: REU, (Tennessee State)
- Robyn Shaffer: RIP, (University School of Nashville, High School)
Vanderbilt RIP program
- Nevena Kozekova, Hillsborough High, June-July 2006, working with Sharon
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