Team Members
Principal Investigator
Matthew DeLisa
William L. Lewis Professor of Engineering
Director, Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, 2019-
Gastprofesseur, ETH-Zürich, 2010-2011
Postdoctoral Fellow, UT-Austin, 2000-2003
Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2000
M.S. University of Maryland, 1998
B.S. University of Connecticut, 1996
Email: md255 at cornell dot edu
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Postdoctoral associates & visiting scholars
Keehun Kim
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2021
B.S. Kyungpook National University, 2013
Email: kk779 at cornell dot edu
Project: Cell-free expression and engineering of transmembrane proteins
Asher Williams
Cornell Presidential Postdoc Scholar
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ph.D. RPI, 2020
B.S. NYU Polytechnic, 2015
Email: ajw336 at cornell dot edu
Project: Cell-free biosynthesis of conjugate vaccines against bacterial pathogens
Chemical Biology
Ph.D. Seoul National University, 2019
B.S. Soongsil University, 2012
Email: jj757 at cornell dot edu
Project: Building a molecular toolkit for high content resolution of glycomes
Jinjoo Jung
Graduate researchers
Alicia Aquino
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface T32 Fellow
B.S. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2017
Email: aka77 at cornell dot edu
Project: Glycosylation-on-a-chip for therapeutic glycoprotein biosynthesis
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
M.S. University of Southern California, 2016
B.S. Pomona College, 2012
Email: ssc273 at cornell dot edu
Project: Understanding and engineering glycoprotein structure-activity relationships
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell CBE Fleming Scholar
B.S. Universidad de Los Andes, 2017
Email: nl474 at cornell dot edu
Project: Exploring the occurrence and role of anti-glycan antibodies in immunity
Sean Chung
Natalia Lopez-Barbosa
Weiyao Wang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. Tulane University, 2018
Email: ww462 at cornell dot edu
Project: Engineering high-affinity antibodies against carbohydrate epitopes
Azmain Alamgir
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface T32 Fellow
B.S. Northwestern University, 2019
Email: ma2283 at cornell dot edu
Project: Novel modes of proteome editing via bioconjugation (w/ Chris Alabi)
Tina Ye
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. UC-Berkeley, 2019
Email: ty369 at cornell dot edu
Project: Engineering delivery and half-life of ubiquibodies
Connor Monticello
Biomedical Engineering
B.S. University of Colorado, 2019
Email: crm362 at cornell dot edu
Project: Proteome editing via intracellular delivery of ubiquibodies
Daniel Kwon
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. University of Minnesota, 2017
Email: yk782 at cornell dot edu
Project: Engineering the structure and function of glycosyltransferases
Primit Desai
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
B.S. Rutgers University, 2019
Email: pd367 at cornell dot edu
Project: Understanding and engineering immune responses to glycan epitopes
Sophia Hulbert
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
NIH Immuno-Engineering T32 Fellow
B.S. University of Southern Maine, 2019
B.A. Barnard College, Columbia Univ, 2017
Email: swh87 at cornell dot edu
Project: High-resolution mapping of glycosylation permissiveness of IgGs
Erik Bidstrup
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface T32 Fellow
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
B.S. Northwestern University, 2020
Email: ejb339 at cornell dot edu
Project: Cell-free glycoprotein synthesis as a route to customized antibodies
Belen Sotomayor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), 2017
Email: mbs332 at cornell dot edu
Project: Experimental and computational optimization of protein glycosylation
Allison Chen
Biomedical Engineering
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
B.S. UCSD, 2020
Email: arc272 at cornell dot edu
Project: Targeted delivery of ubiquibody mRNA-loaded LNPs (w/ Chris Alabi)
Ruoxin Li
Biomedical Engineering
B.S. UCLA, 2021
Email: rl655 at cornell dot edu
Project: Engineering viral vectors for targeted delivery of ubiquibodies (w/ Shaoyi Jiang)
Ayomide Oloyede
Biomedical Engineering
B.S. University of New Mexico, 2020
Email: aoo35 at cornell dot edu
Project: Immunoengineering anti-cancer bacterial membrane vesicles
Darianna Colina
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface T32 Fellow
M.S. Johns Hopkins University, 2020
B.S. Florida Gulf Coast University, 2017
Email: dc676 at cornell dot edu
Project: Engineering protein degraders for cancer immunotherapy
Jiazhen Chen
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.E. East China University of Science and Technology, 2019
B.S. Technische Hochschule Lübeck, 2019
Email: jc3494 at cornell dot edu
Project: Understanding and engineering single-subunit oligosaccharyltransferases
Richard Huang
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.Eng. Central South University, 2020
Email: yh936 at cornell dot edu
Project: Engineering glycan-directed binding proteins
Amy Nguyen
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. Drexel University, 2019
Email: pmn35 at cornell dot edu
Project: TBD
Yufan Qin
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
M.S.E. University of Michigan, 2021
B.S. UC-Irvine, 2020
Email: yq262 at cornell dot edu
Project: TBD
Helene Walker
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. University of New Mexico, 2022
Email: hcw45 at cornell dot edu
Project: TBD
Emily Chou
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. Cornell University, 2022
Email: eac256 at cornell dot edu
Project: Antibody variable region glycosylation
Undergraduate researchers
Pedro Da Silveira
Biomedical Engineering
(2022-Present)
Email: phd42 at cornell dot edu
Project: Engineering protein degrader half-life
Alina Chisti
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(2022-Present)
Email: azc7 at cornell dot edu
Project: Cell-free glycoprotein synthesis
Mackenzie Rosin
Biological Engineering
(2022-Present)
Email: mmr93 at cornell dot edu
Project: Understanding the immunological role of anti-glycan antibodies
Jorge Rodriguez
Global Public Health Science
(2022-Present)
Email: jhr249 at cornell dot edu
Project: Glycoenzyme engineering
Jahi Noel
Biological Sciences
(2022-Present)
Email: jjn58 at cornell dot edu
Project: Design and engineering of glycoconjugate vaccines
Chris Cizmeciyan
Biological Sciences
(2022-Present)
Email: cac487 at cornell dot edu
Project: Design and engineering of glycoconjugate vaccines
Alex Pang
Economics/Bioengineering (2019-Present)
Email: ayp26 at cornell dot edu
Project: Glycosylation-on-a-chip
Srishti Tyagi
Biological Sciences (2020-Present)
Email: st843 at cornell dot edu
Project: Understanding the immunological role of anti-glycan antibodies
Riya Singh
Biomedical Engineering (2019-Present)
Email: rs885 at cornell dot edu
Project: OMV-based vaccine engineering
Jane Lee
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(2022-Present)
Email: jyl99 at cornell dot edu
Project: Glycoenzyme engineering
Michael Constant
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(2022-Present)
Email: mjc456 at cornell dot edu
Project: Ubiquibody engineering
Amy Hidalgo
Biological Engineering (2022-Present)
Email: akh228 at cornell dot edu
Project: Immune responses to glycans