Jack Cardini
Graduate Student,
Biomedical Engineering
Chris Kuffner
Graduate Student,
Biomedical Engineering
Jeremy Tran
Graduate Student,
Biomedical Engineering
Zach Silfen
Graduate Student,
Biomedical Engineering
Rose Keating
Graduate Student,
Biomedical Engineering
Alex Marzilli
Graduate Student,
Biomedical Engineering
Quan Le
Graduate Student,
Biomedical Engineering
Lab Alumni and their Positions Upon Leaving
D. Christopher Sloas (Ph.D., 2020)
BME Thesis of the Year Award 2020
Scientist, Carisma Therapeutics, Philadelphia, PA
Elliot P. Tague (Ph.D., 2020)
George Church lab, Boston, MA
Krishna Harpanahalli (B.S., 2019, M.S., 2021)
Moderna Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Remy E. Peace (Ph.D. 2021)
Senior Associate Consultant, Clarion, Boston, MA
Jeffrey B. McMahan (Ph.D., 2021)
Mammalian Synthetic Biologist, Asimov, Cambridge, MA
Deema Abdel-Meguid (B.S., 2021)
College of Engineering Earle and Mildred Bailey Memorial Award
Graduate Student, Columbia University, New York, NY
Shannon Tunney (Ph.D., 2021)
Scientist, aiGene, Denver, CO
Hannah L. Dotson (Ph.D., 2021)
Senior Scientist, AddGene, Watertown, MA
Ezira Yimer Yolle (BS, 2019)
Graduate Student, Boston University, Boston, MA
People
John T. Ngo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
My students and I develop chemical and biophysical tools to probe, manipulate, and re-program how cells communicate. We then leverage these tools to gain insight into natural biology and overcome roadblocks in developing cell therapies and tissue-engineered systems. Our current efforts are focused on understanding contact-dependent cell signaling mechanisms, including Notch signaling and synaptic transmission, and their downstream outcomes. I was born in San Jose, California, and was the first in my family to go to college. I received a Ph.D. from Caltech in 2012 (with David Tirrell) and trained with Roger Y. Tsien as a post-doc until 2015. Students from the lab have received several awards and honors, including the BME Thesis of the Year Award and the College of Engineering's Earle and Mildred Bailey Memorial Award, among others.