Current Members
Faculty
Joel Collier
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
joel.collier@duke.edu
Research Interests: The design of biomaterials for a range of biomedical applications, with a focus on understanding and controlling adaptive immune responses.
Research Scientists
Yaoying Wu
yw195@duke.edu
Research Interests: Studying the immunological mechanism of supramolecular platforms Designing self-assembling vaccine platforms for enhanced cancer immunotherapy Developing protein delivery systems to amplify immune cell functions
PhD Students
Jui-Lin Chen
MGM Doctoral Candidate
Research Interests: Characterizing an HIV vaccine engineered with nanomaterials Solving the mechanism of the enhancement of immune response elicited by that engineered HIV vaccine
Benjamin Cossette
PhD Student
Research Interests: Engineering self-assembling peptide vaccines for the treatment of allergy and autoimmune diseases
Chelsea Fries
BME Doctoral Candidate, President of BME PhD Student Association, Duke Basketball Usher
chelsea.fries@duke.edu
Research Interests: Designing helical peptides to control the lengthwise assembly of coiled-coil nanofibers Incorporating viral proteins into nanofiber assemblies for vaccines against infectious diseases
Lucas Shores
BME Doctoral Candidate, President of oSTEM Duke Chapter
lucas.shores@duke.edu
Research Interests: Engineering a therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of autoimmune disease Investigating novel combinations of epitopes to enhance immune responses
Nikki Votaw
BME Doctoral Candidate, Vice President of BMES Duke Chapter
nicole.votaw@duke.edu
Research Interests: Engineering altered peptide ligands to shift the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory signals for the treatment of autoimmune diseases Investigating how nanomaterials created in our lab interact with various aspects of the immune system
Masters Students
Luqman Issah
Research Interests:
Undergraduates
Ajay Varadhan
Research Interests: