Principal Investigator
Mai T. Ngo, Ph.D. (she/her)
Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor Ngo joined CBE in August 2024 as an assistant professor. Previously, she was an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at Boston University. Under the mentorship of Professor Christopher Chen, she utilized tissue engineering and cell engineering tools to build vascularized tissues by controlling paracrine signaling. Previously, Professor Ngo obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As a member of Professor Brendan Harley’s lab, she developed vascularized tissue models of brain cancer. During graduate school, she was an Illinois Distinguished Fellow and a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her research has been recognized by several awards, such as the BMES Career Development Award and the CMBE Graduate Student Shooting Star Award; additionally, she has been recognized as a University of Washington DYSS seminar speaker and as a MIT ChemE Rising Star. Professor Ngo received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
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Graduate Students
Tiana Bish (CBE)
Sarah Jenison (CBE)
Christine Stark (CBE)
Undergraduate Students
Jacob Damro (CBE)
Alumni
Nathan Holland (CBE undergraduate researcher, 2024 – 2025)
- Current position: PhD student, Georgia Tech ChBE
Matthew Schickling (CBE/Biochem undergraduate researcher, 2024 – 2025)
- Current position: Eli Lilly