Nagrath:People

Principal Investigator



Deepak Nagrath, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Joint appointment in Bioengineering

Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Deepak Nagrath is an Assistant Professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. He also holds a joint appointment in Bioengineering. He received his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of technology, Roorkee, India in 1992, M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 2003. He then conducted postdoctoral studies from 2003-2006 and was a research associate from 2007-2009 at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Shriners Burns Hospital.

Email: Deepak.Nagrathrice.edu



Postdoctoral Fellows

Nadege Bellance

PhD, Inserm, France

Email: nvb1rice.edu

Thasni Karedath

PhD, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India

Email: tk9rice.edu

Graduate Students

Christine Caneba

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Cornell University (2008)

Ph.D. Bioengineering (expected 2013)

Email: cac7rice.edu

Aaron Damm

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Houston(2009)

Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2015)

Email: abdamm1187gmail.com

Lifeng Yang

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, China (2010)

Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering(expected 2015)

Email: ly10rice.edu

Bahar Salimian

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir Technology of Tehran, Iran (2010)

Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (expected 2015)

Email: bahar.salimiangmail.com

Undergraduate Students

Alona Bozhchenko

Chemical Engineering'13

Email: Alona.I.Bozhchenkorice.edu

Shidong Chen

Bioengineering'12

Email: Shidong.Chenrice.edu

Syed Asad Hussein

Biochemistry'12

Email: sah3rice.edu

Lisa Pabst

Chemistry'12

Email: Lisa.M.Pabstrice.edu

Jingting Lu (Nicole)

Chemical Engineering'13

Email: jingtinglugmail.com

Lab Alumni

Lisa Jiang

Bioengineering'11

Email: Lisa.Jiangrice.edu