Members

Julea Vlassakis, Ph.D. (she/her)

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University

CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research & Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Investigator

Jocelyn (Jocie) Baker
BIOE Ph.D. student, NIH T32 Cancer Nanotech Fellow,
B.S. in Bioengineering & Minor in German (2020), University of Pittsburgh

Viraj Ghosh
BIOE Ph.D. student,
Rice Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow,
B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2021)
University of California, Santa Barbara

Edgar Ruiz Bello
ChBE Ph.D. student,
ChBE Kobayashi Fellow,
B.S. in Sustainable Chemical Engineering (2018), Universidad de Guanajuato

Alison Lao
BIOE Ph.D. student
B.S. in Nanoengineering (2023), UC San Diego

Wenchang Zhou, MBE
BIOE Ph.D. student
MBE in Applied Bioengineering (2022), Rice University

Neica Joseph
BIOE Ph.D. student, NSF Fellow
 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering & Minor in Cultural Anthropology (2023), Duke University

Samira McWashington
BIOE MBE Student
B.S. in Biology and Minor in in Bioinformatics in Biotechnology and Biomedical Science (2025), University of Houston

Abbie Clevenger, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (2024), Texas A&M University
B.S. in Engineering Science (2020), Trinity University

Carla Canales, MBE
Research Technician
MBE in Applied Bioengineering (2025), Rice University
B.S. in Biomedical Sciences & Minor in Biomedical Engineering (2022), University of Texas at El Paso

Danae Georgiadis
Rice University
Major: Bioengineering
Expected graduation: 2027

Peter Zhao
Grinnell College
AHA REU 2024, Visiting Researcher 2025
Major: Biological Chemistry
Expected graduation: 2026