People

Song Li, Ph.D

Principal Investigator

Chancellor’s Professor and Department Chair
Department of Bioengineering | Department of Medicine
5121C Engineering V
310-794-6140 | 310-794-5956 fax
songli@ucla.edu

Jennifer Soto

Research Scientist, Lab Manager, 2016

Direct cell reprogramming
jennifer.soto@ucla.edu

Mahdi Hasani

Research Scientist, 2018

Biomaterials, drug delivery, microfluidics, immunoengineering
Mmhs@ucla.edu

Jana Zarubova

Research Scientist, 2018

Vascular tissue engineering, extracellular vesicles
janazarubova@ucla.edu

Yang Song

Postdoctoral Researcher, 2018

Biomechanics in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, cell reprogramming
yangsong88@ucla.edu

Zeyang Liu

Research Scientist, 2022

liuzey1989@gmail.com

Tyler Hoffman

Ph.D Student, 2020

Synthetic cell engineering, biomaterials, bioprinting
tylerhoffman@g.ucla.edu

Yifan Wu

Ph.D Student, 2021

Biomaterials, mechanobiology
yifan671@ucla.edu

Joyce Huang

Ph.D Student, 2022

huangj06@ucla.edu

Ramzi Massad

Ph.D Student, 2022

Biomaterials
ramzimassad@g.ucla.edu

Jing Tian

Ph.D Student, 2022

Neuromuscular regeneration
jinti0303@g.ucla.edu

Haochen Nan

Ph.D Student, 2023

haochennan@g.ucla.edu

Hye Sook (Danielle) Shin

Ph.D Student, 2023

hyshin@g.ucla.edu

Raymond (Youcheng) Yang

Ph.D Student, 2023

youcheng@g.ucla.edu

Donna Rahgoshay

Ph.D Student, 2023

donnarahgoshay@g.ucla.edu

Tzuchun (Allen) Chung (M.D.)

Chief Surgeon, 2023

allenchung@g.ucla.edu

Phat Vu

Master Student, 2022

vupt@ucla.edu

Karina Mitchell

Master Student, 2023

karinam25@g.ucla.edu

Mylan (Mimi) Mayer

Master Student, 2023

mylanmayer@g.ucla.edu

Ruthie Carmeli

Master Student, 2023

rcarmeli@ucla.edu

Xinyang Grace Ge

Undergraduate Student

gracexyg18@g.ucla.edu

Ysabel del Fierro

Undergraduate Student

ysabeldelfierro@g.ucla.edu

Silvi Lybbert

Undergraduate Student

silvi.lybbert@gmail.com

Louise Lin

Undergraduate Student

louiselin@g.ucla.edu

Aaron Zhexuan Zhang

Undergraduate Student

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Major
azahraonng@g.ucla.edu

Kun-Wei (James) Yeh

Undergraduate Student

jamesyeh23@g.ucla.edu

Emma Buxton

Undergraduate Student

ebux6@ucla.edu

Tiya Shah

Undergraduate Student

tiyashah223@g.ucla.edu

Johnathan Horn

Undergraduate Student

johnarh14@gmail.com

Katerina Katsouleas

Undergraduate Student

katekats@ucla.edu

Sam Denton

Undergraduate Student

samdenton@g.ucla.edu

Sahana Rao

Undergraduate Student

sahanarao@g.ucla.edu

Rianna Sebastian

Undergraduate Student

riannas17@yahoo.com

Claire Shi

Undergraduate Student

claireshi@ucla.edu

Zhizhong Li

Undergraduate Student

zacli12138@gmail.com

Bena Patel

Undergraduate Student

benahpatel@g.ucla.edu

Former Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Scholars and Graduate Students

Binru Chen (Andy), PhD (2017-2023), Project: Mechanobiology, microfluidics

Xuexiang (Cher) Zhang, PhD (2018-2023), Project: Immunoengineering, drug delivery, microfluidics

Yu Zhu, Master (2021-2023), Project: Immunomodulation, mesenchymal stem cells

Diana Ly, Master (2022-2023), Project: Extracellular vesicles as therapeutics

K’Ashe McKinney, Master (2021-2023), Project: Drug delivery, immunoengineering

Crystal Xiao, Master (2020-2022), Project: Drug delivery, microfluidics

Jun Fang, Postdoc/Research Scientist (2016-2021), Project: Engineering stem cells and cell reprogramming for muscle regeneration

LeeAnn Li, PhD (2016-2020), Project: Cell Engineering for Neuromuscular Regeneration and Neural Reprogramming.

Buwei Hu, Master (2019-2020), Project: Neuromuscular regeneration.

Xinyi Li (Sindy), Master (2016-2018), Thesis: Development and Characterization of Kink-resistant Elastic Nanofibrous Vascular Graft with Antithrombosis Modification.

Dong Wang, Postdoc (2012-2016), Lab Manager (2016-2018), Project: Adult stem cells in normal vascular development and diseases.

Wen-Chin (Danny) Huang, Postdoc (2016-2018), Project: Stem Cell Biology in Tissue Regeneration and Disease pathogenesis.

Chen Zhang, Postdoc (2014-2016), Project: Biomimetic peptides protect cells from oxidative stress.

Berkeley (2001-2015):

Rahul Thakar, Steve Hsu, Ngan Huang, Jennifer Park, Shyam Patel, Hayley Lam, Craig Hashi, Kyle Kurpinski, Junyu Mai, YiQian (Eugene) Zhu, Randall Raphael R. Janairo, Rokhaya Diop, Zhenyu Tang, Aijun Wang, An-Chi Tsou, Timothee Houssin, Jeffrey Henry, Timothy L. Downing, Debanti Sengupta, Dong Wang, Ben Lee, Ching Wen Huang (Helen), Julia Chang, Elaine Su, Xuefeng Qiu, Weixi Zhong, Junren Sia, Sze Yue Wong, Tiffany Dai, Doug Kelkhoff, Zoey Huang, Yu-Fang Hsieh (Angela).

Former Visiting Scholars

Fei Fang (2019-2020), Project: Vascular disease modeling.

WeiKang Zhao (2019-2020), Project: Cell reprogramming.

Yuan-Yu (Ben) Hsueh (2017-2019), Project: Facilitate neuromuscular regeneration with bioresorbable electronic stimulators.

Xili Ding (2017-2019), Project: Vascular tissue engineeering.

Pingping Wang (2018-2019), Project: Regulate neuron cell reprogramming by biophysical factors.

Haoyong Yuan (2016-2018), Project: Acellular tissue engineering vascular grafts remodeling in vivo.

George Wang (2017), Project: Cell reprogramming on the nano pattern structure.

Taisiya (Taya) Bezhaeva (2016-2017), Project: Mesenchymal Stem Cell Migration in Acellular Vascular Grafts.

Wen Zhao (2016), Project: Nanofibrous scaffolds.

Xu Kang (2014-2016), Project: Neural Crest-Derived Cells Migrate from Nerve to Participate in Achilles tendon Remodeling.

Berkeley (2001-2015):

Jian Yu, Zhiqiang Yan, Weibor Tsai, Yuzhi Jiang, Flavia Da Silva, Dongzhi Yang, Wenquian Shen, Yuan Li, Zhiling Xu, Tian Du, Xian Li, Yingzhan Li, Constant Morez, Falei Yuan

Former Undergraduate Students

Anirudh (Rudy) Narayan, Isabelle Hong, Erin Hu, Juhi Mehta, Jiho Jeong-Kim, Cameron Uy, Josephine Neyyan, Nico Pedroncelli, Raul Davila, Ricardo Espinosa (Isaac), Gichan Lee, Izabella Samuel, Natalie Maxwell, Katie Lee, Meagan Yuen, Nitika Chellappa.

Berkeley (2001-2015):

James Moon, Hieu Nguyen, Johnny Liang, Amrita Bhagat, Melissa Matsumoto, Catherine Cheng, Chris Chou, Ho-Yan Lam, Friedrich Ho,Jesse Woo, Grace Young, Diana Yu, Xiaojuan Khoo, Danny Ong, Kan Hsueh Lee, Gary Yu, Huy Chung, Maelene Wong, Li Chen, Grace Young, Robert Purnell, Tina Tan, Maelene Wong, Swathi Ravi, Bahar Fata, Yolanda Huang, Jonathan Jung, Nweni Lou, Isabel Leong, Sophia Liao, Victor Chiu, Daniel Kim, Germaine Goh, Kaoru Hida, Mike Ichikawa, Wai Chu, Deirdre Johns, Jeremy Joseph, Jonathan Tsang, Echo Tan, Ryan Hoshi, Suraj Kachgal, Siuwah Tang, Alex Hsiao, April Wong, Jason Hong, Eric Tsang, Jean Hu, Joanna So, Eric Tsay, Ahra Kim, Adam Luce, Anson Tsui, Benjamin Lee, Irene Sinn, Cristina Lopez, Henry Liu, Yisu Jiang, Tiffany Chang, Tu Tran, Elena Liang, Shyam Jani, Claire Gollnick, George Kwong, Arezu Haghighi, Joyce Bao, Yuan Fang Fu, Andy Lee, Jesse Lou, Timothy Chen, Timothy D. Smith, Jana Serbo, Jesse Tung, Elaine Su, Surya Kotha, Zoey Huang, Ruo Yuan Lim, Zoya Zulfiqar, Neerav Dixit, Neil Ray, Ming Yin, Kellen Chen, Fan Wu, Stuart Reeder, Joanne Lin, Vivian Liu, Jason Wang, Bei (Christina) Sun, Alexis Seymour, Rebecca Chen, Bochao Lu (Steven), Vivian Sheng, Manali Sawant, Jason Zhang, Giang Le Ha, Benjamin Luo, Raymond Sun, Jovanny Guillen, Ashish Samaddar.