Principal Investigator
Dr. Shuichi (Shu) Takayama, PhD
Professor, GRA Eminent Scholar
Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine
Dr. Shu Takayama earned his BS and MS in Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. He earned a PhD in Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California studying bio-organic synthesis with Dr. Chi‐Huey Wong. He then worked as a postdoc with Dr. George Whitesides at Harvard University where he focused on applying microfluidics to studying cell and molecular biology.
Dr. Takayama began his career at the University of Michigan, where led his lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science & Engineering for over 17 years. In 2017, the lab moved to Georgia Tech where Shu became the Georgia Research Alliance Price Gilbert Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Takayama’s research interests are diverse and motivated by clinical and biotechnology needs. He is always interested in hearing from stakeholders in these areas who are seeking engineering collaboration.
Research Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers
Soojung Lee, PhD
Research Scientist II
Joined: Fall 2018
Research Interests: Organoids, organotypic microenvironments, cancer
Education: BS, PhD
Jamie A.G. Hamilton, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Lung transwell models, E-cigarette health effects
Education: BS, PhD
Graduate Students
Eashaan Godbole
Chemical Engineering
Joined: Spring 2021
Research Interests: Aqueous two-phase systems
Education: BS Chemical Engineering: Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
Coadvisor: Dr. Lily Cheung
Badiallo (Mimi) Diani
Biomedical Engineering
Joined: Fall 2022
Research Interests: Pulmonary physiology, Immunopathology, NAMs, Allergic Asthma
Education: BS Biomedical Engineering: University of Delaware, Honors College
Coadvisor: Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick
Kelsey Brew
Biomedical Engineering
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Air-liquid interface transwell model, Microfluidics, Cystic Fibrosis, Immunology
Education: BS Biomedical Engineering: Georgia Tech
Co-advisor: Dr. Rabin Tirouvanziam
Nathan Ocampo
Biomedical Engineering
Joined: Fall 2023
Research Interests: High-throughput lung airway organoids
Education: BS Biomedical Engineering: Columbia University
So Young Eom
Biomedical Engineering
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Interests: Microfluidics, Organoids, Cell Therapy
Education: BS, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering: Ewha Womans University (Korea); MS, Mechanical Engineering: Korea University (Korea)
Visiting Scientists
Seongeun Kim
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Joined: Fall 2024
Research Interests: Aqueous two-phase systems, Neutrophil extracellular traps, NET-Alginate coacervates
Education: BS Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Sung-Jin Kim
Mechanical Engineering
Professor at Konkuk University
Joined: Fall 2025
Research Interests: Thermofluidic control for bio/material/aerospace applications
Education:
BS Mechanical Engineering Seoul National University, MS Mechanical Engineering KAIST, PhD Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Jeongmok Kim
Mechanical Engineering
PhD Student at Chungang-University
Joined: Fall 2025
Research Interests: ATPS, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Microfluidics
Education:
BS and MS Mechanical Engineering: Chungang-University
Doh-Won Yi
Mechanical Engineering
PhD Student at Chungang-University
Joined: Fall 2025
Research Interests: Microfluidics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Education:
BS and MS Mechanical Engineering: Chung-Ang University
Undergraduate Students
Jasmine Brown
Biomedical Engineering
Joined : Spring 2025
Mentor: Badiallo Diani
John Garrett
Biomedical Engineering
Joined : Summer 2025
Mentor: Kelsey Brew
Dev Mongia
Business / pre-med major
Joined : Fall 2025
Mentor: Liang-Hsin Chen
Emma Chang
Biomedical Enginering
Joined : Fall 2025
Mentor: So Young Eom