People – The Advanced Biotherapeutics Lab

Name: Jiahe Li Uniqname: jiaheli Department: Biomedical Engineering Title: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical School Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Principal Investigator: Jiahe Li (李嘉禾)

Education

Post-doc, David Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015-2018
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2009-2015
BS, Microbiology, China Agricultural University, 2005-2009

Honors & Awards

2024 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award, BMES
2024 Swim Across America (SAA) Young Investigator Award
2023 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
2023 NSF CAREER
2021 NIBIB Trailblazer Award
2021 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program, Idea Award, Department of Defense
2020 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program, Discovery Award, Department of Defense
2018 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program, Discovery Award, Department of Defense
2016 David Koch Institute Quinquennial Postdoctoral Fellowship

Current lab members

Amber Haley

Research technician

Amber obtained her BS in microbiology from Eastern Michigan University. Research interests: CRISPR, bacterial conjugation, and microbiome editing

Noah Hutchinson

Postdoctoral Researcher

Noah obtained his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests:

Probiotics engineering to modulate lactate metabolism

Zongqi Wang

2nd year PhD student in UM BME

Zongqi obtained a MS in Bioengineering from the Northeastern University. Research interests: Bacterial surface display for cancer immunotherapy

Brian Hamp

2nd year PhD student in UM BME

Brian obtained his BS in Bioengineering from Northeastern University. He spent a few years in biotech industry before pursuing a PhD in BME. Research interests: CRISPR, bacterial conjugation, and microbiome editing

Zeyang Pang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zeyang obtained his PhD from a joint program of SUSTech (Shenzhen, China) and University of Leeds (UK).Research interests: Antibacteria, bioimaging, and drug delivery