The Tripathi Laboratory
Scalable Bioengineering Solutions For Diagnostics and Life Sciences

People
Principal Investigator

Dr. Anubhav Tripathi
Professor of Engineering & of Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biomedical
Engineering Executive Academic Director of the Executive Master in Science and Technology Leadership (EMSTL) Program
PH.D. Students
Masters Students
Undergraduate researchers
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Nina Li
Class of 2024

Sabrina Tolppi
Class of 2025

Everett Gutterman-Johns
Class of 2025

Emma Rothkopf
Class of 2023

Emma Hagenaars
Class of 2024

David Okoh
Class of 2025

Aryan Narayan
Class of 2026

Stephanie DaCruz
Class of 2023.5 - Social Media Manager

Matei Vaduva
Class of 2025

Nicole Chen
Class of 2025

Misheel Damdinchoimbol
Class of 2026
connor Yew
benjamin phelps
Sophie Esch
Visiting Researchers
recent graduates
Lab alumni
Yasmin Karasu Benyes
M.Sc., 2022
Yasmin obtained her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 2021 and her M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering in 2022. She did her research under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Cel Welch on a novel deep learning model for Pap smear diagnostics. She will continue her work on machine learning techniques for medical diagnostics with Cel Welch and will be pursuing a career in industry.
William Brakewood
B.Sc. with Honors, 2022
William was a 2022 B.Sc. Chemical Engineering graduate. He did his Honors research project under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Kiara Lee on the subject of microfluidic extraction of plasma from whole blood using passive filtration and capillary collection. William will be pursuing his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.
Thomas Usherwood
B.Sc. with Honors, 2022
Thomas was a 2022 B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering graduate. He did his Honors research project under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Dr. Schneider on the subject of microfluidic cfDNA extraction using magnetic beads and electroosmotic flow for NIPT. Thomas will be pursuing his Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at Harvard and MIT.
Harry Yu
B.Sc. with Honors, 2021
Harry was a 2021 B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering graduate. He did his Honors research project under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Cel Welch on optimizing chemical, mechanical, and electrical parameters for tissue dissociation into single cells.
Christina Bailey-Hytholt
Ph.D., 2019
Christina was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow who worked on developing new technologies for prenatal diagnostics. Christina's thesis was titled "Using Trophoblast Cells to Develop Biotechnological Approaches that Advance Prenatal and Women's Health." Christina is now an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worchester Polytechnic Institute.
Hannah Blakely
B.Sc., 2019
Hannah worked on isothermal amplification techniques.
Jeray Thelwell
M.Sc., 2017
Jeray worked on his Master's Thesis and now works at Perkin Elmer.
Derek Troiano
M.Sc., 2015
Derek's masters thesis was on understanding the role of interfacial tension and how we could use this to worked on minimizing carryover volume. He pursued a full-time position at Perkin Elmer and is now in a Ph.D. Program at McGill University in Canada.
Prutha Sameer Deshpande
M.Sc., 2022
Prutha was a 2022 M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering graduate. She did her research under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Ramisa Fariha on an LC-MS/MS assay for detection of multiple analytes from breast milk, and worked collaboratively with PerkinElmer Inc. Prutha will be pursuing a career in industry.
Lucy Masto
B.Sc., 2022
Lucy was a 2022 B.Sc. Biology (Immunology) graduate. She worked under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Adriana Coll de Peña. She will be working as a Clinical Research Assistant at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York before pursuing her M.D.
Amy Oh
B.Sc. with Honors, 2022
Amy was a 2022 B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering graduate. She did her Honors research project under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi on the subject of multiplexed electric-field based DNA extraction from DBS. Amy will be pursuing her M.D. degree at Brown.
Mary Machado
Post-Doc, 2020
Mary attained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in 2016 with a focus on the materials analysis of nanomodified endothracheal tubes under the dynamic conditions of the respiratory system. Her thesis advisor was Dr. Thomas Webster. Her focus as a Post-Doc was in the electric field extraction of DNA from dried blood spots and multiple other projects. She is now a Professor at the Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Rachel Deraney
Ph.D., MPH, 2019
Rachel's work focused on the intersection of global health and point-of-care diagnostics with microfluidic technologies. Rachel's thesis was titled "Sample Preparation and Nucleic Acid Extraction for Molecular Diagnostics: Innovations for Resource Limited Settings."
Gina Vimbela
M.Sc., 2019
Gina work electrophoretic recovery of DNA from dried blood spots and sensors.
Ileana Pirozzi
B.Sc., 2018
Ileana worked on single cell isolation and analysis technologies using microfluidic platforms. She is now working towards her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Stanford University.
Kurt Pianka
B.Sc. with Honors, 2017
Kurt worked on dengue fever and zika virus isolation and amplification. Kurt now works for Clear View (Bos) as a Consultant.
Derek Croote
B.Sc. with Honors, 2013
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering at Quake Lab, Stanford University.
Mohannad Jabrah
B.Sc., 2022
Mohannad was a 2022 B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering graduate. He did his research under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Ramisa Fariha on LC-MS/MS assays, working collaboratively with PerkinElmer Inc. Mohannad will be pursuing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering.
Claire Aibel
B.Sc. with Honors, 2022
Claire was a 2022 B.Sc. Biophysics graduate. She did her Honors research project under the supervision of Dr. Tripathi and Adriana Coll de Peña on the subject of an optimized CoBRA-GXT method for the microfluidic detection of breast cancer-associated DNA methylation. Claire will be working for Cambridge Biotech company - Factor Bioscience, post-graduation.
Lindsay Schneider
Ph.D., 2021
Lindsay's research focus was loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and Next Generation Sequencing DNA library preparation automation for preimplantation genetic testing (PGT). Lindsay currently works at Detect.
Adam Snider
Ph.D., 2020
Adam's work largely focused on microfluidic applications for next generation sequencing. Adam's thesis was titled "Transport, Adsorption and Reaction of Genomic DNA in Nano-, Micro-, and Meso-Scale Geometries." Adam currently works at PerkinElmer.
Francis Cui
Ph.D., 2019
Franks research included microfluidic suspension plug transport, fluid transport modeling for proto-organ engineering and bead-based biomolecular isolation for microfluidic diagnostic applications. Frank's thesis was titled "Micro- and Meso-fluidics for Automated Biomedical Sample Preparation."
Lei Zhang
Ph.D., 2017
Lei worked on RNA ligase for laboratory use.
His PhD Thesis was: Molecular Diagnostics Using Biosynthetic Engineering and Microfluidic Design
Kate Chamberlain
B.Sc., 2017
Kate worked on the automation of bead movement within a mircofluidic chip. Now she works at Goldman Sachs as a Real Estate Analyst.