PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Jude M. Phillip is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, with a secondary appointment in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Oncology and is a Core member in the Institute for Nanobiotechnology (INBT) at Johns Hopkins University. His lab studies biological ageing dynamics in the context of health and disease. He combines fundamental engineering approaches with translational ageing and oncology research to develop precision health strategies and technologies to probe ageing, and identify mechanisms to modify ageing trajectories to drive heathy ageing.
He received his B. Eng in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York (CCNY), his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and completed postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) with a focus on hematological malignancies and the lymphoma microenvironment. He started as an Assistant Professor at JHU on September 15th 2020.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Yoseph W. Dance is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His work investigates how immune landscapes shape the aging lymphoma microenvironment, and how dynamic reprogramming of stromal and immune compartments offer new solutions for targeting and treatment.
Yoseph received his B.S in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University, and his M.S and PhD. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University (2023).
PhD Graduate Students
Pratik Kamat is a graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on understanding emergent patterns of senescence and how it impacts ageing phenotypes in humans.
Pratik received his B.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota (2020).
Ladaisha Thompson is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on immunosenescence and inflammation in aging individuals .
Ladaisha received her B.S in Chemical Engineering from the Howard University (2021).
Chanhong Min is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on developing novel strategies to profile age-associated immune behaviors, and machine learning approaches to identify and classify T-cell behavioral phenotypes.
Chanhong received his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from the Hanyang University and his M.S in Mechanical Engineering from the KAIST (2022).
Nico Macaluso is a graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on developing genetic engineering solutions to tune T-cell behavioral landscapes to address aging-associated T-cell dysfunctions.
Nico received his B.S and M.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida (2022).
Nikita Sivakumar is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on multi scale modeling of immune behaviors, and developing computational maps of spatial and dynamic T- and B-cell interactions within young and aged germinal centers.
Nikita received her B.S Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia (2022).
Masters Students and Postbac Trainees
Charles Ezenwanne is a Postbac scholar in the Doctoral Diversity Program (DDP) at Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on developing cell-based biomarkers of aging and frailty based on dynamic behaviors of monocytes (2022-2024).
Charles received his B.S from Montclair University (2021)
Undergraduate Researchers
Anshika Agrawal is an undergraduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and minoring in Applied Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.
Expected graduation 2024
Lauren Pan is an undergraduate student majoring in Biomedical Engineering and minoring in Applied Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.
Expected graduation 2024
Aaron Winston is an undergraduate student majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular at Johns Hopkins University.
Expected graduation 2024
Annika Saffron is an undergraduate student majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Expected graduation 2025
Meera Bhat is an undergraduate student majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Expected graduation 2025
Annabelle Hendrickson is an undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience at Smith College. Annabelle is in the 2023 INBT REU program.
Viviana Velez is an undergraduate student majoring in Chemical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez. Viviana is in the 2023 INBT REU program.
Lab Alumni
Dr. Debonil Maity was the first postdoctoral fellow in Phillip lab from 2020-2021
Current Position: Engineer at Intel
Deanna Riley (summer 2021) was an INBT summer REU scholar majoring in Neuroscience from the University of Tennessee.
Current Position: Postbac fellow at NCI
Joohee (Joy) Lee was an undergraduate researcher and Biomedical Engineering student in the Phillip lab (2021-2022)
Class of 2022
Ayanna Horsford (summer 2022) was an INBT summer REU scholar majoring in Biology at Manhattan College in New York
Current Position: Clinical Research Coordinator at NYU
James Li was an undergraduate student triple majoring in Cell and Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Physics at Johns Hopkins University. He was in the Phillip lab from 2021-2023.
Class of 2023
Current position: PhD student at Mayo Clinic
Alex Snyder was an undergraduate student majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Alex was in the Phillip lab 2021-2023.
Expected graduation 2024
Teasia Stewart was a Masters student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focused on developing predict biomarkers of aging in dermal fibroblasts.
Teasia received her B.S in Life Sciences from the United States Military Academy at Westpoint.
M.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2021-2023)
Tianxiao Hao was a Masters student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His work focused on developing predict biomarkers of immune aging within circulating B-cells.
M.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2021-2023)