Team

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.

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).

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. She develops multi-scale computational models to predict how T- and B-cell motility influence the likelihood of dynamic B-T interactions within the germinal center.

Nikita received her B.S in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia (2022) and is a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow.

Nicholas Milcik is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on developing next-generation technologies to profile and target senescence.

Nick received his B.A in Physics from Illinois Wesleyan University (2020)

Abigail Fennell is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her project during the rotation in the Phillip lab focuses on reproductive longevity, focusing on fibroids and ovarian aging at single cell resolution.

Abigail received her B.S Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Colorado State University (2023).

Anshika Agrawal is a Masters student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on defining the biophysical subtypes of cell motility states during senescence and during aging in humans.

Anshika received her B.S. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Applied Mathematics & Statistics from Johns Hopkins University (2024).

Annaka 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

Angela Lu is an undergraduate student majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Expected graduation 2027

Austin Dai is an undergraduate student majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Economics at Johns Hopkins University.

Expected graduation 2027

Dr. Debonil Maity was the first postdoctoral fellow in Phillip lab from 2020-2021

Current Position: Engineer at Intel

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 Monteclair University (2021)

Aaron Winston is an undergraduate student majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular 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

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 and a M.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2021-2023)

Current Position: US Army

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)

Current position: Research Associate at Duke University

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.