Current Members

Principal Investigator

Professor S. Thayumanavan

Office: PSB 273
Thai grew up in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, where he spent early childhood near the city of Tirunelveli and his college years in the beautiful temple city of Madurai. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Chemistry from The American College in Madurai. Following this, he obtained his Ph.D. degree working in organolithium chemistry, under the guidance of Professor Peter Beak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a postdoctoral stint with Professor Seth R. Marder at the California Institute of Technology, working on developing optoelectronic materials, he started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at Tulane University. After four years at Tulane, he moved the lab to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2003.

                              Group Assistant                               

Cheng Song

Office: PSB 275

Graduate Students

Ritam Das

Triggerable lipid polymers, RNA delivery
Office: PSB 250B

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Shuai Gong

Protein delivery
Office: PSB 250A

Stephanie Le

Catalyst encapsulation and activity
Office: PSB 250A

Jayashree Bhagabati

ProTAC delivery
Office: PSB 240B

Ranit Dutta

Stimuli responsive materials
Office: PSB 240B

Jewel Mendeiros

RNA delivery
Office: PSB 250A

Theeraphop (Theo) Prachyathipsakul

Antibody Conjugates
Office: PSB 240A

Jithu Krishna

Targeted protein degradation
Office: PSB 250B
 Ryan Lu

Protein Delivery
Office: PSB 240A

Jingyi Qiu

Antibody Conjugates
Office: PSB 250A

Yasin Alp

Protein and RNA delivery
Office: PSB 240A

Prachi Gupta

Stimuli Responsive Materials
Office: PSB 240B

Anirudh Devarajan

Protein delivery
Office: PSB 240A

Minelise Rivera De Jesus

Protein delivery
Office: PSB 240B

 Aniket Majee

Office: PSB 250A

Arpan Ghosh

Office: PSB 240A

Badal Singh
Office: PSB 240B

Undergraduates

Riva Deodhar
Cell membrane protein degradation
Mentor: Jithu Krishna
Sriya Munugoti
Protein delivery
Mentor: Ritam Das
Varun Gopal
ProTAC delivery
Mentor: Jayashree Bhagabati
Amelia Talluri
ProTAC delivery
Mentor: Ranit Dutta