Current Members | The Thayumanavan Group

Principal Investigator

Professor S. Thayumanavan

thai@chem.umass.edu

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

thaiasst@chem.umass.edu

Office: PSB 275

Graduate Students


Ritam Das ritamdas@umass.edu Triggerable lipid polymers, RNA delivery Office: PSB 250B LinkedIn		Shuai Gong shuaigong@umass.edu Protein delivery Office: PSB 250A
Uyen “Jennie” Huynh ughuynh@umass.edu Antibody conjugates Office: PSB 250A LinkedIn		Pintu Kanjilal pkanjilal@umass.edu Protein delivery Office: PSB 250B LinkedIn
Stephanie Le sple@umass.edu Catalyst encapsulation and activity Office: PSB 250A LinkedIn		Jayashree Bhagabati jbhagabati@umass.edu ProTAC delivery Office: PSB 240B
Ranit Dutta ranitdutta@umass.edu Stimuli responsive materials Office: PSB 240B		Jewel Mendeiros jmmedeiros@umass.edu RNA delivery Office: PSB 250A
Theeraphop (Theo) Prachyathipsakul tprachyathip@umass.edu Antibody Conjugates Office: PSB 240A		Jithu Krishna jithukrishna@umass.edu Targeted protein degradation Office: PSB 250B
Ryan Lu hunghsunlu@umass.edu Protein Delivery Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn		Jingyi Qiu jingyiqiu@umass.edu Antibody Conjugates Office: PSB 250A
Yasin Alp yalp@umass.edu Protein and RNA delivery Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn		Prachi Gupta prachigupta@umass.edu Stimuli Responsive Materials Office: PSB 240B
Anirudh Devarajan adevarajan@umass.edu Protein delivery Office: PSB 240A		Minelise Rivera De Jesus mriveradejes@umass.edu Protein delivery Office: PSB 240B

Undergraduates


Riva Deodhar rdeodhar@umass.edu Cell membrane protein degradation Mentor: Jithu Krishna		Sriya Munugoti smunugoti@umass.edu Protein delivery Mentor: Ritam Das
Varun Gopal varungopal@umass.edu ProTAC delivery Mentor: Jayashree Bhagabati

Professor S. Thayumanavan

Cheng Song

Riva Deodhar

Sriya Munugoti

Varun Gopal