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Professor S. Thayumanavan<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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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.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Cheng Song<\/strong><\/h4>\n
thaiasst@chem.umass.edu<\/a><\/div>\n
Office<\/strong>: PSB 275<\/div>\n
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\"\"Sayani Das<\/strong><\/p>\n

sayanidas@umass.edu<\/a><\/div>\n
RNA delivery & Lipid nanoparticle<\/i><\/div>\n
Office<\/strong>: PSB 250B<\/div>\n
Joint student of the Thai and Gao Group<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Adam Tajdi<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

atajdi@umass.edu<\/a><\/div>\n
Protein degradation<\/i><\/div>\n
Mentor:<\/strong> Badal Singh<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal Investigator Professor S. Thayumanavan thai@chem.umass.edu Office: PSB 273 Faculty Page LinkedIn 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":248,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5633,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4162\/revisions\/5633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}