Research Team

Abiche Dewilde

Abiche is a staff scientist. She graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2003 with a B.S. in Biotechnology and from UMass Lowell in 2006 with a master’s degree in Biology. She has worked in industry as an animal facility & breeding supervisor. Her research interests include animal research, tissue healing and regeneration research, isolation and identification of extracellular matrix, and breast cancer research.

Jianping Zhang

Jianping is a staff scientist. She graduated from Duquesne University at Pittsburgh, PA, in 1993 with a M.S. in Molecular Biology. She worked on brain tumors at Children Hospital of Boston for several years. Her research interests include wound healing and cancer research.

Gang Wang

Dr. Gang Wang is a Postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Kenneth Marx, Dr. Susan Braunhut and Dr. Joel Therrien.  He works on biosensors and Quarts Crystal Microbalance (QCM) tests for the nanocanary project. Gang graduated from Nanjing University with a Ph.D degree in Analytical Chemistry, and also studied Electrochemistry and Electrochemiluminescence on enzymes and proteins. His research interests include Biosensors & bioelectronics, electrochemistry of nano-materials, electrochemistry of proteins and enzymes and fuel cells. Gang enjoys jogging and hiking.
 

Joel Therrien

Dr. Joel Therrien is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer engineering. Dr Therrien collaborates with the Braunhut Lab on biosensors and Quarts Crystal Microbalance(QCM) tests for the nanocanary project.  Dr Therrien also collaborates with the Braunhut Lab on the Biodome project by providing expertise on the electrical components of the project and Plastic molding.