Welcome to the KO Lab!
We highly foster a multidisciplinary community, which is the key to successfully resolve many challenging medical problems. We are a team of scientists with broad expertise in engineering, medicine, and biology. We welcome individuals with diverse backgrounds and look forward to creating an intellectually inspiring and exciting environment together as a team.
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Renee-Tyler Morales
PhD student in Bioengineering (2nd Year), Fontaine Fellow
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David Reynolds
PhD student in Bioengineering (4th Year), NSF Graduate Research Fellow
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Uday Chintapula
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Laurie Flynn
Administrative Assistant
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Phoebe Vallapureddy
Undergraduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Cristina Perez
Undergraduate student in Bioengineering
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Shailesh Senthil Kumar
Undergraduate student in Biology
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Jianhua Lim
PhD student in Bioengineering (3rd Year)
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Daniel Oh
PhD student in Bioengineering (3rd Year)
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Renis J. Agosto Nieves
PhD student in Pharmacology (1st Year) Co-advised by Dr. Junhyong Kim
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Emily Huynh
PhD student in Bioengineering (2nd Year)
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Makayla Cheng
Undergraduate student in Bioengineering
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Hansol Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Hunter Christopher
PhD student in Bioengineering (1st Year)
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Jenlu Pagnotta
PhD student in Bioengineering (1st Year), NSF Graduate Research Fellow
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Vladlena Hornet
PhD student in Bioengineering (2nd Year) Co-advised by Dr. George Xu
Photo Gallery

1/31/2025 Huge Congratulations Professor Roh!! 😎
12/12/2024 Happy Holidays with AYCE Wagyu! 🤸🎄
11/27/2024 Happy Friendsgiving! 🦃

10/24/2024 Uday and Hua presented at BMES in Baltimore! 🦀

10/11/2024 Corn Maze for our lab's Fall activity 🎃

8/9/2024 Louis presenting at the Veterinary Scholars Symposium (VSS)!
8/6/2024 Minigolf outing! 🏌️
8/6/2024 🏌️ with asian-fusion bites
6/20/2024 IM Dodgeball Summer Champions! 👏🥂
6/18/2024 Summer BBQ! 😎
3/29/2024 Sushi treat after PYOP 🍣. Welcome Renis to the group!
3/29/2024 Paint Your Own Pottery (PYOP)!
1/26/2024 Our First Lab Retreat to ⛷
12/8/2023 Ready for Secret Santa? Happy Holidays! 🧑🎄🎄
11/23/2023 Happy Thanksgiving 🍁
11/20/2023 First alumni meetup! Menghan & Shailesh in Boston 😎
11/15/2023 Happy Birthday Yoonho!

11/10/2023 👍😎🎶
11/10/2023 FUN karaoke night with the Allen lab! 🎶
11/3/2023 Happy belated birthday, Hua!

10/27/2023 Halloween night at the Penitentiary 👻
10/27/2023 Halloween Dinner 🎃

10/13/2023 David, Phoebe, and Jina presented at BMES in Seattle! 🦞

9/8/2023 Happy early birthday Renee! 🥳
7/28/2023 Menghan's farewell pool party 🏊🏻😎

7/26/2023 Congrats Danny for passing the qual! 👍

6/29/2023 Happy Birthday Danny!! 🥳
6/21/2023 Hua passed his qual! Great job 👏
5/12/2023 Congratulations Renee for getting his Master's in Bioengineering!
5/12/2023 Congratulations Menghan for getting his Master's in Bioengineering!

4/27/2023 Lab BBQ with many celebrations 🥂🍾

3/14/2023 Our long overdue Topgolf outing!

3/14/2023 Jina's bday surprise :)

3/1/2023 Happy Birthday Menghan!

2/20/2023 Happy Birthday Uday!

2/14/2023 Happy Birthday Vincent!

1/19/2023 Welcome Hua, Danny, and Vincent to the group!

12/16/2022 Happy Birthday David!
12/15/2022 Bowling night & Happy Holidays!

12/06/2022 David, Renee, and Jina went to Hawaii for the IEEE MNMC.

11/18/2022 Pingpong night with the Tertuliano lab!

11/15/2022 Happy birthday Yoonho!

11/1/2022 Happy birthday Hua!

10/21/2022 Our lab gathering with friends and families!

10/7/2022 Uday & Danny's work on basil makes the lab smell so good.

9/9/2022 Happy birthday (eve) Renee!

8/25/2022 David nailed his qual. Congratulations!!

8/19/2022 Lab lunch for George's last day and birthday! And welcome Menghan to the group!

7/28/2022 Lab lunch for Olivia's last day, Uday's joining the lab, and Renee's paper!

5/13/2022 Congratulations George for getting his Master's in Biotechnology!
Alumni
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George Galanis
Master’s student in Biotechnology (2022)
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Christine Abbate
Administrative Assistant (2022)
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Olivia Lewallen
Undergraduate student (BU, Biomedical Engineering) (2022)
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Menghan Pan
Master’s student in Bioengineering (2022-2023)
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Louis Müller
BIVSP Scholar (Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, France) (2024)
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Yoon Ho Roh
Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2025)