The Kohane Lab has welcomed our second half of summer interns! Janessa Altenor: Janessa is returning for her third internship! She is currently a rising sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst majoring in Biomedical Engineering. Her research interests include drug delivery, especially with nanoparticles, as well as biomedical devices. Outside of work and academics, she Read More …
Huang X, Li Y, Torre M, Shao R, Zhang W, Wang Z, Kohane DS*, Weldon CB*: Enhanced control of liposomal drug release by drug-aptamer complexes. Adv Mater 2025; read more
The Kohane Lab has welcomed our first half of summer interns! Jade Jollivet: Jade is an engineering student in Paris specializing in chemistry and biology. Her research interests are mainly in drug delivery and how to use chemistry to challenge biological barriers. In her free time, she loves books and making beads bracelets, and also loves to Read More …
Education: Meihui received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brandeis University in 2025, and her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Nanjing Normal University in 2018. Research interests: Meihui’s research focuses on the design of self-assembling peptides for targeted drug delivery and nanomedicine applications Hobbies: Hiking, climbing Email: meihui.yi@childrens.harvard.edu
Education: Ye earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science from Duke University in 2024, an M.S. in Bioengineering from Chongqing University in 2019, and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Southwest University in 2016. Research interests: Ye’s research focuses on the development of clinically translatable material/engineering systems for drug delivery and tissue engineering. He also Read More …
The Kohane Lab celebrated the Year of the Snake with lunch at LaMei Hot Pot in Brookline!
The Kohane Lab held our annual Escalade Party at the end of 2024! This celebration honors the valiant defense of Geneva, Switzerland against the neighboring Savoyans in 1602. Legend has it that a local townswoman, Catherine Cheynel (“Mère Royaume”), dumped a large cauldron of boiling vegetable soup over the attackers. This event is commemorated every Read More …
Cullion K, Ostertag-Hill CA, Tang W, Pan M, Kohane DS: Size-dependent nanoparticle accumulation in venous malformations. J Vasc Anom 2024; read more
On September 14th, Dan gave a presentation on “Drug Delivery Systems for Fringe Anesthetic Applications” in the “Nanomedicine & Drug Delivery” session at the 2024 Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Symposium. Other speakers in this session included Robert Langer, Samir Mitragotri, and Wei Tao. Kohane Lab postdoc, Weimin Tang, the president (2023-2024) of the Harvard Medical Read More …
On September 6th, Dan gave a seminar on “Sustained and triggered drug delivery systems for pain relief and related applications” at the UConn Institute of Materials Science Polymer Program seminar He was accompanied by lab members Yuan Wang and Tianrui Xue. They were hosted by Professor Mu-Ping Nieh (top photo), with whom they are collaborating. He also Read More …