Meet The Team | IITChicago

Abhinav Bhushan

Faculty Adviser

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Nick Menhart

Faculty Adviser

Associate Professor of Biology, Deputy Vice Provost for Accreditation and Academic Initiatives

Sakher Yaish

PR Team, Lead Web Developer

Pursuing Bachelors and Accelerated Masters in Artificial Intelligence

Lindsey Clark

IIT iGEM Club President, Course-linked Interprofessional Project (IPRO) Meeting Leader, PR Team Lead, Wet Lab Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biology

Nathaniel Rodriguez

IIT iGEM Club Secretary, Course-linked Interprofessional Project (IPRO) Meeting Leader, Regulatory Response Team, PR Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biochemistry

Jessica Angeles

Course-linked Interprofessional Project (IPRO) Secretary, Regulatory Response Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering

Brennan Shapiro

PR Team, Graphic Design

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering

Natasa Djordjevic

Vector Design Team Lead

Pursuing Bachelors in Biochemistry

Paulina Markiv

Regulatory Response Team Lead

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering and Accelerated Masters in Biology

Laura Kutschinski

Wet Lab Team Lead

Pursuing Bachelors in Bioinformatics

Luke Crosby

Vector Design Team

Pursuing Bachelors and Accelerated Masters in Biomedical Engineering

Natalie Hamill

Vector Design Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering and Accelerated Masters in Biomedical Data Science and Modelling

Grace Weick

Wet Lab Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering and Accelerated Masters in Chemical Engineering

Pooja Patel

Vector Design Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering

Laura Castaneda

Wet Lab Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering

Michael Lindenmuth

Regulatory Response Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering

Nicole Lawrence

Wet Lab Team

Pursuing Masters in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics

Lucy Jorjorian

Wet Lab Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering

Guillermo Menendez Payes

Wet Lab Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Chemical Engineering

Alidia Mickelson

Wet Lab Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biology

Shivam Patel

Regulatory Response Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biology

Praveen Rajendran

PR Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Computer Science

Aerex Freeman

PR Team

Pursuing Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering