Principal Investigator
![PXL_20220807_233040619.PORTRAIT_2sq cfromen](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2022/08/PXL_20220807_233040619.PORTRAIT_2sq.jpg)
Current Staff
Jenny Yun
Laboratory Manager
Joint with A. Kloxin Lab
Joined Winter 2024
Research Interests: Understanding fundamental of CAR-T cell therapy and optimize in engineering
Hobbies: Gardening, Photographing, Birdwatching
Email: zyun@udel.edu
Pronouns: She/Hers
Fun Fact about the Lung: There are 600 million alveoli in the lung! If we add the surface area it is 75 square meters, it equals to the size of a tennis court.
Current Postdoc Members
![Aida Lopez-Ruiz](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_162738182-2000d7c1108b0845.jpg)
Aida Lopez-Ruiz
Postdoc Fellow
Joined Winter 2023
Research Interests: Using nanoparticles as drug delivery systems to achieve better drug efficiency and immune engineering to target specific diseases in the body without a negative immune response.
Hobbies: Running, reading
Email: alopezr@udel.edu
Pronouns: She/Hers
Fun Fact about the Lung: The right and left lung are not the same sizes!
![Patrick McCauley](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_162750164-dea2ee2a427dd7fc.jpg)
Patrick McCauley
EDH Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Joined Fall 2023; co-advised with A. Bayles
Research Interests: Improving throughput and cell viability in 3D bioprinting using advective assembly
Hobbies: Hiking, reading
Email: patmccau@udel.edu
Pronouns: He/His
Fun Fact about the Lung: Blue whales have the largest lung capacity, holding up to 5000 liters!
![Dewansh Rastogi](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_162933994-75f4338e38d33b41.jpg)
Dewansh Rastogi
Postdoc Fellow
Joined Winter 2024
Research Interests: Engineering Aerosols: phase, morphology, and size; Electron microscopy, and visualization of in situ aerosol phenomena; Technology development and testing for aerosol capture; Testing TIDAL lung model to understand aerosol deposition inside lungs.
Hobbies: Listening to podcasts, cooking, and reading
Email: drastogi@udel.edu
Pronouns: He/Him
The lungs are good at maintaining a high-humidity condition inside the body (>90 RH%)!
Current Graduate Student Members
![Emma Sudduth](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_1627131252-a48879beeac2ddff.jpg)
Emma Sudduth
PhD Candidate and CBI Fellow
Joined Spring 2022
Research Interests: Inhalable vaccines using model PEG-based hydrogel nanoparticles for more effective aerosolized immunotherapies of the elderly population.
Hobbies: Soccer, Volleyball, and Softball
Email: esudduth@udel.edu
Pronouns: She/Hers
Fun Fact about the Lung: The average adult breaths 13 pints of air every minute!
![Michael Trautmann Rodriguez](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_1625355172-eb9728d94359a735.jpg)
Michael Trautmann Rodriguez
PhD Candidate and GAANN Fellow
Joined Fall 2021
Research Interests: Nanoparticle-Antigen Presenting Cell interactions, and development of PEG-based hydrogel nanoparticle immunotherapies for driving immune tolerance.
Hobbies: Volleyball, Reading, and Painting
Email: matr@udel.edu
Pronouns: He/His
Fun Fact about the Lung: The lungs only use 5% of the oxygen we breathe in!
![Yinkui Yu](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_1625486912-e3c92eeb5210c5bc.jpg)
Yinkui Yu
PhD Candidate
Joined Fall 2021
Research Interests: Exploiting in-vitro and in-silico engineering tools including 3D printing and CFPD to model aerosol transport and deposition in human lungs.
Hobbies: Rock Climbing, Motorcycle, and Lego
Email: yinkui@udel.edu
Pronouns: He/His
Fun Fact about the Lung: The lung is the only human organ that can float on water!
![Jodi Graf](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_1627230542-ac863e9f1a717c5f.jpg)
Jodi Graf
PhD Candidate and GRFP Fellow
Joined Fall 2022; co-advised with A. Kloxin
Research Interests: Engineering macrophages in different micro environments to better model respiratory therapeutics in vitro.
Hobbies: Volleyball, Exercising and Cooking/Baking
Email: grafjo@udel.edu
Pronouns: She/Hers
Fun Fact about the Lung: The lung is able to float on water because of the aveoli which expand their diameter nearly 20x when filling with air!
![Eric Slaughter](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_1626127352-48c3d306965b3cd5.jpg)
Eric Slaughter
PhD Candidate and GAANN Fellow
Joined Fall 2022; co-advised with A. Kloxin
Research Interests: Improving CAR T-cell therapy manufacturing through tangential flow filtration and tunable hydrogel materials.
Hobbies: Tennis, Cooking/Baking, Video games w/ friends
Email: ersla@udel.edu
Pronouns: He/His
Fun Fact about the Lung: You lose water when you exhale. At rest, the body loses approximately 0.5 ounces of water!
![Lisa Bain](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_162920657-7b9bbe60190fde23.jpg)
Lisa Bain
PhD Student and GRFP Fellow
Joined Winter 2024
Research Interests: Engineering nanoparticle immunotherapies to investigate the effect of degradation on macrophage survival and cellular structure
Hobbies: MLB Baseball (Go Cardinals!), Broadway Musicals, and playing my Ukulele
Email: lbain@udel.edu
Pronouns: She/Hers
Fun Fact about the Lung: Women have a faster breathing rate than men. This is because women have a higher physiological cost of moving a given amount of air in and out of the lungs coupled with a smaller lung volume.
![Sam Fine](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_162804139-d3d26ae8d680466d.jpg)
Sam Fine
PhD Student
Joined Winter 2024, co-advised with M Blenner
Research Interests: Using synthetic biology to increase viability of CAR macrophages as a therapeutic
Hobbies: personal finance, National Guard
Email: samfine@udel.edu
Pronouns: he/him
Fun Fact: If you combined your lungs’ airways end-to-end, they would stretch about 1500 miles!
![Dominic Hoffman](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_1625220952-9960a99cdbc57b67.jpg)
Dominic Hoffman
PhD Student
Joined Winter 2024
Research Interests: Aerosol Mass Transfer
Hobbies: Powerlifting
Email: domhof@udel.edu
Pronouns: He/Him
Fun Fact about the Lung: the lung is the only human organ that can float on water
Current Undergraduate Student Members
![Joaquina Somma](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2023/02/PXL_20230221_203824844.jpg)
Joaquina Somma
UD CBE Class of 2025
Research Interests: Understanding how different factors like diseases and age affect the lung’s structure and functionality.
Hobbies: Listening to music, swimming, and reading
Email: jfsom@udel.edu
Fun Fact about the Lung: A person could live with one lung and life expectancy would not significantly change!
![Adhya Anilkumar](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/01/PXL_20240111_162834200-fcbe27f6e53fda3b.jpg)
Adhya Anilkumar
UD BME Class of 2026
Research Interests: utilizing nanoparticles and therapeutics for pulmonary drug delivery, and exploring molecular transportation mechanisms for targeted delivery of biomedical interventions within the body
Hobbies: Exercising, Solving Puzzles, Painting, and Baking/Cooking
Email: adhya@udel.edu
Fun Fact about the Lung: The lungs play a key role when we speak! Air is pushed up through the Trachea and into the Larynx (voice box), where the vocal cords vibrate and create sound as air passes.
![Nina Armstrong](https://sites.udel.edu/cfromen/files/2024/04/Nina-cbae2532ae8874d0.jpg)
Nina Armstrong
UD MechE Class of 2027
Research Interests: Understanding how engineering tools including 3D printing helps to solve problems related to pulmonary delivery
Hobbies: Reading, exercising, and playing guitar
Email: ninava@udel.edu
Fun Fact about the Lung: The lungs are never completely empty: There is always some air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation. If this residual volume did not exist and the lungs emptied completely, the lung tissues would stick together.