Welcome to the Peñaloza-MacMaster Lab! We are dedicated to advancing vaccines and immunotherapies.

  • Dr. Pablo Peñaloza-MacMaster

    Principal Investigator

    PhD, Emory University (with Dr. Rafi Ahmed); Postdoc, Harvard University (with Dr. Dan Barouch)

  • Dr. Tanushree Dangi

    Research Assistant Professor & Lab Manager

  • Dr. Min Han Lew (Kelvin)

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Bakare Awakoaiye

    M.D. Ph.D. student

  • Sarah Sanchez

    Ph.D. student (DGP program)

  • Laura Arroyo

    NIH Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow

  • Shiyi Li

    Masters student (Masters of Biotechnology Program)

  • Nahid (Nina) Irani

    Postbac student (SIP Program)

Lab Alumni

  • Dr. Young Rock Chung

    Ph.D. student (currently a postdoctoral fellow at Dana Cancer Cancer Institute, co-mentored by Drs. Erin Parry and Catherine Wu)

  • Dr. Nicole Palacio

    Ph.D. student (currently at Takeda)

  • Dr. Mincheol Park

    Postdoctoral fellow (currently a scientist at Sanofi)

  • Dr. Juan Loredo

    Postdoctoral fellow (currently a Research Scientist at Institute de Biologie Structurale).

  • Yidan Wang

    Masters student in the MBP program (currently a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University).

  • Simon Eitzinger

    Postbac student (currently a Ph.D. student at George’s Church lab at Harvard)

  • Rie Matsuzaki

    Postbac student (currently a Ph.D. student at the SFI Research Centre, Ireland)

  • Erik Smoy

    Masters student in the MBP program (currently Group Leader at CMIC Inc, Chicago)

  • Zhongyao Zhang

    Masters student in the MBP program (currently a Research Associate at Dyno Therapeutics Inc)

  • Lila Lu

    Masters student in the MBP program (currently a Senior Research Associate at KBI Biopharma)

  • Chidera Oku

    Postbac student (currently Research Tech at Northwestern University)

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