TEAM
Principal Investigator
Ryan M. Pearson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
20 N. Pine Street, N525
Baltimore, MD 21201
Dr. Ryan Pearson is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy and was a postdoc at the University of Michigan prior to starting his independent career in 2018. Dr. Pearson’s laboratory focuses on developing nanotechnology-based strategies for treating dysregulated immune responses specifically focusing on infectious disease, autoimmunity, and cancer. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles on his research in top journals including Biomaterials, Journal of Controlled Release, ACS Nano, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Advanced Functional Materials. Dr. Pearson’s significant scientific contributions relate to his development of nanoparticle-based inverse vaccines to induce antigen-specific immune tolerance and his studies evaluating the inherent immunomodulatory properties of polymeric nanomaterials. Dr. Pearson been recognized with several awards and recently received the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy New Investigator Award, American Association of Immunologists Early Career Travel Award, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education Rising Star Award, and the Shock Society Faculty Research Award. Dr. Pearson is an active member of the Bio- and Nano-technology center and the Computer-Aided Drug Design Center at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and a member of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Pearson serves on the editorial board of Pharmaceutical Research, as faculty advisor for the AAPS UMB Student Chapter, and as the Chair of the Immuno Delivery Focus Group for the Controlled Release Society.
If you are interested in joining the Pearson Lab for Immunomodulatory Biomaterials, please contact Dr. Pearson and attach your CV.
Graduate students - we are not currently recruiting graduate students for Fall 2022.
Undergraduate students - we will consider undergraduates to join the lab given a time commitment of 1 year or greater.
Current group members
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Atanu Chakraborty, Ph.D.
2017 Ph.D. Chemistry (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)
2011 M.S. Chemistry (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
2009 B.S. Chemistry (University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India)
Graduate Students
Brianna Scotland
GNE-MGFP Fellow
5th year PhD Candidate
2018 B.S. Biology (University of the Virgin Islands, STT Campus)
Nhu Truong
PhRMA Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in Drug Delivery
4th year PhD Candidate
B.S. University of the Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
Andrea Cottingham (3rd year PhD Candidate)
2020 B.S. Chemistry (Salisbury University, MD)
Jacob Shaw (3rd year PhD Candidate)
2018 B.S. Molecular Biology (Towson University, MD)
Shruti Dharmaraj (2nd year PhD Student)
2017 B.S. Biomedical Engineering (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
2019 M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Arizona State University Tempe, AZ)
Nicholas Caprio (3rd year UMB PharmD student)
2019 B.S. Natural Science (University of Pittsburgh, PA)
Honorary Lab Members
