TEAM
Principal Investigator
Dr. Pearson is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland. His laboratory focuses on designing nanoparticles to achieve programmable immune responses for specific immunomodulation and molecular design to engineer controllable cellular interactions for targeted drug delivery. As a postdoc in Lonnie Shea's lab at the University of Michigan, he championed projects related to nanoparticle engineering and protein delivery for antigen-specific tolerance induction (i.e. autoimmunity, allergens). Notably, he worked with Cour Pharmaceuticals to develop a novel nanoparticle platform for the treatment of Celiac disease (TIMP-GLIA). This treatment is now in a Phase 2 clinical trial. As a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ryan worked with Seungpyo Hong to synthesize and evaluate novel polymer molecular architectures based on dendrimers and linear-block copolymers. His research has led to discoveries that improved the fundamental understanding of nanoparticle-biological (nano-bio) interactions and strategies to overcome challenges in targeted drug delivery.
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
If you are interested in joining the Pearson Lab for Immunomodulatory Biomaterials, please contact Dr. Pearson and attach your CV.
Graduate students - we are actively recruiting a graduate student to join our lab for Fall 2020.
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
Jackline Joy Lasola, ScM
2013 ScM. Reproductive and Cancer Biology (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD)
2010 B.A. Molecular and Cell Biology (University of California Berkeley, CA)
2010 B.A. Development Studies (University of California Berkeley, CA)
Brianna Scotland
2018 B.S. Biology (University of the Virgin Islands, STT Campus)
Jake Weiner (1st year rotation)
B.S. Biology (Penn State, PA)
Former PharmD Students
Michael McDaniel (4th year)
2015 B.S. Chemistry (Towson University, MD)
Henry Kamdem (4th year)
2012 B.S. Biochemistry (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
Hanna Lefebo (2nd year)
2018 B.S. Neuroscience-Cellular and Molecular (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA)
Former High School Students
Noel Thomas
2020 Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Former Undergraduate Students
Darien Campisi
2021 B.S. Biology and Public Policy (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC)
Andrea Cottingham
2020 B.S. Biochemistry (Salisbury University, MD)
Joyce Alemgang
Biotechnology and Lab Animal Certificate Program (Baltimore City Community College, MD).
Currently - PharmD Student University of Maryland-Eastern Shore
Former Rotation Students
Jeffrey Baffoe-Bonnie, M.S.
2017 M.S. Biotechnology (American University, DC)
2014 B.S. Biology - Neuroscience (Penn State University, PA)
