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Team

Swingle Lab > Team

Principal Investigator

Kelsey Swingle

Ph.D.
  • Professional Appointments Assistant Professor
    Department of Bioengineering
    George R. Brown School of Engineering
    Rice University
  • Education and Training University of Pennsylvania
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – 2025
    Bioengineering
    Advisor: Professor Michael Mitchell

    Case Western Reserve University
    Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) – 2020
    Biomedical Engineering
    Advisor: Professor Anirban Sen Gupta
Selected Awards

2025: Solomon R. Pollack Award for Excellence in Graduate Bioengineering Research

2024: Muriel Joan Drew Hege Award for Women in Cellular Immunotherapy Research

2023: Penn Institute for RNA Innovation Award

2022: Society for Biomaterials (SFB) STAR Award

2020: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP)

Meet the Team

Thomas Howlett

Postdoctoral associate

Ph.D. in Chemistry
University of Texas at Dallas

Ellie Sabalewski

Ph.D. student, Bioengineering

B.S. Biomedical Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University

Neha Krishnan

Ph.D. student, Bioengineering

B.S. Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin

Phebe Ekregbesi

Ph.D. student, Bioengineering

M.S. Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins University

Ashley Wang

Undergraduate student

Rice Bioengineering

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Postdoctoral fellow

Recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with experience in molecular biology, next-generation sequencing, and/or immune engineering.

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Graduate student

Recruiting graduate students for multiple open project areas!

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Undergraduate student

Recruiting undergraduate students from various degree programs including Bioengineering, Biosciences, and Chemistry.

Collaborators

Jacqueline Parchem, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Kathleen O'Neill, M.D., MTR

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Kara McKinley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Harvard University

Jilian Melamed, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

University of Pennsylvania