Current Lab Members
Sonal Deshpande
Assistant Research Professor
Sonal completed her Bachelors and Masters in Biotechnology from the University of Pune, India. She received her PhD from the Centre for Biomedical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IITD), India. Her PhD dissertation was focused on optimizing nanoparticle design for drug delivery, based on the cues obtained from their interactions with cells. Outside of lab she likes to watch cricket and supernatural and sci-fi movies/TV shows.
Cassio Mendes Fontes
Assistant Research Professor
Cassio is from Belo Horizonte Brazil and has a double major in Electronic Engineering and Pharmacy/Biochemistry and a Masters in Electric Engineering. He founded and ran as CEO a GMP certified diagnostics company in Brazil with over 80 FDA approved products. He is working with Angus on some top secret research. Outside the lab he likes to lift weights, ride his Peloton, and hang out with his wife and dogs, Leo and Einstein. Believe it or not, he actually prefers American football over football (soccer)!
Daniel Joh
Senior Research Scientist
Daniel is from Anaheim, California. He completed his MD-PhD at Duke, where he did his dissertation in Tosh’s lab. He trained in plastic surgery residency and currently completing a hand surgery fellowship at Duke. His clinical interests are in hand & upper extremity surgery and peripheral nerve surgery. He draws on his dual-background in engineering & medicine to translate emerging technologies from the lab into impactful clinical applications.
David Kinnamon
Senior Research Scientist
Before starting his PhD at Duke, David (a Dallas native) earned his BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering at UT Dallas after which he worked for two years as a Research Engineer for the University. He is interested in working on translational point-of-care diagnostic biosensors and currently has a focus on passively automated microfluidic devices. David loves movies, a good round of golf, cooking, and travelling to new cities.
Josh Milligan
Senior Research Scientist
Josh completed his undergrad at NC State University, where he graduated in 2019 with a BS in Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering. He is interested in combining ELPs with radiotherapy for cancer therapeutics. Outside of the lab, he enjoys running, photography, and spending time with friends and family.
Xinghai Li
Research Technician
Xinghai is a research technician working on animal model design, drug delivery, and protein radio labels. He comes from Beijing by way of Chapel Hill where he worked in a lab at UNC-CH doing molecular biology. Xinghai enjoys Durham and Duke; when he's not working he likes to read, swim or perhaps play a game of Go.
Krissey Eutsey Lloyd
Lab Manager
Krissey is the lab manager. She is originally from PA and has been working at Duke since 2004. She spends her free time with her family, gardening, or catching up on a good book.
Mark Chen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mark is from Chicago. He completed his MD/PhD at Duke in the Kirsch lab studying sarcoma and radiation biology using genetically engineered mouse models. Currently, he is a radiation oncology resident on the RORS research track. In the Chilkoti lab, he will study the role of condensates in cancer. In his free time he enjoys traveling/spending time with his wife, reading, church, and cooking.
Chelsea Harris
Postdoctoral Researcher
Chelsea is from Sacramento, California. She completed her MD at Duke and MBA at Stanford. She is currently completing general surgery residency training at Duke. She joins the Chilkoti lab with a focus on using biopolymers to redirect heart tissue towards growth and repair after a heart attack. She plans to become a cardiac surgeon with a translational research lab that can bring solutions developed in the lab directly to patients.
