A lipid’s shape decides whether the cargo ever gets out of the endosome.

I study how the components of a lipid nanoparticle determine what it can actually deliver. My undergraduate thesis substituted DOPE for conventional helper lipids and asked what that trade buys you — testing whether a cone-shaped, fusogenic phospholipid improves endosomal escape enough to justify the stability you give up relative to cylindrical DSPC.

That question sits at the intersection of formulation chemistry and cell biology, which is where I want to keep working. Alongside the bench, teaching has become a second thread: I've assisted two laboratory courses at UT, and I care about the part of science that only counts once someone else can follow it.

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