Hong Research Group Members

The Hong Research Group is composed of research staff scientists, postdocs, and students—graduate, PharmD, and undergraduate—with a variety of backgrounds in biology, chemistry, and engineering, working together in a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. We value diversity in our group and welcome new members who will broaden our perspectives.

headshot of Hong Seungpyo

Seungpyo Hong, PhD

Principal Investigator
Milton J. Henrichs Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences, UW–Madison School of Pharmacy
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Carbone Cancer Center, and Biomedical Engineering
Director of Wisconsin Center for NanoBioSystems, UW–Madison School of Pharmacy
1999 BS in fiber and polymer engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
2001 MS in polymer engineering, Hanyang University/Korea Inst. of Sci. and Technol. (KIST), Seoul, Korea
2006 PhD in macromolecular science and engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2008 Postdoc, chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts

Since 2008, Dr. Hong has led a research group under the major research theme of biomimetic nanotechnology for cancer diagnosis and treatment. He has been inducted as a Fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2022 and awarded the 2012 AAPS New Investigator Award in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technologies and the 2012 UIC Researcher of the Year – Rising Star Award. To date, Dr. Hong’s research has culminated in more than 120 peer-reviewed articles that have a combined total number of citations of approximately 20,000 with an h-index of 49, 1 co-edited book, eight book chapters, and more than 22 issued or pending patents. He has given more than 180 invited talks worldwide and attended more than 200 conference proceedings.

Research Staff

Michael Poellmann, PhD

Scientist
2013 PhD in bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2016 Postdoc in Biological Sciences, University of Chicago

Narsimha Mamidi, PhD

Scientist at WiscNano
2014 PhD in Organic Chemistry, Indian institute of Technology, India
2018-2022 Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry and Nanotechnology, Tecnologico de Monterrey (TEC), Mexico

Postdoc

JinWoong Lee, PhD

Postdoc
2020 PhD in School of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering, SungKyunKwan University, Suwon, Korea

Graduate Student

Kaila Javius-Jones

PhD Candidate
2019 BS biochemistry, San Francisco State University

Caroline Hopkins

PhD Candidate (co-advised by Dr. Glen Kwon and Dr. Hong)
2019 BS biology, BA chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Piper Rawding

PhD Candidate
2018 BE, Biology in Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison

DaWon Kim

PhD Candidate
2019 BE, Bio-Convergence in Integrated Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Zixian Zhu

PhD Student
2021 BS, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
2021 BS, Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University
2023 MS, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Carter Kim

PhD Student
2020 BS, Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tyler Tang

PhD Student
2023 BS, Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Undergraduate Students

Erika Kay-Tsumagari

UW-Madison, Department of Biochemistry

Ashley Liu

UW-Madison, Department of Chemistry

Hung Nguyen

UW-Madison, Department of Biochemistry

Annika Olson

UW-Madison, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Elsa Palmieri

UW-Madison, Department of Biochemistry

Tyler Selenske

UW-Madison, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Elizabeth Han Yang

UW-Madison, Department of Biology