Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology

Fanny Chapelin is a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Radiology at University of California, San Diego. Fanny received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of California, San Diego in 2019. She then became the first woman faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Kentucky where she developed her research program for four years. She has been developing non-invasive imaging techniques to visualize cellular therapies and inflammation in cancer and other immune disorders. Her research findings have led to several publications, and their impact was recognized through numerous awards, including France’s Engineer of the Year Award for Science. Her research aims to provide scientists and clinicians with ways to visualize cell distribution, fate and efficacy to improve clinical practice and patient care. She is the Radiology T32 Clinician-Scientist Residency Program Co-Director.

Email: fachapelin@ucsd.edu

Yu is a graduate student in the Bioengineering Department at UC San Diego. He earned his B.S. with a major in Biology and a minor in Chemistry from University of Utah. He is interested in the field of solid organ transplantation (SOT) to address the significant challenge of allograft rejection while using novel bioimaging techniques. Outside of the lab, he enjoys exploring new restaurants, hiking and snowboarding.

Email: yuping@ucsd.edu

Interested in using MR imaging to both diagnose cancer and track tumor shrinkage after administering immunotherapy. 

Email: emqi@ucsd.edu

Aseel is a Chemical Engineering Masters student at UCSD. She previously completed her B.S. in Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado - Boulder. She is interested in developing click-chemistry-based MRI probes designed to enable non-invasive disease detection and immune cell tracking. 

Email: amalallah@ucsd.edu

Katherine completed her B.S in Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine, and is now a Bioengineering graduate student at UC San Diego. Her interests include using MR imaging for non-invasive cancer diagnosis and for analyzing how radiation therapy and other treatment methods influence tumor response and recurrence.

Email: ksikorski@ucsd.edu 

Lydia completed her B.S in Human Biology at UC San Diego and is now a graduate student on the BS/MS track in UC San Diego. Her interests include using MR imaging to advance diabetes imaging and therapy research.

Email: lyc004@ucsd.edu

Tim is an undergraduate Bioengineering major interested in using MR imaging to analyze tumor microenvironment and incorporating MR imaging techniques with other modalities to improve accuracy in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Email: tkhall@ucsd.edu