Members

Principal Investigator

Fanny Chapelin, PhD

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.

Email: fachapelin@ucsd.edu

Graduate Students

Yu Ping

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

Emily Qi

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

Email: emqi@ucsd.edu

Undergraduate Students

Lydia Chen

Interested in using MR imaging to advance diabetes imaging and therapy research

Email: lyc004@ucsd.edu

Alumni

Past Graduate Students

1. Brock Howerton (PhD) May 2022-July 2025

2. Ajaatshatru Sisodia (MS) Oct 2023- June 2025

3. Kalyani Verma (MS) Oct 2023-June 2024

4. Logan Brown (MS) May 2021-June 2023

5. Ricardo Carbajal (MS) Aug 2021-June 2023

6. Zachary Sweeney, M3 Apr 2021-June 2022

7. Leslie W. Nelson, DO, Radiology PGY3 Apr 2020-June 2023

High-School and Undergraduate Lab Alumni

1. Mario Elias Quicana – REU program May 2025-Aug 2025

2. Amy Madin - ENLACE Program Jun 2025-Aug 2025

3. Guri Yael Zuluaga- ENLACE Program Jun 2025-Aug 2025

4. Harrison Yang, UK BSBME ’25 Apr 2022-July 2025

5. Kellie Poquiz, UCSD BIOE ’27 Jan 2024-July 2024

6. Wenhao Ren, UCSD BIOE ’27 Jan 2024- July 2024

7. Abby Phillips, UK BSBME ’26 Feb 2023- May 2023

8. George Loughrin, UK BSBME ’23 Aug 2022-May 2023

9. Megan Bordner, UK BSBME ’25 Nov 2021-May 2023

10. Andres Phillips, UK BSBME ’25 Nov 2021-May 2023

11. Liza Gossett, UK BSBME ’25 Jan 2021- Aug 2022

12. Songyue Han, UTC MS ’24 Feb 2022-Aug 2022

13. Lauren Ozier, UK BSBME ’24 Nov 2021-June 2022

14. Lara Larson, UK BSME ’24 Jan 2020- Sept 2020

15. Katrina Eterovich, UK BSME ’24 Jan 2020-Jun 2020

16. Jessica Baden, UK BSME ’24 Jan 2020-Jun 2020

17. Danielle Dutton, UK BSME ’24 Jan 2020-Jan 2021

18. Alyssa Gebhardt, Frederick Douglass High School ’20 Jan 2020 - June 2020