RESEARCH STAFF

Dr. Yannis Paulus

Yannis M. Paulus, MD, FACS

Principal Investigator

Email: ypaulus@med.umich.edu

Lindsay Self

Administrative Assistant

Phone: (734) 764-4182

Fax: (734) 936-3815

Email: selindsa@med.umich.edu

Iyabode Ajayi, DVM

Lab Manager, Research Lab Specialist Senior

Email: oabatan@med.umich.edu

Wei Zhang

Wei Zhang, PhD

Research Investigator

Email: zhawei@umich.edu

Research focus: Biological Electrical Conductivity Imaging using Magnetoacoustic Tomography, Photoacoustic Imaging

Phuc Nguyen, PHD

Phuc Nguyen, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Email: vanphucn@umich.edu

Research focus: Photoacoustic Imaging, Photothermal Therapy

Jeffrey Yu, MD

UM Ophthalmology Resident Physician

Email: yujef@med.umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal imaging

Nikhil Bommakanti, MD

UM Ophthalmology Resident Physician

Email: bommakan@med.umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal imaging

Mingyang Wang

University of Michigan PhD Candidate

Email: mingyanw@umich.edu

Research focus: Photo-mediated Ultrasound Therapy

Angela Yim

UM Medical Student

Email: ayim@med.umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal imaging

Quynh Kieu

Visiting medical student, Michigan State University

Email: kieuquyn@msu.edu

Research focus: Retinal imaging

Mickey Nguyen

UM Medical Student

Email: mickeyng@med.umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal Imaging

Julien Levy

UM Medical Student

Email: julevy@med.umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal imaging

Nick Kinachtchouk

Visiting Medical Student, Central Michigan University College of Medicine

Email: kinac1ns@cmich.edu

Research focus: Retinal Imaging

Tianqu Zhai

UM Student

Email: tianquzh@umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal imaging

Elizabeth Graham

UM Undergraduate, Biomolecular Science

Email: elizgrah@umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal Molecular Imaging

Rida Khan

UM Undergraduate

Email: ridak@umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal imaging

Josh Zhe

UM Undergraduate

Email: joshzhe@umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal Molecular Imaging

Ashley Brown

UM Undergraduate

Email: ashnb@umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal Molecular Imaging

Sydney Jones

UM Undergraduate, College of Engineering

Email: sydjones@umich.edu

Research focus: Retinal Molecular Imaging

Caitlin Miranda

UM Undergraduate, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Email: cmir@umich.edu

Research focus: Ultra-wide-field retinal imaging in diabetic retinopathy

Research Mentors

Thomas Gardner, MD, MS

Thomas W. Gardner, MD, MS

Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Professor, Internal Medicine - Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes

Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Senior Scholar, A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Associate Chair, Research

Nicholas Kotov, PhD

Nicholas Kotov, PhD

Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Materials Science

Biointerfaces Institutes

Email: kotov@umich.edu

Xueding Wang, PhD

Xueding Wang, PhD

Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Email: xdwang@umich.edu

Research focus: Development of novel optical and ultrasound based imaging and sensing technologies, and their applications to biomedicine

K. Thiran Jayasundera, M.D., FACS, FRCSC, FRANZCO

K. Thiran Jayasundera, MD, FACS, FRCSC, FRANZCO

Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences University of Michigan

Email: thiran@med.umich.edu

Research Collaborators

Maria Woodward, MD, MS

Maria A. Woodward, MD, MS

Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Science

University of Michigan

Email: mariawoo@med.umich.edu

Xinmai Yang, PhD

Xinmai Yang, PhD

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Kansas

Email: xmyang@ku.edu

Gary (Guan) Xu, PhD

Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

University of Michigan

Email: guanx@med.umich.edu

Julie M. Rosenthal, MD, MS

Clinical Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

University of Michigan

Email: julieros@med.umich.edu

Sayoko E. Moroi, MD, PhD

William H. Havener, MD Endowed Professor,
Chair and Director of the Havener Eye Institute
Professor of Ophthalmology
The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Email: Sayoko.Moroi@osumc.edu

Raoul Kopelman, PhD

Richard Smalley Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Applied Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Biology

University of Michigan

Email: kopelman@umich.edu