Principle investigator
Caigang Zhu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering
Email: caigang.zhu@uky.edu
Postdoc Scholars
TBD
Graduate Students
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Jing Yan, PhD student (2021- now)
B.S. in Biotechnology (2016), Southern Medical University
Research interest: Cancer Biology, tumor metabolism, metabolic imaging.
MD Zahid Hasan, PhD student(2021- now)
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2020), Khulna University Of Engineering & Technology
Research interest: Optical spectroscopy, metabolic imaging
Pranto Soumik Saha,PhD student(2022- now)
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (2021), Khulna University Of Engineering & Technology
Research interest: Optical microscopy, metabolic imaging
Sumit Sarker,PhD student(2024- now)
M.Tech in Biomedical Engineering (2023), Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Research interest: Optical microscopy, metabolic imaging, cancer biology
Undergraduate Students
Kayla T. Bolling, Undergraduate Student (2024- now)
Biomedical Engineering (2025), University of Kentucky
Research interest: Cancer Biology, metabolic imaging,
Alumni
Carlos Frederico Lima Goncalves, Postdoc (2021- 2024)
Madison Hart, Undergraduate Student, (2022- 2024)
Madison Korfhage, Undergraduate Student, (2022- 2023)
Harrison Yang, Undergraduate Student, (2021-2022)
Evan P.Carrico, Undergraduate Student,(2019-2021)
Tengfei Sun, Ph.D. Postdoc, (2020-2021)
Susiyan Jiang, Research Assistant,(2020-2021)