Guillermo A. Ameer, Sc.D.
Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
Professor of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests: biomaterials, polymers, micro-/nano-patterning, cell mechanics, stem cells
Joined the lab: 2017
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:Polymer synthesis, 3D platform fabrication, Nanocomposite biomaterials, Regenerative engineering
Joined the lab: 2021
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Controlled drug delivery, Nanofibrous hydrogels, Wound Healing, Drug eluting cardiac stents, Regenerative Engineering
Joined the lab: 2023
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: conductive polymers, osteochondral regeneration, electronic stimulation, regenerative engineering
Joined the lab: 2022
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biologically-inspired design, Controlled release of active substances, Extracellular matrix (ECM) materials, Stem cells, Tissue engineering
Joined the lab: 2024
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: wound healing, biomaterials, regenerative engineering
Joined the lab: 2020 as PhD Student, 2025 as Postdoc.
Ph.D. Candidates
Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Regenerative engineering, stem cells, hydrogels
Joined the lab: 2022
Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: bioelectronics, biomaterials, regenerative engineering, wound healing
Joined the lab: 2023
Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: tissue engineering, regenerative engineering, biomaterials
Joined the lab: 2024
Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:regenerative engineering, biomaterials, additive manufacturing
Joined the lab: 2024
Master’s Candidates
Master Student in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: My project focuses on evaluating the mechanical properties of citrate-based biomaterial-ceramic composites, aiming to enhance the material's application in orthopedic engineering, particularly for bone repair and regeneration.
Joined the lab: 2024
Master Student in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Drug Delivery, Biomaterials, Glaucoma Filtration Surgery, Antimicrobial Wound Healing, Immunomodulation.
Joined the lab: 2024
Master Student in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:on developing citric acid-based biomaterials for photoprotection and inflammation sensing. Particularly interested in combining materials chemistry with biomedical applications to create innovative solutions for wound healing and skincare..
Joined the lab: 2024
Master Student in Biotechnology
Research Interests:Non-contact VOC flux platform applications, nanobiotechnology.
Joined the lab: 2025
Master Student in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:Polymeric biomaterials, cardiac biomaterials, conductive polymers, regenerative engineering, biomaterials design and characterization. My work focuses on understanding how the design and structural properties of conductive polymer systems influence their functional performance and interactions in cardiovascular biomaterial applications.
Joined the lab: 2025
Undergraduate Students
- Connor Moore (Class 2024) (mentor: Maria Méndez-Santos)
- Liam Warlick (Class 2024) (mentor: Maria Méndez-Santos )
- Amy Zun (Class 2024) (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Marilene Van der Berg (Class 2025) (mentor: Maria Méndez-Santos)
- Ophelia Tong (Class 2025) (mentor: Huifeng Wang)
Group Photos
Alumni
Last known affiliation listed
Post-doctoral Fellows and Research Assistants
- Dr. Ruyue Luo, North Sichuan Medical University.
- Dr. Huifeng Wang, Assistant Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Visit her new lab!
- Dr. Amir Khan: Postdoc, Dartmouth University
- Dr. Yonghui Ding: Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Visit his new lab!
- Dr. Bin Jiang :Assistant Professor, the Department of Surgery and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University. Visit her new lab!.
- Dr. Jimmy Su : Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Dr. Anthony Petty:
- Dr. Banu Akar: Medtronic
- Dr. Jisheng Xiao
- Dr. Robert van Lith: Medical Writer, EBSCO, and freelance scientific editor
- Dr. Mazen Albaghdadi: Graduate Assistant, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Dr. Jian Yang: Freelance consultant
- Dr. Karen Lapidos: Associate Director, Office of Research Development, Northwestern University
- Dr. Ying Wang
- Dr. Elaine Zhang: Scientist, Nanosphere Inc.
- Dr. Conchi Serrano: Post Doc, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos (Toledo, Spain)
- Dr. Hongjin Qiu: Staff Scientist, Beckman Coulter
- Dr. Haichao Zhao: Research Scientist, RIKEN, Japan
- Dr. Xueqing Zhang: Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Dr. Jae-Sung Lee: Sr. Research Scientist, Primorigen Biosciences
- Dr. Jian Yang: Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Penn State
- Dr. Yong Kang: Residency at Pathology Brooklyn Hospital Center, NY
- Dr. Xiahou Xia: Wrigley Co. IL
- Dr. Delara Motlagh: Sr. Manager, Baxter Healthcare, IL
Graduate Students and Visiting Scholars
- Nancy Rivera Bolaños, PhD:
- Madeleine Goedegebuure, PhD:
- Shidrukh Ali, MS:
- Rebecca Keate, PhD: CEO & Co-Founder of Cellmend Technologies
- Joseph Song, PhD: Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
- Samantha Huddleston, PhD: Postdoc, University of Missouri
- Jacqueline Burke, PhD: Biomedical Engineer, University of Illinois, Chincago
- Yunxiao “Sherry” Zhu, PhD: Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Simona Morochnik, PhD: University of Illinois Medical School
- Anamika Chatterjee, MS: Washington University in St. Louis Graduate School
- Cole Fuerste, MS: Medline
- Paul Puglisi, MS: Acuitive Technologies
- Shwetha Ramachandra, MS: Center for Advanced Regenerative Medicine
- Baixue “Dorothy” Xiao, MS: Rochester University Graduate school
- Charlottle Marlinga, MS
- Robert van Lith: Managing Editor of Pulmonary, EBSCO Industries.
- Jim Kim, MS: Consultant, Deloitte Canada
- Zdravka Cankova, MS: IronNet Cybersecurity
- Komal Prem, BS: Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic
- Michele Jen, PhD: Novartis, Dallas
- Xuesong Wang: PhD candidate, Xinyang Wang lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing
- Gali Baler, PhD: Co-Founder, Sintact Medical Systems, LLC
- Wiktor Kasprzyk: Cracow University of Technology
- Ryan Hoshi, PhD: Food and Drug Administration, Washington D.C.
- Yi Ai, MS: GenScript, NJ
- Antonio Webb, PhD: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
- Eunji Chung-Yoo, PhD: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
- Josephine Allen, PhD: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
- Aline Thomas: Post-doctoral fellow, Julia Babensee lab, Georgia Tech
- Trisha Koenke: GE Healthcare, Seattle
- Yu-Chung “Miller” Tsai, MS: Sr. Associate at Amgen
- Maria Doukas, MS: Associate, K&L Gates LLP, Chicago
- Micah Rogel: Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow, Northwestern University
- Cynthia Daniels, PhD: Chicago Public Schools
- Anand Jagannath, MS: Resident Physician, Montefiori Medical Center, NY
- Hari Santhanam, MS: Attorney, Kirkland and Ellis LLP
- Anchal Kaushiva, MS: Food and Drug Administration, Washington D.C.
- Lisa Romito, MS: Medtronic Inc.
- Marissa Darmoc, MS: Director, R&D Engineernig Operations, Stryker Spine
- Kelly Huseby, MS: Engineering Manager, Medtronic
- Edna Choi, MS: Sr. Manager of Operational Excellence, Novavax
Undergraduate Students and Interns
- Helena Freire Haddad (mentor: Jacqueline Alexis Burke)
- Ryan Tang (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Ru Zheng (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Michelle Nguyen (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Michael Park (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Juan Sanabria (mentor: Samantha Eryn Huddleston)
- Edward Xu (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Carolina Bohorquez (mentor: Jacqueline Alexis Burke)
- Aron Lo (mentor: Bin Jiang)
- Abdalla Ali (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Wenzel Akinboro (mentor: Simona Morochnik)
- Michelle Cai (mentor: Simona Morochnik)
- Fendi Vadevoulis (mentor: Samantha Huddleston)
- Ambuj Bhalla (mentor: Xinlong Wang)
- Jackie Xu (mentor: Simona Morochnik)
- Logan Northcutt: REU Student (mentor: Banu Akar)
- Rachel Suen (mentor: Bin Jiang)
- Michele Wang (mentor: Jim Kim)
- Madison Ernst (mentors: Chongwen Duan, Robert van Lith)
- Sheridan Lichtor (mentor: Sherry Zhu)
- Kai Huang (mentors: Zdravka Cankova, Sherry Zhu)
- Brian Cheng (mentor: Jisheng Xiao)
- Austin Kim
- Carlos Mucharraz (mentor: Mazen Albaghdadi)
- Jose Carillo (mentor: Robert van Lith)
- Nneka Onyeka (mentors: Jose Carillo, Robert van Lith)
- Beatrix Kovacs
- Amira Hannon: REU Student (mentor: Sherry Zhu)
- Alex Kim (mentor: Michele Jen)
- Dominic Grosso (mentor: Mazen Albaghdadi)
- Iva Golemi: REU Student (mentor: Bin Jiang)
- Andy Lee
- Louisiane Perrin (mentor: Bin Jiang)
- Ryan Lam: Co-advised by Prof. Wertheim (mentors: Robert van Lith, Bin Jiang)
- Dina Kats: IBIS PhD Student Rotation (mentor: Bin Jiang)
- Vivek Prakash (mentors: Mazen Albaghdadi, Jian Yang)
- Savan Patel (mentors: Karen Lapidos, Michele Jen)
- Vincent Chen (mentor: Michele Jen)
- Xing Li (mentor: Gali Baler)
- Sharon Chen (mentor: Jian Yang)
- Jasmine Kwasa (mentor: Karen Lapidos)
- Mahlet Woldeyes (mentor: Robert van Lith)
- Tara Berglund (mentor: Karen Lapidos)
- Sarah Ponte (mentor: Gali Baler)
- Darlene Attiah: Teacher Summer Intern (mentor: Jian Yang)
- David Kang: High-school Summer Intern (mentor: Jian Yang)
- Ravi Patel (mentor: Elaine Zhang)
- Vikram Nandhan (mentor: Elaine Zhang)
- Adam Matsil (mentor: Karen Lapidos)
- Ashleigh Hood (mentor: Michele Jen)
- Luis Carbajal (mentor: Conchi Serrano)
- Matt Sugimoto (mentor: Eunji Chung)
- Andrew McGrain (mentor: Eunji Chung)
- Michael Tu (mentor: Robert van Lith)
- Alec Liu (mentor: Elaine Zhang)
- Alex Jiao (mentor: Karen Lapidos)
- John Kulesa (mentor: Josephine Allen)
- Justin Liu (mentor: Karen Lapidos)
- Mayank Vijayvergia (mentor: Karen Lapidos)
- Sahil Shah (mentor: Elaine Zhang)
- Tim Stanis (mentors: Conchi Serrano, Robert van Lith)
- Vikram Karandikar (mentor: Eunji Chung)
- Irene Swanenberg (mentor: Karen Lapidos)
- John Yu (mentor: Ryan Hoshi)
- Lisa Thompson: High-school Summer Intern (mentor: Anand Jagganath)
- Vivek Kumar (mentor: Tony Webb)
- Sam Pickerill (mentor: Tony Webb)
- Jeff Kuo (mentor: Xueqing Zhang)
- Sadiya Khan (mentor: Josephine Allen)
- Asha Shekaran (mentor: Josephine Allen)
- Saloni Behl (mentor: Ryan Hoshi)