Jouha Min

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2016
M.S. Chemical Engineering in Practice, 2012

Cornell University
B.S.  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2010
Summa Cum Laude

Professor Jouha Min and her group develop nano/biomaterials-based platform technologies to study or address diverse physiological disorders in humans. They integrate core concepts in chemical engineering, biochemistry and clinical science to arrive at innovative engineering solutions to significant health problems, including cancer and infectious disease. Their ultimate goal is clinical translation of the new technology to overcome the limits of current standard methods. Current research areas include i) molecular engineering of nanoagents for targeted therapy, ii) nanofabrication of implantable biomaterials for controlled drug delivery, and iii) development of molecular/cellular biosensing technologies for clinical diagnosis.

• The Rising Stars Women in Engineering, Asia, 2019
• MGH Research Institute Travel Award, 2019
• MGH Scientific Advisory Committee Research Poster Award — 1st Place, 2018
• Micro-/nanotechnologies for Medicine Symposium Award — 1st Place (Masoumeh Ghaderi Prize), 2017
• Materials Rsesearch Society (MRS) Poster Award — 1st Place, 2016
• MIT Polymer Day Symposium Award — 2nd Place, 2015
• Korean-American Science Engineering Association (KSEA) Graduate Scholar, 2014
• MIT Sloan Healthcare & Bioinnovations Conference Poster Award, 2013
• Mokam Life Science Research Center, Graduate Scholar, 2013
• Merrill Presidential Scholar at Cornell University, 2010

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(*: equal contributions)

• Min J*, Chin L*, Oh J, Landeros C, Vinegoni C, Lee J, Lee S, Park J, Liu A, Castro CM, Lee H, Im H, Weissleder R, “CytoPAN – portable cellular analyses for global health applications”, Science Translational Medicine, 12(555) eaaz9746 (Cover Article).
• Min J*, Son T*, Wegemann A, Weissleder R, Lee H, Im H, Plasmon-enhanced biosensing for multiplexed profiling of extracellular vesicles, Advanced Biosystems, doi: 10.1002/adbi.202000003.
• Park S, Xiao X, Min J, Mun C, Jung H, Giannini V, Weissleder R, Maier SA, Im H, Kim D, “Self-Assembly of nanoparticle-spiked pillar arrays for plasmonic biosensing”, Advanced Functional Materials, 1904257, 2019 (Cover Article).
• Min J*, Im H*, Allen M, McFarland PJ, Degani I, Yu H, Normandin E, Pathania D, Patel JM, Castro CM, Weissleder R, Lee H, “Computational optics enables breast cancer profiling in point-of-care settings”, ACS Nano, 12(9), 9081-9090, 2018
• Min J, Nothing M, Coble B, Zheng H, Park J, Im H, Weber G, Castro CM, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Lee H, “Integrated biosensor for rapid and point-of-care sepsis diagnosis”, ACS Nano, 12(4), 3378-3384, 2018.
• Min J, Choi KY, Dreaden EC, Padera RF, Braatz RD, Spector M, Hammond PT, “Designer dual therapy implant coatings eradicate biofilms and accelerate bone tissue repair”, ACS Nano, 10(4), 4441-4450, 2016 (Cover Article).
• Tian F, Min J, Kanka J, Li X, Hammond PT, S.A. Sukhishvili, H. Du, “In-situ monitoring of drug release from therapeutic eluting polyelectrolyte multilayers using Lab-on-Fiber optofluidic platform”, Optics Express, 23(15), 20132-42, 2015.
• Min J, Braatz RD, Hammond PT, “Tunable staged release of therapeutics from layer-by-layer coating with clay interlayer barrier”, Biomaterials, 35(8), 2507-17, 2014.