Cassandra Callmann

Cassandra is currently an International Institute of Nanotechnology (IIN) Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University. Her research in the Mirkin group employs spherical nucleic acids as cancer vaccines. Prior to her postdoctoral studies, she earned her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, where she developed targeted drug delivery systems under the guidance of Prof. Nathan Gianneschi. For this work, she was awarded an Outstanding Dissertation Award by the UC San Diego chemistry department. Cassandra obtained her B.S. in biochemistry at West Chester University.