Dr. Danielle J. Mai joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford in January 2020. She earned her B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the guidance of Prof. Charles M. Schroeder. Dr. Mai was an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Bradley D.

Dr. Danny Chou's research program integrates concepts of chemical biology, protein engineering and structure biology to design new therapeutic leads and generate probes to study biological processes. A key focus of the Chou lab is insulin, an essential hormone in our body to reduce blood glucose levels. The lab generates synthetic libraries of insulin analogs to select for chemical probes, and investigates natural insulin molecules (e.g. from the venom of fish-hunting cone snails!) to develop novel therapeutic candidates. Dr.

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: A Microfluidic-based Platform for High-Throughput Screening of Stem Cell-Niche Interactions in 3D Gradient Hydrogels
Event: 2015 4th TERMIS World Congress

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Mimicking tissue zonal organization by engineering hydrogels with biochemical and mechanical gradients
Event: 2014 Materials Research Society