PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering

Julia received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Toronto, and M.S.E in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.  She has research in Dr. Traverso’s Lab at MIT in oral drug delivery, tumor tissue modeling, and anti-malarial drug discovery.  In Mao Lab, her thesis research focuses on nanoparticle-based protein delivery.  In her free time, she enjoys hiking, running, and other outdoor activities. 

Publications:

• Lu X*, Zhu Y*, et al., Mao HQ. A multistep platform identifies spleen-tropic lipid nanoparticles for in vivo T cell-targeted delivery of gene-editing proteins. Science Advances, 2025.

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