Allen Jiang

Allen Jiang

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

Email: ayjiang@ucla.edu

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Nanoparticle delivery of biomacromolecules
  • Biomolecular design and synthesis
  • Targeted delivery for therapeutic genome editing
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS
  • Jiang, A.Y.*, Lathwal, S.*, Meng, S., Witten, J., Beyer, E., McMullen, P., Hu, Y., Manan, R., Raji, I., Langer, R., Anderson, D.G. “Zwitterionic polymer-functionalized lipid nanoparticles for the nebulized delivery of mRNA”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146: 32567-32574 (2024)
  • Jiang, A.Y.*, Witten, J.*, Raji, I.O.*, Eweje, F., MacIsaac, C., Meng, S., Oladimeji, F.A., Langer, R., Anderson, D.G. “Combinatorial development of nebulized mRNA delivery formulations for the lungs”, Nature Nanotechnology, 19: 364-375 (2023)
  • Li, B.*, Jiang, A.Y.*, Raji, I.*, Atyeo, C., Raimondo, T.R., Gordon, A.G.R, Rhym, L.H., Samad, T., MacIsaac, C., Witten, J., Mughal, H., Chicz, T., Xu, Y., McNamara, R., Bhatia, S., Alter, G., Langer, R., Anderson, D.G. “Enhancing the immunogenicity of lipid-nanoparticle mRNA vaccines by adjuvanting the ionizable lipid and the mRNA”, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 9: 167-184 (2023)
  • Barbier, A.J., Jiang, A.Y., Zhang, P., Wooster, R., Anderson, D.G., “The clinical progress of mRNA vaccines and immunotherapies”, Nature Biotechnology, 40: 840–854 (2022)
EDUCATION
  • Postdoc, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2024 - 2027
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 2018
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • PhD Thesis Award - Controlled Release Society (2024)
  • Peter Karches Mentorship Prize - MIT (2022)
  • Departmental Outstanding Research Award - Cornell University (2018)
  • Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2017)