Shin Laboratory Members
Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator
Su Ryon Shin, Ph.D.
Su Ryon Shin is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Shin received a doctoral degree from Hanyang University, South Korea. In Nov. 2010, she joined Prof. Ali Khademhosseini's group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technologies, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dr. Shin is an expert in the field of nanomaterials, biomaterials, tissue engineering, electrochemical actuator, biosensor, organ-on-a-chip, and 3D bioprinting.
Career Investigators
Chanyuan Li
Chanyuan Li is a gynecologic oncologist at Zhejiang University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. in Oncology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2023. Her previous research focused on the role of microbiota in ovarian cancer, including tumor-promoting mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria, tumor-suppressive effects of probiotics, and aptamer-based diagnostic strategies. She joined the Shin Lab in March 2025 and is currently working on oxygen-releasing biomaterials to improve chemotherapy outcomes in hypoxic ovarian tumors.
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Zahra Rezaei
Zahra Rezaei is a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2022), Iran. Her work centers on electrochemical micro-/nano-biosensors for early disease detection and the development of advanced microfluidic and organ-on-chip platforms. Zahra joined Dr. Shin’s lab in May 2019, and she is currently expanding her research to include next-generation diagnostic biosensors, biomaterials, and bioactuator technologies.
Seok Gyu Han
Seokgyu Han is a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He received his B.S (2018) and Ph.D. (2024) degrees in department of Mechanical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan university. In Sep. 2024, he is joined Prof. Shin’s lab pursuing to develop innovative biomaterials for muscle regeneration.
Jihyun Lee
Dr. Jihyun Lee is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Su Ryon Shin’s lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She developed biomimetic structures based on flexible materials during her PhD, leading research on medical devices applicable to biosurfaces. Currently, her research focuses on biohybrid robot systems, utilizing tissue engineering, 3D printed scaffolds, flexible materials, and wireless transmission systems.
Francisco Conceição
Francisco Conceição is a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow at Professor Su Ryon Shin’s lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He has expertise in organ-on-chip design, fabrication and bone disease modeling. For his doctoral research, under the supervision of Dr. Meriem Lamghari, he investigated the role of the sympathetic nervous system on breast cancer bone metastasis and obtained his PhD from the University of Porto, Portugal. During his first post-doctoral appointment at Dr. Liliana Moreira Teixeira’s lab at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, he investigated sex-specific features of osteoarthritis using an osteochondral interface model on-chip. Currently, he is developing electrochemical sensors for detection and quantification of bone biomarkers for in-line monitoring of bone-on-chip models.
Kijun Park
Kijun Park is a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. (2024) degrees in the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea. Dr. Park is a specialist in biomaterials and 3D bioprinting, with a strong focus on developing functional biocompatible materials. His expertise lies in designing hydrogel- and polymer-based bioinks that enable tissue regeneration. Currently, he is leading projects that utilize robotic-arm-assisted 3D bioprinting systems for advanced wound healing and the development of bioelectronic devices.
Sera Hong
Sera Hong is a postdoctoral researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She received her Pharm.D. (2018) from Sungkyunkwan University and her Ph.D. (2024) in Pharmacy from Seoul National University, where she focused on biomaterial science, particularly drug delivery in the tumor microenvironment and bioprinting-based platforms for pharmaceutical analysis. She joined Prof. Shin’s laboratory in March 2025 and is currently focusing on developing nanoclay-assisted bioactive hydrogel systems for chronic wound healing and tissue regeneration.
Ji Eun Lee
Dr. Ji Eun Lee is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). She received her Ph. D., M. S., and B. S. degrees in Mechanical System Design Engineering from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea, in 2020, 2015, and 2013, respectively. Her research interest in bio application via additive manufacturing.
Junhyeok Ock
Junhyeok Ock is a visiting researcher in Professor Su Ryon Shin’s laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and is currently affiliated with the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). His current work focuses on developing intelligent microfluidic platforms, including a 6 and 96-well high-throughput microfluidic system for drug response prediction. His broader research expertise encompasses patient-specific surgical guides and hyper-realistic simulation phantoms utilizing advanced 3D/4D printing, augmented reality, robotics, and AI-driven medical image analysis.
Tae-Rim Kim
Dr. Tae-Rim Kim is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Su Ryon Shin’s lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. During her Ph.D., she developed biomimetic porous materials for bone tissue engineering and computational modeling. Her current research focuses on hydrogel-based soft biomaterials, data-driven constitutive modeling, and cardiac biomechanics simulations to understand heart function and soft tissue behavior.
PhD Students
Gwang Myeon Seo
Gwang Myeong Seo is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea and a visiting researcher in Professor Su Ryon Shin’s laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on developing bioengineered gut models by integrating microfluidic systems, biomaterials, and muscle-mimetic tissue structures. He is currently working on a gut–muscle integrated platform that combines villus-like intestinal architectures with aligned muscle layers to recapitulate physiologically relevant gut motion and tissue–tissue interactions.
Hangyeol Nam
Hangyeol Nam is a Ph.D. student in Cogno-Mechatronics Engineering at Pusan National University in South Korea and a visiting researcher in Professor Su Ryon Shin’s laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on developing biomaterial-based platforms for tissue regeneration and wound healing by integrating functional hydrogels, microfabrication, and bioengineering approaches. She has worked on engineered biomaterials for promoting tissue repair and has experience in photolithography-based fabrication of microstructured platforms for biomedical applications.
Undergraduate Students
Andrés García Anaya
Andrés is a junior Nanotechnology Engineering student at Tecnológico de Monterrey and a research intern at Dr. Su Ryon Shin’s laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, under the mentorship of Dr. Zahra Rezaei. Current work focuses on developing and testing electrochemical nanostructured sensors for biomarker detection and fluidic system microdevice CAD & testing. Prior to joining, research experience included membership in an undergraduate electrokinetic microfluidics group and founding a start-up focused on data science algorithms for environmental pollution detection. This background has established a lasting interest in microfluidics, electrochemistry, CAD, and data science.
Diego Cota Barocio
Diego Cota Barocio is a senior Biotechnology Engineering student at Tecnológico de Monterrey and a research intern at Dr. Su Ryon Shin’s laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, under the mentorship of Dr. Seokgyu Han. His current work focuses on the development of iPSC-derived organoids for skeletal muscle regeneration. Prior to joining the Shin Lab, he was the lab team leader for his university’s iGEM team, where he developed fusion protein biosensors for environmental contaminant detection. This experience sparked his interest in engineering biological systems at the molecular level. Diego is interested in synthetic biology and the development of programmable cellular therapies, particularly the use of gene circuits to control cell behavior.
Paul Shin
Paul Shin is an undergraduate student at Cornell University studying Human Biology, Health, and Society. He will be a research intern over the course of the summer at Dr. Su Ryon Shin's Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, under the mentorship of Dr. Seok Gyu Han. He is interested in exploring the physiology of cardiac tissue, and also working with muscle regenerative engineering.