Staff

Corrine Hornbeck joined Notre Dame Research in 2016 and currently serves as the Program Coordinator for the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health.

Carlie Kudary joined the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health in 2022 as a Laboratory Technician. She works closely with BIPH faculty, staff, and students to execute laboratory research programs. Carlie is a 2021 graduate from the University of Missouri – St. Louis with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Before joining BIPH, Carlie spent a year and a half as a pharmaceutical analyst.

Prakash is a nanoparticle engineer (h-index 20) with more than 12 years of multidisciplinary expertise in synthesis of nanomaterials, biomedical imaging, cancer biology, nanotoxicology, and targeted therapeutics/ diagnostics. Contact me for collaborations, partnerships, and consulting opportunities. The driving force behind my research is to make nanoparticle-based technologies accessible to all research groups. Prakash uses unique interdisciplinary research experience with nanoscale sensor materials, to elucidate inter-cell trafficking and defense mechanisms of abnormal cells (e.g., cancer, MDR bacteria) with the aim of exploiting this knowledge for early detection and targeted therapies. He has secondary research interests in nanotoxicology and scaling up the synthesis of nanomaterials from lab scale to pilot scale with a niche focus on anisotropic and Janus nanoparticles. He has tertiary interests in the application of plasmonic nanomaterials in the field of metamaterials, sensors, catalysis and improving the efficiency of renewable energy sources. Prakash has won multiple awards as a consultant for Innocentive (a crowd-sourced initiative by former Eli Lilly scientists), and he is a successful applicant for research grants in an academic setting. His combined work experience in industry, academics and as a consultant gives him a diverse skill set that makes him highly adaptable and allows him to work strongly in an individual as well as in a team setting, As part of his research, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, been cited more than 2500 times, co-authored 1 book chapter, and patented 7 applications.

Abby Rodriguez joined Notre Dame Research in 2023 as a Program Assistant for The Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health. Abby oversees event planning, marketing, and social media for the institute. Abby is a 2023 graduate of Baylor University and has received her bachelor's degree in marketing.

Matthew J. Webber, the Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Engineering and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is director of the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health. An internationally recognized expert in supramolecular engineering, Webber also serves as a concurrent associate professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. His research focuses on applying supramolecular principles, leveraging defined and rationally designed non-covalent interactions, to prepare biomaterials and drug delivery technologies. Webber received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University under the direction of Prof. Samuel Stupp. Subsequently, he was an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at MIT in the labs of Profs. Robert Langer and Daniel Anderson.