Members

Nien-Pei Tsai, Ph.D.

Kwan Young Lee, Ph.D.

Vipendra Kumar, Ph.D.
FRAXA Postdoctoral Fellow

Anirudh Acharya, Ph.D.
FRAXA Postdoctoral Fellow

Yingxin Wang
(4th year MCB PhD Candidate)

Hunter Wilson

Gargi Palashikar
(5th year MCB PhD Candidate)

Meijin Pan
(3rd year MCB PhD Candidate)

Angela Nguyen

Shiyu Wang
(4th year MCB PhD Candidate)

Gabe McKenna
(3rd year MCB PhD Candidate)
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Alumni
Postdoc:
Kathryn Jewett, PhD (Postdoc 2014-2017)
Graduate Students:
Simon Lizarazo, PhD (Graduate student; 2019-2025; Current position: Postdoc at Johnson & Johnson)
Yeeun Yook, PhD (Graduate student; 2019-2024; Current position: Postdoc at Emory University)
Jessie Cook, MS (Graduate student; 2020-2022; NINDS Diversity Fellow)
Daphne Lodes, PhD (Graduate student; 2018-2022; American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellow; Current position: Faculty at Central New Mexico Community College)
Dai-Chi (Debby) Liu, PhD (Graduate student; 2015-2019; Current position: Staff Engineer at Regeneron)
Jiuhe (Rosa) Zhu, PhD (Graduate student; 2014-2019; Current position: Field Application Scientist at ABclonal)
Undergraduate students:
Ishmael Khandokar (Undergraduate, 2025)
Michael Pantoja (Undergraduate, 2024-2025)
Sophia Azim (Undergraduate, 2022-2025)
Olivia Wong (Undergraduate, 2023-2025)
Matt Babik (Undergraduate, 2022-2023, Technician 2024; 2022, 2023 MCB summer research fellow)
Emilie Forsell (Undergraduate, 2021-2022)
Jack Gerling (Undergraduate, 2019-2021; 2020 MCB summer research fellow)
Tiffany Jong (Undergraduate, 2017-2020; 2019, 2020 MCB summer research fellow)
Bailey Metcalf (Undergraduate, 2018-2020; 2019, 2020 MCB summer research fellow)
Aeshaa Pathak (Undergraduate, 2016-2018)
Steven Saletta (Undergraduate, 2016-2018)
Jon Bacos (Undergraduate, 2014-2016; 2015 MCB summer research fellow)
Luke Mittelstaedt (Undergraduate, 2015)
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