Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of
Biomedical Engineering
fallahi@virginia.edu
@MFallahiSichani
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(Curriculum Vitae)
Current Members
Kim Nguyen
MD/PhD Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
(Winter 2023 - Present)
zqn7td@virginia.edu
Zeinab Chitforoush, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2023 - Present)
zc9tf@virginia.edu
Emma Bakall Loewgren
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2024 - Present)
rub7nj@virginia.edu
Yonatan Degefu
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2021 - Present)
njr7jk@virginia.edu
Audrey Kidd
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2023 - Present)
aku8fb@virginia.edu
Ivan Valov
Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Spring 2025 - Present)
cza2pm@virginia.edu
Luisa Quesada
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2020 - Present)
lfq5sj@virginia.edu
Radhika Pande
Research Specialist and Lab Manager
(Winter 2025 - Present)
rsp7dr@virginia.edu
Alumni
Loan Quynh Tran
SRIP Undergraduate Student, Biology (Virginia Commonwealth University)
(Summer 2024)
Gina Chea
REU Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering (George Mason University)
(Summer 2023)
Shahab Azarfar, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2022 - 2023)
Next position: Postdoc at UVA School of Data Science
Ariana Caraballo Soler
SRIP Undergraduate Student, Cellular and Molecular Biology (University of Puerto Rico)
(Summer 2022)
Divya Venkat
Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry (2018 - 2019)
Next position: MD Student at Wayne State University
Cara Abecunas, PhD
PhD Graduate, Biomedical Engineering (2018 - 2023)
Next position: Data Scientist at Novartis
Mehwish Khaliq, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2017 - 2022)
Next position: Senior Scientist at Dewpoint Therapeutics
Doug Baumann, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2018 - 2021)
Next position: Senior Scientist at Dewpoint Therapeutics
You (Henry) Gao
Undergraduate Student,
Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering
(2023 - 2024)
Mohan Manikkam, PhD
Research Specialist and Lab Manager
(2017 - 2024)
Natacha Comandante-Lou, PhD
PhD Graduate, Biomedical Engineering (2017 - 2022),
Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University
Anna Tang
REU Undergraduate Student, Applied Mathematics (University of Utah)
(Summer 2022)
Haolong Huang
MSc Graduate, Biomedical Engineering (2019)
Next position: PhD Student at University of Michigan
Katharine Faieq
Research Specialist and Lab Manager
(2024 - 2025)