Principal Investigator

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

Luisa Quesada PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering (Fall 2020 - Present) lfq5sj@virginia.edu

Luisa Quesada
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2020 - Present)
lfq5sj@virginia.edu

Katharine Faieq 
Research Specialist and Lab Manager
(Winter 2024 - Present)
kmb3ay@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 Student, Biomedical Engineering (Winter 2018 - Present) caa5k@virginia.edu

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)

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

Mohan Manikkam, PhD 
Research Specialist and Lab Manager
(2017 - 2024)