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PEOPLE
Sarah Walker, Principal Investigator
she/her
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
PI: Kurt Fredrick
Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University and NIH
PI: Jon Lorsch
Ira Mohapatra, Ph.D. Candidate, Biology
she/her
Rutuja Kulkarni, Ph.D. Candidate, Biology
she/her
Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Kris Dias (2024-2025)
Xiaozhuo Liu (2016-2019), Research Scientist, Roswell Park
Houtan Moshiri (2016-2017), Principal Investigator, Alta Science
Graduate Students
Qian He (Ph.D., 2025), Postdoctoral Researcher, UB
Likhit Juttada (M.S. Data Science, 2025)
Ansuman Sahoo (Ph.D., 2023), Merck Postdoctoral Fellow
Austin D'Angelo (M.S. Biology, 2022), Histology Lab, Sister's Hospital
Thomas Ossevoort (M.S. Biology, 2021), Ph.D. Student, Rochester University
Peter Schuessler (M.S. Biology, 2020), Lab Technician, ECC Specimen Lab
Leila Zabihi Diba (M.S. Biology, 2020), Scientist, Pfizer
Jay Sharma (M.S. Biology, 2018), Scientist II, Novartis
High School Student
Clare Stack (2021)
Technicians/Work Study
Ray Santillano (Technician, 2022-2024), Eurofins
Nabeel Almuti (M.S. student, Engineering, 2021)
Ilya Aleksandrovskiy (M.D. student, 2015-2016)
Last updated position noted
Leena Pravin Pilankar, Ph.D. Student, Biology
she/her
Undergraduate Researchers
Milana Chang (Summer 2025)
Andrew Pruetz (2023-2024)
Autumn Jones (Summer 2024)
Aidan Sumrall (2024)
Songlin Yang (2023)
Nissa Medwid (2022-2023)
Eshan Patel (2022-2023)
Adaora Amobi (2022-2023)
Maria Seidle (Summer 2022)
Ritika Bhajiawala (2021-2022)
Samantha Nelson (2020-2022)
Karrar Aljanahi (2019-2020)
Amy Ressler (Summer 2020)
Yousef Yousef (2019-2020)
Nate Davenport (2018-2020)
Tracey Ly (Summer 2019)
Jessie Caprino (2017-2018)
Diamile Tavarez (2017-2018)
Charlotte Miller (2017-2018)
Marium Ashraf (2015-2017)
Yu Yang (2016)
Max Barnhart (2016)
Antonio Figueiredo (2016)
Daniel Shin (2015-2016)
Kasturika Shankar, Ph.D., Postdoc
she/her
Sarah Albert, Biochemistry Undergraduate
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