Past Members

Research Faculty

Yordan Kostov

Research Associate Professor,

Assistant Director

Leah Tolosa

Research Associate Professor,

Assistant Director

Rajani Adiga

Sai Sathish Ramamurthy (Research Assistant Professor)

Chandrasekhar Gurramkonda (Research Associate Professor)

Manohar Pilli (Research Assistant Professor) – Currently working at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Research Staff

Karuna Mupparapu (CAST Lab Manager)

Sarah Burney (Research Faculty Assistant) – Currently attending Medical School in Fall 2023

Monireh Marsafari (Visiting Research Faculty Assistant) – Currently working at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.

Abhay Andar (Assistant Research Scientist) – Currently working at Champions Oncology

Kevin Tran (Research Engineer) – Currently working at CenterHQ

Erick Gutierrez (System Design Engineer) – Currently working at Eli Lilly

Mustafa Al-Adhami (Research Assistant) – Currently working at Astek Diagnostics

Benjamin Punshon-Smith (Research Assistant)

David Burgenson (Research Assistant) – Currently working at Sutro Biopharma, Inc.

Sevda Deldari (Research Assistant) – Currently working at FDA

Joel Tyson (Research Assistant)

Lynn Wong (Research Assistant) – Currently working at AstraZeneca

Sheniqua Brown (Research Assistant) – Currently working at Northrop Grumman

Shayan Borhani (Research Assistant) – Currently working at Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC

Md Sadique Hasan (Research Assistant) – Currently working at FDA

Vida Rahmatnejad (Research Assistant) – Currently working at Alexion, AstraZeneca RDU

Postdoctoral Associates

Viki Chopda – Currently working at Intas Pharmaceuticals

Sai Kiran Mani

Chariz Penalber

Graduate Students

Timothy Holzberg – Currently working at Merck

Dagmawi Tiluhan – Currently working at Merck

Undergraduate Interns

Christopher Slaughter

Samyukta Rao 

Brandon Wagner – Currently working at Raytheon Technologies

Priyanka Rauniyar – Currently working at Neuralink

Chang Wu Mungai

Aravind Yeramilli

Meera Mysore

Harley Edwards

Vandan Thakkar

Eric Ankers

Violet Haya

Anjali Shankar

Lei Tolosa

Neelesh Mupparapu

Leanne Domingo

Niki Gooya

Elizabeth Tan

 

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