ALUMNI

Jana Gjini, MS

Jana Gjini, MS. was a graduate student in the Icahn School of Medicine from 2018 to 2021. She went on to work as an Associate Research Technician at NYU and is now a medical student at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Miao Lin, MD

Miao Lin, MD. was the lab manager from 2017 to 2021. She is now working as a Senior Technical Associate at the University of Rochester.

Tasleem Arif, PhD

Tasleem Arif, PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship from 2017 to 2021. He is now continuing his post doctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai in the Bieker Laboratory.

Vijay Menon, PhD

Vijay Menon, PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship from 2017 to 2020. He is now an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine.

Raymond Liang, PhD

Raymond Liang, PhD. was a PhD student in the lab from 2012 to 2018. He is now a Senior Scientist at Endotope Biosciences in NYC.

Carolina Bigarella, PhD

Carolina Bigarella, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship from 2011 to 2015. She is now a Scientist at SHY Therapeutics.

Pauline Rimmelé, PhD

Pauline Rimmelé, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2010 to 2015. She is currently a Principle Scientist at Ensoma in Boston.

Rebeca Dieguez Gonzalez, PhD

Rebeca Dieguez Gonzalez, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship form 2012 to 2014. She is now a Group Project Manager at the Institut Catala de Nanociencia I Nanotecnologia in Barcelona Spain.

Genís Campreciós, PhD

Genís Campreciós, PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship from 2011 to 2013 in the Ghaffari Lab. He went on to continue his post doctoral fellowship in the Clinic Hospital Barcelona in Spain.

Brigitte Izac, MS

Brigitte Izac, MS. was a visiting Staff Researcher from INSERM from 2011 to 2013. Afterwards, she returned to INSERM in Paris, France to study Immunology and Genomics (L'hôpital Cochin).

Jeffery Barminko, PhD

Jeffery Barminko, PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship from 2013 to 2015. He went on to become an Associate Scientist, then Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is now a Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

Xin Zhang, MD-PhD

Xin Zhang, MD-PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2005 to 2013. He went on to become an Associate Professor and Research Director at Shantou University first affiliated Medical Center in China.

Safak Yalcin, PhD

Safak Yalcin, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2006 to 2012. She is currently the Associate Director and Translational Biomarker Lead at Takeda in California.

Maité Rielland, PhD

Maité Rielland, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab in 2010. She is now an Advanced Research Engineer at L'Oréal in Paris France.

Catherine Laiosa, MD-PhD

Catherine Laiosa, MD-PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2008 to 2010. She is now a practicing physician working in Internal Medicine.

Sathish Kumar Mungamuri, PhD

Sathish Kumar Mungamuri, PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship from 2007 to 2009. He is now a Professor at the National Institution of Nutrition in Hyderabad, India.

Julia Luciano Pereira, PhD

Julia Luciano Pereira was the lab manager from 2006 to 2009. She went on to earn her PhD. degree at Purdue University.

Anoushiravan Amini, MD

Anoushiravan Amini, MD. was a visiting physician in 2008. He is now an Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dragan Marinkovic, PhD

Dragan Marinkovic, PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2004 to 2006. He is currently a Professor at the University of Belgrade in Serbia.

Wei Zhao, PhD

Wei Zhao, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2003 to 2005. She is currently an Associate Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Summer/Visiting Students/SURPs

Abby Sarkar	Summer Intern Barnard University	2006	PhD Harvard, Boston MA Post-doctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Standford, California
Stephanie Gachet	Visiting Student	2006
Hélène Kahn	Visiting Student	2007	Scientist, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Ashira Lubkin	SURP	2007	MD PhD, NYU, Post-Doctoral Fellow, NYU
Marina Moskalenko	Summer Intern	2008	Radiation Oncology Resident Physician at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Marie Brault	SURP	2009	PhD, Medical anthropology, Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Public Health
Sebastien Lofek-Czubek	Summer Intern	2011	Staff scientist INSERM, Paris, France
Adithya Sarveswaran	Summer Intern	2011	Principal Structural Engineer, Northrop Grumman
Yasi Azodi	SURP	2012	Technology Consulting at Accenture; BSc, University of Washington
Tolulope Akinade	SURP	2013	MD-PhD student ISMMS
Varun Arvind	SURP	2014	MD-PhD student ISMMS
Cynthia Vlad	Summer Intern	2015	MD, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, NY, NY