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ALUMNI<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Jana-Gjini.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Miao Lin, MD” position=”Miao Lin, MD. was the lab manager from 2017 to 2021. She is now working at Dartmouth University.” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Miao-Lin-1.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Tasleem Arif, PhD” position=”Tasleem Arif, PhD. did his post doctoral fellowship from 2017 to 2021. He continued his post doctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai in the Bieker Laboratory and is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Miller School of Medicine in Miami Florida.” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Tasleem-Arif-1.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”|0px||||”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Vijay Menon, PhD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Vijay-Menon.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Raymond Liang, PhD” position=”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.” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Ray-Liang.jpg” admin_label=”Person” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Carolina Bigarella, PhD” position=”Carolina Bigarella, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship from 2011 to 2015. She is now a Scientist at SHY Therapeutics. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Carolina-Bigarella.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Pauline Rimmel\u00e9, PhD” position=”Pauline Rimmel\u00e9, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2010 to 2015. She is currently Director of Biology at Ensoma in Boston. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Pauline-Rimmele.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Rebeca Dieguez Gonzalez, PhD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Rebeca-Dieguez-Gonzalez.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Gen\u00eds Campreci\u00f3s, PhD” position=”Gen\u00eds Campreci\u00f3s, 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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Genis-Camprecios.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Brigitte Izac, MS” position=”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’h\u00f4pital Cochin). ” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Jeffery Barminko, PhD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Jeff-Barminko.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Xin Zhang, MD-PhD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Xin-Zahng.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Safak Yalcin, PhD” position=”Safak Yalcin, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab from 2006 to 2012. She is currently the Global Biomarker Lead at Takeda in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Safak-Yalcin.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Mait\u00e9 Rielland, PhD” position=”Mait\u00e9 Rielland, PhD. did her post doctoral fellowship in the lab in 2010. She is now an Advanced Research Engineer at L’Or\u00e9al in Paris France. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Maite\u0301-Rielland.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Catherine Laiosa, MD-PhD” position=”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.” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Catherine-V.-Laiosa.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Sathish Kumar Mungamuri, PhD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Sathish-Kumar.png” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Julia Luciano Pereira, PhD” position=”Julia Luciano Pereira was the lab manager from 2006 to 2009. She went on to earn her PhD. degree at Purdue University. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Julia-Luciano.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Anoushiravan Amini, MD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Anoushiravan-Amini.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Dragan Marinkovic, PhD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Dragan.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Wei Zhao, PhD” position=”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. ” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/ghaffarilab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/347\/2023\/08\/Wei-Zhao-1.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”26px|0px|27px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”||||||||” custom_margin=”-7px||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Summer\/Visiting Students\/SURPs<\/strong><\/h4>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n

Grace Carter<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Summer Intern<\/td>\n2025<\/td>\n\n

Undergraduate, Columbia University<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Abby Sarkar<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Summer Intern Barnard University<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n\n

PhD Harvard, Boston MA<\/p>\n

Post-doctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Standford,\u00a0California<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Stephanie\u00a0Gachet<\/span><\/td>\nVisiting Student<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Kahn<\/td>\nVisiting Student<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\nScientist, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Ashira Lubkin<\/span><\/td>\nSURP<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n\n

MD PhD, NYU,<\/p>\n

Post-Doctoral Fellow, NYU<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Marina Moskalenko<\/td>\nSummer Intern<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\nRadiation Oncology Resident Physician at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marie Brault<\/td>\nSURP<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n\n

PhD, Medical anthropology,<\/p>\n

Associate Research Scientist,<\/p>\n

Yale School of Public Health<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Sebastien Lofek-Czubek<\/td>\nSummer Intern<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\nStaff scientist INSERM, Paris, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adithya Sarveswaran<\/td>\nSummer Intern<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\nPrincipal Structural Engineer, Northrop Grumman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yasi Azodi<\/td>\nSURP<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\nTechnology Consulting at Accenture; BSc, University of Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tolulope Akinade<\/td>\nSURP<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nMD-PhD student ISMMS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Varun Arvind<\/td>\nSURP<\/td>\n2014<\/td>\nMD-PhD student ISMMS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cynthia Vlad<\/td>\nSummer Intern<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\nMD,\u00a0Albert Einstein School of Medicine, NY, NY<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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