{"id":252,"date":"2015-05-29T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:08:55","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inga Peter, PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Principal Investigator<\/h4>\n

Vice Chair, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences<\/a>
\nProfessor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences<\/a>
\nAffiliated Member, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology<\/a>
\nAffiliated Member, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine<\/a>
\nCo-Director, PhD in Clinical Research Program<\/a><\/p>\n

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Manasi Agrawal, MD, MS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Assistant Professor in Gastroenterology and Environmental Medicine<\/h4>\n

Director of Environmental Gastroenterology, Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center<\/p>\n

Project:<\/em> The PLANET Study, The PROMISE Consortium<\/p>\n

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Paola Nicoletti, MD, PhD<\/h2>\n

Assistant Professor<\/h4>\n

Project:<\/em> The MECONIUM Study, Pharmacogenetics of serious adverse reactions, genetics of HIV and Craniosynostosis<\/p>\n

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Zhi Chai, PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Associate Scientist<\/h4>\n

Project:<\/em> IBD\/PD<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Taegyu Kim, PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Instructor<\/h4>\n

Project:<\/em> The MECONIUM Study, The MELODY Trial, The PLANET Study, IBD\/PD<\/p>\n

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Samreen Zafer, MSc<\/h2>\n

Bioinformatician<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em> genetics of HIV, The MECONIUM Study and IBD\/PD<\/p>\n

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Mellissa Picker, BS<\/h2>\n

Project Manager<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em> The MELODY Trial, The MECONIUM Study, IBD\/PD, genetics of HIV, The PLANET Study and The PROMISE Consortium<\/p>\n

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Anketse Debebe, PhD<\/h2>\n

Clinical Research Coordinator<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em>\u00a0SHARE, IBD\/PD and The PROMISE Consortium<\/p>\n

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Isabella Nguyen, BA<\/h2>\n

Clinical Research Coordinator<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em> The MELODY Trial, The MECONIUM Study, The PLANET Study and IBD\/PD<\/p>\n

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Enrico Zoroddu, PhD<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Visiting Researcher<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em> genetics of HIV<\/p>\n

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Nandini Natarajan (college)<\/h2>\n

Volunteer<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em> IBD\/PD<\/p>\n

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Yurulan Gao (high school)<\/h2>\n

Volunteer<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em> The\u00a0PLANET Study<\/p>\n

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Shawn Lin (high school)<\/h2>\n

Volunteer<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em>\u00a0The MELODY Trial<\/p>\n

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Karsh Sinha (high school)<\/h2>\n

Volunteer<\/h4>\n

Projects:<\/em>\u00a0IBD\/PD<\/p>\n

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Former Lab Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nicholas (Nick) Thomas, BS [Volunteer]
\nThomas (TJ) Otten, BS [Volunteer]
\nJonathan Ayash, BS [Volunteer]
\nWon-Jun Lee, PhD [Data Analyst]
\nKaitlyn Weinstein, BS [Clinical Research Coordinator]
\nRosemary Chen, BA [Clinical Research Coordinator]
\nSeth Fenton [Volunteer]
\nAsher Friedland [Volunteer]
\nCatherine Chun [Volunteer]
\nEunyoung Yang, MS [Data Analyst]
\nJianzhong (Brian) Hu, PhD [Assistant Professor]
\nLeonid Tarassishin, PhD [Staff Scientist]
\nAlexa Rendon, MS [Project Manager]
\nOlivia Kalash, BA [Clinical Research Coordinator]
\nCristen Hillenbrand, BS [Clinical Research Coordinator]
\nAkansha Goswami [Volunteer]
\nSierra White, MS
\nCaroline Eisele, BS [Project Manager]
\nKelly Hawkins, BS [Clinical Research Coordinator]
\nNilendra Nair, BA [Senior Clinical Research Coordinator]
\nPaulette Magnas [Intern]
\nDr.\u00a0Am\u00e9lie\u00a0Barre
\nIvan Carreon
\nDr. Ron Porat Jankelson
\nDr. Wenjie Xia<\/p>\n

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Inga Peter, PhD Principal Investigator Vice Chair, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Affiliated Member, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology Affiliated Member, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine Co-Director, PhD in Clinical Research Program   Manasi Agrawal, MD, MS Assistant Professor in Gastroenterology and Environmental Medicine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":146,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/peterlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}