People
Jeffrey Saucerman, PhD, Professor and Principal Investigator
Jeff's interest outside the lab include parenting, kayaking and backpacking. Official lab quote: "When was the first time you programmed?”
Graduate Students
Mukti Chowkwale (PhD Student in BME)
BE, Computer Engineering, University of Pune (India); MS, Biomedical Engineering, SUNY Binghamton
Interests outside the lab: puns and pranks to annoy Bryan; intramural sports; playing music; cooking; reading
Official Lab Quote: “I don't have a lab quote, clearly I haven't been sassy enough in lab.”
Taylor Eggertsen (PhD Student in BME)
BS, Biological Engineering, University of Utah
Research topic: Computational modeling of cardiac hypertrophy
Interests outside the lab: Spending time with my family; listening to and playing music; watching great movies
Official Lab quote: "Wookiepedia, I live there; it's beautiful"
Bryana Harris (PhD in BME)
BS in Chemical Engineering, Auburn University
Research topic: Using computational modeling and in vitro experiments to study cardiomyocyte proliferation for cardiac regeneration
Interests outside the lab: outdoor exploring and photography, music, my clingy pet named Cisco, shopping
Official Lab Quote: "You remind me so much of my mother, it's annoying"
Anders Nelson (Phd student in BIMS Pharmacology)
Research Topic: Utilizing a fibrosis network model to make time and signaling context-dependent therapeutics for fibrosis
Interests outside the lab: Bougie cooking gadgetry; pet hamster (unrelated to the cooking gadgetry...); YouTube video game walkthrough addict; sickeningly optimistic :) No, you have it.
Official Lab Quote: “Want to go to the Corner?”
Alumni (with known career destinations)
Former Postdocs/Research Scientists:
Dr. Cody Narcisco (Applications Scientist Agilent)
Dr. Ali Khalilimeybodi (Post-doctoral fellow UC San Diego)
Dr. Xiaji Liu (Astor) (Data Engineer Facebook, Bioinformatics Analyst at Health Interactive)
Dr. Will Richardson (Asst Prof at Clemson U.)
Dr. Renata Polanowska Grabowska (Asst Prof of Research at UVA)
Dr. Charles Haggart (FDA Senior Staff Fellow)
Former PhD Students:
Dr. Laura Woo (2021, Staff Scientist Bristol Meyers Squibb)
Dr. Bryan Chun (2020, MD/PhD program returned to med school)
Dr. Angela Zeigler (2018, Medical Resident Yale U, MD/PhD program returned to med school)
Dr. Eric Greenwald (2015, Senior Scientist Pfizer, NIH F32-funded postdoc in Zhang lab at UCSD)
Dr. Karen Ryall (2014, Biostatistician Guidant Health)
Dr. Robert Amanfu (2013, Principal Data Science Associate Stripe)
Dr. Jason Yang (2012, Assistant Professor, Rutgers U, NIH K99-funded postdoc in Collins Lab at HHMI/MIT)
Dr. Philip Tan (Assistant Professor, Messiah College)
Former Undergraduate Students and Staff:
Steven Christiansen
Bethany Wissman
John Hulse (med student, U. Virginia)
Pranav Aurora (MD-ScM population health student at Brown U.)
Monique Bailey (SRIP, now med student at Emory U.)
Anish Dalal (Venture for America GenomOncology)
Tristan Jones (med student U. Chicago)
Alex Paap (medical student at UVA)
Matt Rhoads (Technical Services at Epic)
Jonathan Gaillard (med student at Yale)
Riley North (research specialist at U. Virginia)
Feilun Wu (grad student at Duke)
Bill Boyd (med student at U. Virginia)
Audrey Parker (Student Associate at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner)
Lindsay (McLellan) Borden (Obstetrics & Gynecology Resident at Carilion Clinic)
Alya Elsayed-Ali (SRIP, now dentist in VA)
Kristina Chapman (Senior Technical Service Specialist at Abbott, EP & CRM Technical Service Specialist at St. Jude Medical)
Ashwin Katikapalli (senior analyst at The Advisory Board Company)
James Muller (systems analyst at Accenture, med student at U. South Florida)
Stephen Dang
Kyle Delaney (grad student at U. Chicago)
David Holland (grad student at Hopkins)
Wyatt Shields (Assistant Professor, U Colorado Boulder, post-doc at NSF MRSEC, grad student at Duke)
Jeff Smith (Associate Scientist at Merck)
Greg Bass (Alphapharm, grad student at U. Auckland NZ/Melbourne U.)
Matthew Kraeutler (CU Sports Medicine and Performance Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
Lulu Chu (Associate Director Takeda, Disease Modeling Scientist at AstraZeneca)
Sa Ra Park (med student at U. Virginia)
Tommy Rappold (med student at Hopkins)
Anthony Soltis (Computational Biologist with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, grad student at MIT)
Mayank Tandon (post-doc at NIH, grad student at Thomas Jefferson)
Brooks Taylor (grad student at UC San Diego)
Ryan Connolly (Physician at Georgetown U. Hospital)
Nicholas Krainak (Senior Software Engineer at The MITRE Corporation)
Sean Meredith (Resident Physician Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Maryland Medical Center)
Former High School Students:
Monika Grabowska (U. Virginia Biomed Eng)
Anita Grabowska (U. Virginia Psychology)
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