People

Principal Investigator

Jeff Saucerman

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiovascular Medicine

Education: BS in Engineering Science, Penn State; PhD in Bioengineering, UC San Diego

Interests outside the lab: hiking, kayaking, live music

Contact: jsaucerman@virginia.edu

For more information, please visit my Faculty Page: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/jeffrey-saucerman

Alex Clark

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia; PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University

Research topic: Gene regulatory networks in cardiac development

Interests outside the lab: hanging with my family, running, hiking

PhD Students

Lionel Watkins

BME Graduate Student

Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Research topic: Identifying novel regulators of cardiac hypertrophy

Interests outside the lab: food and games

Contact: ldw6fph@virginia.edu

Alice Luanpaisanon

BME Graduate Student

Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, Valparaiso University

Research topic: Computational modeling of inherited cardiomyopathy, cardiomyocyte morphology

Interests outside the lab: rock climbing, hiking, board games, and hanging out with the best dog named Lyla

Contact: pl5vr@virginia.edu

Kaitlyn Wintruba

BME Graduate Student

Education: BS in Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Research topic: Systems analysis of cardiomyocyte proliferation

Interests outside the lab: spending time with friends, going to coffee shops, crafting, trying new sports

Contact: npw7gn@virginia.edu

Malcolm O’Malley

BME Graduate Student

Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

Research topic: Computational modeling of cardiac inflammation

Interests outside the lab: reading, watching tv, hanging out with family, intramural sports videogames

Contact: mfo2up@virginia.edu

Lavie Ngo

BME Graduate Student

Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University

Research topic: Cardiomyocyte survival network modeling 

Interests outside the lab: Reading, the gym, kpop, k-dramas, food

Contact: lln5zuj@virginia.edu

Jamie Saquing

BIMS Graduate Student
Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Research topic: Modeling ischemia-reperfusion injury in cardiomyocytes
Interests outside the lab: LANCER (the TTRPG), music, sometimes music production
Contact: jsaquing@virginia.edu

Bryce Murillo

BIMS Graduate Student

Education: BS in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida 

Research topic: Computational modeling of DREAM complex intervention to promote cardiomyocyte proliferation

Interests outside the lab: soccer, video games, hanging out with friends

Contact: eph5ne@virginia.edu 

Sophia Kerns

BME Graduate Student
Education: BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Interests outside the lab: Hiking, reading, pickleball, watching UVA sports
Contact: sck3yy@virginia.edu
 

Undergraduate Researchers

Esha Dua

Payton Gergen

Jack O’Hearn

Gordhie Hodibert

Annika Sama

Alumni

Former Postdocs/Research Scientists/Faculty:

Dr. Ali Khalilimeybodi (now Senior Research Investigator at Bristol Meyers Squibb)

Dr. Cody Narciso (now Field Application Scientist at Agilent)

Dr. Slava Tkachenko (now Research Associate at Case Western)

Dr. Deborah Frank (now Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UVA)

Dr. Xiaji Liu (Astor) (now Data Engineering at Meta)

Dr. Will Richardson (now Associate Professor at U. Arkansas)

Dr. Renata Polanowska Grabowska (now Research Scientist at UVA)

Dr. Charles Haggart (now Chief Data Steward at at FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health)

Former PhD Students:

Dr. Mukti Chowkwale (2023, now Postdoctoral Scientist at Mass Gen Hospital, Edlow/Lauffenburger labs)

Dr. Anders Nelson (2023, Senior Computational Biologist at AstraZeneca)

Dr. Laura Woo (2021, now Research Scientist at Bristol Meyers Squibb)

Dr. Bryan Chun (MD/PhD program 2020, now Medical Resident - Research Track at UT Houston Anesthesiology)

Dr. Philip Tan (2018, now Associate Professor of Engineering at Messiah University)

Dr. Angela Zeigler (MD/PhD program 2018, now Critical Care Fellow at UCLA Pediatrics)

Dr. Eric Greenwald (2015, now Principal Scientist at Pfizer)

Dr. Karen Ryall (2014, now Bioinformatics Scientist at Guidant Health)

Dr. Robert Amanfu (2013, now Principal Data Scientist at Stripe)

Dr. Jason Yang (2012, now Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School)

Former Undergraduate Students and Staff:

Malcolm O'Malley (now PhD student at U. Virginia)

Rohan Patel (now PhD student at U. Penn)

Victoria Hinchberger (now med student at U. Miami)

Gabriella Maldonado (now PhD student at VCU)

Elizabeth Doherty (now PhD student at UNC)

Nick Almovodar (now PhD student at Cornell University)

Alvaro Cristanto (now Systems Engineer at Raytheon)

Alisha Holden (now Biochemistry student at Cal State Northridge)

Steven Christiansen (now PhD student at BYU)

Bethany Wissmann (now Materials Process Engineer at Newport News Shipyard)

Darius Hossanian (now Resident- Anesthesiology at Pitt med school)

Monika Grabowska (now MD/PhD student at Vanderbilt)

Ani Chandrabhatla (now MD student at U. Virginia)

Olga Brazhkina (now PhD student at Georgia Tech)

John Hulse (now General Surgery Specialist in private practice)

Catherine Weathered (now Postdoctoral Researcher at Pfizer)

Raquel Moya (now PhD student at NYU)

Kathryn Bridges (now Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT)

Rachel Taitano (now MD/PhD student at WVU)

Elizabeth Snyder-Mounts (now PhD student at UNC)

Cody Elkhechen (now MD student at U. Buffalo)

Matt van de Graaf (now MD student at EVMS)

Jingyuan Zhang (now MD student at Boston U.)

Matthew Sutcliffe (now MD/PhD student at UNC)

Lauren East (now MD student at Medical College of GA)

Joyce Ng (now MD student at U. Warwick)

Pranav Aurora (now Psychiatry Resident at SUNY Downstate Medical Center)

Monique Bailey (now Pediatric Resident at Medical College of GA)

Anish Dalal (now Venture for America, GenomOncology)

Tristan Jones (now Med-Peds Resident at VCU)

Alex Paap (now Internal Medicine Resident at U Colorado)

Matt Rhoads (now Epic OpTime Consultant at the HCI Group)

Jonathan Gaillard (now Pediatric Neurology Resident at U. Michigan)

Riley North (now Emergency Medicine Resident at U. Virginia)

Feilun Wu (now Boston Consulting Group)

William Boyd (now Diagnostic Radiology Resident at UNC)

Audrey Parker (now Associate Patent Attorney at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP)

Lindsay (McLellan) Borden (now Obstetrics & Gynecology Resident at Carilion Clinic)

Alya Elsayed-Ali (SRIP, now dentist in VA)

Kristina Chapman (now Senior Technical Service Specialist at Abbott)

Ashwin Katikapalli (now Product Initiatives at Apple)

James Muller (now Brigade Surgeon at US Army)

Stephen Dang (Now Surgical Neuromonitoring, Nuvasive Clinical Services)

Kyle Delaney (now grad student at U. Chicago)

David Holland (now Data Scientist at Axle Informatics)

Wyatt Shields (now Assistant Professor at CU Boulder)

Jeff Smith (now Senior Scientist at Merck)

Greg Bass (now Senior Scientist at CSL Innovation)

Matthew Kraeutler (CU Sports Medicine and Performance Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine)

Lulu Chu (now Associate Scientific Director at Takeda Pharma)

Sa Ra Park (now Assistant Professor at UC San Francisco)

Tommy Rappold (now Pediatric Intensive Care Fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)

Anthony Soltis (now Senior Principal Scientist at Hunter Biodiscovery)

Mayank Tandon (now Computational Biologist at Variant Bio)

Brooks Taylor (now Data Scientist at Parafin)

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 (next U. Virginia Biomed Eng)

Anita Grabowska (next U. Virginia Psychology)

Saucerman Lab linkedin group:

More up to date positions of Saucerman lab alumni likely to be here. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12091264/