M. Chiara Manzini, PhD

Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Child Health Institute of New Jersey
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B.S. University of Pavia, Italy
​Ph.D. Columbia University, USA

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Aniket Bhattacharya, PhD

Research Associate

B.Sc. Presidency College, Kolkata, India
​M.S. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
​Ph.D. CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

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Luka Turkalj, MD

Graduate student (Neuroscience Program)
M.D. University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia

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Kyle Flannery, BS, MS

Graduate student (Molecular Biosciences Program)
​B.S. Bloomsbury University of Pennsylvania
M.S. Bloomsbury University of Pennsylvania

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Abigail Heller, BS​

Graduate student (Molecular Biosciences Program)
​B.S. University of St Thomas

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Shorbon Mowla, BS

Research Assistant/Lab Manager
B.S. Rutgers University

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Shanzeh Rauf, BS

Research assistant
B.S. Bates College

Rose Clark, BS

Ashini Bhardwaj

Undergraduate researcher
​Rutgers University

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Harshini Ganesh​

Undergraduate researchers
​Molecular Biology Honor's Thesis
​Rutgers University

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Emma Suzuki

Undergraduate researcher
Rutgers University

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Former trainees and lab members:

Stefania Di Costanzo, PhD - research assistant                       2012-2014        PhD (UCSD) - Sci Affairs Spec, Copan
Heather Pond - lab associate                                                      2013-2019        Research Specialist - HHMI/Janelia Farm
Adam Oaks, PhD - postdoctoral fellow                                     2014-2016        Director at Emergent BioSolutions
Marta Zamarbide, PhD - postdoctoral fellow                          2014-2016        Proposal Writer - 3P Biopharma
Desiree Von Alpen, PhD - postdoctoral fellow                        2015-2016         Project Leader - Lonza
Lucy Drayson, MGC - GWU post-bac student                          Fall 2015          MGC (UMD) - Genetic counselor
Pablo Munoz Llancao, PhD - postdoctoral fellow                   2016-2020       Associate Research Scientist - Yale U
Ned Cauley, M.S. - GWU graduate student                              2016-2019        Software engineer - Leidos
Adele Mossa, PhD -  postdoctoral fellow                                  2017-2020        Instructor at Ichan School of Medicine
Tyler Spivey, MD - GWU medical student                                2017-2018         Resident at Cincinnati Children's
Paola Parlanti, PhD- visiting student/postdoc                        2018-2020       Postdoc at IIT, Pisa, Italy
Ginevra Sacripanti, PhD - visiting student from U Pisa        Spring 2019     Application Specialist - Bio-Rad 
​Abigail Heller - research assistant                                             2019-2021         PhD student -  Rutgers U
Namarata Battula - RU undergraduate/RA                             2019-2023        MD/PhD student - RWJMS
Brian Gural - research assistant                                                 2020-2021        PhD student -  UNC, Chapel Hill
​Kristin Terez - research assistant                                               2020-2022       PhD student - NYU
Brittany Karas, PhD - postdoctoral fellow                                2020-2023       Toxicologist - J&J
Sylvia Safwat, MD - visiting student from U Alexandria        2021-2022        Recent PhD graduate
Luca Cavallo - research assistant                                               2021-2023        Research assistant - H San Raffaele 

Undergraduate researchers:
Ryan Brunetti, MD - GWU  student                                          2013-2014        MD (GWU) - cardiologist
​Habon Issa - GWU  student                                                        2014-2015        PhD student  - NYU
​Mark Johnson - Northeastern University Co-op student     Spring 2015
Olivia McKissick - Northeastern University Co-op student  Spring 2016    PhD student  -  Brown U
Molly Wilkinson - Northeastern University Co-op student   Fall 2016         PhD student  -  San Diego                                                                                                                                                      State/UCSD 
Edward Farrow - GWU student (Honor's thesis)                     2016-2018        MD/PhD student - U Cincinnati
Olivia SaoBento - GWU student                                                 2017-2018        EMT, Chief of EMS, GWU 
Khadija Kahn - GWU  student                                                     2017-2018
Zoya Bharmal - University of Maryland student                     Summer 2018
Aleksandra Dagunts - GWU  student (Honor's thesis)          2018-2019        MD/PhD student - OHSU
Gia Huynh - RU student                                                               2019-2020
​Shruthi Thiyagarajan - RU student (Honor's thesis)               2019-2022        Medical student - RWJMS
Dhyanam Shukla - RU student                                                   2020-2021        PhD student -  U Penn
Sarah Griffen - RU student (Honor's thesis)                             2021-2022
Riya Patel - RU student                                                                2021-2022
Stephanie Shara - Kutztown College, Neuro SuRP                Summer 2021
Maryam Khalid - RU student (Honor's thesis)                         2021-2023

Funding sources:

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