People

Lihong Teng, PhD; Research Assistant Professor

Catherine Poholek, MD/PHD, Assistant Professor of Rheumatology

Rachel Wills, PhD, T32 Postdoctoral Fellow

Allie Cermak, Pitt IBGP PhD Student

Katelyn Chen, Pitt Undergrad Student Research

Lab Alumni

Zihan Wei MD/PHD - 2022 - 2025 Pitt and Tsinghua University graduate student; currently finishing MD training at Tsinghua University

Jitendra Singh Kanshana, PHD - 2021 - 2025 Pitt Postdoctoral Fellow and currently Research Scientist in the Ramakrishnan Lab

Joshua Nguyen, BA, BS - 2020 - 2024 Pitt Undergraduate Researcher; currently pursuing MD/PhD at Ohio State University

Apoorva Narain, PHD - 2022 - 2024 Pitt Postdoctoral Fellow; now Assistant Professor Department of Biotechnology, CET

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Sarah Rokaw, BS, MD - 2022 Pitt Longitudinal Research Program; currently Internal Medicine Resident at BIDMC/Harvard Med

Kruthika Doreswamy, BS, MPH - 2022 Pitt Undergrad Research; now NIH Post-Baccalaureate

Aneseh Adeshiralarijaney, PHD - 2021 - 2023 Pitt T32 Postdoctoral Fellow; now pursuing Pharm.D at Duquesne University

Eric McGregor - 2020 Pitt Lab Technician; PhD Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition Program at University of Wisconsin

Diana Li, PHD - 2019 UConn Nutritional Sciences; Senior Scientist, Regeneron

Cayla Rodia, PHD - 2019 UConn Nutritional Sciences; Kite Pharmaceuticals

Angelika Muter, BS, MPAS - 2018 UConn Nutritional Sciences Undergrad Research; Bridging the Gap and SURF Fellow

Gabrielle West, MS, RD - 2018 UConn Nutritional Sciences

Zania Johnson, MS - 2018 UConn Nutritional Sciences; now Med School and Founder of Micro2Life farm. Check them out!

Adama Diakhate, BA - 2017 Wright State University, Dayton OH; UConn Undergrad Research 2015, UConn REU Fellow 2016

Alyssa Zembroski, BS, PHD - 2016 UConn Nutritional Sciences Undergrad Research; PhD Purdue University Nutritional Sciences

Lauren Bellizzi, MS, MB, (ASCP) - 2019 UConn Nutritional Sciences; now Senior Associate Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals)

Phillip Ashkar, MS - 2018 UConn Nutritional Sciences; DDS University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine

Nelson Del Pilar, BS, MD - 2016 UConn McNair Scholar; now Anesthesiology Resident Physician at University of Rochester

Emmanuel Marte, BS - 2016 UConn McNair Scholar; 2017 NIH Post-Baccalaureate

Amy Bataille, PHD - 2014 UConn Post-Doc; now Associate Professor of Health Sciences Eastern Connecticut University