Principal Investigator

Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Email: [email protected] (Curriculum Vitae)

CURRENT MEMBERS

Kim Nguyen
MD/PhD Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
(Winter 2023 - Present)
[email protected]

Zeinab Chitforoushzadeh, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2023 - Present)
[email protected]

Yonatan Degefu
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2021 - Present)
[email protected]

Audrey Kidd
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2023 - Present)
[email protected]

Loan Quynh Tran
SRIP Undergraduate Student, Biology (Virginia Commonwealth University)
(Summer 2024)

Luisa Quesada PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering  (Fall 2020 - Present) lfq5sj@virginia.edu

Luisa Quesada
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
(Fall 2020 - Present)
[email protected]

Magda Bujnowska
MD/PhD Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
(Winter 2022 - Present)
[email protected]

Katharine Biegert 
Research Specialist and Lab Manager
(Winter 2024 - Present)
[email protected]

Alumni

Gina Chea
REU Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering (George Mason University)
(Summer 2023)

Shahab Azarfar, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2022 - 2023)
Next position: Postdoc at UVA School of Data Science

Ariana Caraballo Soler
SRIP Undergraduate Student, Cellular and Molecular Biology (University of Puerto Rico)
(Summer 2022)

Divya Venkat
Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry (2018 - 2019)
Next position: MD Student at Wayne State University

Cara Abecunas  PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering (Winter 2018 - Present) caa5k@virginia.edu

Cara Abecunas, PhD
PhD Graduate, Biomedical Engineering (2018 - 2023)
Next position: Data Scientist at Novartis

Mehwish Khaliq, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2017 - 2022)
Next position: Senior Scientist at Dewpoint Therapeutics

Doug Baumann, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2018 - 2021)
Next position: Senior Scientist at Dewpoint Therapeutics

You (Henry) Gao
Undergraduate Student, Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering
(2023 - 2024)

Natacha Comandante-Lou, PhD
PhD Graduate, Biomedical Engineering (2017 - 2022),
Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University

Anna Tang
REU Undergraduate Student, Applied Mathematics (University of Utah)
(Summer 2022)

Haolong Huang
MSc Graduate, Biomedical Engineering (2019)
Next position: PhD Student at University of Michigan

Mohan Manikkam, PhD 
Research Specialist and Lab Manager
(2017 - 2024)