Lab Alumni

Former PhD Students

Anant Akash Agrawal, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Currently: Director, RNA Platform & Target Enablement, ReMix Therapeutics

Rakesh Chatrikhi, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Currently: Scientist, RNA Therapeutics at Ginkgo Bioworks

Ankit Gupta, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Currently: Scientist III at Arcellx, BioHealth Innovation, Inc.

Sarah Loerch, Ph.D.
Graduate Student 
Currently: Assistant Professor, University of California-Santa Cruz

Debanjana Maji, Ph.D.
Graduate Student 
Currently: Postdoctoral scholar, Yale School of Medicine

Krystle McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Currently: Professor, Vassar College, Hudson Valley, NY

Wenhua Wang, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Currently: Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

William Bauer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently: Outreach Coordinator, Hauptman-Woodward Research Institute

Kholiswa M. Laird, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently: Account Executive, Cintas First Aid and Safety, Rochester, NY

Former Lab Technicians

Eliezra Glasser
Laboratory Technician
Currently: Research Associate, Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU

Steven W. Horner
Laboratory Technician
Currently: Research Associate II, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA

Nazish Jeffery
Laboratory Technician
Currently: Graduate student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Rochester, NY

Justin Leach
Laboratory Technician
Currently: Graduate student, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, NY

Former Undergraduate Researchers

Jason Heath, M.D.
Undergraduate Student 
Currently: Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine

Jake Kloeber
Undergraduate Student 
Currently: MD/PhD student at Mayo Clinic

Victoria Nadezh Bela
Undergraduate Student 
Currently: Master's Program, China

Selina Xu
Undergraduate Student 
Currently: UCSF School of Pharmacy

Emily Butler
Undergraduate Student 
Currently: Medical School

Alumni from Johns Hopkins University

E. Allen Sickmier, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Currently: Accent Therapeutics

Shanthi Paranawithana, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently: Assistant Professor, Hampton University, Hampton, VA

Yuan Lin, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Currently: Senior crystallographer in drug discovery and development, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Karen Thickman, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Currently: Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA