Current Members
Sudarshan Rajagopal, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
sudarshan.rajagopal@duke.edu
Postdoctoral Associates
Claudia Lee
claudia.lee@duke.edu
Bipradas Roy
bipradas.roy@duke.edu
Graduate/Medical Students
Uyen Pham
uyen.n.pham@duke.edu
Preston Anderson
preston.anderson@duke.edu
Austin Lai
austin.lai@duke.edu
Oscar Chen
oscar.chen@duke.edu
Technical Staff
Nour Nazo, BS
Lab Manager / Research Technician
nour.nazo@duke.edu
Anand Chundi
Research Technician
Chanpreet Jassal
Research Technician
Andrew Ahn
Research Technician
Undergraduates
Abigail Gillikin
Juliana Alfonso-Desouza
Srikrishna Darbha
Emily Walsh
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Gayathri Viswanathan
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2018-2024
Next: Postdoctoral Scientist, Laboratory of Dr. Jason Yuan
Zhiyuan Ma, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2014-2020
Next: Internal Medicine Residency
Xinyu Xiong, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2015-2019
Next: Postdoctoral Fellow in Howard Rockman’s Lab
Graduate Students:
Dylan Eiger
MSTP Student
PhD: 2019-2022
Jeffrey Smith
MSTP Student
PhD: 2015-2018
Next: Dermatology resident at Harvard
Amanuel Kibrom
Graduate Student 2017-2018
Next: Graduate student in Pei Zhou’s lab
Technical Staff:
Isaac Choi
Next: Graduate Student, University of Cincinnati
Kevin Zheng
Duke University Undergraduate: 2017-2019
Research Technician: 2019-2020
Undergraduates:
Saisha Dhar
Next: Medical School
Adam Kaakati
Next: Medical student at Duke University
Hailey Rodriguez
Next: Koch lab
Chloe Hicks
Next: MSTP program, Yale University
Sonia Gazula
Next: Dental school
Julia Gardner
Next: MSTP program, University of Pennsylvania
Saba Ali
Next: Bay Area biotech?
Taylor Kohlmann
Next: Medical student at Duke University
Anmol Warman
Next: Medical student at Johns Hopkins
Chanpreet Jassal
UNC Undergraduate
Cole Honeycutt
Next: NIH IRTP
Noey Boldizsar
Next: NIH IRTP
Mason Sellig
Duke University Undergraduate
mason.sellig@duke.edu
Priya Alagesan
2015-2018
Duke University Undergraduate ’18
Next: Medical Student at Duke
Jaimee Gundry 2016-2018
Duke University Undergraduate
Next: Medical Student in Southampton, UK
Claire Fu 2017
Duke University Undergraduate
Nicole Knape 2017-2018
Undergraduate at Dartmouth
Next: Medical Student at UNC
Rachel Glenn 2014-2017
Duke University Undergraduate
Next: United Therapeutics, Graduate Student at Cornell
Sarin Paluri
NC State Undergraduate
Currently: Medical Student
Technicians:
Joseph Strawn
2023-2024
Next: Medical school
High School Students:
Eashwar Mahadevan
Summer 2018
Next: Undergraduate at Johns Hopkins
Sriranjani Darbha
Summer 2018
Next: Undergraduate at University of Texas, Austin
Anjeli Patel
2017-2018
High School Student at NC School of Science and Math
Next: Undergraduate at UNC
Sreekar Mantena
Summer 2017
High School Student at NC School of Science and Math
Next: Undergraduate at Harvard University
Nimit Desai 2014-2015
High School Student (North Carolina School of Science and Math)
Next: Undergraduate at Stanford
Mark “Big Mac” McKay – Summer 2014
Visiting College Student (Morehouse College)
Next: Medical Student at Meharry Medical College
Rohan Parekh – Summer 2015
Visiting College Student (NC State)
