Lab Alumni

Previous lab personnel and their current whereabouts:

Graduate students

Laura Mancino [LinkedIn]

Director EU Regulatory Affairs, Internal Medicine Specialty Medicines, Teva Pharmaceuticals

Vilasack Thammavongsa [LinkedIn]

Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Larry Robert Peters [website]

Associate Professor of Biology, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Natasha Del Cid [LinkedIn]

Principal Scientist at Tentarix Biotherapeutics

Postdoctoral fellows

Syed Monem Rizvi [current [website]

Research Lab Specialist, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan

Gayatri Raghuraman [LinkedIn]

Clinical Research Scientist, Machaon Diagnostics

Gayathri Silva [website]

Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sanjeeva Wijeyesakere [LinkedIn]

Cheminformatics Postdoctoral Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan


Arunkumar Venkatesan [LinkedIn]

Postdoctoral Associate at SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Syracuse, New York


Anita Zaitouna [LinkedIn]

Scientist, Covance

Master's students

Angela Harrivel [LinkedIn]

Human Performance and Monitoring Team Lead, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia

Sukhmani Bedi [LinkedIn]

Investigator I, Seqirus


Harihar Mohan [LinkedIn]

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Michigan


Boning Yang [LinkedIn]

PhD Student, Baylor College of Medicine

Visiting students

Shika-Arora Gupta [LinkedIn]

Project Manager, Promega

Research assistants

Philip Lapinski [LinkedIn]

Senior Associate Scientist, In Vitro Operations at MI Bioresearch


Christopher Perria [website][LinkedIn]

Technician, Forever Labs


Kaiser Shen [LinkedIn]

Senior TB Diagnostic Technical Advisor, The Global Health Fellows Program II/The Public Health Institute, Baltimore, Maryland Area


Ericca Stamper [website]

Instructor of biology


Elise Jeffery [LinkedIn]

Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center


Brogan Yarzabek [LinkedIn]

MI Bioresearch


Angela Danielski [LinkedIn]

Research Associate, Cepheid


Nicole Dean [LinkedIn]

Research Assistant, University of Michigan

Undergraduate students

Gregory Miller [LinkedIn]

Senior Environmental Health Scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington D.C. Metro Area

Jenna Dran [LinkedIn]

Public Health Specialist & Nurse Practitioner / Zika Response Coordinator, UCSF Department of Obstetrics and Perinatal Medicine

Richard Cantley [website]

Assistant Professor, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan

Riyad Tayim [LinkedIn]

General Surgeon at Kettering Physician Network

Ben Schwartz [LinkedIn]

Software Engineer, Google San Diego


Renata Costa [LinkedIn]

Department Administrator at Rush University Medical Center


Laura Weiser [LinkedIn]

Data Scientist, Raleigh, North Carolina


David Huynh [website]

Clinical Pharmacist, Dearborn Michigan


Stephanie Mrowczynski [LinkedIn]

Medical Student, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine