Current Members

Satish Noonepalle, Ph.D, Assistant Professor

Annie (Hong) Zuo, MD, Research Technician III

Dr. Zuo earned her Bachelor Degree of Medicine from Hunan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Master Degree of Internal Medicine from Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. She worked as a physician and researcher at Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and as a head of science grand office at Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in China. In 1999 she started working in Georgetown University LCCC as research assistants in Dr. Dajun Yang lab, Tissue Culture Shared Resources and Dr. Michael Johnson lab. In March 2015 she joined Dr. Louis Weiner lab and since then she has been working as a research technician for supporting general lab research activities and lab managements, maintaining mouse strains and assisting other investigators with their research needs, especially animal studies.

Selime Arslan , PhD Student, Tumor Biology

Selime Arslan is a Tumor Biology graduate student conducting her doctoral research in Dr. Weiner’s laboratory. Her research focuses on understanding how the pancreatic cancer tumor microenvironment (TME) regulates immune cell exclusion and identifying therapeutic strategies to enhance anti-tumor immunity. Using a combination of adoptive natural killer (NK) cell therapies and novel KRAS inhibitors, she investigates strategies to remodel the TME and overcome barriers to immune cell infiltration.

Prior to joining Georgetown University, Selime earned her Bachelors in Biological Sciences from the University of Delaware. She then completed a Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Johns Hopkins University.

Through her research, Selime aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying immune suppression in pancreatic cancer and contribute to the development of more effective treatments strategies.

Annabel Lee (AJ), PhD Student, Tumor Biology

Emily Sherman, MD/PhD Student, Tumor Biology

Nuan Wang, MS student, Tumor Biology

Nuan Wang is a master student from Tumor biology program at Georgetown University. Prior to attending Georgetown University, she earned her bachelor degree in biology from Boston University. After graduation, she continued her eduction at University of Southern California where she earned her master degree of science in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. During her master’s program, she investigated novel immunology therapy that sensitize efficiency of immunotherapy targeting hepatocellular carcinoma. She joined Weiner lab in 2024 and is interested in modulating NK cell to enhance envision in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

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