Sandy Bowers
Study Coordinator/Project Manager
Sandy graduated from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with a BA in Economics. She has worked with this teamof researchers for many years. Sandy is involved in several projects as the Study Coordinator/Project Manager. She focuses mainly on subject recruitment, data collection and management, and regulatory requirements. Away from work, you can find her spending time with her family, camping and traveling, or hanging out with friends and extended family.
Cade Lizotte
Lab Technician/Research Scientist
Cade graduated from the University of Minnesota -Twin Cities with a B.S. in Chemistry and minors in mathematics and integrated neuroscience. He is currently a researcher at Angela Birnbaum’s Lab and is involved in data collection for different projects through LC-MS instrumentation and general lab technician duties. Cade’s research and learning interests include all aspects of neuroscience and mathematics, and their overlap into other fields. While having aspirations to go to neuroscience grad school, Cade simply wants a career in learning. Outside of work, you’ll see Cade somewhere in nature with a sketch book, looking at the stars, enjoying the rain, or just playing video games. He loves human connection and his cats, and appreciates the little things in life.
Yuhan Long
Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology Ph.D. Student
Yuhan is a PhD graduate student pursuing a degree in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology with a minor in Statistics. He received a BS in Mathematics summa cum laude and a BSChE in Chemical Engineering (Computer Science minor) summa cum laude from University of Kentucky in 2020. While there, he worked with research in computer vision and drug solubility/crystallizability. His current research interests include pharmacometric methodology and mathematics. What especially intrigues him are the mechanistic modeling of nonlinear systems and the assumptions used in their simplification. Regardless of practicality, he aims to bring more mathematics to pharmacology and more pharmacology to mathematics.
His interest in models expands to physical models with respect to his hobby of scale model building. Other reclusive joys of his include computers, video games, and fountain pens. If you want to be inundated with information, feel free to ask him about any of his interests. In conclusion, by proof through counting, this is sentence number a.
Xintian Lyu
Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology Ph.D. Student
Xintian received her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 2020, majored in Chemistry, and minored in Statistics. Currently, she is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Birnbaum's lab. Her research interests are pharmacometrics, PBPK modeling, and clinical pharmacology. So far, her projects are mainly about medical cannabis, including data analysis and bioanalysis. In her free time, she likes playing the piano, dancing, and playing with her two cute cats and her dog named Cookie.
Jason Sriwijaya
Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology Ph.D. Student
Jason is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (ECP) advised by Dr. Angela Birnbaum. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Medicine from Hasanuddin University Medical School and completed his Clinical Pharmacology residency training from University of Indonesia. During his residency training, his research focused on detection of cardiotoxicity effects of antimalarial drugs. After graduation, he served as a lecturer in pharmacology and therapeutics department at Hasanuddin University Medical School. He has a deep interest in pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics modeling and simulation as well as therapeutic drug monitoring. Therefore, he joined as a graduate student at ECP, University of Minnesota.
In his leisure time, he loves playing music, writing a song, and exploring cafés in Minneapolis and St. Paul area.
Jennifer Vigliaturo
Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology M.S. Student
Jenny is a second-year M.S. student in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (ECP) advised by Dr. Angela Birnbaum. She earned a Bachelor's of Science in Microbiology from the University of Minnesota. After graduation, She worked in a molecular epidemiology lab of Dr. Ajay Israni performing SNP genotyping. Thereafter, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Paul Pentel and carried out behavioral studies of vaccines for opioid addiction. She currently works with Dr. Michael Raleigh assisting with opioid vaccine clinical studies with a focus on LCMS/MS quantification.
In her free time, she likes to spend time with her family, garden, watch movies and walk her dogs.
Shannon Garrity
Medical Lab Sciences Undergraduate
Shannon is a second-year student pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Lab Science with a minor in Public Health. Her academic interests include anything lab-related, human physiology, and systemic disparities in the healthcare system. In her free time, Shannon enjoys reading, spending time with friends and family, and attending events for her STEM sorority.
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