Sanna-Cherchi Lab

Division of Nephrology

ENVISIONING SCIENCE-BASED PRECISION MEDICINE THROUGH GENE DISCOVERY AND FUNCTIONAL MODELING

Lab Members

Faculty

Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD

Principal Investigator

Project Management and coordination

Massiel Baez-Belen

Project Coordinator

Scientists, Research Fellows, & Trainees

Yask Gupta, PhD

Adjunct Associate Research Scientist; Computational Biologist

Juntao Ke, PhD

Associate Research Scientist; Experimental and Computational Biologist

Tze Yin (Joanne) Lim, MS

Graduate Student/Trainee, Bioinformatician

Technicians & Students

Qingxue Liu

Research Technician

Lyna Sennoun

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Lab Alumni and Members At-Large

(Ordered alphabetically)

Dina Ahram, PhD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Senior Director – Clinical Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute

Katelin Burgess, MD

Role: Technician

Currently: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine), Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Valentina Capone, MD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Pediatric Nephrologist at the Pediatric Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplant Unit of Fondazione IRCCS Ca’Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milano, Italy

Jonathan (“JJ”) Diah, MD, MPH

Role: Medical student (T35)*

Currently: Urology Resident, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

David Fasel

Role: Bioinformatician and developer

Gina Jin

Role: Technician

Currently: MS student

Ester Lopez-Rivera, PhD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Adjunct Faculty, SUNY Ulster

Gabriel Makar, MD

Role: technician

Currently: Orthopedic Surgery Resident, Geisinger Medical Center

Elena Martinelli, MD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Nephrologist, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble-Alpes

Jeremiah Martino, PhD

Role: Postdoc Fellow, Associate Research Scientist

Currently: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, Pace University; Adjunct Instructor, NYP-Iona School of Health Sciences

Adele Mitrotti, MD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Nephrologist and PhD Student, Dept of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area (DIMPERE-J), University of Bari, Aldo Moro

Ariene Ouedraogo

Role: Summer Student

Alejandra Perez, MD

Role: medical student (T35)*

Currently: Urology Resident, Mt Sinai Medical Center (FL)

Brittany Perry, DO

Role: technician

Currently: Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Nemours Children’s Hospitals (DE)

Katarina Vukojevic, MD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Professor of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology
Vice-dean of Science, postgraduate studies and international cooperation, Director of Center for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Co-director of PhD study program Biology of Neoplasms, Vice-head of Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology
Head of Laboratory for Early Human Development, University of Split School of Medicine

Rik Westland, MD, PhD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Paediatric Nephrologist at Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam UMC

Gregory Whittemore, MD

Role: Medical & Master’s Student

Currently: Urology Resident, University of Pennsylvania

Ben Wooden, MD

Role: Clinical Research Fellow

Currently: Nephrology Fellow, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Zonghai Yan, PhD

Role: Postdoc

Currently: Associate Director, Business Development, WuXi AppTec

*T35-DK093430

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