People

Current

Principal Investigator

Nandan Nerurkar

Postdoc

Elise Loffet

Postdoc

Lisa M. Calvary

Postdoc

Nimesh Chahare

PhD Student

Juni Polansky

PhD Student

Panagiotis Oikonomou

PhD Student

Jenny Gao

PhD Student

Devany Du

Undergraduate Student

Emily Alexis Garcia

Undergraduate Student

Reni Alakiu

Undergraduate Student

Nosakhare Michael Iyoha

Undergraduate Student

Chieko Imamura

Undergraduate Student

Joanna Lin

Undergraduate Student

Makenzie Faith Colbert

Undergraduate Student

Amanda Nelson

Undergraduate Student

Chen Xi Nian

Undergraduate Student

Winter Gao

Undergraduate Student

Michelle Ding

Undergraduate Student

Joseph Yung

Alumni

Postdocs
  • Kwantae Kim [2024-2025]
  • Nathalie Houssin [2022-2024]
  • Pamela Mancini [2021-2022]
PhD Students
  • Olivia Powell [2019-2025]
  • John Durel [2018-2024]
Masters Students
  • Achsah Marlene Aruva [2025] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Raphael Bertin [2024 - 2025] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Hyunjee Lim [2019 - 2022, 2023 - 2024] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Anna Schoonen [2019 - 2021] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
Undergraduate Students
  • Lucia Martin [2023 - 2025] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Faith V Stanley [2024-2025] - Biology, Columbia University
  • Etienne Paris Lewis [2024] - Biology, Columbia University
  • Kayla Williamson [2024] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Andreas Welch [2023-2024] - Biological Sciences, Columbia University
  • Richard Kam [2022 - 2023] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Yasemin Yuksel [2023] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Yi Qu [2022 - 2023] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Helena Cirne [2021 - 2023] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Jenn Beardsley [2021 - 2023] - Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
  • Chloe Gong [2021 - 2023] - Biological Sciences, Columbia University
  • Vanshika Sriram [2021 - 2022] - SEAS, Columbia University
  • Elizabeth Caso [2020 - 2021] - SEAS, Columbia University
  • Michael Anne Bolene [2018 - 2020] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Hunter Hasley [2019 - 2020] - Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Anu Mathur [2018 - 2019] - Biological Sciences, Columbia University - Moved to: Arbor Biotechnology, Cambridge, MA
High School Students
  • Daniela Cruz [Summer 2025]
  • Joyee Mandal [Summer 2024]
  • Dahlia Landry [Summer 2023]
  • Daniel Arias [Summer 2022]
  • Brianna Leung [Summer 2020, Summer 2021]
  • Liana Hitts [Summer 2019]
  • Daniela Plaza [Summer 2019]
  • Eben Hess [Summer 2019]