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Leadership

Sofia D Merajver

GreaterGood Breast Cancer Research Professor
Professor of Internal Medicine
Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health

Angel Qin, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Medical School

Andrew G Shuman, MD, FACS, HEC-C

Professor Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Assistant Dean for Veterans Services, Medical School

Stacy Fry

ALK Program Manager

Clinical Research Team

Stacy Fry, BS, CCRP

ALK Program Manager

Andrew G Shuman, MD, FACS, HEC-C

Professor Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Assistant Dean for Veterans Services, Medical School

Angel Qin, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Medical School

Albana Grajqevci, BS

Clinical Research Assistant

Mary Horn, BS

Clinical Research Technician

Avery Rudnick, MPH

Clinical Research Technician

Md Imtiaz Khalil Ullah, DDS, MHI

Clinical Research Associate

Nisha Mohan, MBBS, MPH, CCRP

Clinical Research Associate

Research Assistants

William Bieneman

Sohair Holman

Athena Koulouris

Project 1: Organoid Drug Testing and Multi-omic Integration Team

Co-Leaders

Sofia D Merajver

GreaterGood Breast Cancer Research Professor
Professor of Internal Medicine
Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health

Nathan M Merrill, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Medical School

Aaron Udager, MD, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology and PSTD Associate Director of Pathology, Medical School

Post Doctoral

Ananya Banerjee, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hamadi Madhi, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Mark Slayton, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Maryam Nakhjiri, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Team

Liwei Bao, MD

Senior Research Assistant

Xu Cheng, MBBS

Research Associate Lead

Ning Gu, MS

Research Lab Specialist Associate

Marziyeh Salehi Jahromi, PhD

Research Area Specialist

Albert Liu

Senior Research Lab Specialist

Lluis Lopez-Barcons, PhD

Research Area Specialist

Zhifen Wu, MD

Research Lab Specialist Senior

Victor Zhao, BS

Lab Tech Senior

Sraboni Chaudhury, PhD

Research Lab Specialist Senior

Ali Dabaja, MS

Research Lab Specialist Intermediate

Research Assistants

Jin Heon Jeon, MS

William Bieneman

Sohair Holman

Rachel Mercer

Jana Turner

Yi-hsien Eu

Project 2: Modeling and Characterizing Early ALK-dependent Tumorigenesis Team

Co-Leaders

Peggy Hsu, MD, PhD

Clinical Instructor in Internal Medicine
Medical School

Jason Spence, PhD

H. Marvin Pollard Collegiate Professor, Gastroenterology
Internal Medicine
Medical School

Post Doctoral

Yusoo Lee, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Team

Alena Zheng

Bioinfo-Computer Biologist Associate

Charlotte Clark-Slakey

Research Laboratory Tech Assoc

Research Assistants

Emma Niestroy

Project 3: Drug Resistance and Novel Compounds to Address Resistance Team

Co-Leaders

Sofia D. Merajver, PhD, MD

GreaterGood Breast Cancer Chair
Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology

Matt Soellner, PhD

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Medical School

Peter Toogood, PhD

Research Associate Professor and Director of Michigan Drug Discovery (MDD)

Research Team

Nathalie Vandecan

Research Lab Specialist

Research Assistants

Annika Tharp
Dan Bochar

Developing Projects Teams

Immune Environment: Team Leader

Kiran H. Lagisetty, MD

Medical Director
MPLAN and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Medical School

Immune Environment Team Post Doctoral

Marisa Aikins, PhD

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Abdullah Farhan Saeed, PhD

Research Fellow

Immune Environment Research Team

Derek Nancarrow, PhD

Senior Research Lab Specialist

Research Assistants

Sydney Malawer
Tejas Thiyagarajan
Andrew Yu
Athena Koulouris
Sarah Kim
Hannah Cena
Madeline Bough

CTC Analysis Team Leader

Sunitha Nagrath, PhD

Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor, Biointerfaces Institute
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Medical School

CTC Analysis Team

Yuru Chen

PhD Candidate

Shamileh Fouladdel

Research Assistant

Sumedh Yewale

Biostatistics and Informatics Team

Team Members

Nicholas Henderson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
School of Public Health

Derek Nancarrow, PhD

Specialist Scientist

Tusharika Rastogi, MS

Bioinformatics-Computing Biologist

Peter Ulintz, PhD

Bioinformatician

Gourab Mukherjee

App Programmer/Analyst Senior

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