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lab leadership

Jason Knight

Jason Scott Knight, MD, PhD

Marvin and Betty Danto Research Professor of Connective Tissue Research
Program Director
Internal Medicine and Professor of Internal Medicine
Medical School
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Yu (Ray) Zuo, MD, MS

Edward T and Ellen K Dryer Early Career Professor of Rheumatology
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Antiphospholipid Syndrome Program Associate Director
Internal Medicine
Medical School

Faculty

Ramadan A. Ali

Ramadan Ali, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Medical School
Jaqueline Madison

Jacqueline Madison, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Medical School
Jay Tambralli

Ajay Tambralli, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Medical School

Postdoctoral Fellows

Kevin Lewis, MD

Kevin Lewis, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
APS Research Labs
Bruna de Moraes Mazetto Fonseca, PhD

Bruna de Moraes Mazetto Fonseca, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
APS Research Labs
Somanathapura K. NaveenKumar, PhD

Somanathapura K. NaveenKumar, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
APS Research Labs
Yiran Shen, PhD

Yiran Shen, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
APS Research Labs

Research Team

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Cyrus Sarosh, MSA, CCRP

APS Program Manager and Clinical Research Coordinator
MSA in Health Services Administration, Central Michigan University
Srilakshmi Yalavarthi

Srilakshmi (Sri) Yalavarthi, MS

Lab Manager and Research Lab Specialist Senior
MS in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Eastern Michigan University
Emily Balczewski, BA

Emily Balczewski, BA

Graduate Student Research Assistant
MD/PhD Student, Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
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Emily Becker, MS

Research Laboratory Technician
MS in Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University
Katarina Kmeťová, MSc

Katarína Kmeťová, PhD

Research Laboratory Specialist Associate
PhD in Normal and Pathological Physiology, Comenius University, Bratislava in Slovakia
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Thalia Newman, BS

PhD Student, Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Michigan
BS in Biology, Lafayette College
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Kavya Sugur, PhD

Research Laboratory Specialist Associate
PhD, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, India
Emily Chong Headshot

Emily Chong, BS

Research Laboratory Technician Associate
BS in Neuroscience, University of Michigan

Undergraduate Students