Meet the Lab

 
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Utpal Pajvani, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

BS - Biology, MIT 1996

MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 2005

PhD - Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 2005

Residency - Internal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center 2007

Fellowship - Endocrinology, Columbia University Medical Center 2011

 
 
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Current Lab Members

 
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Jin ku Kang, PhD
Jin ku Kang, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

2018 – Present

Brent Mayfield
Brent Mayfield

PhD Student

2019 – Present

Nina Suda, MD
Nina Suda, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2019 – Present

Junjie Yu, PhD
Junjie Yu, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

2015 – Present

Margot Chirikjian
Margot Chirikjian

PhD student

2021 - Present

 

Lab Alumni

 
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Alberto Bartolomé, PhD
Alberto Bartolomé, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

2013 – 2021

Current Position: Lab Head, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas (Madrid, Spain)

Dianne Dapito, PhD
Dianne Dapito, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2018 – 2020

KyeongJin Kim, PhD
KyeongJin Kim, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

2013 – 2019

Current Position: Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Inha University

Jiani Liang
Jiani Liang

Undergraduate Researcher —> Research Technician

2017-2021

Current Position: Medical Student, New York Medical College

Lauren Richter, MD
Lauren Richter, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2017 – 2020

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Pediatrics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center

David Sparling, MD, PhD
David Sparling, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

2013 – 2015

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Oklahoma University College of Medicine

Changyu Zhu, PhD
Changyu Zhu, PhD

PhD Student

2013 – 2019

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center