Team

Lab Members

Rohan Fernandes, PhD
Rohan Fernandes, PhD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Elizabeth Sweeney
Elizabeth (Lizie) Sweeney, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Melissa Hadley Beaty
Melissa Hadley Beaty, MS
Laboratory Manager/Research Associate
Samantha Chin
Samantha Chin, BS
George Washington University PhD Student
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Josh Ghofrani, BS
George Washington University PhD Student
Lana Jagannathan
Lana Jagannathan, BS
George Washington University PhD Student
Danielle Schmidt

Danielle Schmidt, BS
Research Associate & GW MS Student

Grace Olsson
Grace Olsson, BS
Research Assistant 
Kasia Rus
Kasia Rus, BS
Research Assistant 
Rohan Patil
Rohan Patil, BS
Medical Student 
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Elise Gubenko
Undergraduate Student

 

 

Positions post-Fernandes lab

Matthieu Dumont, PhD - Technical Advisor at Maier & Maier, PLLC
Hilary Hoffman - Medical Student at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine 
Jennifer Vojtech -  Bioengineering PhD Student at Boston University
Angelina Nou - Bioengineering PhD Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erin McCaffrey - PhD Student at Stanford University 
Shraddha Kale, MS - Research Associate at Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC
Elizabeth Bentley - University of Maryland Bioengineering Undergraduate Student
Armando Ruiz-Justiz - University of Puerto Rico at Ponce, Puerto Rico; Undergraduate Student
Amiti Jain - Student at Penn State's Accelerated Premedical-Medical Program 
Christoph Hieber - Johannes Guterberg Universitat Mainz Master's Student, Germany; Visiting Scholar
Kathy Kang - High School Student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Rachel Burga, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Nirupa Balendran - Boston University Biology Undergraduate Student
Anya Pimenta - High School Student at Georgetown Day School
Sarah Fet-He - Undergraduate Student at Brown University
A. Shri Ramanujam - Undergraduate Student at the University of Virginia
Allan Bowen, MS - Medical Student at Howard University 
Juliana Cano-Mejia, PhD - Scientist at AstraZeneca
Preethi Balakrishnan, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
Cameron Woo, BS - MS student at George Washington University
Anshi Shukla, PhD - Scientist II at NexImmune
Deepti Telaraja, MD - Medical Officer at US FDA
Matthew Tovar, BS - George Washington University Medical Student
Nicole Bonan, PhD - Research Scientist at Miltenyi Biotec
Yashna Hasija - High School Student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology 
Debbie Ledezma, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego
Kondareddy Cherukula, PhD - - Senior Scientist at Inimmune
Palak Sekhri, MS  - - Research Scientist at Children's National Hospital
Jacob Medina, PhD - - recent graduate