Recent Lab Members
Raj Luxmi
Postdoc, King Lab, UConn Health
Kat Powers
Graduate Student, University of Washington
Off to Medical School
Andrew Yanik and Taylor Larese
Wishing you both the best of luck!
Past Henderson Award Winner
Dhivya Kumar
Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship
Neuropeptide Lab Trainees 1976-2020
Recent Lab Members
Vishwanatha Rao, Postdoc - Scientist, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, New Haven, CT
Dhivya Kumar, Ph.D. - Postdoc (Jane Coffin Childs), Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco
Taylor LaRese, Lab Tech - Medical Student, UConn Health
Andrew Yanik, Lab Tech - Medical Student, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine
Jessie Yasko, Ph.D. - Biolegend
Mason Yeh, Postdoc - UCB Biosciences
Prem Shrestha, Postdoc - Postdoc, Yi Wu, UConn Health
Raj Luxmi, Postdoc UConn Health - Postdoc, Steve King, UConn Health
Kathryn Powers, LabTech - Graduate Student, University of Washington
Lily Russo-Savage, Lab Tech - Lab Tech, University of Virginia
University of Colorado Medical School: 1976-1983
Judy Gasson, Ph.D., à Salk Institute - UCLA (Director, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Ron Emeson, Ph.D., à Salk Institute - Joel G. Hardman Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt
Chris Glembotski, Postdoc - Professor, Past Chair, Director, San Diego State University, Heart Institute
Bob Dores, Postdoc - Professor, Past Chair, Biology, University of Denver
Ann Marie Surprenant, Postdoc - Professor, University of Manchester, England
Dan Schwartzberg, M.D. - Radiologist, Atlanta GA (Schwartzberg Fund for the Neuropeptide Lab)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: 1983-2000
Allen C. Myers, Lab Tech - Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Gary S. Wand, M.D., Postdoc - Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Victor May, Postdoc - Professor of Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont
Sheryl M. Sato, Postdoc - Program Director; Diabetes, Endocrinology, Metabolic Dis.; NIH
Edward I. Cullen, Postdoc - Assistant Professor, Medical College of New York
Adavi Murthy, Postdoc - Deceased
Mark West, Ph.D. - Postdoc Johns Hopkins
Ian M. Dickerson, Postdoc - University of Rochester, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Larry P. Park, Lab Tech - Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University; Global Epidemiologist, Durham, VA
Doris A. Stoffers, M.D., Ph.D. - Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Pancreatic Islet Core
Ken L. Marek, M.D., Postdoc - President, Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, New Haven
Elizabeth A. Thiele, M.D., Ph.D. - Harvard Prof Neurology; Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program, MGH
Susan N. Perkins, Postdoc - Chief, Cancer Training Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH
L’Houcine Ouafik, Postdoc - Professor, Faculte de Medecine, Marseilles, France
Sharon L. Milgram, Postdoc - Director, NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
Brian T. Bloomquist, Postdoc - Manager, Global External Research and Development, Eli Lilly and Company
Gilles Noel, Postdoc - Director, Technology Transfer, University of Montreal
Jean-Yves Maltese, Postdoc - Oracle Database Expert, Universite Paul Cezanne
Francesco A. Tausk, Postdoc - Professor of Dermatology and Psychiatry, University of Rochester
Hye Young Yun, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Chung-Ahn University, South Korea
E. Jean Husten, Postdoc - Scientist, Teva Pharmaceuticals; Previously Cephalon; Both Pennsylvania
Ana Maria Oyarce, Postdoc - Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Toledo, OH
An Zhou, Postdoc - Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Morehouse School of Medicine
Luc Paquet, Postdoc - Institut de Recherche en Pharmacologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, CA
Benjamin D. Caldwell, Postdoc - Dean, College of Graduate Studies and Research, Radford University, VA
Tracey A. Hand, Lab Tech - TheNutRoasters
Aparna S. Kolhekar, Postdoc - Regulatory Affairs Specialist, NIAID, NIH
M. Rashidul Alam, Postdoc - Professor and Chair, Biology, Montgomery College, Rockville Campus
Ruth Marx-Rattner, Postdoc - Research Associate, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Giuseppe D. Ciccotosto, Postdoc - Research Fellow, Pharmacology, Univ. Melbourne, Australia
Angela Bruzzaniti, Postdoc - Associate Professor of Oral Biology, University of Indiana
Tami C. Steveson, Postdoc - Professor of Science, Mercy College, Toledo OH
Peter Penzes, Postdoc - Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
Rajaa El Meskini, Postdoc - Senior Scientist, National Cancer Institute, Center for Advanced Preclinical Research, NIH
L. Chenie Bell, Postdoc - Scientist, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
Karen M. Braas, Postdoc - Associate Professor, Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont
UConn Health: 2000-2020
Xin-Ming Ma, Postdoc - Associate Professor of Neuroscience, UConn Health
Martin Schiller, Postdoc - Executive Director, Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
Joseph Bell, Postdoc - High School Science Teacher, Central High School, Philadelphia
Chana A. Rabiner, Ph.D. - Director, Global Health Programs, Infectious Disease Health Systems
Mark J. Niciu, M.D., Ph.D. - Staff Scientist, Neurobiology and Mood Disorders, NIMH
Clifton E. McPherson III, Postdoc - Regulatory CMC lead for Flublok, Sanofi Pasteur (Protein Science)
Xiaonan Xin, Postdoc - Instructor, Reconstructive Sciences, UConn School of Medicine
Francesco Ferraro, Postdoc - University of London; Now Staff Scientist, Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy
Mithu De, Postdoc - Postdoc, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
Jaqueline A. Sobota, D.D.S., Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Hofstra School of Medicine; Chief, North Shore University Hospital
Drew D. Kiraly, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine
Eric D. Gaier, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard University; Boston Children's Hospital
Danielle Bousquet-Moore, Ph.D. - Clinical Team Lead, Syneos Health, Charlotte NC
Chitra Rajagopal, Ph.D. - Scientist, Abcam
Victor Francone, Postdoc - Associate Professor, Quinnipiac University
Christopher M. Mazzone, Lab Tech - Postdoc, Nat. Inst. Environmental Health Sci, Durham, NC
Prashant Mandela, Postdoc - Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Notre Dame of Maryland University
Megan B. Miller, Ph.D. - Research Program Officer at USAID
Yan Yan, Postdoc - Instructor, University of Hartford
Mathilde Bonnemaison, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Science and Math, UMass Boston
Collaborators
UConn Health | United States | Foreign |
Steve King | Stan Watson | Claude Lazure |
Bing Hao | Huda Akil | Lucio Scopsi |
Yi Wu | Henry Keutmann | Eckhard Weber |
Jonathan Covault | Tony Koleske | Xavier Bertagna |
Anne Kenny | Paul Taghert | Bruce Verchere |
Zhao-Wen Wang | John Pintar | Nils Bäck |
Eric Levine | Lloyd Fricker | Sylvia Gines |
Xin-Ming Ma | Iris Lindberg | Rohini Kuner |
Isaac Moss | Ron Emeson | Norma Masson |
Brent Graveley | Mario Amzel | Sir Peter Ratcliffe |
Bojun chen | Jay Baraban | Giampaolo Trivellin |
Kazuya Machida | Sabeeha Merchant | Elisa Araldi |
Crysten Blaby-Haas | Jens Peter Goetze | |
Martina Ralle | Ingrid Hunter | |
Ninian Blackburn | ||
Jonathan Gitlin |