Lab Members
Meet the Funk Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator

Lab Manager

Fariba Tayyari, PhD
Lab Manager II
PhD in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
Research Staff

James Burke, MS
Research Project Coordinator
MS Organic Chemistry, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yeunook Bae, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Aishwarya Jala, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
PhD in Pharmaceutical Analysis, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati, India
Graduate Students

Tyler Jacobson
MD/MBA candidate at Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University