Lab Members

Meet the people who contribute to the research in the Krainc Lab.

Principal Investigator

Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Neurology
Director, Center for Rare Neurological Diseases (CRND)
Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor

krainc( at )northwestern.edu

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Lab Manager

Binh Doan

binh.doan( at )northwestern.edu

Assistant Professors

Paulina Gonzalez Latapi, MD

Assistant Professor

paulina.latapi( at )northwestern.edu

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Niccolo Mencacci, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

niccolo.mencacci( at )northwestern.edu

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Research Assistant Professors

Maria Armakola, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

maria.armakola( at )northwestern.edu

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Myung Jong Kim, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

myung.kim( at )northwestern.edu

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Nathaniel Safren

Research Assistant Professor

nathaniel.safren( at )northwestern.edu

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Pingping Song, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

pingping.song( at )northwestern.edu

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Yueqin Zhou

Research Assistant Professor

yueqin.zhou( at )northwestern.edu

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Sarah Brooker

Sarah-Brooker( at )northwestern.edu

Bernabe Ignacio Bustos

bernabe.bustos( at )northwestern.edu

Neil Chatterjee

diptaman.chatterjee( at )northwestern.edu

Robert Coukos

robert.coukos( at )northwestern.edu

Ge Gao

ge.gao1( at )northwestern.edu

Mariana Hernandez Gonzalez-Monje

mariana.hgmonje( at )northwestern.edu

Ignacio Juan Keller Sarmiento

iignacio.sarmiento( at )northwestern.edu

Georgia Minakaki

georgia.minakaki( at )northwestern.edu

Research Technologists

Grace Naylor

grace.naylor( at )northwestern.edu

Adeyemi Thomas

adeyemi.thomas( at )northwestern.edu

Graduate Student

Leonie Schroder

leonie.schroder( at )northwestern.edu

Visiting Scholars

Walaa Elsayed

walaa.elsayed( at )northwestern.edu

Recent Alumni

Valentina Gallon-Morris - Law Student
Briana Plourde - Research Assistant, Northwestern University
Nastja Turkanovic - Master's Student, University of Ljubljana
Julie Dickson - Molecular Biologist at IHMA
Nick Marotta - PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Fanding Gao - Associate Scientist, insitro
Rachel Wise - Post-doc, LMU-Munich
Aaron Earley - Post-doc, UCSF
Lena Burbulla - Associate Professor at Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich
Hyunkyung Jeong - Senior scientist at Vanqua Bio
Yvette Wong - Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
Michael Schwake - Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany
Daniel Ysselstein - Director at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
Maria Nguyen - Senior scientist at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
Jianbin Zhang - Group leader at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
Soojin Kim - Group leader at Genentech
Jing Hu - Neurology resident, China
Max Garhammer - Graduate student, Munich, Germany
Julia Veitinger - Graduate student, Emory University
Gerlis Haugwitz - Graduate student, Germany
Dali Liu - Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Loyola University
Zhihua Yang - Neurology resident
Nick Blair - Faculty at University of Sydney, Australia (deceased)
Taiji Tsunemi - Associate Professor of Neurology, Toyko, Japan
Jessica McDonald - Group leader at LTI (biotech), Cambridge, MA
John Graziotto - Group leader at LTI (biotech), Cambridge, MA
Anthone Dunah - Group leader at Biogen (deceased in 2020)
Jessica Zhou - Assistant Professor, Rush Medical School
Katrin Lindenberg - Neurology faculty, Freiburg, Germany
Fran Borovecki, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Zagreb Medical School
Luca Lovrecic, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana Medical School
Florian Then, MD - Partner, McKinsey Consulting
Marija Usenovic - Senior scientist at Merck
Philip Seibler - Associate Professor, University of Luebeck, Germany
Martina Kuzman - Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Zagreb Medical School
Vinko Palada - Assistant Professor, University of Helsinki
Shyam Tangaturi - Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Petra Mamic - Resident and fellow, Stanford University
Isabella Pallazzolo - Senior scientist at Biogen, Eli Lilly
Clarissa Valdez - Post-doc, Marc Diamond Lab, UT Southwestern
Katrina Trajkovic - Group leader at Medils
Sohee Jeon - PhD student, University of Illinois, Chicago
Tiffany Young - Scientist at CiRC Biosciences