Lab Members

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

Principal Investigator

Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD

krainc( at )northwestern.edu

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Assistant Professors

Sarah Brooker, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Sarah-Brooker( at )northwestern.edu

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Paulina Gonzalez Latapi, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor

paulina.latapi( at )northwestern.edu

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Instructors

Mariana Hernandez Gonzalez-Monje, MD, PhD, MSc

mariana.hgmonje( at )northwestern.edu

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Ignacio Juan Keller Sarmiento, MD

ignacio.sarmiento( at )northwestern.edu

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Research Faculty

Clare Choi, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

cchoi( at )northwestern.edu

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Ge Gao, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

ge.gao1( at )northwestern.edu

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Myung Jong Kim, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

myung.kim( at )northwestern.edu

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Georgia Minakaki, PhD, MSc

Research Assistant Professor

georgia.minakaki( at )northwestern.edu

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Nathaniel Safren, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

nathaniel.safren( at )northwestern.edu

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Pingping Song, PhD

Research Associate Professor

pingping.song( at )northwestern.edu

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Yueqin Zhou, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

yueqin.zhou( at )northwestern.edu

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Bernabe Ignacio Bustos, PhD

bernabe.bustos( at )northwestern.edu

Neil Chatterjee, PhD

diptaman.chatterjee( at )northwestern.edu

Robert Coukos, PhD

robert.coukos( at )northwestern.edu

Eilrayna Gelyana, MD

eilrayna.gelyana( at )northwestern.edu

Chang Liu, PhD

chang.liu( at )northwestern.edu

Hancheng Mao, PhD

hancheng.mao( at )northwestern.edu

Wei Wang, MHS, PhD

wei.wang2( at )northwestern.edu

Research Technologists

Ezekiel Bello, MS

ezekiel.bello( at )northwestern.edu

Daniela Negrete

daniela.negrete( at )northwestern.edu

Adeyemi Thomas

adeyemi.thomas( at )northwestern.edu

Graduate Students

Sarah Matatov

sarah.matatov( at )northwestern.edu

Yewon Rhee

yewon.rhee( at )northwestern.edu

Recent Alumni

Julia Kohut - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rossella Franchini - University of Verona
Leonie Schroder - Postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital
Ines Zabkar - Medical Student, University of Ljubljana
Wesley Peng - Neurology Resident at MGHB, Harvard Medical School
Soojin Kim - Senior Scientist at Genentech, San Francisco
Aaron Early - Postdoc at UCSF, San Francisco
Maria Nyugen - Senior Scientist at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
Clarissa Valdez - Postdoc at UT Southwestern, Dallas
Briana Plourde - Research Assistant, Northwestern University
Nastja Turkanovic - Master's Student, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Julie Dickson - Molecular Biologist at IHMA, Chicago
Gonen Memisoglu, Postdoc at University of Chicago
Nick Marotta - PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Fanding Gao - Associate Scientist, Insitro, San Francisco
Rachel Wise - Post-doc, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich
Lena Burbulla - Associate Professor at Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich
Hyunkyung Jeong - Senior Scientist at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
Yvette Wong - Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
Michael Schwake - Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany
Daniel Ysselstein - Director of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
Jianbin Zhang - Director of Med Chem at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
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, China
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
Katarina Trajkovic - Group Leader at Medils
Sohee Jeon - PhD Student, University of Illinois, Chicago
Tiffany Young - Scientist at CiRC Biosciences