Lab Members
Meet the Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator
Mojgan “Moj” Naghavi, PhD
Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
312-503-4294
Lab Manager
Helen Toreev
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nathalia Barth, PhD
Pele' Pequeno Principe Research Institute, Brazil
Badeia Saed, PhD
University of Illinois Chicago
Research Staff
Feng Gu, PhD
Research Associate
Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, China
Viacheslav “Slava” Malikov, PhD
Research Associate
A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Moscow, Russia
Alumni
Marie Boisjoli
Former Research Technologist
Qingqing “Connie” Chai, PhD
Former Postdoc
University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Michael “Keegan” Delaney, PhD
Former Postdoc
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Amy Hulme, PhD
Former Postdoc
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Sahana Mitra, PhD
Former Postdoc
Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
Gina Pisano, PhD
Former Postdoc
Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, USA
Eveline “Eve” Santos da Silva, PhD
Former Postdoc
CRP-Sante’, Luxembourg
Shanmugapriya Shanmugapriya, PhD
Former Postdoc
Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Christina Spaulding
Former Lab Manager
Christopher Stephens
Former Graduate Student
Alice Zhao, PhD
Former Postdoc
The University of Sheffield, UK