Our Team
Meet the Shilatifard Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator

Ali Shilatifard, PhD
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor
Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Director of the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics
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PhD: University of Oklahoma, Biochemistry (1994)
Read BioResearch Professor

Noah Birch, MD, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Hematology and Oncology

Marta Iwanaszko, PhD
Research Assistant Professor

Marc Morgan, PhD
Research Associate Professor

Zibo Zhao, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yuki Aoi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Bercin Cenik MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Saeid Parast, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Shimaa Soliman, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Staff

Grant Andersen
Research Technician

Madhurima Das, PhD
Research Associate

Zach Dumar, MS
Research Technician

Ben Howard
Research Technician

Brianna Monroe, MS
Senior Medical Illustrator/Animator

Cassy Phillips, MS
Research Technician

Jacob Zeidner
Research Technician
Graduate Students

Yue He
Graduate Student

Leila Iravani
Master of Biotechnology Student

Jordan John
Medical Student

Bin Zheng
Graduate Student
Summer Research Interns

Dan Ballarin
Undergraduate Research Intern

Jennifer Kavina
Undergraduate Research Intern

Isabella Mroczek
Undergraduate Research Intern

Maeve Murdock
Undergraduate Research Intern

Will Thakur
Undergraduate Research Intern
Administration

Linda Jackson
Administrative Assistant
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Beverly Kirk
Program Coordinator

Laura Ann Shilatifard
Editorial Assistant