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
Sarah Gold, PhD
Science Writer
Marta Iwanaszko, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Zibo Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yuki Aoi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Bercin Cenik MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Madhurima Das, PhD
Research Associate
Saeid Parast, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Shimaa Soliman, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Bin Zheng
Feinberg Fellow
Research Staff
Grant Andersen
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
Summer Research Interns
Isabella Mroczek
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