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
312-503-5223
PhD: University of Oklahoma, Biochemistry (1994)
Read BioResearch Professor

Yuki Aoi, PhD
Assistant Professor

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

Bercin Cenik MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor

Sarah Gold, PhD
Science Writer

Marta Iwanaszko, PhD
Research Assistant Professor

Rama Mishra, PhD
Assistant Professor

Zibo Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Fellow

Madhurima Das, PhD
Research Associate

Simone De Fabritiis, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar

Saeid Parast, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Shimaa Soliman, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Bin Zheng, PhD
Feinberg Fellow
Research Staff

Grant Andersen
Research Technician

Irem Aydin, MS
Research Specialist

Ben Howard
Research Technician

Meenal Karunanidhi, MS
Research Technician

Rukkia Liaqat
Research Technician

Lawrence Lin
Research Technician

Brianna Monroe, MS
Senior Medical Illustrator/Animator

Ruxuan Qiu, MS
Research Technician

Luke St. John
Research Technician

Jacob Zeidner
Research Technician
Graduate Students

Yue He
Graduate Student

Leila Iravani
Master of Biotechnology Student
Summer Research Interns

Jona Ferra
Undergraduate Research Intern

Isabella Mroczek
Undergraduate Research Intern

Will Thakur
Undergraduate Research Intern
Administration

Linda Jackson
Program Coordinator
312.503.5229

Beverly Kirk
Program Coordinator

Laura Ann Shilatifard
Director of the SQE Inspire Program