People

Principal Investigator:

May Khanna
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

May Khanna Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Assistant Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Phone: (352) 294-5351

Post-Doctoral Fellows:

Tolga Catmakas
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

Tolga Catmakas Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Phone: (601) 434-9891

Lab Technicians:

Hunter Reyes, Biological Scientist I

Research Scientists:

Samantha Perez-Miller
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

Samantha Perez-Miller Ph.D.

Research Associate Scientist
Phone: (352) 294-5350
Judith Tello Vega
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

Judith Tello Vega Ph.D.

Research Assistant Scientist
Phone: (520) 829-8773
Marina Rodriguez Sanchez
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

Marina Rodriguez Sanchez Ph.D.

Research Assistant Scientist
Phone: (520) 481-2732
Niloofar Ghadirian
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

Niloofar Ghadirian Ph.D.

Research Assistant Scientist
Phone: (352) 294-5543

Graduate Students:

Lipsa Jena
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

Lipsa Jena

OPS-Spons Prjs Non-Clerical
Phone: (520) 409-4224
Akash R Rajaram
Department: MD-PHARMACOLOGY – THERAPEUTICS

Akash R Rajaram

GRADUATE AST-R
Phone: (317) 490-9792

Alumni:

  • Razaz Felemban, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor; Saudi Arabia)
  • Niloufar Mollasalehi, Ph.D. (Scientist Beckman Coulter)
  • David D. Scott, Ph.D (Senior Scientist at Manus)
  • Liberty Francois-Moutal, Ph.D (Assistant Professor, SLU)
  • Jonathan Sanchez, Ph.D. (Co-founder and CSO Regenerix; Scientist at Roche)
  • Éverton Dias D’Andréa (Postdoc, Austria)
  • Victor G. Miranda, B.S. (Ph.D. in Chemical biology, Harvard)
  • Haley E. Williams, M.S. (UNC, clinical dietician)
  • Franky Torres, BS (Medical school, 2024)