Past Lab Members

Research Scientists

  • Amanda Macedo (2015-2021)
    Publications 
    Current position: Senior Scientist at Amgen

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Rachel Resop (2017-2022)
    Publications 
    Current position: HIV Research Fellow at NIH
  • Selase Deletsu (2022-2024)
    Publications 
    Current position: Research Staff DNAform

Graduate Students

  • Natalie Howard (2019-2023)
    PhD Dissertation title “Harnessing the IL-15 Signaling Pathway for HIV Cure Approaches”.
    Publications
    Current position: Postdoctoral IRTA- NIAID | Immunology, Global HIV Cure Research
  • Indra Sarabia (2016-2021)
    PhD Dissertation tittle “In vitro tools to study the establishment of HIV-1 latency and evaluate latency reversing agents for HIV-1 cure strategies” - Supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number F31AI147814
    Publications
    Current position: Sr Scientist, Immunology Discovery, at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Master Students

  • Paula Moszczynski (2017-2021)
    MS Dissertation title "Evaluation of STAT-activator HODHBt in Modulating HIV-1 Infection of Human Interleukin-34 and Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor-1 Differentiated Macrophages" 
    Current position: Clinical Project Manager at Dyne Therapeutics

Lab Technicians

  • Callie Levinger (Lab Associate) 
    Current Position: Research Associate II at BIOQUAL, Inc
  • Eric Sorensen (Lab Technician)
    Current position: Medical student at the University of Utah. 
  • Ryan Durga (Lab Associate)
    Current position: Program Examiner at Executive Office of the President
  • Pingtao Tang (Research Associate)

Medical Students

  • Kurt Rodriguez  (METEOR Fellowship Program)
  • Thomas Zaikos (HIVMA Medical Students Program Award).
    Current position: Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology trainee at Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • Peter Shahid (W.T. Gill Fellowship Program)
  • Usman Asif (W.T. Gill Fellowship Program)

Undergraduate Students

  • Marie Abongwa (GW Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer, GW-SPARC) 
  • Nishka Utpat (The George Washington University. AMPC Research Symposium Program)
  • Isabella Pereira-Tosado (GW Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer, GW-SPARC)
  • Esteban Rivera (GW Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer, GW-SPARC)
  • Maia Pappadakis (Marymount University Internship)
  • Daniel Newman (Research Undergraduate student)
  • Richard Ryngel (Research Undergraduate student)
  • George Fragoulias (Research Undergraduate student)
  • Amanda Rodriguez (Research Undergraduate student)
  • Bailey Hoglin (Research Undergraduate student)
  • Joshua Smith-Sreen (BU Santander Sophomore Internship Program)
  • Francis Mele (GW Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer, GW-SPARC)
  • Adriana Hernandez (GW Summer Program Advancing Research on Cancer, GW-SPARC)
  • Caroline M. Assis (University of Utah, Brazil Scientific Mobility Program)
  • Linda Maranto (University of Utah, Research Undergraduate student)

Highschool Students

  • Marie Abongwa (DCCFAR Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Pipeline Initiative, CDEIPI)
  • Madelyn Cook (Summer Internship)
  • Isabel Wang (Summer Internship)