Current Students
Ph.D. Students
Katherine Doyle (PhD in Bioscience):"Inflammation as a Central Factor in the Pathogenesis of Human Chronic Diseases".Co-advised by Dr. Lynn Gerber (CHHS, GMU/INOVA)
Kellie Perry (PhD in Bioscience):"Genetic and environmental factors contributing to the pathogenesis and the treatment response in hepatitis C".Co-advised by Dr. Mike Estep (INOVA)
Edgar Rodriguez (PhD in Chemistry):"Inflammatory and fibrotic features of visceral adipose are associated with chronic liver disease"
Maria Keaton (PhD in Bioscience):"Brown adipose tissue biomarkers in visceral fat".Co-advised by Dr. Aybike Birerdinc (SSB, CoS)
Sasha Stoddard (PhD in Bioscience):To Be Determined
Tiange Cui (PhD in Bioinformatics):To Be Determined
Steven Bowers (PhD in Bioinformatics):"Rare Disease Information Portal"
Sasha Stoddard (PhD in Biosciences):To Be Determined
Master's Students
Kuan Yao (MS in Biology):To Be Determined
Shelly Jones (MS in Biology):"Caspase-3 Inhibitors as Anti-Apoptotic Treatment for Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)"
Sasha Stoddard (MS in Biology - Molecular):"Molecular Connections between Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), NASH, and Steatohepatitic HCC (SH-HCC)"
Peter Masschelin (MS in Biology - Molecular):"The Effects of the Treatment of Various Lipid Species on Mitochondrial and Cellular Functions of Hepatocytes"
Gladys Shaw (MS in Biology):"A Genotypic Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products (AGER) in Inflammatory Metabolic Disease"
Kameron Tavakolian (MS in Biology):"Profiling Fibrotic Genes in Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT) among Patients within the Spectrum of NAFLD"
Kamil Kural (MS in Bioinformatics):To Be Determined
Kyle Kurzke (MS in Biology):To Be Determined
Kyeong Yun Jeong (MS in Biology):To Be Determined
Undergraduate Students
Srivalli Srivangipuram (BS)