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TEAM
Prashant Rajbhandari
Prashant Rajbhandari, PhD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Director, Metabolic Assessment Core
Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Institute (DOMI)
Disease Mechanism and Therapeutics Program
Education-
PostDoc: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison
CURRENT
Sanil Patel, MS
PhD Graduate Student
MS: St. Johns University, NY
Project: PATZ1 & Adipogenesis
Chung Hwan Cho, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD: Seoul National University
Project: Adipogenesis and Beige Progenitors Enrichment
Ramazan Yildiz, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD: Autonomous University of Madrid, Marie Curie Research Fellow
Project: Immunometabolism
David (Young Uk) Jang, MS
Lab Manager/Associate Researcher
MS: Columbia University, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Mammokines and immunometabolism
Amir Farman, PhD
Sr. Computational Biologist
PhD: University of Tokyo
Project: Mammokines and immunometabolism
James McMullen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Loma Linda University
Project: Mammokines and
luminal epithelium metabolism
Kajal Davi Malik, MS
Associate Researcher
Yuekun (Hillary) Shao,MS
Bioinformatician
May 2025
May 2025
Aidan Warnock, MS
Associate Researcher
May 2025
Lab Alumni
Juwairriyyah Siddiqui, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Endocrinology
MD: Columbia University/Harlem Hospital
Project: Adipogenesis and scRNA-seq
Hatna Ganbold, MS
Associate Scientist
MS: Columbia University, NY
Project: Adipogenesis and
Thermogenesis
Njeri Sparman, BS
Associate Researcher
BS: New York University
Project: IL10 & Thermogenesis
Current: Columbia University Graduate School
Current: New York University
Graduate School
Sydney Hart, B.S.
Associate Researcher
B.S.: Washington University, St. Louis
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Shani Sadeh, MS
Sr. Associate Researcher
MS: Columbia University, NY
Britney Huang, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project: IL10 & Thermogenesis
Luis Santos, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Columbia University, NY
Current: Senior Equity Research Associate
H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC
Chijie Xu, M.S.
Senior Associate Researcher
Mount Sinai, New York
Miranda Ortega, BS (Junior)
Researcher (Intern)
University of Chicago
Project: Mammokines
DANIEL HE, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project: Adipogenesis
Sylvia Chan, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Bronx H.S. of Science
Project: IL10 and Thermogenesis
Tanzeem Hasan, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project: Beige Adipogenesis
Suri Lin, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Bronx H.S. of Science
Project: Adipogenesis
Megan Ro, HS
Research Intern
Herricks Public Schools
Project: IL10 and Lipolysis
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