Principal Investigator
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Thales Papagiannakopoulos, PhD

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU
Postdoctoral Fellow with Tyler Jacks Lab, Koch Integrative Insitute for Cancer Research
PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Kenneth Kosik Lab, UC Santa Barbara, 2010
BS Molecular Genetics, University of Sussex, UK, 2004
Staff Scientist
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Fedra Luciano, PhD

Staff Scientist

PhD in Biomedicine at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, 2016-2019 Fedra joined the team in 2024. She is focused on understanding how tumor development can affect the host’s systemic metabolism.
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Xiaoyan Zhu

Staff Scientist

Research Associates
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Sahith Rajalingam

Research Associate

MS In Pharmacology and Toxicology, Long Island University, 2019
PharmD, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 2015

Sai is a research associate/lab manager. He joined the lab in September 2021. He ensures that the lab operates… and outside of the lab, he likes to travel and cook.

Research Assistant
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Janet Olivas

Research Assistant III

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Krushali Powale

Research Assistant III

Postdoctoral Fellows
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Masami Abe

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Stefan Kotschi, MD

Postdoctoral Fellow

MD at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany 2022

Stefan joined the team in 2024 and is working on the intersection of cancer, neuroscience, and systemic metabolism.

Graduate Students
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Alec Vaughan

Graduate Student

Alec is a Vilcek graduate student. He joined our lab in the summer of 2024. He is focusing on the role of ferroptosis and metabolism in lung cancer.
Bioinformatics Programmer
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Yuan Hao, PhD

Senior Bioinformatics Programmer

PhD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University College Dublin
MPhil Computational Biology, University of Cambridge
Senior Bioinformatics Programmer at PCC/ABL, NYU Langone Health since 2020
Lab Administrative Manager
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Naomi Kelly

Lab Administrative Manager