Lab Members

Robert E. Gross, MD, PhD (Founder and Previous Director of the TNRL). Dr Gross is now Chair of Neurosurgery at Rutgers and remains Adjunct Faculty at Emory. 

Postdoctoral Fellows: 

• Ash Raghu, MBBS (Neurosurgery resident, Rutgers)  
• Alejandra Fernandez, PhD (Texas Tech University Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy) 
• Babak Mahmoudi, PhD (Emory/Georgia Tech) 
• Abdul Wahab, PhD (Clinical Pharmacist II, Emory Healthcare) 
• Emma Acerbo, PhD (MM Application Engineer at DIXI Medical)
• Mathew Stern, PhD (Emory MD Program)

Graduate Students: 

• Eric Cole, PhD* (postdoctoral fellow, Baylor)
• Mathew Stern, PhD* (Emory MD Program)
• Henry Skelton, PhD* (Pre-Residency Follow in Neurosurgery, Arizona College of Medicine, Tuscon) 
• Angel Santiago-Lopez, PhD* (Bioprocess scientist and group lead at Amgen, Thousand Oaks) 
• Sang Park, PhD* (Seoul National University) 
• Mark Connolly, PhD* (Data Scientist at Tidepool) 
• Zuhui Wang, MS* (Peking University) 
• Jack Tung, PhD* (Medical Director, Guardant Health, San Francisco) 
• Nealan Laxpati, MD, PhD* (Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery, Emory and CHOA, Atlanta) 
• Sharanya Arcot Desai, PhD* (Director of Algorithms within Digital Health at Samsung Research America, Mountain View) 
• John Rolston, MD, PhD* (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston) 
  
  * Thesis Advisor: Robert E. Gross, MD, PhD

Medical Students: 

• Margaret “Maggie” Runner, MD (Retina Center of Texas, Dallas) 
• Michael LaRiviere, MD (U. Penn) 
• James Malcom, MD (Orthopedic Institute, Atlanta) 
• Rohan Gupta, MD (Neurosurgery Residency, Temple University) 
• Dayton Grogan, MD (Neurosurgery Residency, University of Virginia) 

Postbacs/Technicians: 

• Kaavya Mandi, DO (Internal Medicine Residency, Brown) 
• Suprija Ramesha, MD (Neurology Residency, West Virginia University) 
• Mihir Ghetiya, MD (General Surgery Residency, UAB) 
• Fuhang Thomas Shiu, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard/MGH) 
• Manuel Hazim, MD (Neurology Residency, Johns Hopkins) 

Undergraduates, Highschool Students/Teachers and Volunteers: 

Omer Ashmaig * Sami Awad Megha Chiruvella * Varsha Chiruvella * Chantal Christian * Trinity Davies * Grant Derdeyn-Blackwell * Jake Diamond * Kevin Ding * Jackie Elder * Lindsay Fogel * Haley Folsom * Miller Gantt * Kaustubh Gopal * Shree Hariprasad * Christopher Hrvoj * Nathaniel Hyman * Richard Hou * Layan Ibrahim * Sabina Iqbal * Nwamaka Ijeh * Dinara Jones * Maeve Konouck * Soneesh Kothagundla * Amrutha Kotlure * Olga Laur * Amanda Lockhart *  Jennifer Minsu Kim * Alex Nazarri * Francine Norflus, PhD * Jocelyn Ortiz *Alekhya Pidugu * Makenna Pierce * Reice Robinson * Julian Rubiano * Stephanie Sanchez * Anushka Saxena * Eric Stewart * Madison Scott * Niara Taylor * Uday Thakar * Zoe Weiss * Nini Ye * Syed Ali Zaidi  

Bold denotes students who completed Honors with TNRL