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) 

Graduate Students: 

• Henry Skelton, PhD (Morehouse MD program) 
• Angel Santiago-Lopez, PhD (Bioprocess scientist and group lead at Amgen, Thousand Oaks) 
• Sang Park, PhD (Seoul National University) 
• Mark Connolly, PhD (Data Scientist – Tidepool) 
• Zuhui Wang (Peking University) 
• Jack Tung, PhD (Medical Director, Guardant Health, San Francisco) 
• Nealan Laxpati, MD, PhD (Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow at Texas Children's) 
• Sharanya Arcot Desai, PhD (NeuroPace, Inc.) 
• John Rolston, MD, PhD (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston) 

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 * Kaustubh Gopal * Shree Hariprasad * Christopher Hrvoj * Nathaniel Hyman * Layan Ibrahim * Sabina Iqbal * Nwamaka Ijeh * Dinara Jones * Maeve Konouck * 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 * Syed Ali Zaidi  

Bold denotes students who completed Honors with TNRL