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Meet our Collaborative
and Diverse Team
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Lab Members
Meet our Collaborative & Diverse Team
Current Lab Members
Omar Mian, MD, PhD
Principle Investigator
Dr. Mian is a radiation oncologist and physician scientist at the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute. His research interests center around the genetics and epigenetics of bladder and prostate cancer.
Shinjini Ganguly, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shinjini, the senior postdoctoral fellow in the lab, studies genetic and epigenetic mechanisms through which androgen receptor signaling influences DNA damage response and the resulting effects on therapeutic resistance in prostate cancer.
Andrew Muskara
Research Technician
Andrew obtained his B.S. in biology at Ohio State University. His work includes developing orthotopic models of neuroendocrine cancers, investigating treatment resistance in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma, and developing models to investigate therapeutic outcomes of castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Jarrell Imamura
Research Technician
Jarrell is a recent graduate of CWRU and aspiring medical student. He is studying the drivers of lineage plasticity in high-grade bladder cancer through the development of a novel reporter system for transdifferentiation.
Zaeem Lone, MS3
Medical Student
Zaeem is a 3rd year CCLCM student working on transcriptomic biomarkers in prostate cancer.
Monica Nair, MS3
Medical Student
Monica is a 2nd year CCLCM student studying bladder cancer organ preservation approaches biomarkers and response to immunotherapy using informatics and genomics approaches.
Claudia Walker, MS2
Medical Student
Claudia is a 1st year CCLCM student studying neuroendocrine transdifferentiation.
Previous Lab Members
Anya Kondratova, PhD
Staff Scientist
Anya oversaw projects, mentored rotating students, and worked closely with our postdoctoral fellows.
Anthony Ghanem, MD
Internal Medicine Resident
Anthony is an Internal Medicine Resident at UPenn's Pennsylvania Hospital.
Prarthana Parthasarathy, MD
Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist
Pari is an Pediatric Hematologist - Oncologist at Indiana University's Riley Children's Health.
Aysegul Balyimez, PhD
Scientist
Dr. Balyimez is a scientist at Exact Sciences. Dr. Balyimez's research focused on the role of epigenetic reader proteins and co-repressor complexes in the initiation and progression of solid tumors.
Dr. Sarah Sittenfeld and Dr. Martin Tom
Radiation Oncologists
Dr. Sittenfeld is a Radiation Oncologist at The University of Cincinnati. Dr. Tom is a Radiation Oncologist at the Miami Cancer Institute. Both Dr. Sittenfeld and Dr. Tom were Radiation Oncology Resident Physicians at the Cleveland Clinic. They were involved in clinical and basic research projects in our lab.
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Adam Delong, MD
Pediatric Resident
Adam is a Pediatric Resident at Columbia University. While attending CWRU SOM he spent time in our lab studying the function of histone mutations in aggressive pediatric brain tumors (e.g., DIPG).
Nikki Patel
Clinical Research Program Coordinator
Nikki is a Clinical Research Program Coordinator at Nationwide Children's Hospital. When she was a student at Ohio State University, she studied the function of co-repressor complexes in radiation response in our lab.
Vadim Koshkin, MD
Genitourinary Oncologist
Dr. Koshkin is a Genitourinary Oncologist at UCSF.
Brittany Gnewkowski
Medical Student
Brittany is currently a medical student
Divya Naik
Internal Medicine Resident
Divya is an Internal Medicine Resident at Methodist Health System.