Role: Post-Doctoral Fellow

Ximena is a senior postdoc in Laura Goodman’s lab at Cornell. She is performing the wet lab experiments that will establish the vector-borne disease competency model for the JUMP thrust.

I earned my bachelor’s degree in Medical Laboratory Science in Iran and completed my PhD in Biomedical Science at the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. My dissertation, Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Models Provide Insight into Cancer Cell-Intrinsic and Immune Cell-Dependent Effects on Therapeutic Response, centered on developing patient-derived ovarian cancer organoid models … Read more

Binita Saha is an interdisciplinary scientist bridging biomaterials and microphysiological systems for preclinical drug development. She currently serves as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Rajagopalan Lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech where she studies how liver cancer–associated stromal cells influence liver tumor tissue architecture, function, and therapeutic response. Her work at … Read more

Hannah Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. X.J. Meng’s laboratory at Virginia Tech. She earned her PhD in Virology from University College Dublin, Ireland, where her research focused on Hepatitis E virus (HEV). Building on that work, her current research continues to explore HEV, using complex culture systems to investigate viral replication and host … Read more

My work involves integrating mechanistic modeling with machine learning techniques for forecasting the spread of disease.

Samantha Grimes is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Adam Lauring’s laboratory at the University of Michigan. Samantha completed her PhD in Mark Denison’s lab at Vanderbilt University, where she studied the role of the coronavirus helicase and exoribonuclease in virus replication and fitness. Samantha’s project focuses on the evolvability of influenza polymerase and its role in … Read more

Zohreh Gholizadeh Siahmazgi completed her Ph.D. at Azad university, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, focusing on the effects of small molecules on cancer cells in 3D cell culture conditions. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM). Her research interests include tissue organoid modeling, drug discovery and … Read more

Blessy completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. She is continuing as a post-doctoral researcher in the same research group and university. Dr. T. M. Murali and Dr. Anuj Karpatne have been co-advising her. Her research interests include using computational methods such as natural language processing, graph machine … Read more