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TEAM
Prashant Rajbhandari
Prashant Rajbhandari, PhD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Director, Metabolic Assessment Core
Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Institute (DOMI)
Disease Mechanism and Therapeutics Program
Education-
PostDoc: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison
CURRENT
Sanil Patel, MS
PhD Graduate Student
MS: St. Johns University, NY
Project: PATZ1 & Adipogenesis
Chung Hwan Cho, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD: Seoul National University
Project: Adipogenesis and Beige Progenitors Enrichment
Ramazan Yildiz, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD: Autonomous University of Madrid, Marie Curie Research Fellow
Project: Immunometabolism
Amir Farman, PhD
Sr. Computational Biologist
PhD: University of Tokyo
Project: Mammokines and immunometabolism
James McMullen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Loma Linda University
Project: Mammokines and
luminal epithelium metabolism
Kajal Davi Malik, MS
Associate Researcher
May 2025
David (Young Uk) Jang, MS
Lab Manager/Associate Researcher
MS: Columbia University, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Mammokines and immunometabolism
Aidan Warnock, MS
Associate Researcher
May 2025
Lab Alumni
Juwairriyyah Siddiqui, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Endocrinology
MD: Columbia University/Harlem Hospital
Project: Adipogenesis and scRNA-seq
Hatna Ganbold, MS
Associate Scientist
MS: Columbia University, NY
Project: Adipogenesis and
Thermogenesis
Njeri Sparman, BS
Associate Researcher
BS: New York University
Project: IL10 & Thermogenesis
Current: Columbia University Graduate School
Current: New York University
Graduate School
Sydney Hart, B.S.
Associate Researcher
B.S.: Washington University, St. Louis
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Shani Sadeh, MS
Sr. Associate Researcher
MS: Columbia University, NY
Britney Huang, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project: IL10 & Thermogenesis
Luis Santos, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Columbia University, NY
Current: Senior Equity Research Associate
H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC
Chijie Xu, M.S.
Senior Associate Researcher
Mount Sinai, New York
Miranda Ortega, BS (Junior)
Researcher (Intern)
University of Chicago
Project: Mammokines
DANIEL HE, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project: Adipogenesis
Sylvia Chan, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Bronx H.S. of Science
Project: IL10 and Thermogenesis
Tanzeem Hasan, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project: Beige Adipogenesis
Suri Lin, HS
Researcher (Intern)
Bronx H.S. of Science
Project: Adipogenesis
Megan Ro, HS
Research Intern
Herricks Public Schools
Project: IL10 and Lipolysis
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