Our team

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Tata Lab Alumni

• Negah Ahmadvand, PhD
• Naoya Miyashita, PhD
• Satoshi Konishi, PhD – Former postdoc, Satoshi is currently an assistant professor at Kyoto University in the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA). 
• Arvind Konkimalla, PhD – Former MD/PhD student in Tata lab. Arvind is currently finishing up his medical school and gearing up for clinical residency.
• Hiro Katsura, PhD – Was a postdoc in Tata lab and currently working at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems and Dynamics Research, Laboratory for Lung Development in Japan!
• Preetish Murthy. PhD – Was a postdoc in Tata lab and currently he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Biology at the University of Illinois- Chicago.
• Vishwaraj Sontake, PhD – Former Postdoc. Vishwa is currently working as a senior scientist at Gordian Biotech in San Francisco, CA. He will be working on developing gene therapies for complex age-related human lung diseases!
• Erica Langan – Former undergrad; graduated Honor’s degree with distinction. Erica is currently working as a research assistant in Ordovas -Montanes lab at Boston Children’s Hospital.
• Samuel Liu – Former Undergrad. Currently working as a Research Assistant in Lefkowitz lab at Duke University.
• Robin Yeh – Former Undergrad. Robin is currently working as a consultant at Accenture.
• Rebecca Lee – Former Undergrad. Rebecca is a graduate candidate in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences graduate program at the Yale University.
• Avani Desai – Former Undergrad. Currently she is an MD candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Yoshihiko Kobayashi, PhD – Was a postdoc in Tata lab and is currently an Assistant professor at Kyoto University studying tissue remodeling in pregnancy at the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences in Kyoto, Japan!