Our Team

We are a team of researchers and students from diverse fields and backgrounds interested in developing discovery and hypothesis driven methods and systems for improving the state-of-the-art in cancer research.

Shikhar Uttam, Ph.D.

Principle Investigator

Peter Murdo Chiknas, M.S.

Lab Manager

Computational and Systems Biology

Christopher Andersen

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Rajdeep Pawar

Graduate Student

PhD student in the Cell Molecular and Systems Biology (CMSB) PhD Program

Caitlin Strassburg

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Thomas Jacob

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Gargi Kher

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Danielle Pitlor

Graduate Student

PhD student in the Cell Molecular and Systems Biology (CMSB) PhD Program

Yumeng (Triss) Ren

Graduate student

MS student in Computational Biology and Biotechnology

Ksenia Mats

TECBio (NSF REU) student at Pitt

Senior, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bryn Mawr College

Alumni

Benjamin Raymond

Benjamin Raymond

Software developer at Epic Systems.

Bogdan Kochetov

Bogdan Kochetov

Research Scientist, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

Carli Newman

Carli Newman

Former TECBio (NSF REU at Pitt) student; Damon Runyon SPARK scholar and postbaccalaureate researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle WA

Kanika Yadav

Kanika Yadav

MD student at Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA

Meghana Halder

Meghana Halder

Computer Science Senior, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Phi Nguyen

Phi Nguyen

MS student in Biostatistics, Oregon Health Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health

Pooja Chawla

Pooja Chawla

Research And Development Scientist at Renerva, Inc.

Rebecca Raphael

Rebecca Raphael

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Riley Arbuckle

Riley Arbuckle

PhD candidate in Human genetics in the School of Public Health at University of Pittsburgh.

Srashti Bajpai

Srashti Bajpai

Researcher, University of Pittsburgh

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