Current Members

Principal Investigator

Shahzad Khan, PhD

shahzad_khan at med.unc.edu

919-966-3701

Research Technician

Hope Pruitt, MS

Hope_Pruitt at email.unc.edu

919-966-8934

Graduate Student

Seth Tart, BS

sethtart at live.unc.edu

919-966-8934

Graduate Student

Kavya Balasubramanian, MS

kavyab at email.unc.edu

919-966-8934

Graduate Student (w/ Todd Cohen)

Micaela Murcar, BS

mmurcar at email.unc.edu

919-966-8934

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Holly Jayasanker

hjayas at unc.edu

919-966-8934

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Mihir Mahajani

mmmihir at ad.unc.edu

919-966-8934

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Adrija Sarkar

adrijas at ad.unc.edu

919-966-8934

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Maggie Ryan

mry at ad.unc.edu

919-966-8934

Past Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

Ashleigh Rawls, Postdoctoral Scholar, 2025, Current Position: Genentech

Research Technicians

Harry Patel, Research Technician, Summer 2023 - Summer 2024, Current Position: Medical Student, Mercer

Guillermina Rentsch, Research Technician, Summer 2024 - Summer 2025, Current Position: Master's Student, Germany

Undergraduates

Destiny Stewart, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2025 - Spring 2026, Current Position: Graduate Student, UNC

Ipsy Peddapalli, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2024 - Summer 2025

Indra Gottiveeti, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Ria Choi, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2024, Current Position: Student, University of Chicago

Bettina George, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, Current Position, Student, UNC

Rotation Students

Paris Kiehl, Rotating Graduate Student, Fall 2025, Current Position: Graduate Student, UNC

Kylie Joyce, Rotating MSTP Student, Summer 2025, Current Position: MSTP Student, UNC

Katherine Long, Rotating Graduate Student, Fall 2024, Current Position: Graduate Student, UNC

Mac Warwick, Rotating MSTP Student, Summer 2024, Current Position: Medical Student, UNC

Leo Blondel, Rotating Graduate Student, Spring 2024, Current Position: Graduate Student, UNC