Meet the Team

Saiful M. Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator


Graduate Students

Adway O. Zacharius
5th year Ph.D. student
Ashima Mehta
2nd year Ph.D. student
Aurchie Rahman
4th year Ph.D. student
Akash Talukder
4th year Ph.D. student
Sharel Cornelius
4th year Ph.D. student

Undergraduate students

Jocelyn Vincent
Christine Urbina
Han Le
William Badger

Lab Alumni

Graduate Students


Dr. Ruchika Bhawal
Dr. Ruchika Bhawal (Ph.D 2015)

Previous Position: Senior Staff Scientist, Cornell University

Current position: Senior Scientist

International Flavor and Fragrant Inc., Wilmington, DE

Dr. Maheshika Wanigasekara (Ph.D. 2017)

Current position: Screening Scientist

UTSW medical center

Dr. Jayanta Chakarabarty (Ph.D. 2019)

Previous position: Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, New York, NY

Current position: Senior Research Scientist, DMPK, Boeringher Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT

Dr. A.D.A Shahinuzzaman (Ph.D. 2019)

Senior Scientific Officer, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dr. Zixiang Fang (2020)

Previous position: Research specialist, Washington University school of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Current position:
Scientist: Genentech, Inc
South San Francisco, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal
Technical Core Director, Metabolic Core
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Dr. Shenjie Bian,
Senior Research Investigator I
Amicus Therapeutics, CA