Lab Members
Peleg Winer
Lab Technician I
2016 – present
pwiner@usc.edu
Phone: (424) 230-1259
Research Interest: Air Pollution effects on the brain, HCV related liver cancer pathology in obese/alcoholic patients
Hobbies: Soccer, hiking, travelling
Mengmei Zheng
Master’s Student
2016 – Present
mengmeiz@usc.edu
Phone: (626) 560-3798
Research Interest: Viral oncology, HCV and post infection, liver cancer
Hobbies: Photography
Ahmed Rokan
Master’s Student
2013 – Present
rokan@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 444-8739
Research Interest: The roles of TLR 4 and AID in lymphoproliferation mediated by alcohol, obesity and HCV cancer immunotherapy by using tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes containing mutation specific immune cells
Hobbies: Soccer (playing and watching)
Maximo A. Guerrero
High School Intern
2016 – Present
maximoguerrero13@gmail.com
Research Interest: I am interested in connection between leptin and the hypothalamus. More specifically the regulation of Leptin receptor and NPY gene expression in the hypothalamus of mice fed with a western blot diet.
Davyd Slesarenko
STAR Student
2016 – Present
slesarenkodavyd@gmail.com
Research Interest: Anything with a significant medical application.
Hobbies: Surfing
Alumni
| Kevin Chang | Undergraduate Student | 2000 – 2005 |
| Jeffrey Huang | Technician | 2004 – 2005 |
| Yung-Chia Chen | Visiting Ph.D. Student | 2004 – 2005 |
| Sean Vohra | Technician | 2007 – 2008 |
| Lewei Duan | Technician | 2008 – 2010 |
| Connie Taylor | High School Student | 2008 – 2010 |
| Jian Chang (Felix) Liu | Technician | 2008 – 2012 |
| Douglas Feldman, Ph.D. | Research Associate | 2010 – 2012 |
| Nasib Zaman | Visiting Ph.D. Scholar | 2011 |
| Rajeshwar Nityanandan | Master’s Student | 2011 – 2013 |
| Judy Jung | High School Student | 2012 – 2013 |
| Kevin Kim | High School Student | Summer 2013 |
| Dinesh Babu Uthaya Kumar | Masters Student | 2012 – 2014 |
| Ambika Ramrakhiani | Masters Student | 2012 – 2014 |
| Chad Nakagawa | Masters Students | 2013 – 2015 |
| Padmini Narayanan | Masters Student | 2013 – 2015 |
| Chia-Lin Chen | PhD Student | 2011 – 2016 |
| Hifzur Siddique | Research Associate | 2012 – 2016 |
| Ariana Gonazales | High School Student | 2013 – 2016 |
| Jordan Pedersen | Undergraduate Student | 2013 – 2016 |