Team
Institute Leadership

Debiao Li, PhD
Director

Rohan Dharmakumar, PhD
Associate Director

Daniel S. Berman, MD
Medical Director
Faculty

Daniel Berman, MD

Xiaoming Bi, PhD

Anthony G. Christodoulou, PhD

Ivan Cokic, MD

Alessandro D'Agnolo, MD

Damini Dey, PhD

Rohan Dharmakumar, PhD

Zhaoyang Fan, PhD

John D. Friedman, MD

Wei Gao, PhD

Fei Han, PhD

Hui Han, PhD

Debiao Li, PhD

Ramachandran Murali, PhD

Gadi Pelled, PhD

J. Manuel Perez, PhD

Behzad Sharif, PhD

Piotr Slomka, PhD

Balaji Tamarappoo, MD, PhD

Wafa Tawackoli, PhD

Shawn Wagner, PhD

Janet Wei, MD, FACC

Yibin Xie, PhD

Yi Zhang, PhD

Yifang (Jimmy) Zhou, PhD
Research Staff

Natalin Aroyan, MHA
Senior Administrative Assistant

Gloria Arrenquin, MBA
Program Manager

Adis Asaturyan, MD
Clinical Research Coordinator II

Linda Azab, BS
Research Associate I

Laura Chey, BS
Senior Administrative Assistant

Xiaoyu Da, MS
Research Associate, Molecular/Micro

Grant Dagliyan, DRSc, MS, MPH
Program Manager

Kelli DeJohn, BS
Research Admin Coordinator

Jimmy Fermin, R.T. (R)(N)(CT)(MR)ARRT CNMT, NMTCB(CT), NCT, PET
Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Edward Gill, RT
MRI Technologist

Irene Lee, BS, RT
MRI Technologist

Rhona Littman, CCRP
Regulatory Coordinator III

Meng Lu, BS
Research Associate I

Cody Lynch, MS
Research Associate I

Rachel Marcus, BS
Clinical Research Associate I

Priscilla McElhinney, BS
Clinical Research Associate I

Aryabod Razipour, MD
Research Associate III

Nipun Manral, MS
Clinical Research Data Specialist II

Fardad Serry, MS
Research Associate II

Laura Smith, RT, ARRT (PET) NMTCB
Chief MRI Technologist and Imaging Team Leader

Richard Tang, MD
Senior Research Associate

Catherine Ubaldo-Prado, MSN-RN, MBA, PHN
Research Nurse III
Project Scientists & Postdocs

Yinyin Chen, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Sonja Fenske, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Erin Gallent, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Qiuju Hu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Hsu-Lei Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Andrew Lin, MBBS, BMedSci
Postdoctoral Researcher

Janelle Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Ting Liu, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Sen "Frank" Ma, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Xianglun Vincent Mao, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Anand Nair, PhD
Project Scientist

Touseef Ahmad Qureshi, PhD
Project Scientist

Nan Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Jiayu Xiao, MD
Postdoctoral Scientist

Khalid Youssef, PhD
Project Scientist

Hsin-Jung “Randy” Yang, PhD
Project Scientist

Huixia Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist
Students & Interns

Taylor Beaulieu, BS
Graduate Student

Tianle Cao, BS
Graduate Student

Karandeep Cheema, BS
Graduate Student

Haitao Chen, BS
Graduate Student

Junzhou Chen
Graduate Student

Yuhua "Bill" Chen, BS
Graduate Student

Zihao Chen
Graduate Student

Zengtian Deng
Graduate Student

Genesis Flores
Research Intern

Laurel Gilabert
Research Intern

Siobhan Glynn
Graduate Student

Xingmin "Diane" Guan, MS
Graduate Student

Pei Han, BS
Graduate Student

Zhehao Hu
Graduate Student

Yuheng Huang, MS
Graduate Student

Eric Johnson
Graduate Student

Shihan Qiu
Graduate Student

Nadia Said
Research Intern

Haoran Sun
Graduate Student

Nina Ulyanov
Research Intern

Hazar Benan Unal, BS
Graduate Student

Chaowei Wu
Graduate Student

Dilek Mirgun Yalcinkaya
Graduate Student

Xinheng "James" Zhang, MS
Graduate Student
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