Lab Members

Haoshen Shi, MD, PhD, completed his medical education in Shandong, China. He then moved to Detroit to pursue his scientific education as a doctoral student in the Anatomy & Cell Biology department at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Shi is an eye specialist with research experience in immunology and diabetic retinopathy. He is now undertaking new research on retinal vasculature in Alzheimer's disease in the Koronyo-Hamaoui lab. Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D) awardee.

Altan Rentsendorj, PhD, received her Master of Science in Microbiology and her Doctorate in Molecular Biology at Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, respectively. She was a research fellow at the Institute of Biotechnology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar; a postdoctoral fellow in biology at St. Luke's Medical Center, Rush Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, IL, and in virology at City of Hope Medical Center, Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA; a scientist at the University of Southern California, Norris Cancer Center, Gene Therapy Laboratories; and is a research associate at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Regenerative Medicine Institute.

Dieu-Trang (Sandrine) Fuchs, MSc, received her Master of Science in Biology from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France and her Medical Analysis certification from the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France. Since joining the Koronyo-Hamaoui Laboratory, Fuchs has been involved in studying the pathological and behavioral aspects of Alzheimer's disease following immune-based therapies in transgenic mouse models.

Julia Sheyn, BSc, completed her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine. She worked for two years as a research assistant in a pharmaceutics lab at the Hebrew University Pharmacy School and for a year in the Heart Institute at the Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem. After graduation from pharmacy school, Sheyn worked as a community pharmacist for 7 years. She has been involved in neuropathological assessments as well as cognitive and behavioral testing following immune-modulation therapies in transgenic mouse models of disease.

Mia Oviatt received her bachelor's degree in Biology with a concentration in Neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where she studied the neural circuitry of food anticipation in mice in the Steele Lab. She now supports the Koronyo-Hamaoui Laboratory in an administrative role, assisting with grant applications, tracking financials, organizing events, editing scientific content, and overseeing communications.