Team
Principal Investigator
Irfan Asangani
- Associate Professor of Cancer Biology
- Associate Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
- Core Member, Penn Epigenetics Institute
Selected Honors and Awards:
- 2021 Society for Basic Urology (SBUR) Young Investigator Award
- 2020 Conquer Cancer Now Award – Concern Foundation
- 2014 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)
- 2013 Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Young Investigator Award
- 2013 Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Challenge Award
- 2013 AACR Millennium Scholar-In-Training Award
- 2007 Invited Young Researcher at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Germany
Lab Members
Brijesh Kumar Verma
Post Doc
Hyein Cho
Post Doc
Erick Mitchell-Velásquez
PhD Candidate
Sharan Venkatesh
PhD Student
Chandan Kanta Das
Post Doc
Ikram Ullah
Post Doc
Alexis Jeans Morales
PhD Student
Mohammed Alhusayan
PhD Student
Alumni
Name
Xiaoyan Wang
Gabriel Raytsis
Qu Deng
Reyaz Ur Rasool
Muhammad Kishta
Jessica Rainey
Shweta Aras
Ramakrishnan Natesan
Sam Sander Effron
Aishwarya Pawar
Aryel Heller
Paradesi Naidu Gollavilli
Position Held
Master's Student
Undergraduate student
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Associate
Masters Student
Research Technician
Masters Student
Postdoctoral Fellow
Date
2023 – 2024
2023 – 2024
2018 – 2023
2018 – 2023
2022 – 2023
2021 – 2022
2018 – 2021
2018 – 2020
2018- 2019
2016 – 2018
2017 – 2018
2016- 2017
Current Position
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Research Assistant
Weill Cornell | Resident Physician
National Cancer Institute/NIH | Scientist
University of North Carolina |Research Assistant
University of Delaware | PhD Candidate
Gene Therapy Program, University of Pennsylvania | Research Specialist D
Amgen | Data Scientist
Fenix Group International, LLC | Consultant
University of Pennsylvania | PhD Candidate
Science Communicator (Free Lance)
Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF), Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Research Associate
