People

Jennifer Czochor - Graduate Student
Email: jennifer.czochor@yale.edu
Research Interests: MicroRNA regulation and function in hypoxia

Nicole McNeer - M.D./Ph.D. Student
Email: nicole.mcneer@yale.edu
Research Interests: Nanoparticles for gene editing

Edward Gunther 

Pre-doctoral, 1991-1993 
Associate Professor, 
Dept. of Medicine, Pennsylvania State Univ., 
Hershey, PA 
Triplex DNA and psoralen mutagenesis

Toni Yeasky

Pamela Havre

Post-doctoral, 1992-1995
Research Asst. Professor, Dept. of Hematology & Oncology,
University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL Targeted mutagenesis using triplex-forming oligonucleotides

Gan Wang

Post-doctoral, 1993-1996 
Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Health Science,  
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI  
Mutagenesis and DNA repair induced by triplex-forming oligonucleotides

Elaine Lau

Undergraduate, 1994-1995
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF  
Triplex DNA

Manidipa Mukherjee Raha

Post-doctoral, 1994-1997
Science teacher, 
Brookfield High School, Brookfield, CT
Mutagenesis in Xeroderma pigmentosum variant cells

A. Fawad Faruqi

Post-doctoral, 1994-1999
Director, Sales and Business Development, 
HistoRx, Inc. Branford, CT 
Recombination induced by triplex formation

James Fritzell, Jr.

Research Assistant, 1995-1997
Perinatal Medicine, 
Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT
Mutagenesis in transgenic mice

Bruce Turner

Post-doctoral, 1995-1998
Vice President, Corporate Development, 
Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CA 
Growth factors and radiation resistance

Philip Chan

Pre-doctoral, 1995-2000
CEO and President, CytoSorbents Corp., 
Monmouth Junction, NJ 
Targeted gene correction via triplex-forming oligonucleotides

Latha Narayanan

Research Technician, 1995-2003
Genetic instability in cancer cells

Laurent Lacroix

Pre-doctoral, 1996-1998
Staff Scientist, Museum National d'Histore Naturelle, 
Paris, France
Triplex formation by DNA analogs

Shilpi Mehta

Undergraduate, 1996-1998
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gyn. 
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Genetic instability in cancer cells

Karen Vasquez

Post-doctoral, 1996-2000
Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology,
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Gene targeting in mice using triplex-forming oligonucleotides

Shani Peretz

Pre-doctoral, 1996-2001
Biology Teacher, The Peddie School, 
Hightstown, NJ
Ataxia telangiectasia and regulation of IGF-1R expression

James Reddoch

Post-doctoral, 1997-1998
Executive Vice President and Head of Research, 
Royalty Pharma, New York, NY 
Gene targeting with modified triplex-forming oligonucleotides

Jianling Yuan

Pre-doctoral, 1997-2003
Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, 
University of Minnesota Hospital, 
Minneapolis, MN 
Hypoxia and genetic instability 

Melissa Knauert

Post-doctoral, 1997-2005
Clinical Fellow, Dept. of Internal Med./Pulmonary, 
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Targeted gene correction in vivo

Charlotte Kim

Post-doctoral, 1998-1999
Attending physician, 
Div. of Radiation Oncology Dominican Santa Cruz Hospital, 
Santa Cruz, CA
Hypoxia and gene expression

Zhongjun John Luo

Post-doctoral, 1998-1999 
Research Fellow, 
Dept. of Genetics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, TN 
Recombination induced by triplex-forming oligonucleotides

Brady Dunklee

Lab Assistant, 1998-1999
Executive Director, 
ATRAVES U.S. Inc. 
Providence, RI 
Mutagenesis in cancer cells 

Xiaoxin Susan Xu

Post-doctoral, 1998-2000
Retired from Research Assistant Professor
Institute of Environmental Health Sci. Wayne State University, 
Detroit, MI
DNA mismatch repair and genetic instability

Margaret Macris

Pre-doctoral, 1998-2003
Director of Molecular Sciences, 
AxioMx Corp. Branford, CT
Transcription Gene targeting by triplex forming by oligonucleotides

Ming Zeng

Post-doctoral, 1999-2000
Radiation Oncologist, 
Mount Carmel Health Radiology Group, 
Columbus, OH
DNA mismatch repair and radiation response

Hirock Datta

Post-doctoral, 1999-2001
Associate Director, 
Zenotech Labs, Hyderabad, India
Triplex-induced recombination in vitro

Linda Gorman

Post-doctoral, 2000-2001
Project Coordinator at UBC- Envision Group, 
Southport, CT 
Triplex-directed gene correction in the human b globin gene

Ryan Jensen

Pre-doctoral, 2000-2004
Assistant Professor, 
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, 
Yale University, CT
DNA damage response and cell communication

Shannon Gibson

Pre-doctoral, 2000-2005
Senior Scientist at Kolltan Pharmaceuticals Inc.
New Haven, CT 
Ataxia telangiectasia and gene expression

Faye Rogers

Postdoctoral, 2000-2008
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Therapeutic Radiology,
Yale University, CT
DNA repair of altered DNA structures

Valia Mihaylova  

Post-doctoral, 2001-2004
Associate Research Scientist Pediatrics,
Yale University, CT
Tumor hypoxia and DNA repair

Jean Kuan

Pre-doctoral 2001-2006
Chemical Sourcing Manager, 
Global Technical Operations, 
Allergan Inc., Irvine, CA
Triplex-directed gene correction in the human beta globin gene 

Ranjit Bindra

Pre-doctoral, 2001-2007
Assistant Professor, 
Dept. of Therapeutic Radiology,
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Tumor hypoxia and genetic instability 

Janice Lloyd

Post-doctoral, 2002-2005 
Scientist at U.S. Genomics,
Woburn, MA
DNA repair

Ki-Hyun Kim

Postdoctoral, 2002-2008
Business Executive, 
Seoul, Korea
Gene targeting with peptide nucleic acids

Catherine Brdlik

Post-doctoral, 2005-2006
Clinical Trainer, 
Genentech CT & D BioOncology,
San Francisco, CA 
DNA Damage response and cell signaling

Pallavi Lonkar

Post-doctoral, 2005-2008
Scientist, Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc. 
Cambridge, MA
Gene targeting using chemically modified oligonucleotides

Joanna Chin

Pre-doctoral, 2005-2010 
Resident, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, 
Boston, MA
Triplex DNA and DNA repair

Erica Schleifman

Pre-doctoral, 2006-2010 
Senior Research Associate, 
Oncology Biomarker Development Group,
Genentech, San Francisco, CA
Gene targeting via DNA-binding molecules

Meredith Crosby

Post-doctoral, 2006-2011 
Staff Scientist, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, 
Waltham, MA
Hypoxia induced microRNAs and DNA repair

Elizabeth, Peterson-Roth

Post-doctoral, 2006-2011
Staff Scientist, L2 Diagnostics,
New Haven, CT
Cisplatin and DNA damage response

Hanspeter Niederstrasser

Post-doctoral, 2008-2011
Associate Research Scientist, 
Pediatrics, Yale University
DNA repair of non-B form DNA