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OUR TEAM
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Hojoon Lee

Principal Investigator

Cook Hall 2-133

office: 847.491.5529

hojoon.lee [at] northwestern.edu

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Jiahao Ye

Post-doc

jiahao.ye [at] northwestern.edu

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Alex Pekerman

Lab Manager / Research Tech

Cook Hall 2-159

847.467.7895

alexpek [at] northwestern.edu

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Yue Yu

PhD Candidate

yueyu2023 [at] u.northwestern.edu

Gyujin Park

Post-doc

gyujin.park [at] northwestern.edu

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Syed Uddin

PhD Candidate

SyedUddin2026 [at] u.northwestern.edu

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Richard Hwang

PhD Student

richardhwang2026 [at] u.northwestern.edu

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Dongpeng Yang

MS Student

i9j6c2 [at] u.northwestern.edu

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Rowan Kramer-Mann 

Student

rowankramer-mann2024 [at] u.northwestern.edu

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Heather Birdsell 

Student

heatherbirdsell2023 [at] u.northwestern.edu

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Sofie Kennedy 

Student

SofieKennedy2024 [at] u.northwestern.edu

Jasmine N Tran

Student

(2021-2022)

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Hongjie Xia

Lab Technician

(2020)

currently- PhD student at Boston University

Junhua Tan

Lab Technician

(2019-2022)

currently- PhD student

atNorthwestern University

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Amanda Kalishman

Student researcher

(2022- 2022)

currently- Med school

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Yoana Ivanova 

Student researcher

(2019-2020)

John Yun 

Lab Technician

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Shannon Arias

Student researcher

2022 Summer Research

Opportunity Program (SROP)

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