TEAM

Our research team consists of a mixture of graduate students, undergraduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.  The expertise of our team members includes analytical chemistry, synthetic chemistry, cell biology and biomedical engineering.  While we love science, we also enjoy having fun together outside of the lab – as seen in the various pictures below! Contact Dr. Tumey if you are interested in joining our lab!

Current members:

Liz Klosko

Dr. Victor Ojo

Dr. Anqi Zhang

Dr. Mohammad Asikur Rahman

Aiman Yaseen

Samuel Chung

Renee Arana

Daniel Cohen

James Wang

Chloe Wendling

Past group members

  • Allen Ajay (former undergraduate researcher)
  • Ellinore Hazen (former research track PharmD student)
  • Siteng Fang (former PhD student) [Currently at Sigma]
  • Emma DeYoung (former BS/MS student)
  • Jared Miller (former undergraduate student / research technician) [Currently at Scripps Research Institute, PhD candidate]
  • Kelsey Watts (former undergraduate student) [Currently at Binghamton University, graduate school]
  • Emmanuel Olawode (postdoctoral fellow) [
  • Zhongyuan (Lenny) Gou (postdoctoral fellow) [Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard]
  • Dane Carlson (graduate student, MS) [Currently at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals]
  • Caleb Manheim (former undergraduate student) [Currently an MS student in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton]
  • Justin Howe (former undergraduate student) [Currently in medical school at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine]
  • Fanny Xu (former research technician) [Currently PhD student at U. Maryland]
  • Meghan Grey (former PharmD research track student)
  • Samantha Benjamin (former PhD student) [Currently postdoc at Wadsworth Center]
  • Lina Wu (former undergraduate researcher) [Currently at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University]
  • Dr. Mohan Mullapudi (former postdoctoral fellow) [Currently at Laurus Labs]
  • Michele Yi (former undergraduate researcher) [Currently at Upstate Medical School]
  • Nicholas Bianchi (former MS student) [Currently at LOTTE Biologics]
  • Jared Frick (former undergraduate student) [Currently at Albany Medical College]
  • Courtney Jackson (former undergraduate student) [Currently at UNC Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy]
  • Caitlin Vitro (former undergraduate student) [Currently at UNC Chapel Hill, PhD candidate]
  • Brittany Brems (undergraduate student) [Currently at Northeastern University, PhD candidate]
  • Sarah Gillen (REU student) [Currently at Medtronics]
  • Steven McKay (former undergraduate researcher) [Currently in PhD program in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton]
  • Katherine Leong (former undergraduate researcher)
  • Daniel Wheeler (former undergraduate researcher)
  • Jillian Handel (former undergraduate research) [Currently PhD student at Weill Cornell Medicine]