• Faculty

• Research

• Graduate & Postdoctoral Programs

• Courses

• Administration

 

 

 

Russell Amato  
Louisiana State University  
Baton Rouge, LA  
4th year PhD student  
Recipient of LA Board of Regents  
Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2010  
Advisor: Dr. Peter Winsauer  

 

 

 

 

Lauren Brignac 
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 
5th year PhD student 
Recipient of LA Board of Regents 
Graduate Fellowship, 2005-2009 
Advisor: Dr. Wayne Backes  
 

 

 

  

 

 

 

"Jenny" Yanhui Cai, MS  
Fujian Normal University  
P.R. China   
2nd year PhD Student  
Advisor: Dr. Eric Lazartigues  

  

 

 

Kavaljit Chhabra, MS  
Gujarat University  
1st year PhD Student  
Advisor: Eric Lazartigues  

 

 

 

 

Greg Casey 
University of New Orleans 
New Orleans, LA  
5th year PhD Student (Anatomy)  
Advisor: Dr. Dennis Paul  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 Rahul Datta  
University of North Carolina  
Chapel Hill, NC  
4th year MD/PhD Program  
Recipient of NIH, Ruth Kirschtein  
National Research Service Award  
for Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows   
Advisor: Hamid Boulares  
 

 

 

  

Youssef Errami, MS 
Paul Cezzane University 
Marseille, France 
3rd year PhD Student 
Advisor: Dr. Hamid Boulares 

 

 

 

 

Jason Ewing  
LSU Baton Rouge 
1st year PhD Student 
 Advisor: Dan Kapusta 

 

 

 

Kirk Hutchinson, MS 
Louisiana State University 
Baton Rouge, LA 
5th year PhD student 
Advisor: Dr. Pam Lucchesi 

 

 

 

 

 

Oralee Johnson 
Xavier University 
New Orleans, LA 
5th year PhD student 
Advisor: Dr. Charles Nichols 

 

 

 

Paige Katz 
University of Southern California 
Los Angelos, CA  
5th year PhD Student 
Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lucchesi 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swapnil Kher  
University of Baroda  
Vadodara, India  
3rd year PhD student  
Advisor: Dr. Becky Worthylake  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Sarah Mahne  
Louisiana State University  
Baton Rouge, LA  
3rd year PhD student  
Advisor: Dr. Kurt Varner  

 

 

 

 

David Martin  
LSU Baton Rouge 
1st year PhD Student 
 

 

 

 

  

Manish Rana, MS  
Maharaja Sayajirao University of  
Baroda, India  
3rd year PhD student  
  Advisor: Dr. Becky Worthylake  

 

 

 

 

 

Jordy Saravia 
LSU Baton Rouge 
1st year PhD Student 
Recipient of LA Board of Regents 
Graduate Fellowship (2009-2013) 

 

 

 

Mary Worrel  
LSU Baton Rouge 
1st year PhD Student 
Advisor: Peter Winsauer 

 

 

 

   

Xiaoping Zhang, MS  
Lanzhou Medical College  
Lanzhou, China  
  5th year PhD student  
Advisor: Dr. Guangyu Wu  

 

 

 

Our Recent Graduates and Their Current Positions 

Dr. Sharell Bindom
PhD in 2009
MD/PhD Program
Returning to LSU Medical School, New Orleans, LA

 

 

Dr. Baher Fahmy
PhD in 2009
Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmacy
Cairo University, Egypt

 

 

Chi-Hsin Liu
MS in 2009
Returned to Taiwan

 

 

Dr. Kartic Rajput
PhD in 2009
Psychiatry Resident
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

 

 

 Michael Ripple
MS in 2009
MD/PhD Program
1st year Medical Student at LSU Medical School
New Orleans, LA

 

 

Rasika Rohatgi
MS in 2009
PhD Program at University of Massechusetts

 

 

Dr. Jay Huber
PhD in 2008
2nd year medical student at LSU School of Medicine 

 

Dr. Kevin Lord
PhD in 2008
Assistant Professor, Feik School of Pharmacy,
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX 

 

Dr. Anna Dunne-Reilly
PhD in 2008
Clinical Research Coordinator, Infectious Diseases,
Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA

 

 

Dr. Dahui You
PhD in 2008
Department of Pulmonary Medicine,
Univesity of Texas MD Anderson, Houston, TX 

 

 

Dr. Matt Duvernay
PhD in 2008
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 

 

 

Dr. Electa Park
PhD in 2008
Post Doctoral Fellow
Van Andel Research Institute, Grands Rapids, MI 

 

 

Dr. Sylvia Shenouda
PhD in 2008
Regulatory Affairs
Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN