van den Brink Lab Members

Principal Investigator

  • Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD

    Principal Investigator

Lab Management

  • Marissa Peterson

    Project Manager

  • Katarina (Kat) Piasevoli

    Senior Project Manager

  • John Slingerland

    Research Project Manager

  • Xiaoqun Catherine Zhang, MD, MS

    Laboratory Manager

Post-Doctoral Researchers

  • Kimon Argyropoulos, MD, PhD

    Research Fellow

    Thymus Group

  • Annamaria Ballweg, MD

    Research Fellow

    Thymus Group and Microbiota Group

  • Marina Burgos da Silva, MSc, PhD

    Senior Research Scientist

    Microbiota Group

  • Sophia Chen, MD

    Senior Research Scientist

    CAR-T Group

  • Susan De Wolf, MD

    Assistant Attending

    Thymus Group

  • Harold Elias, MD

    Research Fellow

    Thymus Group and CAR-T Group

  • Scott James, MD, PhD

    Assistant Attending

    CAR-T Group

  • Andri Lemarquis, MD, PhD

    Research Scholar

    Thymus Group

  • Sarah Lindner, MD

    Senior Research Scientist

    Microbiota Group

  • Oriana Miltiadous, MD

    Clinical Instructor

    Microbiota Group

  • Lia Palomba, MD

    Hematologic Oncologist

    Clinical Research Colaborator

  • Jenny Paredes Sanchez, PhD

    Research Scholar

    Microbiota Group

  • Sandeep Raj, MD

    Hematology Oncology Fellow

    Microbiota Group

  • Adhithi Rajagopalan, PhD

    Research Fellow

    CAR-T Group

  • Roni Shouval, MD, PhD

    Assistant Attending

    Microbiota Group

Computational Biologists

  • Anqi (Angel) Dai, MS

    Computational Biologist II

  • Tyler Funnell, PhD

    Computational Biologist

  • Anastasia Kousa, PhD

    Research Associate

  • Keimya Sadeghi, MS

    Data Engineer

  • Nicholas Waters, PhD

    Computational Biologist

Graduate Students

  • Pamela Herrera (Hatfield)

    Weill Cornell Pharmacology Graduate Student

    CAR-T Group and Microbiota Group

  • Brandon Ng

    Weil Cornell Pharmacology Graduate Student

    CAR-T Group

  • Chi Nguyen

    Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate Student

    Microbiota Group

Research Technicians

  • Brianna Gipson

    Research Technician

    Microbiota Group and Thymus Group

  • Alyssa Massa

    Senior Research Technician

    CAR-T Group

  • Lucia Serrano-Marin

    Senior Research Technician

    Thymus Group

  • Kristen Victor

    Senior Research Technician

    Microbiota Group

Clinical Research Team

  • Peter Adintori, MS, RD, CSO, CDN, CNSC

    Clinical Research Dietitian

  • Leana Harford

    Clinical Research Specialist

  • Zoe Katsamakis

    Zoe Katsamakis

    Research Project Associate

  • Natalie Smith

    Clinical Research Coordinator

  • Adam Warren

    Clinical Research Coordinator

Administrators

  • Raman Kaur

    Senior Administrative Assistant

  • Ethan Palma

    Administrative Assistant

  • Angelica Stephenson

    Senior Administrative Assistant

Molecular Microbiology Facility Team

  • Ana Gradissimo, PhD

    Scientific Research Lead

  • Luigi Amoretti

    Research Assistant

  • Jennifer Haber, MS

    Senior Research Technician