Lab Team | Fine Lab

Richa Singhania , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cancer Neuroscience Research

University of Queensland, PhD (Molecular Biology)

Email: ris2020@med.cornell.edu

Julien Jarroux-Ritchey , Ph.D.

Research Associate in Neuroscience

Research Focus:

Using cutting-edge sequencing and single-cell technologies to understand better the transcriptomic complexity that drives cell states in glioblastoma.

Institut Curie and Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Ph.D.

Email: jjj4002@med.cornell.edu

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Aniket Bhattacharya , Ph.D.

Research Associate in Neuroscience

Research Focus:

Utilize GLICO model to track glioma-neuron-astrocyte connectivity using Optogenetics to “listen” to these secret conversations, learn the rules of the game and then, disrupt them using a combination of drugs and radiation.

Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Ph.D.

Email: anb4060@med.cornell.edu

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Karla Bonic , Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience

Research Focus:

Glioblastoma treatment recurrence and how the current standard-of-care, particularly radiotherapy, might contribute to recurrence, and what interventions might disrupt this progression.

Oregon Health and Science University, Ph.D.

Email: kab4044@med.cornell.edu

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Lilia Brunetti , M.S.

Research Technician II

M.S., Georgetown University (Tumor Biology)
B.S., Indiana University (Biotechnology, Honors)

Email: lib4017@med.cornell.edu

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Yee Hoon Foong , PhD

Computational Biology Postdoc

Research Focus:

Develop in silico agent-based models parameterized by GLICO in vitro and in vivo datasets to track glioblastoma network coordination, calcium activity, and stress-induced swarm behavior, learning how glioma cells communicate to survive irradiation and immune cells in order to disrupt them

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (Genetics and Epigenetics)
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison (Molecular Biology, Honors)

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Isha Monga , Ph.D.

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst

Research Focus:

Leveraging single-cell and spatial genomics to decipher glioblastoma evolution, tumor–microenvironment interactions, and therapeutic vulnerabilities using patient-derived cerebral organoid models.

Institute of Microbial Technology, Ph.D.

Email: ism7007@med.cornell.edu

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Stefano Cirigliano , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Research, Neuroscience
Director of The Starr Foundation Cerebral Organoid Translational Core

Research Focus:

Developing clinically relevant, precision drug-screening platform for glioblastoma via our cerebral organoid glioma model, GLICO.

Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, PhD (Cell Biology, Cancer Biology)

Email: smc2011@med.cornell.edu

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