Rhee Lab

Rhee Lab, 2021

Lab Team

Primary Investigator

Kyu Rhee , M.D. Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine

M.D., Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine (1999)
B.S., Cornell University (1991)

Email: kyr9001@med.cornell.edu

Lab Members

Adrian Jinich , Ph.D.

HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ph.D. Systems Biology, Harvard University (2017)
M.A. Applied Mathematics, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (2009)
B.S. Physics, Northwestern University (2006)

Email: adj2010@med.cornell.edu

Vijay Soni , Ph.D.

Instructor of Microbiology in Medicine

Ph.D. Microbiology and Pharmacy, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi and BITS PIlani India (2015)
M.S. Biotechnology, Udaipur University (2009)
B.S. Biology, Udaipur University (2006)

Email: vis2032@med.cornell.edu

Emma Spady , Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. Chemical Biology, Harvard University (2019)
B.A. Biochemistry, Swathmore College (2013)

Email: ess4003@med.cornell.edu

Christopher Brown , M.D. Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

M.D. University of Wisconsin-- Madison (2014)
Ph.D. Organic chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2012)
B.A. Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004)
B.S. Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004)

Email: cdb9006@med.cornell.edu

Andrea Doltrario , M.D.

Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine

Research Focus:

M.S. in Medicine, University of Sao Paulo (2021)
MD- University of Sao Paulo (2015)

Email: abd4005@med.cornell.edu

Travis Hartman , Ph.D.

Instructor of Microbiology in Medicine

Ph.D. Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2013)
M.S. Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2009)
B.S. University of New Orleans (2000)

Email: teh2002@med.cornell.edu

Brendon Lee , Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University (2018)
B.S. Biochemistry, Honors, University of Otago (2013)

Email: Bml4001@med.cornell.edu

Hannah Liu

Research Technician

BA Molecular and Cell Biology, minor in Global Public Health, UC Berkeley (2021)

Email: hal4027@med.cornell.edu

Kehilwe Nakedi , Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. Chemical Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2018)

Email: ken4001@med.cornell.edu

Sakila Nazia

Graduate Student

B.A. Biology, Columbia University (2019)

Email: san2025@med.cornell.edu

Kyle Planck

Graduate Student

B.S. Biochemistry, Theology, University of Notre Dame (2017)

Email: kap2767@med.cornell.edu

Anas Saleh

Research Technician

B.S. Chemistry, ACS Certification, St. John’s University (2021)

Email: aas4013@med.cornell.edu

Fernanda Teixeira Subtil, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Research Focus:

PhD in Life Sciences and Medicine, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK (2022)
MSc in Cell and Molecular Biology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2017)
BSc in Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil (2014)

Email: fet4005@med.cornell.edu

Andrea Tellez

Research Technician

B.A. Biochemistry, Vassar College (2021)

Email: avt4001@med.cornell.edu

Amy Wu

Research Technician

B.S. Biomolecular Science, New York University (2021)

Email: amw4007@med.cornell.edu