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Positions:
  • Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
  • Dr. V. Watson Pugh & Frances Plimpton Pugh Professor in Microbiology & Immunology
Position: Sidney Kimmel Medical College

233 South Tenth Street
BLSB-531
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Our Team

Christoph Wirblich, PhD

Senior Research Investigator

Drishya Kurup, MS, PhD

Research Instructor

Research: Developing Measles, Rabies, and VSV-based vaccines against emergent infectious diseases

Nir Paran, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Shantel Rios

PhD Candidate

Jacob Myers 

MD, PhD Candidate

Sabrine Ben-Hamed, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Anisha Chandwani

Research Technician I

Alessandro Tarquinio

Research Technician I

Maja Sundberg, MS

Project Manager

Uthra Balakumar

PhD Candidate

Jesse Miller

PhD Candidate

Past Team Members

Jennifer Campbell
Current position - 

Annamarie Testa
Current position - 

Thomas Shiels, PhD
Current position - Senior Research Scientist at Incyte 

Lediona Mehmeti, PhD
Current position - Associate Scientist, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Rachael Lambert, MS
Current position - Cellular and Molecular Immunologist, Cabaletta Bio

Catherine Yankowski, PhD
Current position - 

Gabrielle Scher, PhD
Current position - Postdoctoral Researcher | Virologist | Vaccinologist the Univeristy of Pennsylvania

Christine Fisher, PhD
Current position - Senior Member of Technical Staff at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massuchusettes

Elizabeth Faul Goldstein, PhD
Current position - Adjunct Faculty at University of San Francisco

Emily Gomme, PhD
Current position - Principal Scientist, Vaccine Development at Pfizer

Adrienne Goodrich, PhD
Current position - LCDR, U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps; U.S Department of Health and Human Services

Tessa Lawrence, PhD
Current position - Sexual Health and HIV Research Manager at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Heather Foley Malicki, PhD
Current position - Senior Scientific Director, Technology Development at WuXi AppTec

James McGettigan, PhD
Current position - Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University

Philip McKenna, PhD
Current position - Principal Scientist, Antiviral Discovery at Merck

Mirjam Preuss, PhD
Current position - Instructor, University of Marburg, Germany

Mary Ellen Smith, PhD
Current position - Senior Research Biochemist at Merck

Gene Tan, PhD
Current position - Assistant Professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute

Celestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD
Current position - Research Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Mallory Willet Becker, MS
Current position - Assay Development Scientist at Spark Therapeutics