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Center for Translational Medicine

1020 Locust Street
Jefferson Alumni Hall, Room 543
Philadelphia, PA 19107

215-955-9982

Raymond B. Penn, PhD Director, Center for Translational Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Research
Robley Dunglison Professor in Pulmonary Research Email Raymond B. Penn 215-955-9982

Tung Chan, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine Email Tung Chan 215-955-4231

Seo-Hee Cho, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Email Seo-Hee Cho 215-503-2129

Jason Choi, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Email Jason Choi 215-503-5685

Deepak Deshpande, DVM, PhD. Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine Email Deepak Deshpande 215-955-3305

Boopathi Ettickan, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Email Boopathi Ettickan 215-503-5127

Jarin Hongpaisan, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Email Jarin Hongpaisan 215-503-4452

Xin-Liang Ma, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine
Professor of Medicine Email Xin-Liang Ma 215-955-4994

Ajay Nayak, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine Email Ajay Nayak 215-503-0141

Tonio Pera, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine Email Tonio Pera 215-503-5127

Khadija Rafiq, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Email Khadija Rafiq 215-503-5593

Maria I. Ramirez, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine Email Maria I. Ramirez 215-955-5506

Shey-Shing Sheu, PhD William Wikoff Smith Professor in Cardiovascular Research, Division of Cardiology Email Shey-Shing Sheu 215-503-5152

Ross Summer, MD Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine Email Ross Summer 215-955-5161

Jianxin Sun, PhD Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Associate Director, Center for Translational Medicine Director, Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program Email Jianxin Sun 215-503-9425

Mudit Tyagi, PhD, MSc, PGDBT Associate Professor of Medicine Email Mudit Tyagi 215-503-5157

Bin Wang, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases. Director of animal model core, Center for translational medicine. Email Bin Wang 215-503-8226

Postdoctoral Fellows

Fred Graumuller, PhD
Contact Dr. Graumuller

I completed my PhD in Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham (UK) and I also hold a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree both in 'Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology'. For the work of my PhD, I differentiated pluripotent mouse embryonic stem cells into neuronal precursors and showed biophysical changes of the binding mechanism of the extracellular domain of E-cadherin using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Holographic Optical Tweezers (HOT) at the single molecule level as stem cells differentiate into neuronal lineages

1020 Locust Street Street
Jefferson Alumni Hall,
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Elham Javed, PhD
Contact Dr. Javed

I recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson University in 2019 with a PhD in Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine where my thesis focused on understanding the role of desmin and vimentin in (dys)regulating bladder smooth muscle function and contributing to obstructive bladder pathophysiology. I am now a postdoctoral fellow involved with several ongoing projects involving G protein-coupled receptor regulation of airway smooth muscle functions, and am also branching into transitioning bench to bedside science by acting as a coordinator in the current pulmonary clinical trials.

1020 Locust Street Street
Jefferson Alumni Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Research Personnel

Stephen Hurst
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Steve received his BS degree in Biotechnology in 2010 from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is presently a PhD candidate in the Cell and Developmental Biology PhD program.

1020 Locust Street
Jefferson Alumni Hall, Room 533
Philadelphia, PA 19107

215-503-0445