SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Faculty of the Year Award, Rutgers NJMS, 2024

HealthXpress Award, Rutgers, 2023

New Investigator Award from Rutgers CINJ, 2023

Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Pancreatic Cancer Career Development Award, 2022

Thomas H. and Mayme P. Scott Fellowship in Cancer Research, 2021

NIH-NCI K22 Career Transition Award, 2020

Harold C. and Mary L. Dailey Endowment Fellowship, 2020

Research Associate and Lab Manager (since 2021/11)

Dr. Deng earned his Ph.D. degree at South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He is an expert in microbial engineering, and has established a solid research background in multiple biological disciplines including microbiology, genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry during his postdoc training. He has 5 first-author publications in the past 5 years and he is the co-inventor of 4 patents and the co-author of over 30 papers.

Postdoctoral Fellow (since 2023/05)

Habeeb earned her Ph.D from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. Her graduate work focused on understanding the role of apoptosis and autophagy in regulating cancer cell viability and determining the therapeutic potential of dual induction of apoptosis and autophagy in pancreatic cancer.

Postdoctoral Fellow (since 2024/02)

Yuemeng earned her PhD in clinical veterinary medicine from Northwest A&F University in China in 2023. Her graduate work focused on the abnormal reprogramming in chromatin accessibility and epigenomic of animal cloned embryos in early development.

Postdoctoral Fellow (since 2024/04)

Parichehr earned her PhD from the National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Iran. During her time at NIGEB, she focused on functionalizing a recently discovered lncRNA, LINK-A, in non-small cell lung cancer. Simultaneously, she was developing a graphene oxide-based gene delivery system for potential use in cancer gene therapy. Her unwavering passion to combat cancer drives her career endeavors.

Graduate Student (since 2024/05)

Ting-yu is a first-year PhD student in the biomedical science program (MBGC track). She came from Taiwan and received a MS degree in Biotechnology from Indiana University Bloomington. Her pervious research focused on the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in K. pneumoniae and the susceptibility testing in carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.

Masters Student (since 2024/05)

Sahil is a second-year graduate student working towards his Masters in Biomedical Science. He previously graduated from the City College of New York with a B.S. in Biology. He is currently exploring his research interests in PDAC.