We are a team of researchers and students from diverse fields and backgrounds interested in developing discovery and hypothesis driven methods and systems for improving the state-of-the-art in cancer research.

Shikhar Uttam, Ph.D.

Principle Investigator

Bogdan Kochetov, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Associate

Rebecca Raphael, M.S.

Lab Manager

Christopher Andersen

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Rajdeep Pawar

Graduate Student

PhD student, Integrated Systems Biology (ISB) program

Caitlin Strassburg

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Thomas Jacob

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Gargi Kher

Graduate Student

PhD student, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB)

Danielle Pitlor

Graduate Student

Incoming PhD student, Integrated Systems Biology (ISB) program; MS in Bioengineering

Ksenia Mats

TECBio (NSF REU) student at Pitt

Senior, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bryn Mawr College

Alumni

Benjamin Raymond

Software developer at Epic Systems.

Carli Newman

Former TECBio (NSF REU at Pitt) student; Damon Runyon SPARK scholar and postbaccalaureate researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle WA

Kanika Yadav

MD student at Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA

Meghana Halder

(Research Intern in the lab Summer of 2024); Computer Science Senior, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Phi Nguyen

Former TECBio (NSF REU at Pitt) student; Data Analyst, American Medical Response; Incoming MS student in Biostatistics, Oregon Health Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health

Pooja Chawla

Research And Development Scientist at Renerva, Inc.

Riley Arbuckle

PhD candidate in Human genetics in the School of Public Health at University of Pittsburgh.

Srashti Bajpai

Researcher, University of Pittsburgh