Meet the Team
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Atique Ahmed Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
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Maeve C. O'Shea
Lab Manager
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Umme H. Faisal, MBBS
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Rebecca Chen
Undergraduate Scholar
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Rafal Chojak, M.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Noah Drewes
Medical Student Scholar
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Lara Koutah
Postbac Scholar
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Irene Lazanyi
Undergraduate Scholar
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Jillyn R Turunen
MSTP (MD/PhD) Scholar, PhD year 1
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Ian Olson
Graduate Scholar
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Sana Khan
Undergraduate Scholar
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Shengni Liu
Neurobiology MS Scholar
Where are they now?
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Hasaan Kazi
M1 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2022-2024 (Postbac Scholar)
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Sara Fan, MD, PhD
Medical Laboratory Scientist
Ahmed Lab: 2021-2023 (Lab Manager)
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Ritaj Abdulquani
M1 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2022-2024 (Undergraduate Scholar)
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Nicoole Villalba
M3 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2022-2024 (Undergraduate Scholar)
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Victoria Falkowski
Undergrad Student
Ahmed Lab: 2023-: (Undergraduate Scholar)
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Clare Kelley
M2 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2023-2024 (Postbac Scholar)
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Amelia Stepniak, MS
M2 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2021-2023 (MS Student Scholar)
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Divya Ventarapragada, MS
M2 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2020-2023 (MS Student Scholar)
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Linna Lahmadi, MS
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Ester Chung
M2 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2020-2023 (Undergraduate Scholar)
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Graysen McManus
M1 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab: 2021-2023 (Postbac Scholar)
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Ella Perrault
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Shreya Budhiraja
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Shivani Baisiwala, MD
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Sia Cho
M3 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab 2020-2022 (Undergraduate Scholar)
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Khizar Nandoliya
M4 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab 2019-2021 (Undergraduate Scholar)
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Tom Commander
Undergrad Student
Ahmed Lab 2019-2022 (High School Student Researcher)
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Nico Ahmed
Undergrad Student
Ahmed Lab 2020-2021 )High School Student Scholar)
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Miranda Saathoff
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Jenny Wang
M3 Medical Student
Ahmed Lab 2015-2017 (High School Student Scholar)
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Noah Islam
Undergraduate Student
Ahmed Lab 2019-2020 (High School Student Scholar)
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Fatemeh Atashi, PhD
Global Scientific Publications Manager
Ahmed Lab 2015-20217 (Post Doc Scholar)
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Jack Shireman
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Seamus Caragher, MD
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Robert Hall III, MD
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Alex Tobias, MD
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Brenda Auffinger, MD
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Gina Lee Choi, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Ahmed Lab 2010-2013 (Lab Manager)
Alumni postcard
Alumni postcard
Remembering Donna Guo
Donna was our first undergraduate student researcher. She did her Honors Thesis in Ahmed lab, entitled '"THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REPORTER SYSTEM TO STUDY CELLULAR PLASTICITY IN GLIOMAS." She was responsible for designing and developing some of the very early reporter systems to track cellular plasticity in real-time. Donna's reporter systems have been extensively used in our lab to understand the role of cellular plasticity in brain tumor therapeutic resistance, generated numerous publications, and are critical for securing NIH funding. She was a gifted scientist! Her legacy will carry on in Ahmed's lab as we are 100% committed to train the next generation of scientists.
Donna’s Reporter
Donna majored in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, the University of Chicago. She joined Ahmed Lab in 2009 as an undergraduate researcher. After graduation, she continued to work with Ahmed lab at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, while also applying to medical school with plans to enter in the fall of 2016.
Donna passed away in a car accident on April 18, 2016, while vacationing in New Zealand with her parents. Both of her parents suffered critical injuries. She is survived by an older sister who was not involved in the accident.
One of Donna's great life passions was lovingly serving and caring for children adopted from China. As president of University of Chicago's China Care, she helped create its first Mentorship and Playgroup Programs, raised money to sponsor medical treatment for children in China, and established a summer internship to send volunteers to China.