Dr. Kartik Chandran
Principal Investigator
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Harold and Muriel Block Faculty Scholar in Virology
Office: 403 Golding Building
Phone: 718-430-8851
Email: kartik.chandran@einsteinmed.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-0232-7077
*Not this Kartik Chandran: Disambiguation
Current Lab Members
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Past Lab Members
María Eugenia Dieterle | Research Assistant Professor | 2018–2025
Gorka Lasso | Research Assistant Professor | 2019–2025
Ariel Wirchnianski | PhD Student & Research Fellow | 2016–2025
Alex Tse | MD/PhD Student | 2021–2025
Albert Wang | MD/PhD Student | 2020–2024
Estefania Valencia | Research Technician | 2019–2023
Isabel Gutierrez | Lab Manager | 2018–2023
Denise Haslwanter, PhD | Research Fellow | 2018–2022
Laura Polanco | Research Technician | 2019–2021
Ethan Laudermilch, PhD | Research Fellow | 2018–2021
Robert Bortz III, PhD | MD/PhD Student | 2017–2021
Max Fels, PhD | PhD Student & Research Fellow | 2013–2021
Rohit Jangra, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | 2012–2021
Catalina Florez, PhD | Visiting Research Fellow | 2020–2021
Jennifer Spence, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | 2014–2020
Michael Grodus | Visiting Scientist | 2018–2019
Isabel Delwel | PREP Predoctoral Student | 2018–2019
Lara Kleinfelter-Wilson, PhD | PhD Student | 2013–2019
Veronica DeJesus | PREP Predoctoral Student | 2017–2018
Cecelia Harold | Lab Manager | 2015–2018
Tanwee Alkutkar | Research Technician | 2016–2018
Anna Wec, PhD | PhD Student | 2011–2017
Rohan Biswas, PhD | MD/PhD Student | 2013–2017
Melinda Ng, PhD | PhD Student | 2012–2016
Esther Ndungo, PhD | PhD Student | 2011–2016
Tyler Krause | Lab Manager | 2012–2015
Rohini Sandesara | Lab Manager | 2007–2012
Emily Happy Miller, MD PhD | MD/PhD Student | 2008–2012
Anuja Krishnan, PhD | Visiting Scientist | 2012
Nirupama Mulherkar, PhD | Research Fellow | 2007–2011
Anthony Wong, MD PhD | MD/PhD Student | 2007–2011
Luigi Di Cristofano | Summer High School Researcher 2025
Natalie Chapman | Summer Undergraduate Researcher 2024
Amartya Mudry Chandran | Summer Undergraduate Researcher | 2023