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Advaitha Madireddy, PhD

Principal Investigator

Advaitha Madireddy has led the lab since it opened in 2018, after a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh and six years as a postdoctoral fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She works on replication stress and genome instability in Fanconi anemia, clonal hematopoiesis and leukemia.

Current members

  • Mrunmai Niljikar, MS

    PhD Candidate

  • Julia Gagliardi

    PhD Candidate

    Formerly the lab’s Research Teaching Specialist IV and research technician.

  • Carolina Plasencia

    Research Technician

  • Joshua Thomas

    Master’s Student

  • Saloni Patel

    Master’s Student

  • Smrithi Amran

    Master’s Student

  • Apeksha Fernandes

    Undergraduate Student

  • Caroline Mazurek

    Undergraduate Student

  • Mark Youssef

    Undergraduate Student

  • Anya Kotha

    Lab Member

Alumni

PhD students

  • Angelica Barreto-Galvez, PhD

    PhD Graduate, 2019–2023

Postdoctoral fellows

  • Angelo Mandarino, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow, joined 2019

  • Ria Anand, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025

Staff

  • Aastha Juwarwala

    Research Technician

  • Ranran Zhang

    Research Associate III

  • Imelda Saintilma

    Technical Assistant, joined 2020

  • Vasudha Kumar

    Lab Technician, 2019–2021

    Now at NYU Dental School

Undergraduates and interns

  • Priyanka Tiwari

    Undergraduate, 2018–2020

    Now at medical school

  • Anam Shaikh

    Undergraduate, 2019–2020

    Now at medical school

  • Rohan Lattupally

    Undergraduate Intern, joined 2019

  • Kritika Sharma

    Undergraduate Intern, joined 2019

  • Aris Magoulas

    Summer Student, joined 2019

  • Sourabh Prakash Mudakannaver

    Undergraduate Intern, 2018–2019

  • Jessica Van Horn

    Rutgers Youth Enjoy Science (RUYES) Intern

  • Cecilia Bonilla Herrera

    Rutgers Youth Enjoy Science (RUYES) Intern

  • Archana Pradeep

    Undergraduate Intern