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CONTACT US

Mail:

5200, MSRB3

3 Genome Court

Duke University

Durham, NC 27710

USA

Phone: 919-613-6693

Email: aravind.asokan@duke.edu

Web: www.asokanlab.org

Principal Investigator

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Aravind Asokan, PhD

Synthetic Virologist/Entrepreneur

Translating Duke Health Scholar

Professor, Duke Surgery, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Biomedical Engineering

Director of Gene Therapy, Duke Medicine

https://bme.duke.edu/faculty/aravind-asokan

Current Lab Members

Graduate Alumni 

Trevor J. Gonzalez
Former PhD Student, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University (2023) 
Scientist, Torque Bio
Rebecca Gibson 
Former PhD Student, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University (2023
MD/PhD, Duke University School of Medicine
Jonathan Ark 
Former PhD Student, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University (2022) 
Venture Capital Associate, Agent Capital
Patrick Havlik 
Former PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2021) 
Scientist, Atsena Therapeutics
Rita Meganck

Former PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2020)

Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill, Ralph Baric Lab

Victoria Madigan

Former PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2019)

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Feng Zhang Lab

Blake Albright

Former PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2018)

Scientist, Rocket Pharma

Giri Murlidharan

Former PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2016)

Program & Preclinical Platform Lead, Voyager Therapeutics

Garrett Berry

Former PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2016)

Senior Business Dev Manager, StrideBio

Erin Borchardt

Former: PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2016)

Postdoc Yale; Scientist, StrideBio

Shen Shen

Former: PhD Student, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UNC Chapel Hill (2013)

Postdoc Salk; Scientist Editas; Principal Scientist, Biogen

Postdoc Alumni 

Eric Walton (2022)

PhD, Duke University

Sarepta Therapeutics

Anshuman Das (2022)

PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Senior R&D Scientist-I - Miltenyi Biotec

Heather Vincent (2022)

PhD, UNC Chapel Hill

TorqueBio

Victor Tse (2018)

PhD, Cornell University

Research Associate, Ralph Baric Lab, UNC Chapel Hill

Ruth Castellanos (2017)

PhD, University of Virginia

Associate Director, StrideBio

Sven Moller-Tank (2017)

PhD, University of Iowa

Scientist, Regeneron

Miranda Scalabrino (2017)

PhD, University of Florida

Postdoc, Duke University

Nagesh Pulicherla (2012)

PhD, Virginia Commonwealth

R&D Manager, Indian Immunologicals

Eric Horowitz (2012)

PhD, Georgia Tech

Senior Director, Akuous

Research Tech & Undergraduate Alumni 

MD: Julia Conway, Sarah Brown, Kelli Bryant, Travis Corriher, Becca Reardon, Tyne Tyson, Marco Fanous, Minakshi Pillai

DVM: Kate Simon

DDS: Andrew Troupes, Julianne Yuziuk

Grad School: Lavanya Rao, Claire Storey, Coco Liu, Michael Zhang, Austin Sun, DaSean Nardone-White, Leo Blondel, Sylvanie Clouden, Sam Votzke

Others: Grace Stafford (Dr. Priya Kishnani), Shardae Oliver (Atsena Therapeutics), Laura Castillo, Nicolas Rey, Emily Kang, Sydney Milo

+ Many More!

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