People

Our laboratory is a hybrid translational lab in which members’ expertise include in vivo and ex vivo experimental systems, as well as computational biology and systems immunology. These complementary areas of expertise support complementary methods and projects, all aimed at understanding the human immunology of cardiometabolic health and disease. Our full-time laboratory members are listed below. In addition, we welcome rotation students (MD, PhD, and MD-PhD).

  • Matt Feinstein, MD MS: Principal Investigator
  • Ryan Sisk, MS:: Lab manager
  • Slim Fourati, PhD: Research Assistant Professor, bioinformatics & systems immunology
  • Lorenzo Pesce, PhD: Research Professor, computational genomics
  • Ellis Kim, MD PhD: Postdoctoral fellow
  • Carissa Ritner, PhD: Postdoctoral fellow
  • Ling Tian, PhD: Postdoctoral fellow
  • Ai Yaku, MD PhD: Postdoctoral fellow
  • Ilana Nazari, BS: MD-PhD student
  • Harris Avgousti: MD student, Research Intensive Scholarly Emphasis (RISE) Program
  • Reina Nagasaka: MD Student, Visiting Scholar