Lab Members

Meet Our Team!

Nidhi Bhutani, PhD

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Member BioX, MCHRI (Maternal and Child health Research Institute)

Pranay Agarwal, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Research interests:

  • Biomaterials
  • Matrix stress relaxation
  • Microfluidics
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells
  • Cartilage regeneration

Michaela Bruschi, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Research interests:

  • Biomaterials
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells
  • Differentiation
  • Immunomodulation

Akshay Pandey, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Research interests:

  • Regenerative medicine
  • Skeletal stem cells
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Skeletal development

Neety Sahu, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Research interests:

  • Immune profiles in diseases and inflammation
  • Tissue repair & regeneration
  • Biomaterials
  • Computational single-cell data analysis

Mamta Singla, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Research interests:

  • Osteoarthritis
  • Cell senescence and aging
  • Single-cell epigenomics

Yudishter Bedi, PhD

Incoming Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Research interests:

  • Epigenetics
  • Chromatin organization
  • Single-cell epigenomics

Fiorella Grandi

Graduate Student in Cancer Biology

Research interests:

  • Epigenetics
  • 5hmC and TET biology
  • Single cell omics

Sherri Achten

Research Finance Administrator

Lab Alumni

Subbu Dhulipala

Lab Technician/Manager

Piera Smeriglio

Instructor

Jieun Lee

Research Scientist

Shravani Mukherjee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sarah Taylor

Postdoctoral Fellow

Madhusikta Rath

Master’s student

Michael Crowe

Masters Student 

Ivan Tapia

SSRP 

Helen Liu

Undergraduate

Claire Rhee

MedScholar

Maechi Uzosike

MedScholar 

Shin-Mae Chan

Undergraduate, Honors Thesis

Ricardo Mack

SSRP  

Christian O’Donnell

MedScholar 

Kinsley Pierra

SSRP 

Ben Vierra

Undergraduate 

Catherine Vyong

Undergraduate, Honors Thesis

Stephan Cutie

SSRP  

Sandro Luna

Undergraduate 

Oarteze Hunter

SSRP 

Rachel Pedreira

Undergraduate

Adnan Razzaque

Undergraduate