Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Genetic Medicine and the Departments of Biological Chemistry, Oncology and Pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He obtained his medical degree from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and completed his residency in Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He obtained his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Vishva Dixit at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1995 and carried out his Postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1996-1999. He was a Visiting Scientist with Matthias Mann at the University of Southern Denmark from 1999-2002 before joining Johns Hopkins in 2002.

Dr. Pandey has received numerous prestigious awards including the Experimental Pathologist-In-Training Award by the American Society for Investigative Pathology, Howard Temin Award from the National Cancer Institute, Sidney Kimmel Scholar Award by the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research and the Beckman Young Investigator Award by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. He has recently received the Era of Hope Scholar Award by the Department of Defense which is "intended for exceptionally talented, early-career scientists who have demonstrated that they are the best and the brightest in their field(s) through extraordinary creativity, vision, and productivity, and who have shown a strong potential for leadership in the breast cancer community as well as a vision for the eradication of breast cancer."

+1 410 502 6662 pandey at jhmi dot edu

Raghothama Chaerkady, Ph.D. obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Manipal University in Manipal, India. He was an Associate Professor of Biotechnology at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India before joining the Institute of Bioinformatics. He is using his expertise in mass spectrometry to identify novel biomarkers for cancers and to study signaling pathways. He is a reviewer for Journal of Proteome Research and Proteomics.
+1 410 502 3194 raghothama at jhmi dot edu

Yi Yang, M.D., Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She obtained her M.D. and Ph.D. in Gastroenterology at Medical School of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. Her main interest is to identify potential biomarkers used for early diagnosis or therapeutic target in cancerous diseases by proteomic approaches.
+1 410 502 6665 yiyang at jhmi dot edu

Genaro Pimienta, Ph.D. obtained his PhD in Structural Biology from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), based in Heidelberg, Germany. There he specialized in protein/RNA interactions, in the Groups of Dr. Elena Conti and Dr. Michael Sattler (2000-2004). He has joined our Laboratory (Dr. Akhilesh Pandey) after having completed a 3 years Post-Doctoral period at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (BIMR) in La Jolla, California. There he worked in the Laboratory of Dr. Jaime Pascual, on the proteomic investigation of inactive and active JNK2 (2004-2007). Genaro Pimienta is interested in understanding signal transduction events in mammalian cells at the "Systems Level". He plans to rely heavily on protein chemistry and cell biology, to pursue experiments, while keeping the soul of a structural biologist, when discussing his results.
+1 410 502 6665 pimienta at jhmi dot edu

Jun Zhong obtained his M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Nanjing University, China. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is interested in combining mass spectrometry and molecular biology to study cellular signaling pathways, especially those activated by a novel cytokine, TSLP.
+1 410 502 6665 jzhong at jhmi dot edu

Shree Harsha obtained his Masters in Biotechnology from University Of Mysore. He is a joint research student between Institute of Bioinformatics and Johns Hopkins University. His research is based on proteomic approaches to study signaling pathways that are activated in pancreatic cancer and identification of novel biomarkers.
+1 443 287 3527 harsha at jhmi dot edu

Kumaran Kandasamy obtained his M.Sc. degree in Life Sciences from the School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, India. He is interested in bioinformatic analysis of Mass Spectrometry derived proteomic data. He is currently a joint Ph.D. student at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Johns Hopkins University.

+1 410 502 3194 kumaran at jhmi dot edu

Min-Sik Kim obtained his M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry from Korea University, in Seoul, South Korea where he used Fourier Transform mass spectrometry for proteomics. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is interested in applying mass spectrometry to study stem cell biology.

+1 410 502 3194 mskim at jhmi dot edu

Manoj Kashyap obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Institute of Advanced Studies (CCSU), Meerut, India. He has gained experience in Molecular Biology at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. He spent three and half years as a visiting scholar at Loyola University of Chicago and University of Illinois, Urbana; U.S.A. He is applying his training to the characterization of protein interactions in specific signaling cascades. He is using microarray technology to study the gene expression profiling of esophageal carcinoma. He is currently a joint Ph.D. student at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Johns Hopkins University.

+1 410 502 3194 manoj at jhmi dot edu

Arivusudar Marimuthu obtained her M.Sc. degree in Genomics from Madurai Kamaraj University. She is working on updating our protein repository. She is also using whole human genome microarray to find out novel molecular signature for Gastric cancers. She is currently a joint Ph.D. student at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Johns Hopkins University.

+1 410 502 3194 arivu at jhmi dot edu