Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Email: pcohen@rockefeller.edu
Scientists & Fellows
Nicolás Gómez-Banoy, M.D.
Instructor in Clinical Investigation
Email: ngomez01@rockefeller.edu
Daniele Neri, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: dneri@rockefeller.edu
Kaja Plucinska, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: kplucinska@rockefeller.edu
Luiza Carvalho, Ph.D.
Research Associate/Lab Manager
Email: lcarvalho@rockefeller.edu
Jorge Andrés Barrero, M.D.
Clinical Scholar
Email: jbarrerocasalla@rockefeller.edu
Hyunjin Rho, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: hrho@rockefeller.edu
Graduate Students
Ksenia (Ksusha) Morozova
Ph.D. Student
Email: kmorozova@rockefeller.edu
Lishu Yue
Ph.D. Student
Email: lyue@rockefeller.edu
Zihan-Raquelle Yu
Ph.D. Student
Email: zyu@rockefeller.edu
Nakul Karandikar
M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Email: nkarandika@rockefeller.edu
Colleen Hadley
M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Email: chadley@rockefeller.edu
Emmanuel Flores Espinoza
Ph.D. Student
Email: efloresespinoza@rockefeller.edu
Avi Adler
Ph.D. Student
Email: aadler@rockefeller.edu
Nina Magid
Ph.D. Student
Email: nmagid@rockefeller.edu
Christos Tsogkas
Ph.D. Student
Email: ctsogkas@rockefeller.edu
Undergraduate Students
Celina Beyer-Teal
B.S. Student
Email: cbeyerteal@rockefeller.edu
Alumni
Mascha Koenen, Ph.D.
Cohen Lab: Postdoctoral fellow, 2026
Current: Head of the Laboratory of Tissue Dynamics and Organ Crosstalk at AngioCardioScience (HI-TAC) of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association at Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Zeran (Rico) Lin, Ph.D.
Cohen Lab: PhD Student, 2026
Current: Postdoctoral fellow.
Luke Olsen, Ph.D.
Cohen Lab: Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023–2026
Current: Health Science Specialist at San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Xiaojing Huang, MD, PhD.
Cohen Lab: Clinical Scholar, 2022–2025
Current: Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Head of the Laboratory of Metabolic Physiology in Cancer, University of Minnesota.
Yue Liu, Ph.D.
Cohen Lab: Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025
Current: Staff scientist at Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation.
Chan Hee Choi, MD, Ph.D. Weill Cornell / Rockefeller / Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD student, currently Medicine resident at Stanford. 2016 – 2021
Corey Model. Research assistant. Currently a PhD student at Stanford. 2021 – 2023
Aarthi Maganti-Vijaykumar, Ph.D: Post-doctoral fellow, support from Helmsley Foundation. Currently working in consulting. 2015-2022
Francois Marchildon, Ph.D. Post-doctoral fellow, support from Helmsley Foundation and FRQS. Currently working for Canadian government. 2015-2022
Samir Zaman, MD. Albert Einstein College of Medicine student, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Fellowship. Currently a Medicine resident at Beth Israel Deaconess. 2021-2022
Jingyi Chi, Ph.D. Rockefeller PhD student, now a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. 2015-2021
Will Barr. Research assistant. Currently a PhD student at MIT. 2019-2021
Olivia Maguire, MD, Ph.D. Weill Cornell / Rockefeller / Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD student, currently pediatrics resident at Columbia. 2016-2020
Tobias Becher, MD. Instructor in Clinical Investigation in the Rockefeller Clinical Scholars’ program, currently Clinical Science Leader at Roche Diagnostics. 2017-2020
Sean O’Connor, Ph.D. Rockefeller PhD student, defended thesis October 2019, now at Boston Consulting Group. 2015-2020
Sarah Ackerman, Ph.D. Rockefeller PhD student, defended thesis October 2019, now an AAAS Fellow. 2015-2020
Audrey Crane. Research assistant. Currently an MD student at Tufts University School of Medicine. 2017-2019
Sarah Marx, MD. Albert Einstein College of Medicine student who received a fellowship from the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation, currently a General Surgery resident at MGH. 2017-2018
Bojing Jia. Research assistant. Now an MD-PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. 2015-2017
Lily Nguyen. Research assistant. Now an MD-PhD student at the University of Colorado. 2015-2017
Zhen Fang Huang Cao, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow, support from the Sackler Center for Biomedicine and Nutrition and the Helmsley Foundation, currently at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Group. 2015-2017
Jay P. Singh, PhD. Postdoctoral associate, currently a scientist at Rafael Pharmaceuticals. 2015-2016