Meet Lab Members
Meet Lab Members
Meet Dr. Kumari
Dr. Kumari's academic training and research experiences are broad in the biological sciences and encompass various aspects of reproductive biology and developmental toxicology, epigenetics to characterize novel X-chromosome-linked long non-coding RNA, and Hedgehog signaling regulation of taste organs.
Dr. Kumari was awarded an AChemS “Polak Young Investigator Award” and a “Polak Postdoctoral Travel Award” and received a small grant from the University of Michigan Center of Organogenesis in support of her postdoctoral research. Dr. Kumari also received an Early Career Research Award (R21) from the NIH NIDCD. She joined Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM), Stratford location, as an Assistant Professor in January 2020. Dr. Kumari is interested in continuing her research in the tongue and taste field.
Dr. Kumari is involved in the PBL curriculum at Rowan SOM. She facilitates PBL1 blocks during the fall semester. She is also a block director for Neuroscience.
When she's not doing science or teaching, Dr. Kumari enjoys spending time with her two kids.
Current Lab Members
Gabrielle C. Audu
Gabrielle joined the lab as a research technician in 2022. She is careful and detailed in her work. Her sincere work has secured her authorship in presentations and publications. She was awarded a Diversity Travel Fellowship from AChemS, FL, in April 2023, where she presented a poster. She had also presented a poster at the Rowan-Virtua School TBES Research Fall Retreat in October 2023. She is great at guiding and training students from Rowan-Virtua SOM and TBES. She loves baking, and most importantly, she loves to share what she bakes :)
Sally Y. Rohan
Sally is a PBL student in Rowan-Virtua SOM. She joined the lab as a volunteer in January 2023, but now officially works as a Federal Work Study student. She is great at time management and wonderfully balances medical school and research. As a result, she became part of the study being presented at the Rowan-Virtua School TBES Research Fall Retreat in October 2023.
Harini Venkatesh
High School student volunteer
Former Lab Members
Murod Khikmatov (he/him/his)
SMRF student 2024
Hamza Akel (he/him/his)
SMRF student 2024
Nathalie Yax (she/her)
SURE (Summer undergraduate Research Experience) Program student
Summer 2023
Shika Veera (she/her)
A PBL-I student volunteer (2022). She utilized that study to prepare her Medical Scholarship literature review in 2023.
Isaiah Nawaz
SURE (Summer undergraduate Research Experience) Program student
Summer 2022
Lucre'ce Estropia
SMRF (Summer Medical Research Fellowship) Program student
Summer 2022
John D. Johnson
SMRF (Summer Medical Research Fellowship) Program student
Summer 2021
research work published https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294835
Sarah Liskowicz
SURE (Summer undergraduate Research Experience) Program student
Summer 2021
research work published https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294835
Magdalena Nitla
Maggy was a Research technician in 2021. She wanted a remote position and now working as an Academic Editor in a Publishing house.
Rashmi Kulkarni
Rashmi was a Research technician in 2020. Currently working as Postdoc in Dept. of Molecular Biology, Rowan SOM.