Lab Members

Anil Shelke, PhD

Postdoc training: Prof. Bob Williams (Colorado State University), Cetya Therapeutics, and Prof. Joel Freundlich (Rutgers) 

PhD advisor: Prof. Gurunath M. Suryavanshi (CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, NCL)

See also: Anil's publications

Dr. Radha Charan "RC" Dash – Research Associate

Application Scientist in SilcsBio, LLC / Rasio Therapeutics, and EarlyCharm LLC, Baltimore, MD.

Postdoc training: Prof. M. Kyle Hadden, University of Connecticut, School of Pharmacy, Storrs, CT, USA.

PhD: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Poona College of Pharmacy (Pune, India)

See also: RC's publications

Dr. Veena Devi

Postdoc training: Dr. Clifton Barry – Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Tuberculosis Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH, Bethesda, MD.

PhD: CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division (Lucknow, India)

See also: Veena's publications

Dr. Angelo Mandarino

Postdoc training: in the lab of Dr. Prasad, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, studying the role of Alix in HIV egress from cells


PhD: in the lab of Dr. Riccardo Vigneri, University of Catania, Italy, studying the role of p53 family members in thyroid cancer


See also: Angelo's publications

Alexander Poppel

PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry


Solving Human Disease – with Two Laptops and One Highly Inspirational Post-it Note 

Melissa Rosas

BS in Forensic Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 2023

PREP Program 2023-2024


Huck Friedman

The Bronx High School of Science

Summer Internship


Rotation Students from the PhD and MD-PhD Programs


Openings for Rotations

1st Cycle -- our lab is under renovation

2nd Cycle -- 11/27–02/23 -- open

3rd Cycle -- 03/11–06/07 -- open


Postdoctoral researchers and PhD students interested in the chemistry and enzymology of covalent inhibitors and DNA-encoded libraries. Get in touch with Prof. Maianti via Einstein Careers or LinkedIn.