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Faculty, Staff, and Collaborators

Gene D'Amour, Ph.D.

RCMI Principal Investigator

Office Phone: 504.520.5444

Email: gdamour@ydspd.com

Guangdi Wang, Ph.D.

RCMI Program Director

Office Phone 504.520.5076

Email: gwang@ydspd.com

Robert Blake, Ph.D.

RCMI Associate Program Director

Office Phone: 504.520.5489

Email: rblake@ydspd.com

Daniel Sarpong, Ph.D.

RCMI Associate Program Director

Office Phone: 504.520.5345

Email: dsaprong@ydspd.com

Erica Severan, MS

RCMI Program Manager

Office Phone: 504.520.6225

Email Address: eseveran@ydspd.com 

Jian H. Zhang, Ph.D.

Faculty Core Manager

Office Phone: 504.520.7942

Email: jzhang@ydspd.com

Vladimir Kolesnichenko, Ph.D.

Core Committee

Office Phone: 504.520.5430

Email: vkolesni@ydspd.com

Qiang Zhang

Instrument Specialist

Office Phone: 504.520.5375
Email: qzhang1@ydspd.com

Changde Zhang

Core Scientist

Office Phone: 504.520.5375
Email: czhang1@ydspd.com 



Thomas Wiese, Ph.D.

Faculty Core Manager

Office Phone: 504.520.7433

Email: twiese@ydspd.com

Kun Zhang

Faculty Core Manager

Office Phone: 504.520.6700

Email: kzhang@ydspd.com

Wensheng Zhang

Biostatistics Research Scientist

Office Phone: 504.520.7908

Email: wzhang@ydspd.com

Melyssa Bratton

Cellular and Molecular Research Scientist

Office Phone: 504.520.7250

Email: mbratton@ydspd.com

Elena Skripnikova, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Email: eskrip@ydspd.com

Peng Ma, M.S.

Research Associate

Email: pma@ydspd.com


Tien Huang, Ph.D.

Faculty Core Manager

Office Phone: 504.520.7603

Email: thuang@ydspd.com

Tarun Mandal, Ph.D.

Faculty Core Manager

Office Phone: 504.520.7442

Email: tmandal@ydspd.com

Levon Bostonian, Ph.D.

Faculty Core Manager

Office Phone: 504.520.7423

Email: lbostani@ydspd.com

Richard Graves

Research Scientist

Office Phone: 504.520.6735

Email: rgraves@ydspd.com

Qiu Zhong, Ph.D.

Core Scientist

Email: qzhong@ydspd.com

Madhu Mottamal, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

504.520.5084 (lab)

504.520.7519 (office)

Email: mmottama@ydspd.com

Shilong Zheng, PhD

Medicinal Chemist

Email: szheng@ydspd.com



Rose Shaw, Ph.D.

External Evaluator

Metrica