THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Program Administrative Coordinator
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- Education Coordinator II, Undergraduate Programs
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- Vice President, Career Development
Amandeep is a native of Jalalabad (West), a small town in Punjab (Land of Five Rivers) located in the northern part of India. He received his B. Tech in Biotechnology from Lovely Professional University in Punjab, India, his M. Tech in Biotechnology from RGPV in Madhya Pradesh, India, and his PhD in Biotechnology from IIT in Hyderabad, India. Aman started his postdoctoral position with Dr. Lin Guo at Thomas Jefferson University in 2020. His research interest is to design and test novel short RNA inhibitors for reversing the liquid-liquid phase separation and aggregation of proteins involved in ALS and FTLD diseases.
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- EVP, Oncology Services Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
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- Manager of Academic Operations
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- Program Director, Clinical Placement, Academic Practice Integration
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- Admissions and Recruitment Manager
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- Vice President, Nominations and Elections
Arun Kumar Jannu is a native of Warangal, a small city in Telangana, located in the southern part of India. He did his masters at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) - Hyderabad, and then pursued his PhD in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology from NIPER - Guwahati in 2021. His studies focused on finding a novel carrier system for the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs. Later in 2021, Arun joined Thomas Jefferson University as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Translational Medicine under the supervision of Dr. Raymond Penn. Arun's research focuses on identifying the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which G protein-couple receptors regulate significant functions in human airway smooth muscle cells.
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- Member of the Enterprise Management Team
- President, Jefferson Health
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- Academic Advising Coordinator
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- Emeritus Trustee
- Chairman, Bryn Mawr Trust Company
Caitlyn received her BS in Human Biology and Psychology from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She worked in pharmaceutical manufacturing and clinical research before deciding to go to graduate school. She earned her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology from Stony Brook University in New York. Her PhD work focused on better understanding mitochondrial RNA processing and mitoribosomal assembly. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sheu lab where she is studying how calcium regulation in the heart influences mitochondrial gene expression. She also holds a part-time faculty position at Bucks County Community College.
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- Associate Dean for MS Programs
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- Executive Director, Manufacturing Science and Technology, Drug Substance
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- EVP, Chief Legal and Governance Officer
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- Senior Vice President / Citizens Commercial Bank / Chair, School of Business Advisory Board
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- Senior Principal Cybersecurity Architect
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- Emeritus Trustee
- President and CEO, Binswanger Companies
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- CEO
- Member of the Enterprise Management Team
- President
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chairman, Jefferson Academic Affairs Committee / President & CEO, CTN Solutions, Inc
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- EVP, Jefferson Health / President, Jefferson Medical Group
Elham Javed has a very diverse background; she is an Indian national born and raised in the Dubai, UAE, and came to the United States for her master's in Molecular Medicine at Drexel University. She was doing an off-campus CPT at Thomas Jefferson University in the neuroscience department which is why following her master's graduation she pursed her PhD with Thomas Jefferson University at the Center for Translational Medicine. She is now currently working as postdoctoral fellow under Dr. Raymond Penn. Her research is focused on understanding the mechanism behind differential compartmentalized signaling induced by β2AR and PGE2 receptors in human ASM.
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- Vice President, Advanced Therapies Business Unit / WuXi
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- Vice President, Communications
Deepa is currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Hematology at Thomas Jefferson University. She built a strong academic foundation with both a Master's degree and PhD in Biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. Her key focus area is platelet signaling: platelets hold a crucial role in hemostasis. Her research aims to shed light on how platelets lead to critical ailments such as myocardial infarction and stroke. In the future, she aspires to make significant contributions in the field.
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- Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation
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- Vice President Strategic Partnerships and Business Development
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- Associate VP, Biologics Process Development and Commercialization
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- Emeritus Trustee
- Managing Partner ( Retired ) Ernst & Young LLP
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- Teaching Assistant Professor
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- Chief Technology Officer / Spark Therapeutics, Inc.
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- Instructional Design Specialist
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- Emeritus Trustee
- President, Brind Investments, Inc
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- Senior Account Executive / S. Lichtenberg & Co., Inc.
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- Asst. Director, Admissions
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- Founder & CEO / Zenith Wealth Partners / Secretary, School of Business Advisory Board
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- Research Data Analyst
- Research Data Analyst, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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- President ( Retired ) Nannette Manufacturing Co. Inc. Professor Emeritus
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago
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- Head, Biotherapeutic Developer / Johnson & Johnson
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- Chief Financial Officer
- EVP
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- President, Interstate Commercial Real Estate
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- Senior Director, Cell Bio & Novel Packaging Solutions Innovation & Technology
Joice Thomas Gavali, PhD, earned her doctorate in Pharmacology at the Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV-IPN) in Mexico. Her graduate studies focused on regulation by reactive oxygen species of store-operated calcium release in adult rat cardiomyocytes preconditioned with diazoxide. She moved to the United States in October 2020. Before joining Thomas Jefferson University, she worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Smidt Heart Institute, Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Jianxin Sun's lab. Her research focuses on understanding the regulation of EC coupling in cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac fibrosis, and pulmonary artery hypertension.
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- CEO
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member of the Enterprise Management Team
- Member of the University Leadership Team
- CEO, Jefferson
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- Program Director
- Program Director / Jefferson Center for Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship
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- Assistant Dean for Academic Administration
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- Senior Director, Business Planning
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- Enterprise Executive Vice President and Humana Chief Health Equity
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- Education Coordinator II, Graduate Programs
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- Program Coordinator of Strategy of Innovation
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- Master of Science in Nursing Contacts
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- Undergraduate Clinical Education Site Coordinator
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- Retired Chairman / Zuckerman Honickman, Inc.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chief Financial Officer, Integra Lifesciences
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- Director, Human Capital Management
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- Education Coordinator II, Graduate Programs
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Vice - Chair / Managing Director, Citi
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- Associate Dean for Student & Postdoctoral Affairs / Jefferson College of Life Sciences
- Associate Dean, Student & Postdoctoral Affairs, Jefferson College of Life Sciences
- Associate Dean, Student and Postdoctoral
- Associate Dean, Student and Postdoctoral Affairs
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director, Admissions
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- EVP, Enterprise Chief Strategy and Administrative Officer / Jefferson
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- Executive Director, Global Operations Sourcing
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- Manager, Office of Research and Innovation
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Managing Director / Versa Capital Management, LLC
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- Senior Vice President, Comcast
Melissa Molho is originally from Mexico, where she got her bachelor's degree in Genomic Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2014, she moved to the United States to do her PhD in the Plant Pathology Department at the University of Kentucky (UK). During her PhD, she studied virus-host interactions in plants, specifically the role of the actin network in viral infection. She was also part of the UK graduate Student Congress leadership team and advocate for international students.
In 2021, she joined Dr. Ramage's lab as a postdoctoral fellow in the Microbiology Department at Thomas Jefferson University. Currently, she is studying virus-host interactions of emerging infectious diseases focusing on flaviviruses such as Dengue, Zika, West Nile, and Powassan viruses.
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- Administrative Assistant, Undergraduate Programs
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Vice - Chair / Retired J & J Executive Vice President
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- Director / East Falls Development Corporation
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Partner, Cerity Partners, Philadelphia
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- Executive Assistant to the Dean
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- Professor, Dept of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology / Associate Dean for PhD Programs Co - Director, Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine PhD Program
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- Clinical Pharmacist / Infectious Diseases
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- Education Coordinator II, Graduate Programs
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- EVP, James D and Mary Jo Danella / Chief Quality Officer
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chairman / President and CEO, Please Touch Museum
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- Interim Chief Marketing and Communications Officer / Jefferson
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- Director, Academic Technology & Design
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- Strategic Advisor to the CEO and Professor of Surgery
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- Independent Board Director, Retired, Managing Director
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- President / Willings Advisors, LLC
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- Finance
- Business Development
- Director, Finance & Business Planning
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- Chief Operating Officer / GenVivo Inc
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Managing Partner, Osage Investments, Inc
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- Technology Support Specialist
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- Registered Pharmacist from Pakistan
- Vice President, Social Affairs
Shamaila Zafar is a Neuroscientist and registered Pharmacist from Pakistan. She earned her PhD in Physiology from Government College University of Faisalabad (GCUF) in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in 2021. Her past research focused on exploring alternative therapeutic moieties to instigate and accelerate axonal regeneration and full functional recovery following nerve injuries. As a Postdoctoral fellow, she is working with Dr. Jay Schneider on understanding the influence of socioeconomic and environmental factors on the developing brain regarding neurocognitive functioning, behavioral changes and the risk of dementia associated with neurodegeneration in later life. Shamaila has had opportunities to present both as an inviting-speaker and as a presenter in multiple international and national science meetings supported by travel grants.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Retired Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
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- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
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- EVP, Chief Advancement Officer
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- Interim President
- Member of the Enterprise Management Team
- Member of the University Leadership Team
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- Manager Academic Operations
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- Department of Neuroscience / Vickie and Jack Farber Institute of Neuroscience
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- Director of Operations ( Retired ) Campbell Soup Company
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- Administrative Assistant, Graduate Programs
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- CEO & President, Baldwin & Obenauf, Inc. ( BNO )
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- General Manager Fast Trak / General Electric
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- Production Director, Biopharmaceuticals Upper Merion