
Principal Investigator

Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Texas A&M University
Office: 216 BioBio
Email: dkurouski@tamu.edu
Phone: 979-458-3448
Education and Industrial Experience:
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 2017-2023
Senior Research Scientist, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, 2015-2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2013-2015
Ph.D., SUNY at Albany, State University of New York, 2013
B.Sc. and M. Sc., Belarussian State University, 2008
Graduate Students


Charles L. Mitchell
Email: clandonmitchell@tamu.edu
Jadon Sitton
Email: jadon.sitton75@tamu.edu


Aidan Holman
Email: crownboxco@tamu.edu
Tyler Kuntz
Email: kuntzt1@tamu.edu
Research Associates


Mikhail Matveyenka
Email: matveyenka@tamu.edu
Yana Purvinsh
Email: yana.purvinsh@gmail.com
Research Assistants


Davis Pickett
Email: davispickett7@dkurouskigmailcom
Avery Maalouf
Email: averymaalouf@tamu.edu
Undergraduate Students


Harris Brown
Email: harrisbrowntamu@tamu.edu
John Caleb Walker
Email: jcalebwalker@tamu.edu


Andrew Hung
Email: ahung409@tamu.edu
Teresha Ferdhousi
Email: tereshaf10@tamu.edu


Claire Sasaki
Email: clairesasaki@tamu.edu
Josh Skrehot
Email: skrehot@tamu.edu


Daniel Warren
Email: danielwarren@tamu.edu
Stephano Monge
Email: stephanomonge@tamu.edu


Aishah Shaikh
Email: aishahshaikh_24@tamu.edu
Anya Hegde
Emial: anyahegde7@tamu.edu
Group Alumni
- Isaac Esparza, Medical Student at Sam Houston State University.
- Mark Mahnke, Graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
- Mark Krimmer, Graduate Student, Rice University.
- Dr. Rui Wang, Professor, Southeast University, China.
- Dr. Lei Zhou, Associate Professor, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
- Lee Sanchez, Texas A&M College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX.
- Fern Contreras, graduated in Spring 2020.
- Zack Payne, UTHealth, student
- Dillon Humpal, UTHealth, student
- Dr. Zhandong Li, Engineer, Intel, China
- Dr. Charles Farber, engineer at Bruker Nano
- Steve Parlamas, UTHealth, student
- Rosie Morey, student at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
- Dr. Stanislav Rizevsky, Vice Dean of the Biotechnology Department at Binh Duong University, Vietnam
- Mikhail Matveyenka, Research Scientist.
- Nico Goff, Dell Medical School, Austin, TX.
- Samantha Higgins, PhD student, Texas A&M University.
- Kiryl Zhaliazka, PhD student, Texas A&M University.
- Dr. Tianyi Dou, engineer at Bruker Nano.
- Dr. Ritu Joshi, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Davis.
- Dr. Swati Patil, Researcher at Texas A&M AgriLife Center at Amarillo, TX.
- Emily Muckleroy, Sino Biological.
- Mackenzi Peterson, Forensic Scientist I – Latent Prints, Georgetown, TX.
- Josheph Willson.
- Hrushi Abdas, future doctor.
- Cole Sebok, Research Assistant, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
- Anjni Patel, M.D. Candidate at John Sealy School of Medicine.
- Axell Rodriguez, Senior Production Scientist at XingImaging, New Haven, CT.
- Shannon Bober, PhD Student at The University of Florida.
- Dr. Abid Ali, Postdoctoral Researcher at Henry Ford Center.
- Dr. Isaac Juarez
- Kha-Tran Nguyen
- Roa Elsaigh, student at Texas A&M University.
- Radg Elsaigh, student at Texas A&M University.
Visiting Scholars
- Signe Ptak. University of Southern Denmark, 02.2019-05.2019
- Stanislav Rizevsky. Belarussian State University, 04.2019-05.2019
- Alexei Ermolenkov. Belarussian State University, 07.2019-08.2019
- Valerya (Val) Sereda. North Carolina University, 06.2022-07.2022
- Michał Czaja. Jagiellonian University, 10.2024-02.2025
- Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk. Jagiellonian University, 11.2024-03.2025