
Principal Investigator

Assistant 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:
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
Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Abid Ali
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: abidaiims6@tamu.edu

Dr. Swati Patil
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: swati_2022@tamu.edu
Graduate Students

Tianyi Dou
Graduate Student
Email: dlu122@tamu.edu

Isaac Juarez
Graduate Student
Email: isaac.juarez@tamu.edu

Kiryl Zhaliazka
Graduate Student
Email: kirylzhaliazka@tamu.edu

Michael Lynn
Graduate Student
Email: michael.lynn1230@tamu.edu
Research Assistants

Axell Rodriguez
Reseasrch Assistant
Email: axellrod14@tamu.edu

Nicolas Goff
Research Assistant
Email: nico.goff@tamu.edu

Aidan Holman
Research Assistant
Email: crownboxco@tamu.edu

Mackenzi Steczkowski
Email: bigmack2002@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, Research Scientist, Aerotek.
- 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, future doctor
- Dr. Stanislav Rizevsky, Vice Dean of the Biotechnology Department at Binh Duong University, Vietnam
- Mikhail Matveyenka.
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