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Principal Investigator

Dmitry Kurouski 
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

Yana Purvinsh

Email: yana.purvinsh@gmail.com

Research Assistants

Avery Maalouf

Email: averymaalouf@tamu.edu

Claire Sasaki

Email: clairesasaki@tamu.edu

Undergraduate Students

Harris Brown

Email: harrisbrowntamu@tamu.edu

Erin Rose

Email: erin.rose@tamu.edu

Stephano Monge

Email: stephanomonge@tamu.edu

Nick Searight

Email: nicksea25@tamu.edu

Aishah Shaikh

Email: aishahshaikh_24@tamu.edu

Sal Trejo

Email: vs.trejo@tamu.edu

Group Alumni

  1. Isaac Esparza, Medical Student at Sam Houston State University.
  2. Mark Mahnke, Graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
  3. Mark Krimmer, Graduate Student, Rice University.
  4. Dr. Rui Wang, Professor,  Southeast University, China.
  5. Dr. Lei Zhou, Associate Professor, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
  6. Lee Sanchez, Texas A&M College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX.
  7. Fern Contreras, graduated in Spring 2020.
  8. Zack Payne, UTHealth, student
  9. Dillon Humpal, UTHealth, student
  10. Dr. Zhandong Li, Engineer, Intel, China
  11. Dr. Charles Farber, engineer at Bruker Nano
  12. Steve Parlamas, doctor
  13. Rosie Morey, student at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
  14. Dr. Stanislav Rizevsky, Vice Dean of the Biotechnology Department at Binh Duong University, Vietnam
  15. Mikhail Matveyenka, Research Scientist.
  16. Nico Goff, Dell Medical School, Austin, TX.
  17. Samantha Higgins, PhD student, Texas A&M University.
  18. Kiryl Zhaliazka, PhD student, Texas A&M University.
  19. Dr. Tianyi Dou, engineer at Bruker Nano.
  20. Dr. Ritu Joshi, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Davis.
  21. Dr. Swati Patil, Researcher at Texas A&M AgriLife Center at Amarillo, TX.
  22. Emily Muckleroy, Sino Biological.
  23. Mackenzi Peterson, Forensic Scientist I – Latent Prints, Georgetown, TX.
  24. Josheph Willson.
  25. Hrushi Abdas, future doctor.
  26. Cole Sebok, Research Assistant, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
  27. Anjni Patel, M.D. Candidate at John Sealy School of Medicine.
  28. Axell Rodriguez, Senior Production Scientist at XingImaging, New Haven, CT.
  29. Shannon Bober, PhD Student at The University of Florida.
  30. Dr. Abid Ali, Postdoctoral Researcher at Henry Ford Center.
  31. Dr. Isaac Juarez
  32. Kha-Tran Nguyen
  33. Roa Elsaigh, student at Texas A&M University.
  34. Radg Elsaigh, student at Texas A&M University.
  35. Daniel Warren, student at Long Medical School
  36. Davis Pickett, student at Long Medical School
  37. Josh Skrehot
  38. Teresha Ferdhousi
  39. Andrew Hung, student at UTHealth.
  40. John Caleb Walker

Visiting Scholars

  1. Signe Ptak.  University of Southern Denmark, 02.2019-05.2019
  2. Stanislav Rizevsky. Belarussian State University, 04.2019-05.2019
  3. Alexei Ermolenkov. Belarussian State University, 07.2019-08.2019
  4. Valerya (Val) Sereda. North Carolina University, 06.2022-07.2022
  5. Michał Czaja. Jagiellonian University, 10.2024-02.2025
  6. Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk. Jagiellonian University, 11.2024-03.2025