Personnel
Principal Investigator

Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, FRS
garret@upenn.edu
215-898-1185
Dr. FitzGerald's research has been characterized by an integrative approach to elucidating the mechanisms of drug action, drawing on work in cells, model organisms and humans. His work contributed substantially to the development of low-dose aspirin for cardioprotection. FitzGerald's lab was the first to predict and then mechanistically explain the cardiovascular hazard from NSAIDs. He has also discovered many products of lipid peroxidation and established their utility as indices of oxidant stress in vivo. His laboratory was the first to discover a molecular clock in the cardiovascular system and has studied the importance of peripheral clocks in the regulation of cardiovascular and metabolic function.
Faculty

Emanuela Ricciotti, PharmD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
emanuela@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215-898-9391
Research Expertise: Genomic, proteomic and metabolomics analysis of inflammatory pathways in vascular cells.
Staff

LaVenia Banas
Clinical Research Nurse
banas@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Robin Joshi
Research Investigator, Senior
Robin.Joshi@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Single cell proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics in circadian rhythms using mass spectrometery

Sean Kelch
Research Specialist
Sean.Kelch@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: circadian rhythms, metabolism, and biological imaging

Ryan McConnell
Research Specialist A
ryan.mcconnell@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: The interplay between immune-checkpoint inhibition and eicosanoid modulation on the immune
response in atherosclerosis

Georgios K. Paschos, PhD
Research Investigator, Senior
gpaschos@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215-898-8360
Research Expertise: Circadian regulation of metabolism

Carsten C. Skarke, MD
Research Investigator, Senior
cskarke@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215-662-7186
Research Expertise: Human Clock Biology and Human Phenomics

Sarah Teegarden
Associate Director / Lab Manager
sarahtee@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Circadian rhythms, fitness, and metabolism

Takae Tanosaki
Research Specialist
Takae.Tanosaki@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Respiratory Medicine, Allergy, COX2 and lipid metabolism

Weili Yan
Research Specialist C
weiliyan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Small animal surgical models

Soon Yew Tang
Research Investigator, Senior
tangsoon@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: The role of prostaglandins in cardiometabolic function
Postdocs

Kayla Barekat
Postdoc Researcher
kbarekat@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: NSAID-microbiome interactions and gastroenteropathy

Ujjalkumar Das
Postdoc Researcher
Ujjalkumar.Das@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Biological role of low abundance lipids and proteomic perturbations in chronobiology using Mass Spectrometry

Soumita Ghosh
Research Associate
soumita@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Interindividual variability of NSAID pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

Liz Hennessy
Research Associate
ehenn@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Long non-coding RNAs as regulators of cardiovascular disease and inflammation

Nadim El Jamal
Postdoc Researcher
nadim.eljamal@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research interests: Circadian rhythms, cardiovascular disease, aging

Ronan Lordan
Postdoc Researcher
ronan.lordan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Interests: Circadian dysfunction, aging, and metabolism
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