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The Roy Laboratory
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Sougata Roy
Associate Professor
Email: sougata@umd.edu
Phone: 301.405.6158 (Office)
301.405.2318 (Lab)
Lab Address:
4066 Campus Dr.
Bioscience Research Building (#413)
Room #2110 (Office) / 2109 (Lab)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Current members
Graduate Students
![Yujia Li](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6e525e_d2325c4d717948bd856b9b78634f5324~mv2_d_2160_3259_s_2.jpg/v1/crop/x_110,y_230,w_1930,h_1929/fill/w_193,h_193,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/6e525e_d2325c4d717948bd856b9b78634f5324~mv2_d_2160_3259_s_2.jpg)
Yujia Li
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Akshay Patel
Hind Hitti
Lab managers/Technicians
Vidhi K (2022-)
Undergraduate students
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Ketki Shah
Kayla Bleich
Durga Rao
Past Members
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Lijuan Du
Post-doctoral fellow and Assistant Research Scientist
(2015-2022)
PhD: University of Maryland College Park
Current position: Senior Scientist, AstraZenca
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Alex Sohr
Ph.D student and post-doctoral fellow
Current position: Post-doc: Division of Cell and Gene Therapy, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Ge Yan
Lab manager
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Ruofan Wang (Research Scientist)
Undergraduate Students
Amy Zhou (2015-2017)
Mishal Rao (2015-2018)
Akshay Patel (2015-2018)
Anjik Ghosh (2017-2018)
Abel Kwong (2017-2018)
Chitrine Biswas (2018)
Kelsey Anderson (2016-2017)
Heather Groves (2014-2016)
Neil Patel (2018-2019)
McCauley Brown (2020-2021)
Justin Shi (2021-2022)
Stephen Lyons (2022)
Molly Maranto (2019-2022)