Principal Investigator
Wonhwa Cho
Liberal Arts & Sciences Science Endowed Chair, UIC Distinguished Professor, and Headwcho@uic.edu
Current Members
Ashutosh Sharma
Visiting Research Assistant Professor“I develop new ratiometric sensors for direct quantification of cellular membrane curvature and molecular interactions”
sharma61@uic.edu
(Sunny) Jiachen Sun
Graduate Student“I develop new lipid sensors and study the mechanisms of PI3K signaling”
jsun71@uic.edu
Hoon Kee Kim
Graduate Student“I develop novel small molecule modulators of lipid signaling”
hkim464@uic.edu
Simona Kavrakova
Graduate Student“I study the mechanisms of lipid signaling and develop lipid signaling modulators”
skavra2@uic.edu
Madalyn Puckett
Graduate Student“I study the lipid regulation of growth factor signaling in cancer”
mpucke3@uic.edu
Julian Zalejski
Graduate Student“I work on cholesterol signaling”
jzalej2@uic.edu
Kyli Berkley
Graduate Student“I investigate the novel mechanisms by which cholesterol and phosphoinositide regulate diverse cellular processes”
kberk4@uic.edu
Nidhi Sharma
Graduate Student“I develop small molecular modulators of cellular lipid-protein interactions involved in cancer”
nsharm48@uic.edu
Xingyu Guo
Graduate Student“I study the role of cholesterol signaling in T-cells and other immune cells”
Masha Strelkova
Undergraduate Student“I study the role of lipids as signaling molecules”
mstrel3@uic.edu
Cho Group Alumni
Not Exhaustive
| Name | Affiliation | Current Position | |
| Dua, Rajiv | Ph. D., 1995 | Senior Investigator, Roche Molecular Diagnostics | rdua@monogrambio.com |
| Mukhopadhyay, Tuli | Ph. D., 1996 | Associate Professor, Indiana University | sumukhop@indiana.edu |
| Koo, Yumee | Ph. D., 1998 | Assistant Professor, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia | y.koo@usip.edu |
| Lee, Byung In | Ph. D., 1999 | Product Development Manager, Invitrogen | Byung-in.lee@invitrogen.com |
| Han, Sang Kyou | Ph. D., 2000 | Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSD | sah008@ucsd.edu |
| Medkova, Martina | Ph. D., 2000 | Senior Scientist, RainDance Technologies, Inc. | Mme108@yahoo.com |
| Sumandea, Marius | Ph. D., 2000 | Discovery Researcher, Eli Lilly and Co. | |
| Bitto, Eduard | Ph. D., 2001 | Associate Professor, Georgian Court University | ebitto@georgian.edu |
| Kim, Kwangpyo | Ph. D., 2002 | Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea | kpkim@konkuk.ac.kr |
| Digman, Michelle | Ph. D., 2003 | Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine | mdigman@uci.edu |
| Rafter, John | Senior Scientist, Bruker-Prairie Technology | john.rafter@bruker.com | |
| Das, Sudipto | Ph. D., 2003 | Scientist, SAIC-Fredrick, Inc. NCI | dassu@mail.nih.gov |
| Stahelin, Robert | Ph. D., 2003 Postdoc 03-06 | Retter Professor of Pharmacy Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Purdue University | rstaheli@purdue.edu |
| Kulkarni, Shilpa | Ph. D., 2003 | Faculty, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | shilpa.kulkarni@einstein.yu.edu |
| Kim, Young Jun | Ph. D., 2004 | Associate Professor, Konkuk University, Korea | yok002@UCSD.Edu |
| Wijewickrama, Gihani | Ph. D., 2007 | Scientist, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco | wijewickrama.gihani@gene.com |
| Tian, Wen (Amy) | Ph. D., 2008 | Senior Research Scientist, Stanford university | amytian@stanford.edu |
| Manna, Debasis | Ph. D., 2008 | Assistant Professor, IIT-Guwahati, India | dmanna@iitg.ac.in |
| Tun, Moe (M.D.) | Ph. D., 2008 | MSK Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX | Moe.P.Tun@dmu.edu |
| Lucas, Nathan | Ph.D., 2011 | Scientist, Protein Engineering Division, Stratos Genomics, Seattle, WA | nlucas@stratosgenomics.com |
| Yoon, Youngdae | Ph.D, 2012 | Assistant Professor, Konkuk University, Korea | yyoon21@gmail.com |
| Sheng, Ren | Ph.D, 2014 | Assistant Professor, Notheastern University, China | shengren1211@126.com |
| Chen, Yong | Postdoc, 2009-2011 | Senior Scientist, Abbvie | ychen@abbvie.com |
| Liu, Shulin | Postdoc, 2013-2017 | Assistant Professor, Nankai University, China | shulin-liu@163.com |