Current Lab Members

Tarun Kapoor 
Pels Family Professor, Head of Laboratory
kapoor(at)rockefeller.edu

Tarun graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology in 1993. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1998 from Harvard University and did his postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. He came to Rockefeller in 2001 as assistant professor and was named associate professor in 2005 and professor in 2008.  

Tarun received the 2012 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from The Protein Society and a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar Award in 2008. In 2003 he was named a Pew Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences. 

Tarun is a faculty member in the David Rockefeller Graduate Program, the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program, the Tri-Institutional Ph.D. Program in Chemical Biology. and is the Co-Director of the TPCB program.  

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​Michael Grasso
Postdoctoral Fellow
mgrasso(at)rockefeller.edu

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Amol Aher
Postdoctoral Fellow
aaher​(at)rockefeller.edu ​​

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Nan Chen
Postdoctoral Associate
​nchen(at)rockefeller.edu

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​Megan Elizabeth Kelley
Graduate Fellow
mkelley(at)rockefeller.edu

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Adi Berman
Graduate Fellow
aberman(at)rockefeller.edu

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Tommaso Cupido
Postdoctoral Associate
tcupido(at)rockefeller.edu

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​Lina Carlini
Postdoctoral Fellow
lcarlini(at)rockefeller.edu​​

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​Shih-Chieh Ti
Postdoctoral Fellow
sti(at)rockefeller.edu​

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Cristina Santarossa
Graduate Fellow in Chemical Biology
csantaross(at)rockefeller.edu 

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Natalie Jones
Graduate Fellow
njones(at)rockefeller.edu

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​Keith Mickolajczyk
Postdoctoral Associate
kmickolajc(at)rockefeller.edu

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Michal Wieczorek
Postdoctoral Fellow
mwieczorek(at)rockefeller.edu

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​Rudolf Pisa
Graduate Fellow
rpisa(at)rockefeller.edu​

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​Orlee Zorbaron
Laboratory Administrator
odzorbaron(at)rockefeller.edu ​

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Vishnu Ghani
Research Assistant
vghani(at)rockefeller.edu

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