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.  

Zhen Chen
Graduate Fellow
zchen​(at)rockefeller.edu 

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

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

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

Tommaso Cupido
Postdoctoral Associate
tcupido(at)rockefeller.edu

Rand Miller
Postdoctoral Fellow
rmiller(at)rockefeller.edu

Lisa Hang
Postdoctoral Fellow
lhang(at)rockefeller.edu

Melissa Pamula
Graduate Fellow
mpamula(at)rockefeller.edu

Jonathan Steinman 
Student
jsteinman(at)rockefeller.edu

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

Orlee Zorbaron
Laboratory Administrator
odzorbaron(at)rockefeller.edu 

Vishnu Ghani
Research Assistant
vghani(at)rockefeller.edu

Ashley C. Wang
Research Assistant
awang01(at)rockefeller.edu