Lab Members
David Eliezer
Professor of Biochemistry and Neuroscience
David received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1987 and 1988. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics/Biophysics at Stanford University in 1994 and continued his work as a postdoctoral associate at Scripps Research Institute in the lab of Peter Wright where he focused on NMR spectroscopy and molecular biology. He joined the department of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell in 1999.
Contact: dae2005@med.cornell.edu
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Guohua Lv
Research Associate
Guohua received her Ph.D. at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (now the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences) in 2013 and joined the Eliezer Lab in October of 2013. She then joined Jinan University of China as an Associate Professor in February 2019, and re-joined the Eliezer Lab in October of 2022.
Contact: gul2009@med.cornell.edu
Emily Grasso
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Emily received her B.S. in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology and History from Rutgers University in 2014. She then completed her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 2020 in the lab of Vincent Hilser and joined the Eliezer Lab in January of 2021.
Contact: emg4005@med.cornell.edu
Dagan Marx
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dagan received a B.S. in both Biochemistry and Environmental Science from the University of Iowa in 2014. As an undergraduate, he worked in the lab of Dr. Madeline Shea studying the regulation of voltage-gated sodium channels by calmodulin. He then completed his Ph.D. under Dr. Karen Fleming at Johns Hopkins University where he studied both how chaperone proteins solubilize unfolded membrane proteins and membrane protein folding and stability. Dagan joined the Eliezer Lab and the Levitz lab in 2021 and is interested in understanding how GPCR function is regulated by macromolecular interactions.
Contact: dcm4002@med.cornell.edu
Ming-Hao Li
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ming-Hao received his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 2022, in the lab of Dan Raleigh on amyloid fibrils and peptide membrane interaction. He joined the Eliezer Lab in August 2023.
Contact: mil4021@med.cornell.edu
Chiara Mancinelli
Ph.D. Candidate
Chiara received her B.S. in Chemistry with a Biology concentration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2019 and researched the fabrication and characterization of nano-materials and their various industrial and biomedical applications in the nanobiotechnology subgroup at Linhardt Labs. She joined the Weill Cornell Pharmacology department in 2019 and the Eliezer Lab in Fall 2020.
Contact: cdm4001@med.cornell.edu
Hudson Lee
M.D. Candidate
Hudson received his B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 2019 where he did research in the Kyriakides Lab on impaired wound healing in diabetes. He then worked as a research assistant in the Lab of Dr. Richard Axel at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute investigating olfactory sensory neuron distribution before joining Weill Cornell as a medical student in 2020 and the Eliezer Lab later that year.
Contact: hsl4002@med.cornell.edu
Past Lab Members
Myung Soo Ko, Ph.D.
Trudy Ramlall, M.S.
Scientist, Regeneron
Tapojyoti Das, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Tanja Mittag Lab
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Diana Acosta, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
David Snead, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCSD
Igor Dikiy, Ph.D.
Scientist, Protein Biochemistry, Regeneron
Nicholas Harbison, Ph.D.
Upper School Science Teacher, St. Anne's School
Robert Bussell Jr., Ph.D.
Director of Data Science, PhenoVista Biosciences
Yoonhui Sung, Ph.D.
Global Regulatory Affairs Manager, Bayer CropScience
Kurshida Shahidullah, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist Manufacturing Analytical Development
Lantheus Medical Imaging
Sebastian McClendon., Ph.D.
Deputy Program Manager - Science
TMC Global Professional Services