Just as a diverse and wonderful collection of ion channels is required to create the spark of life, the action potential, so the best science needs the teamwork of many diverse and talented people.*

We are committed to building a welcoming and empowering place for scientists of all backgrounds to follow their passion and make new discoveries.

*how’s THAT for a laboured analogy?!

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Resident Faculty at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, RBHS; Director of the CABM Program for Electrical Physiology and Pharmacology of Ion Channels (EPPIC).

I grew up in England and graduated from the University of Leeds with a BSc. in Pharmacology in 2008. After 3 years working in industry on drug discovery projects, I then completed my PhD at the University of Oxford, focusing on the structure, function, and pharmacology of K2P channels.

As a postdoc at Washington University in St Louis, I worked on understanding the basis of cardiovascular and myopathic disease in KATP channelopathies.

Postdoctoral Research Associate.

Vini obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Anna University, India, was a visiting scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, completed her Masters’s at the University of Sheffield, UK, and her PhD from University of Lund, Sweden.

Vini is working on multiple projects, using patch clamp electrophysiology and other techniques to explore the consequences of KATP channel mutations and to identify potential therapeutic strategies.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kingsley received a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from the Abia State University, Nigeria before undertaking a Masters in Biotechnology from the Ural Federal University, Russia. He completely his PhD jointly at the Ural Federal University and Macquarie University, Australia.

Kingsley is studying the consequences of altered electrophysiology in the vasculature - with a focus on multiple new genetically modified mouse models.

Undergraduate Researcher

Jacob is a Senior, majoring in Cellular Biology and Neuroscience. He is working to develop and characterize new KATP channel mutant mouse models.

Undergraduate Researcher

Zahra is a Senior, majoring in Biological Sciences and minoring in Health Administration. She is learning new techniques in molecular biology.

Ashana Nayak (Rutgers Undergrad)