Research is teamwork! Academic and non-academic staff working in the Dr. Ghanbari’s group in the last five years:
Postdoc researchers:
Eliana Portilla Fernandez (2019-2020)
Ivana Prokic-Nedeljkovic (2019-2021)
Shahzad Ahmad (2020-2022)
Lisa van der Burgh (2022-2023)
Pooja Mandaviya (2022-2024)
PhD students:
Silvana Maas, Epigenetics and lifestyle factors (2017-2019)
Michelle Mens, Circulatory miRNAs and age-related disorders (2017-2021)
Xiaofang Zhang, Genetics of fatty liver disease (2017-2022)
Irma Karabegovic, Epigenetics and lifestyle factors (2021-2022)
Yasir Abozaid , Molecular epidemiology and metabolic diseases (2019-2022)
Amber Yaqub, Longevity and Alzheimer’s disease, (2019-2023)
Ziyi Xiong, Improving genetic Epi approaches (2019-2023)
Ibrahim Ayada, Genetic of NAFLD and MAFLD (2021-2024)
Yu Shuai, (epi)genetic regulation of cancer (2021-2025)
Sam Leonard, Multi-omics and immune-related disorders (2022-2024)
Mina Shahisavandi, Pharmaco-metabolomics and metabolic dis (2022-2025)
Midas Kuilman, Alzheimer’s disease pathways (2023-2026)
MSc students:
Meghan Murphy, Serum HSV titer and risk of dementia (2018-2019)
Silvana Maas, DNA methylation and smoking (2017-2019)
Irma Karabegovic, DNA methylation and coffee consumption (2017-2019)
Sam Leonard, Genetic and metabolomics of Immune markers (2021-2022)
Enping Wang, Multi-omics analysis and COVID-19 (2021-2023)
Georgia Malliou, Metabolomics and vascular calcification (2022-2023)
Mina Shahisavandi, Pharmaco-metabolomics (2022-2023)
ERGO Lab technicians:
Jeannette Vergeer-Drop (ERGO lab manager)
Andrea Vermeij-Verdoold
Andy Van Oosterhout
Eugenia Vollebregt
Management Assistant
Maaike Oomens (m.oomens@erasmusmc.nl)
Guest researchers
Julia Wu (USA, 2019), Rima Mustafa (UK, 2020), Rashid Iqbal (Pakistan, 2020)