Our team
Principal Investigator
Grégory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD
Professor – Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Department of Pharmacology, UNC Neuroscience Center
gregory_scherrer@med.unc.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Adrien Tassou, PhD
Matan Geron, PhD
Hansol Lim, PhD
Co-mentored by Prof. Mark Schnitzer (Stanford)
Jesse Niehaus, PhD
Yuka Nakaya, PhD
Andrew Vigotsky, PhD
Takanori Matsubara, PhD
Graduate and Medical Students
Yuechen Qiu, BS
PhD Candidate, UNC-CH Neuroscience Curriculum, co-mentored by Prof. Adam Hantman (UNC-CH)
Bella Circo, BS
PhD Student, UNC-CH Neuroscience Curriculum
Carrington Williams
CBP Masters Student
Managers and Technicians
Ace Lane, BA
Lab Manager
David Lee, PhD
Project Manager, Pain & Addiction Therapeutics
Rhys Rudiger, BS
Lab Technician
Undergraduate Students
Bowen Zheng
UNC-CH BS, Biology and Chinese Language, Class of 2027
Aastha Kulkarni
UNC-CH BS, Neuroscience, Class of 2028
Ahmed Bash
UNC-CH, Pharmacology, Class of 2029
Cassidy Reynolds
UNC-CH BS, Biology, Class of 2028
Kaitlyn Johnson
Brown University BS, Computational Neuroscience, Class of 2029
Alumni
Luke Wickersham, 2025-2026, CBP Masters Student
Sarah Yates Smith, 2025-2026, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Parth Shirolkar, 2022-2025, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nicole Mercer Lindsay, PhD, 2017-2025, Postdoctoral Scholar (Principal Investigator at Cornell University)
Karen Huang, BS, 2021-2025, Laboratory Technician (Medical Student at LMU)
Natasha Ray, BS, 2024-2025, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellow at National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and alcoholism.)
Swarup Sharma, PhD, 2022-2025, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Dan Berg, PhD, 2017-2025, Postdoctoral Scholar (Resident scientist at Bruker Spatial Biology)
Chong Chen, MD, PhD, 2018-2025, Postdoctoral Scholar (Principal Investigator at Westlake University)
Nicole Ochandarena, PhD, 2020-2025 MD-PhD student
Kayla Richardson, 2023-2024, UNC-CH BBSP PhD Student (Neuroscience)
Mae Rowan, 2023-2024, UNC-CH Undergraduate Research Assistant
Josh Blair, BS, 2019-2021 Lab Manager and Technician, 2023-2024 Project Manager
Alexander Barnett, BS, 2021-2023, Lab Manager and Technician (Medical Student at University of South Carolina)
Crystal Dezha-Bolteada, BS, 2022-2023, UNC-CH Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) Student
Jonathan Saju, BS, 2021-2023, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UNC-CH BS Biology and Chemistry
Riley Picken, BS, 2021-2023, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UNC-CH BS Biology and Spanish
Valentina Morales, BS, Undergraduate Research Technician, UNC-CH BS Biology, UNC-CH SMART Summer Research Program
Sy’Keria Garrison, 2021-2022, Fayetteville State University Undergraduate Student, UNC-CH NSF SURE-REU Summer Research Program
Meghan Rowley, 2021-2022, UNC-CH Undergraduate Research Assistant
Manu Krishnamurthy, BS, 2019-2021, UNC-CH Undergraduate Student, Psychology and Computer Science
Victoria Du, BS, 2018-2019, Postbaccalaureate Researcher (Medical Student, The University of Hong Kong)
William McCallum, BS, 2017-2021 Lab Manager and Technician (Lab Technician, Emory University)
Elizabeth Sypek, PhD, 2013-2019 Stanford Neurosciences Graduate Student (Postdoctoral Scholar, Johns Hopkins University)
Jessica Ross, PhD, 2017-2019 Postdoctoral Scholar (Grant Manager, Turn Biotechnologies)
Ethan Schonfeld, 2018-2019 Stanford Undergraduate Research Assistant, Stanford Bio-X Summer Research Program
Dong Wang, PhD, 2013-2019 Postdoctoral Scholar (Senior Research Scientist, Nevro)
Jasmine Dickinson, PhD, 2013-2019 Stanford Biology Graduate Student (Data Analyst, Earnin)
Nick Hug, BA, 2017-2019 Stanford Medical Student, Stanford Medical Scholar
Ryosuke Ishida, MD, PhD, 2018-2019 Visiting Anesthesiologist, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
Kevin Bass, BS, 2016-2018, Stanford Biology Master Student, Research Assistant
Alexandra Bourdillon, BS, 2016-2018 Stanford Undergraduate Research Assistant (Medical Student, Yale University)
Gregory Corder, PhD, 2013-2018 Postdoctoral Scholar (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania)
Amaury François, PhD, 2013-2018 Postdoctoral Scholar (CR2 Principal Investigator, French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Chaudy Sotoudeh, BS, 2014-2016 Lab Manager and Technician (Graduate Student, A.T. Still University of Health Sciences School of Osteopathic Medicine)
Sarah Low, BS, 2013-2015 HHMI Medical Research Fellow (Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital)
Andrew Shuster, BS, 2013-2014 Lab Manager and Technician (Stanford Neurosciences Graduate Student, Luo Lab)
Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD, 2012-2014 Postdoctoral Scholar (Assistant Professor, Stanford University)