Team

Janielle P. Maynard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Pathology and Oncology
Principal Investigator
@TheJPMaynard
Hometown – Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
Vahinipriya Manoharan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
@VahiniManoharan
Hometown – Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Tristan Ibarra, M.S.
Lab Manager
Hometown – Austin, Texas, USA
Taylor Pistone, MEng
PhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Cellular Molecular Medicine
Hometown –Toms River, New Jersey
Praise Awogbesan, B.S.
Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Schaufeld Scholars Program
Hometown – Lagos, Nigeria









Summer Students

2026

Melanie Quinones Llanos
Undergraduate Student
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico 
Basic Science Institute- Summer Internship Program (BSI-SIP)
Hometown – San Germán, Puerto Rico

2025

Karissa Becknel, M.S
Medical Student
Howard University College of Medicine
CUPID Summer Translational Oncology Program
Hometown –Snellville, Georgia

2024

Jillian Landers BS
Medical student at University of Oklahoma School of Medicine CUPID Summer Translational Oncology Program
Jessica Solomon
Undergraduate at North Carolina A&T University Basic Science Institute – Summer Internship Program
Favour Jeghede
Highschool Student | Summer Academic Research Experience Program

2023 | Oluwafemi Adegbayi BS, Medical student at Drexel University School of Medicine | CUPID Summer Translational Oncology Program

2022 | Katie Farkouh BS, Medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University | CUPID Summer Translational Oncology Program

2021 | Taylor Goodwin MS, Veterinary student at Louisiana State University (LSU) | JHU Summer Veterinary Research Scholars Program

2021 | Lillee Izadi, Undergraduate at Florida Southern College | Careers in Science and Medicine Summer Internship Program (CSM SIP).

Past trainees and members

Rebecca Sosa, B.S.
Research Technologist
@beccainstem
Hometown – Illinois, USA









Jordyn Jones
Undergraduate Student
Towson University
Hometown – Maryland, USA









Brooklyne Chaney
Undergraduate Student
Morgan State University,
NIH-ASCEND
Hometown – Ohio, USA








Vishakha Gupta, M.S
JHU Biotechnology
Hometown – New Delhi, India
Kennedy Rains, B.S.
Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Schaufeld Scholars Program
Hometown – Fort Washington, Maryland, USA
Jelani Jarrett, B.S.
Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Diversity Doctoral Program
Hometown – St. James, Jamaica
Sharvari S Saraf, M.S
JHU Biotechnology
Hometown – Pune, Maharashtra, India
Caylee Kelso B.S.
Johns Hopkins University
Hometown – Tennessee, USA
Luccia S. Yacoub B.S.
Johns Hopkins University
Hometown – California, USA









Ashwin B. Vaidhyalingham, M.S
JHU Biotechnology
Hometown –Salem, India









Collaborators

Karen S. Sfanos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Pathology and Oncology
@sfanoslab