Current Lab Members
Principal Investigator
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![]() Nagaraj Kerur, BVSc, PhD
Associate Professor Email: nagaraj.kerur@osumc.edu Nagaraj Kerur is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at The Ohio State University. Upon completing training in professional Veterinary Medicine at the University of Agricultural Sciences in India, Nagaraj earned a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at Chicago's Rosalind Franklin University. He completed his postdoc training with Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati at the University of Kentucky in 2015, with support from Beckman Initiative for Macular Research (BIMR) and NIH's pathway to Independence award (K99/R00) and then joined the faculty in 2015. In 2016, he went to the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor to further the research program in the inflammatory mechanism of aging and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). He made his transition to The Ohio State University in 2021, taking on the role of Associate Professor and continuing his research into the inflammatory mechanism of AMD and DNA damage signaling. |
Staff
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![]() Hunter Biddle
Research Assistant Email: bidd13@osumc.edu Hunter is from Lexington, Ohio. He graduated from Denison University in 2021 with a Bachelor's in Biology, where he worked as a laboratory assistant in multi-cellular life and genetics labs. He joined Dr. Kerur's laboratory in April of 2021, assisting in research and lab management. Outside of the lab, Hunter enjoys nature, movies, and spending time with his friends and family. |
Former Lab Members
Bryce Rush
Yoon Cho Daipayan Banerjee, PhD Salar Abbas, PhD Daniel Keuchel, BS |
Thirushan Wigna-kumar
Elizabeth Ghias, MS Eric Odermatt, BS Kurt Langberg, MS Asmaa Zidan, MD |