Current Lab Members
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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. |
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Postdocs
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Aman Kumar, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar Email: amankumar.kumar@osumc.edu Aman, currently a postdoctoral fellow, received his Doctorate’s degree in 2017 from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (PGIMER), India. During his PhD, he worked on the epigenetic mechanism of renal cell cancers. After finishing his PhD, he joined as a Senior Demonstrator in the Department of Ophthalmology, PGIMER, India. He focused on diagnostics as well as research aspects of various ocular diseases like Uveitis, Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD), Glaucoma, Intra-ocular Lymphoma, Ocular Tuberculosis, etc. during that period. Aman joined the Kerur lab in 2021 with the interest in exploring the various immune-modulatory mechanisms of ocular diseases and how the epigenetic machinery plays a role in regulating those mechanisms. On a personal front, he loves traveling, biking, checkmate (Chess) and cricket. |
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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
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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 |
