Meet the Team

  • Manisha Ray

    Assistant Professor, Aug 2022-present

    CV

  • Aryana Sayeed

    Graduate Student

    CV

  • Shalom Nadoff

    Graduate Student

    CV

  • Karim Rupshi

    Undergraduate student

  • Rushi Sharma

    Undergraduate Student

  • Abraham Fielder

    Undergraduate student

  • Nick Pufall

    Undergraduate student

Meet the Summer Interns

  • Anya Parikh

    summer undergraduate researcher (May-August 2026)

    Anya is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor studying Biochemistry. She will be spending the summer in our lab to work on protein-lipid interactions using fluorescence spectroscopy.

  • Sahasra Pavuluri

    summer undergraduate researcher (June-August 2026)

    Sahasra is a junior at William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois. She will be spending the summer in Ray lab on synthesis of liposome and their modelling using computational simulation.

  • Alexandra Martin

    Summer intern (June 2024)

    Alex was a Seen high school student in Chicago when she joined Ray lab as an inetrn. She has worked on BSA interactions with lipids. Alex is now pursuing undergraduate degree in Loyola University Chicago.

Lab Alumni

  • Katherine Summers, Undergrad researcher, 2024-2026; currently PhD student at Northwestern University

  • Benjamin Haag, Undergrad researcher, 2025-2026 ;

  • Jennifer Kamwo Feussi, Undergrad researcher, 2023-2025; currently

  • Madeline Ganshert, Joint Undergrad researcher, 2023-2025; Currently PhD student in Harvard University

  • Yasmeen Sheikh, MS researcher 2024-25; Currently Chemist 1 at Abbvie

  • Daria Kozuch, undergraduate researcher; 2024

  • Emma Rodriguez, undergraduate researcher, now in Boston college

  • Dhruv Patel, Systems design engineer at GE healthcare