Raymond Birge Laboratory

Apoptosis and Cancer Biology

Laboratory Team Members

Birge Lab
RAYMOND BIRGE, PhD

RAYMOND BIRGE, PhD

PhD: The University of Connecticut
Post-doc: The Rockefeller University

Focus: Cancer Metastasis and Immune Evasion

MARIANA DE LORENZO, PhD

MARIANA DE LORENZO, PhD

Associate Professor, Co-Investigator
PhD: University of Buenos Aires
Postdoc: Weill Cornell Medicine/Cornell University

Focus: Murine models of breast cancer/immune escape

DAVID CALIANESE, BS

DAVID CALIANESE, BS

BS: Providence College

Focus: Cloning of Novel Antibodies from HIV-patients as Cancer Therapeutics; Role of TAM and TIM Receptors in Cancer Progression

Sergey Smirnov, PhD

SERGEY SMIRNOV, PhD

Institute of Biophysics
Russian Academy of Science, Moscow

Focus: Anti-viral action of Interferons: PS-targeting cytokines and IFNs as anti-viral and anti-cancer therapeutics,

KEVIN LAHEY, BS, MS

KEVIN LAHEY, BS, MS

Rutgers University

Focus: Structure and Function of the Mertk receptor; Signaling in Cancer

VARSHA GADIYAR, BS

VARSHA GADIYAR, BS

P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India

Focus: Macrophages in the Tumor Microenvironment; Targeting PS Scramblases as Cancer Therapeutics

ZIREN WANG, BS

ZIREN WANG, BS

PSouthwestern University, Chongqing, China

Focus: TAM receptors and ligands; tumor associated macrophage; novel chimeric antigen receptor immune cell target cancer; Gas6 and Protein S in Cancer

RACHAEL PULICA, BS

RACHAEL PULICA, BS

Gettysburg College

Focus: Targeting PS Antibodies and IFNs as Therapeutics

CHRISTOPHER VARSANYI, MS

CHRISTOPHER VARSANYI, MS

Kean University

Focus: Mechanisms of Immune Escape by TAM receptors

SAMUEL DESIND, BS

SAMUEL DESIND, BS

Montclair State University

Focus: Gene Expression During Immune Escape; Structure and Function of TAMs and TAM Ligands

Lab Alumni:

New York Rooftop Garden 2017

Birge Lab Members 2017

Sushil Kumar, Canan Kasikara, Charles Reichman, Stanley Kimani, Brendan Smith, Yesmin Luna, Shenyan Wang

Birge Lab Members in NYC

Back Row: Brendan Smith, David Calianese
Middle Row: Ke Geng, Ray Birge, Sushil Kumar, Stanley Kimani, Anirban Ganguly, Ganapathy Sriram, Thomas Comollo
Front Row: Shelly Hsieh, Khanh Nguyen, Canan Kasikara, Wen-I Tsou