Lab Contact Info

LAB:  909 S Wolcott

        4040 COMRB

PH #:  (312) 355-0251

FAX:  (312) 996-1225

Malik Lab

Current Lab Members

Kurt Bachmaier, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

kbachmai@uic.edu

Inflammation protects the body from infection and simultaneously causes damage to multiple organs thereby endangering the host. We try to learn more about the mechanisms that control the organ damaging inflammatory responses.

Sreeparna Chakraborty, PhD

​​​​​​​Postdoctoral Research Associate

schak@uic.edu

My project will be to study innate immune memory in lung inflammation.

Anke Di, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

ankedi@uic.edu

Determine the role of regulated exocytosis in immune cells and determine the role of ion channel expression and its function.

Olamide S Olayinka, DVM

Graduate Research Assistant

oolayi3@uic.edu

Publications​​​​​​​

Investigating molecular pathways that regulate lymphatic development and function during edema.

Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, PhD

Instructor

amitabha@uic.edu

Shayla Samano

Research Associate

ssamano@uic.edu

Syed Abdul Qadir, PhD

Research

Assistant Professor

aqsyed@uic.edu

Generation of vascularized complex human lung organoids from stem cells to uncover the mechanism of lung development and use this platform for different lung disease modelling. Role of endothelium in the SARS-CoV2 infection and pathogenesis of COVID-19.

Haipeng Zhang, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

haipengz@uic.edu

Studying the effects of mechanical stimuli on cells using microfluidic systems. Investigating how the PECAM-1 homophilic interaction contributes to the transendothelial migration of neutrophils.

Joshua Thompson, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

josthomp@uic.edu

Saroj Nepal, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

sarojn@uic.edu

Investigating how activation of the endothelial TRPM2 channel by oxidants mediates lung vascular injury. 

Deyana Nasri, PhD

Graduate Research Assistant

asantacr@uic.edu

Abhalaxmi Singh, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

abhalaxm@uic.edu

Yoshikazu Tsukasaki, PhD

Visiting Scholar

ytsuka@uic.edu

Adam Lorch

Visiting Research Assistant  Specialist 

alorch@uic.edu

Culturing and characterizing human iPSC-derived 3D lung

organoids and iPSC-derived pulmonary macrophages.

Nithish Raj Prasad

Graduate Research Assistant

yubinwu@uic.edu

Bisheng Zhou, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

bisheng@uic.edu

Lung Vascular Biology and Immunology.

Anas Mohammad, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Research Interests

Vascular Biology

Lung Biology & Pathophysiology

Inflammation Signaling Mechanisms

Cell Receptors & Signaling

Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine

Past Trainees

PREDOCTORAL STUDENTS​​​​​​​