

Group Photo: July, 2022
Graduate Students
Current (2026)

Muhammad Qasid

Rabia Batool
Principal Investigator


Dr. Angus Lamar
Originally from Verden, Oklahoma, Dr. Lamar received his B.S. at the Univ. of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, then went on to the Univ. of Oklahoma to earn his Ph.D. in the research lab of Prof. Ken Nicholas. He then moved to Emory University to conduct postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Lanny Liebeskind. Dr. Lamar then accepted an Assistant Professor position at Hanover College, and in 2015, returned to the state of Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor at The Univ. of Tulsa.

Maheen Riaz

Milton Bangura
Undergraduate Students
Current (2026)

Jesse Co

Alisha Kahloon

Sarah Mason

Lauren Hinrichs

Lucas Anderson

Nolan Travers

Jack Bax

Madison Fillmore

Anna Teoh

Tyler Kelkar

Ian Eastin

Brian Yang

Alvina Shaik

Bhavya Krishnan

Peyton Coates

Asher Westphal

Kyle Nguyen

Kiersten Schaub

Elias Curtis

Nicole Moussa
Group Alumni
Graduate Students
Megan Hopkins (PhD) 2020 - Postdoc at UNC
David Rogers (PhD) 2020 - Postdoc at UNC
Zachary Brandeburg (PhD) 2026


Honorary Group Alumni Member:
Cyrus Grayson Rogers




Undergraduate Students
Kourtney Koster 2026 (Ph.D. program Washington Univ. - St. Louis)
Audrey Iskandar 2026
Hannah Zhou 2026
Karsyn Luker 2026
Rohan Joshi 2026
Eduardo Perez 2026
Skyla Sayarath 2026
Pierce Petcoff 2025
Jenna Caudle 2025 (Ph.D. program Emory University)
Marlow Evans 2025
Carina Derewonko 2025 (M.D./Ph.D. program Univ. of Miami)
Andy Gamez-Rico 2025 (Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation)
Tasfia Hasin 2025 (Med. school Oklahoma State Univ.)
Steven Stagg 2025 (Med. school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Ian Costello 2024 (Ph.D. program Univ. Texas Southwestern)
Caroline Dunn 2024 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Tennessee)
Maleah Crawford 2024 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Lauren Hornbrook 2024 (Ph.D. program USC)
Jacob Sinkwich 2024
Levi Zanders 2023 (Ph.D. program Penn State Univ.)
Reema Moussa 2023 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Colin Davitt 2023 (Med school Oklahoma State Univ.)
Jack Philo 2023 (Med school Lincoln Memorial in Knoxville)
Frankie Wright 2023
David Seo 2023 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Matt Mangan 2023 (Med school Univ. of Arkansas)
Alistair Swierkosz 2023 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Bianca Romero 2023
Cameron Jefferies 2023 (Med. school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Dillon Dodge 2023 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Wisconsin)
Yesi Portillo 2023
Connor Reed 2023 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Tulsa)
Presley Petcoff 2022 (Med school Oklahoma State Univ.)
Lauren Franzen 2022
Suraj Vodnala 2022 (Med school McGovern)
Ann Marie Flusche 2022 (Med school Duke Univ.)
Garett Ozmer 2022 (Med school Univ. Texas at Galveston)
Malyke Bray 2021 (P. A. program at OU-Tulsa)
Saad Al-Bulushi 2021
Nitya Rajagopal 2021 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Haris Sharieff 2021 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Madison Reeder 2021 (applying to P. A. programs)
Emily Slay 2021 (OSU College of Veterinary Medicine)
Ryan Witt 2021 (Chemist, Cleveland Clinic Center for Therapeutic Discovery)
Amanda Heard 2019 (Med school Univ. of Kansas)
Benjamin Preisner 2020
Dhruv Varshney 2020 (M.S. program Rice Univ.)
Juan Alvarado 2019 (Biochemist, Cytovance Biologics)
Nick McKee 2021 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Arizona)
Haley Howard 2020 (Med school Oklahoma State Univ.)
Alec Sheir 2020 (Chem. Eng. at Honeywell UOP - Callidus Technologies)
Feroz Keyani 2020
Huy Nguyen 2020
Drew Hanson 2020 (Field Engineer at Cimarex Energy)
Jillian Gallegos 2021 (Med school Creighton Univ.)
Amy Pitzel 2020 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Georgia)
Fares Refai 2020 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Mary Kennedy 2020
Austin Lignieres 2020 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Tomas Espinosa 2019 (Project Engineer at Zeeco)
Lucas Schroeder 2019
Teja Makkapati 2018 (Med school Hackensack)
John (Larry) Hoerr 2018 (Med school Creighton Univ.)
Roxy (Brown) Lapo 2018
Teljan Ali-Kizi 2018
Heather Morgan 2018
Eric Ko 2019 (M.S. program at Univ. North Texas Health Science Center)
Jacob Su 2018 (Med school McGovern)
Caleb Cantwell 2018
Rob Rodriguez 2018 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Chicago)
Claire Keating 2018 (Optometry school Northeastern State Univ.)
Brettany DeMier 2018 (Med school St. Louis Univ.)
David Scheffer 2018 (Med school Univ. of Kansas)
Kristina Scott 2018 (Med school Univ. of Oklahoma)
Lei Wang 2018 (M.S. program USC)
Adam Bensalah 2018 (Ph.D. program Boston College)
Austin Carr 2018 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Wisconsin)
Sarah Thomas 2017 (Postgraduate program - Music therapy - ORU)
Brea Anderson 2017 (Med school OSU/Tulsa)
Matthew Tierney 2016 (Ph.D. program Univ. North Carolina)
Jana Dajani 2016 (Ph.D. program Boston University)
Evan Anders 2015 (Ph.D. program Univ. North Carolina State)
Alex Brueckner 2015 (Ph.D. program Oregon State Univ.)
Erin Hancock 2015 (Ph.D. program Indiana Univ.)
Kevin Schlenker 2015 (Ph.D. program Univ. of Utah)
Isaac Taylor 2015 (Ph.D. program IUPUI)
Kent Miller 2015 (M.S. program IUPUI)
Jacob Tebbe 2015 (Chemist, Gowan)
Jesse MacGruder 2015 (Chemist, Oil Analysis)
Seth Revolt 2014 (Chemist, Bristol-Meyers Squibb)

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