Current Researchers in the TCV Lab:

Damien Damien LaPar, MD
Surgery Resident
University of Virginia

Damien is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. He is working in Victor Laubach's lab using the clinically relevant pig lung transplantat model to study the protective role of adenosine A2A receptor activation in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Phone: 434-982-3711
Email: djl8W@virginia.edu


 Casti

Casti Bhamidipati, DO
Surgery Resident
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY

Casti is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. He is working in Gorav Ailawadi's lab studying mechanisms of aortic aneurysm formation using a mouse model.

Phone: 434-924-5836
Email:  cb2qe@virginia.edu

 Abbas

Abbas Emaminia, MD
Shiraz Medical School, Shiraz, Iran.

Abbas is working in Chris Lau's lab studying mouse models of bronchiolitis obliterans as well as lung ischemia-reperfusion injury and mouse heterotopic heart transplantation.

Phone:  434-924-5836
Email:  ae3a@virginia.edu

 Sara


Sara Hennessy, MD

Surgery Resident
University of Virginia

Sara is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. She is working in Irving Kron's lab using a rat model of cardiopulmonary bypass to study the effects of bypass surgery on lung injury.

Phone: 434-982-3711
Email: sa2v@virginia.edu

Farshad

Farshad Anvari, MD
Surgery Resident
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

Farshad is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. He is working in Victor Laubach's lab studying roles of  adenosine A2B receptor in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury and in various pulmonary cells such as alveolar epithelia, endothelia, macrophages, and T cells.

Phone: 434-982-3711
Email: fa8q@virginia.edu

Ashish
Ashish Sharma, MBBS
Instructor
MR Medical College, Gulbarg, Karnataka, India

Ashish is working in Victor Laubach's lab studying the role of CD4+ T cells, IL-17, and NADPH oxidase in pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury utilizing cell culture and mouse lung model.

Phone: 434-982-3711
Email: aks2n@virginia.edu

 Lucas
Lucas Fernandez, MD, DSc

Instructor
University of Zulia School of Medicine, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Lucas is working in Victor laubach's lab studying molecular mechanisms of compensatory lung growth as well as protective mechanisms of adenosine receptors in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Phone: 434-982-3711
Email: lgf5k@virginia.edu