"It takes a village..." Research in the Heckmann Lab is only as good as the scientists and the ideas they have. Meet them here.

Meet the Heckmann Lab

Laboratory Staff, Fellows, & Graduate Students

Addison Hilyard
Laboratory Director &
Manager SbNI

Diandra Ruiz
Lab Manager &
Adv. Research Scientist

Carolina Pena Martinez, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Paige Harris
Research Animal Manager & Bioinformatics Scientist

Science

Shamima Akter, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Elphine Telles, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Alexis Rickman
Genshaft Family Endowed Doctoral Fellow

Mubashshir Ali, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Andrea Tovar, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow

Nhi Truong, M.S.
Ph.D. Graduate Student

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Komal Matai, M.S.
Ph.D. Graduate Student

Sarah Lulu
MD/PhD Student

Connor Cleveland
Research Technologist

Olivia Woods
Research Technologist

Kelly Horn
Unit Research Administrator

Rainer Metcalf, Ph.D.
SRA Computational Chemist

Brian Knight, Ph.D.
SRA Organic Chemist

Hala Kaaki
SRA Pre-clinical Biologist

Undergraduate Researchers & Volunteers

Aisha Ademola
Undergraduate
Reseracher

Are you passionate about transformative science? If so, we may be the right place for you.

We are always looking for the next generation of enthusiastic, driven, and inquring scientists. If this describes you and you are interested in our research, we encourage you to reachout.

For postdoctoral fellowship opportunities, please contact Dr. Heckmann directly by clicking here.