Research Team
The Pediatric GI Research Lab actively supports the research training and projects of clinical GI fellows by assisting in:
- IRB protocol preparation
- study design
- sample processing
- assay development
- experimental procedures
- data analysis
- conference presentations
There have also been numerous medical students who have served as lab assistants to help move this work forward. Each student went on to achieve remarkable things in the field of medicine, and the team is glad to have been part of their journeys.
Salomea Giorgberidze, 2024-Present
Research Assistant I
Beanna Okeugo, 2021-2024
Research Assistant, Research Coordinator
Went on to pursue double master’s degree: MS, Biomedical Informatics and MPH, Public Health through UTHealth Houston
Shabba Armbrister, 2019-2022
Research Assistant
Went on to pursue a medical degree at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Jasmin Freeborn, 2018-2020
Research Assistant
Went on to pursue medical degree and OB/Gyn residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch
Evelyn S. Park, 2018-2021
Research Assistant
Went on to pursue a medical degree at UTHealth Houston
Thomas Hoang, 2014-2018
Research Assistant
Went on to pursue a medical degree and internal medicine residency at the University of Houston School of Medicine
Ting Wang, 2015-2016
Visiting Scholar
Professor at Key Laboratory for Pediatrics of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Liaocheng People’s Hospital, Shandong, China
Baokun He, 2014-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor at Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, The Fourth Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China