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Nicole A. Najor, Ph.D.
B.S. Biology, 2005, University of Detroit Mercy
Ph.D. Pharmacology and Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences, 2010 (Mentor: GEORGE S. BRUSH PH.D.) Wayne State University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2011-2016 (Mentor: Kathleen Green Ph.d.) Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Current NajorLab Members
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Carvin Coleman (ReBUILD Scholar)
NajorLab Member 2023- current
Kieli Philips (ReBUILD Scholar)
NajorLab Member 2023- current
Najor Lab Alumni
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Shane Kowaleski
B.S. Biology ’23
NajorLab Member 2021-2023
Currently in Ph.D. Program at Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology
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Christina Hurmis
B.S. Biology ’23
NajorLab Member 2021-2023
Pre-dental
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Hussein Hazime
B.S. Biology ’23
NajorLab Member 2021-2022
Current Medical Student Oakland University School of Medicine
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Mathew Chacko (5 year Physician Asst.)
B.S. Biology ’23
NajorLab Member 2021-2022
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Chanel Bashi (Honors Program)
B.S. Biology ’21
NajorLab Member 2020-2021
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In loving memory of Victoria Krajcz
September 15, 1999 – August 24, 2021
B.S. Biology ’21 (ReBUILD Scholar)
NajorLab Member 2018-2021
Victoria, you were a ray of sunshine to us all in the Najorlab, and we will dearly miss your smile. May you Rest In Peace ![❤️](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
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Angelina Antonyan (ReBUILD Scholar)
B.S. Biology ’20
NajorLab Member 2019-2020
Current Medical student MSU Osteopathic Medical School
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Selena Cholak (Honors Program)
B.S. Biology ’20
NajorLab Member 2017-2020
Current Medical Student at University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
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Hassan Beydoun, B.S. Biology ’20
NajorLab Member 2018 – 2020
Current Dental Student at Midwestern University Dental School
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Rashid Baydoun, B.S. Biology ’22
NajorLab Member 2019 – 2020
Research means to me…”being able to learn from your mistakes, and pushing through failures.”
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Mariam Baydoun, B.S. Biology ’21
NajorLab Member Summer 2019
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Eoin Barry (5 year Physician Asst.)
B.S. Biology ’19, M.S. (P.A.) ’20
NajorLab Member Summer 2018
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Faith Volpe (7 year Dent)
B.S. Biology ’20, D.D.S. ’23
NajorLab Member 2017-2019
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Alex (Matthew) Lupsan (7 year Dent)
B.S. Biology ’20, D.D.S. ’23
NajorLab Member Summer 2017
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Travis Miller.
B.S. Biology ’19, Pharm. D. ’23
NajorLab Member 2017-2018
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"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
Barbara McClintock – Cytogeneticist and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine