{"id":30,"date":"2020-03-30T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:31:22","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ryan Williams<\/strong>
Assistant Professor | Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member, Graduate Faculty, PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Affiliate Faculty, CUNY ASRC Nanoscience Initiative<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Page<\/a> | CV<\/a> | Personal LinkedIn<\/a> | Personal Twitter<\/a> | Lab Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D. Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, West Virginia University, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.A. Biology, University of Virginia, 2008<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Postdoctoral Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Doctoral Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Amelia Ryan<\/strong>
CCNY BME PhD Program <\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, SUNY Binghamton, 2021
CCNY G-RISE Graduate Fellow<\/a>
Fall 2021 – Present<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Anastasiia Vasylaki
<\/strong>CCNY BME PhD Program <\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.S. Nanotechnology, University of Paris, 2021
B.S. Biotechnology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2019
Fall 2022 – Present<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Atara Israel
<\/strong>CCNY BME PhD Program <\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Hofstra University, 2022
NIH Research Supplement Trainee, CCNY G-RISE Graduate Fellow<\/a>
Fall 2022 – Present<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Pratyusha Ghosh<\/strong>
CCNY BME PhD Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS BME, CCNY, 2023
BTech Biotechnology, Amity University Kolkata, India 2020
Fall 2023 – Present
Spring 2022 – Summer 2023 (MS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adnan Arnaout<\/strong>
CCNY BME PhD Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS BME, Duke University, 2019
BE Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, 2016
Lilly Graduate Research Advanced Degree (LGRAD) Fellow
Fall 2023 – Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Catarina Ferraz<\/strong>
CCNY BME PhD Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MS Physics, Leipzig University, 2020
BS Nanotechnology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018
Fall 2024 – Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoe Schoales<\/strong>
CCNY BME PhD Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BS Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University & UNC Chapel Hill
CCNY TREAD Fellow
Fall 2024 – Present
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Celina Stefoni<\/strong>
Universidad de Buenos Aires Chemistry PhD Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BS\/MS 6 year program in Chemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2021
Visiting PhD Candidate
Fall 2024 – Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Master’s Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Poojaa Jayanthi Venugopal
<\/strong>CCNY Master’s in BME<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring 2024
B.Tech. BME, India, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Post-Bac Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Julia Morris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BSE in Biomedical Engineering, Widener University, 2024
CCNY RAMP Postbaccalaureate Fellow<\/a>
Fall 2024 – Present<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Melis Baltaci<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BA in Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 2022
Research Technician, MSKCC 2022-2024
Fall 2024 – Present<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Undergraduates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Shakuntala Sookraj<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCNY BME Student
Spring 2024 – Present
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Kelly Lin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCNY BME Student
Winter 2025 – Present
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Batsheva Bin-Itzhak<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCNY BME Student
Spring 2025 – Present
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High School Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jason Zielenski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valhalla High School Class of 2026
Summer 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Ryan WilliamsAssistant Professor | Biomedical Engineering Member, Graduate Faculty, PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center, CUNYAffiliate Faculty, CUNY ASRC Nanoscience Initiative Faculty Page | CV | Personal LinkedIn | Personal Twitter | Lab Instagram Ph.D. Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, West Virginia University, 2013 B.A. Biology, University of Virginia, 2008 Postdoctoral Fellows Doctoral Students Amelia RyanCCNY BME PhD Program B.S.… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":123,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamslab.ccny.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}