People
We believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our lab members who they are.
Our Team
David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Thandi Lyew
Doctoral Student
Nidah Mohammed
Doctoral Student
Ben Muzekari
Doctoral Student
Xinyi Wang
Doctoral Candidate
Collin Kather
Doctoral Student
Priya Bhavikatti
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Gabriella Jean
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Erika Kurre
Undergraduate Student ResearcherLab Alumni
The AHA! Lab's former research assistants and postdoctoral fellows
Asia Vincent
Asia Vincent (research coordinator 2020-2024) is now a clinical research coordinator in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Penn.
2023-2024 Research Assistants
Brian Corry, Zsazsa Lafitaga, Cat Seiberlich
Amanda McGowan
Amanda McGowan (Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2022) is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University.
2022-2023 Research Assistants
Nadia Aimufua, Valerie Rubens, Farah Sayed
2021-2022 Research Assistants
Liliane Azabe, Sudeep Bhargava, Shea Fergus, Sofia Gular, Anooshey Ikhlas, Arina Paniukhina, Anika Prakash, Lila Smith
2020-2021 Research Assistants
Madison Burnard, Jaydin Clark, Zoe Lebowitz, Kayla McLymont
Interested in joining the lab?
Please get in touch if you are an undergraduate student looking for research experience or if you would like to join our lab as a graduate student.