Bielekova Research Group

Bibi Bielekova, M.D.

Education:

M.D., 1993, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Dr. Bielekova received an M.D. in 1993 from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. After a medical internship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and a neurology residency at Boston University, she did a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the NINDS Neuroimmunology Branch (NIB). In 2018, Dr. Bielekova transferred as a senior investigator to NIAID. Her laboratory is studying mechanisms of immunoregulation and immune-mediated CNS tissue injury in MS and other neuroimmunological diseases with a long-term goal of developing effective therapies. In addition, Dr. Bielekova is a principal investigator on several innovative protocols including adaptively designed Phase I/II clinical trials.

Shinji Ashida, M.D., Ph.D. (He/Him/His)

Education:

M.D., Ph.D., Neurology

Languages Spoken: Japanese

He analyzes the human samples from patients with Multiple Sclerosis by using single cell RNA analysis and Flow cytometry technique.

Tiffany Hauser, MBA

Education:

MBA, Project Management
B.S., Nursing
B.S., Biotechnology

Tiffany is a clinical regulatory nurse who engages in recruitment and retention of patients with CNS inflammatory disorders. She also focuses on protocol management, data collection, clinical outcomes, and regulatory guidance.

Marie B. Kanu­-Jabbie, MSN, RN, NP-C, CNRN

Education:

MSN, Howard University
BSN, University of Maryland

Joanna Kocot, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)

Education:

Ph.D., Medical Science

Languages Spoken: Polish

Peter Kosa, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)

Education:

Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Languages Spoken: Slovak

Peter is Staff Scientist in the lab. His work focuses on data analysis and integration of clinical, imaging, genetic and biomarker data with the aim to identify and understand processes that play causal role in progression and severity of Multiple Sclerosis. He’s also a developer/manager of the NDS research database and helps to bridge the bench research with the clinical activities.

Ruturaj R. Masvekar, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)

Education:

Ph.D., Neuroscience

Languages Spoken: Marathi, Hindi

Deepthi Nammi, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)

Education:

Ph.D., Computational Drug Discovery

Languages Spoken: Telugu, Hindi

Deepthi Nammi is a postdoctoral visiting fellow in our lab and her major research interest is to understand the mechanisms of causal pathways and genes/proteins that participate in central nervous system (CNS) injury, especially multiple sclerosis (MS).

Darwing S. Padilla Rolon, B.Sc. (He/Him/His)

Education:

B.Sc., Biology

Languages Spoken: Spanish

Darwing graduated with a B.Sc. in biology and a minor in multidisciplinary neuroscience from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. He is a NIAID INRO postbaccalaureate trainee fellow in our lab focused on studying human neural-immune interactions by using iPSCs derived cerebral organoids as a research model.

Audrey S. Yee, M.D. (She/Her/Hers)

Education:

M.D., Neurology

Dr. Yee works on the validation of MS disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets in interventional clinical trials and longitudinal follow-up of patients on FDA-approved disease-modifying treatments.