Our Team
Science is the ultimate team sport. In the Lindell Lab, we believe every role, from clinicians to bioinformaticians, is critical to unraveling the complexities of pediatric immune dysregulation.
Principal Investigator
Brad Lindell, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pediatrics
Brad is a physician-scientist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania whose research program is dedicated to discovering the biologic mechanisms driving heterogeneity in pediatric critical illness. As co-PI of the CHOP Precision Sepsis Care Initiative, he leads multidisciplinary efforts to establish a precision medicine paradigm for sepsis care through mechanism-based stratification, utilizing rapid diagnostic tools to deliver pathway-directed immunotherapies to the bedside of critically ill children.
Current Lab Members
Steven
Ham, MD, MPH
Post-Doctoral Fellow (T32)
Steven is a physician-scientist and PCCM fellow who leads the IMPRINT study, utilizing multi-omics and microfluidics to investigate the immunobiology of TAMOF.
Sydney
Sheetz, BA
Research Technician III
Sydney leads the design, conduct, and analysis of high-dimensional spectral flow cytometry assays for sepsis phenotyping and functional testing.
Apoorva
Babu, MS
Bioinformatics Scientist II
Apoorva is a bioinformatics scientist with expertise in scRNA-seq and multi-omics integration who leads the lab’s computational pipelines.
Teresa
Arroyo, BSN, RN
Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator III
Teresa is a PICU nurse and clinical research coordinator who oversees the real-time screening, enrollment, and biospecimen acquisition for the TIDES and PSCI programs. She also manages clinical metadata in collaboration with Veronica.
Veronica
Kirchner, BA
Data Programmer Analyst II
Veronica is a data analyst who specializes in the extraction of complex clinical EHR metadata to support the lab’s computational screening efforts and integrated analytics in collaboration with Teresa.
Wandave
Tizhe, MBBS
Clinical Research Coordinator IV
Wandave is a clincal research coordinator who leads clinical operations for the multicenter TROPICS study.
Jocelyn
Chau, BS
Medical Student, UPenn
Jocelyn is a medical student at University of Pennsylvania investigating how organ-specific proteomic signatures predict deterioration and recovery in pediatric patients with sepsis.
Casey
Hofstaedter, PhD
Medical Student, UMD
Casey is a medical student at University of Maryland investigating the use of computational perturbation databases to match drug candidates to dysregulated pathways in pediatric patients with sepsis.
Lindell Lab Alumni
Amelia
Demopoulos, BA
Amelia is a former undergraduate researcher in the lab. She is currently a clinical research coordinator at MGH in Boston.
Brandon
Stormes, MD
Brandon is a former post-doctoral fellow. He is currently an Attending Physician at Sunrise Children’s Hospital.
Stephen
Famularo, BA
Stephen is former clinical research coordinator in the lab who oversaw enrollment and sampling for the PARADIGM-SHIFT cohort.