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Ofori-Acquah Lab

Principal Investigator:  Solomon F. Ofori-Acquah, PhD

30 January 2018 – Front row left to right: Danielle Crosby, Bethany Flage, Solomon Ofori-Acquah, Rimi Hazra, Diane Lenhart
Back row, left to right: Aisha Walker, Samit Ghosh, Maureen Mburu.

Contact

Lab phone: 412-648-9427
Lab address: E1200 Biomedical Science Tower (Starzl BST)

Research

The Ofori-Acquah laboratory studies the role and mechanism of heme in endothelial barrier regulation and in the pathobiology of sickle cell disease.

Lab Members

Solomon Ofori-Acquah, PhD
Solomon Ofori-Acquah, PhD

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor
Medicine-Hematology/Oncology
sfo2@pitt.edu
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Samit Ghosh, PhD
Samit Ghosh, PhD

Assistant Professor
Medicine-Hematology/Oncology
sag130@pitt.edu
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Rimi Hazra, PhD
Rimi Hazra, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Medicine-Hematology/Oncology
rih17@pitt.edu
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Danielle Crosby
Danielle Crosby

Laboratory Specialist
dan41@pitt.edu

Bethany Flage, MS
Bethany Flage, MS

Research Technician
bef52@pitt.edu

Diane Lenhart
Diane Lenhart

Lab Manager
dlenhart@pitt.edu

Former Lab Members

Aisha Walker, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Amma Owusu-Ansah, MD, MBBS, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Maureen Mburu, MD, Visiting Scholar

Emmanuelle Charrin, Health Science Research Fellow via Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Frances Weidert, Research III