If you are a Drexel undergraduate student interested in biomedical research, we encourage you to connect with us about possible research openings. Our faculty members support undergraduate laboratory training across a variety of fields in the biomedical sciences, allowing students to tailor laboratory experiences to their interests. You can explore our department’s research areas and faculty research interests, and view current undergraduate students in each lab below.

Please contact Gabriele Romano, PhD, at gr476@drexel.edu to learn more about current openings or help you find the best fit.

Ajit Lab – Molecular mechanisms of neuropathic and inflammatory pain, epigenetic regulation, microRNA expression and regulation, biomarkers.

• Faith Clark

Barker Lab / Giacometti Lab – Addiction, learning and memory, behavioral neuroscience, habits, compulsivity, sex differences, drug and alcohol exposure, substance and alcohol use disorders.

• Addison McKittrick
• Saanvi Vereddigari
• Vidhi Yadav

Fatatis Lab – Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating metastatic potential of solid tumors, studies in vitro and in animal models of neoplastic disease.

• Salena Le
• Riddhi Mallela
• Gurvanshjot Kaur
• Asmaa Abdullah
• Jaiden Esterzon

Gaskill Lab / Matt Lab – HIV, drug abuse, neuroimmunity, neurotransmission, macrophage immunology, dopamine, serotonin, catecholamines

Hartsough Lab – Mechanisms contributing to metastatic progression and susceptibility of cancers to targeted inhibitors

Jackson Lab – Astrocyte biology, neuro-glial interactions, neurovascular coupling, synaptic development, calcium signaling, mitochondrial dynamics, brain metabolism

• Nicholas Brattini

Meucci Lab / Kelschenbach Lab – HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and drug abuse, chemokine-based therapeutics, neuroprotective pathways in neuroinflammation

• Ty Jozefick

A. Mortensen Lab – Excitatory amino acid transporters, astrocytes, neurological disorders, excitotoxicity, allosteric modulation, stroke, epilepsy, neuropathic pain

O. Mortensen Lab – Neurotransmitter transporters, drug addiction and affective disorders

Romano Lab – Cancer drug resistance; tumor suppressor genes; immune evasion; chemokine signaling; computational biology; functional genomics; HIV and cancer; nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery

• Anthony Chong
• Indira Kairatkyzy
• Khushi Ramteke

Sanz-Clemente Lab – Synaptic protein content, glutamate receptors, synaptic/extrasynaptic NMDA receptor balance, excitotoxicity, excitatory neurotransmission, synaptic maturation, autism spectrum disorder, post-translational modifications