Zachary Koenig

Immunology graduate student, University of Cincinnati

Email: zachary.koenig@cchmc.org

Zach loves to spoil his feline son, Mowgli, and also investigates the role of placental CD4+ T cells in immune tolerance and infection.

Shweta Mahajan

Research Assistant

Email: shweta.mahajan@cchmc.org

Shweta moved heaven and earth to get over to Cincinnati to work on the regulation of fetus and virus specific CD8+ T cells during human pregnancy.

Nina Prasanphanich

Clinical Fellow

Email: nina.prasanphanich@cchmc.org

Nina is a pediatric infectious disease fellow at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Her long term career goal is to prevent infections in pregnant women and babies. Nina focuses on how natural killer cells in the placenta and fetal membranes fight bacterial infections using an antimicrobial protein called granulysin.

Angel Rapp

Research Assistant II

Email: angel.rapp@cchmc.org

My focus is on isolating HLA-G+ extravillous trophoblasts from the human placenta and establishing cell lines. I use FACS analysis to monitor the HLA-G expression of these cells across passages.

Sayaka Tsuda
Visiting Researcher

I am a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Scientist for Joint International Research, a doctor of the Depertment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toyama, JAPAN. My research theme is the immunological relationship between extravillous trophoblasts and maternal T cells.

Email: sayaka.tsuda@cchmc.org