Tamara Hagen
Research Assistant

Email: Tamara.Hagen@cchmc.org

Tam loves baking cookies and cakes and creates lots of happy faces in our lab and neighboring labs. In the meantime, she also “cooks up” placentas to study extravillous trophoblasts.

Ira Hamilton
Fellow 

Email: Ira.Hamilton@cchmc.org

Ira is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. She is a champion of maternal pregnancy health and is quickly learning flow cytometry to investigate trophoblast and immune interactions in the lab.

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.