Lab Members

Mason Amelotte (mwa2119@cumc.columbia.edu) is a research technician skilled in mouse husbandry and tissue experimentation.

Mohammad “Atif” Choudhury (mac2463@cumc.columbia.edu) is part of the research staff. He helps with recruitment of FAR-ILD participants and the analysis of chest imaging.

Qi Li (ql2387@cumc.columbia.edu) analyzes human genomic sequence data.

Deanna Rivas (ddr2135@cumc.columbia.edu) is a research technician. She helps with recruitment of subjects and processing of biological samples.

Nancy Le (nl2631@cumc.columbia.edu) is a research technician. She helps with recruitment of subjects, processing of samples, and qPCR.

Lesley Vickers (lav2127@cumc.columbia.edu) is the laboratory manager for the Garcia laboratories. 

David Zhang (dz2409@cumc.columbia.edu), MD was a former pulmonary and critical care fellow and is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine.