Lab Members

Isaac Harris, Ph.D.
KMRB
Phone: (585) 273-4353
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Understanding the roles of antioxidants in disease

Isaac is from Ottawa, Canada. He received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Toronto where he conducted research in the lab of Dr. Tak Mak at Princess Margaret Cancer Center. Afterwards, he joined the lab of Dr. Joan Brugge at Harvard Medical School in Boston. In September 2019, Isaac moved to Rochester, NY to open his independent lab at the University of Rochester and Wilmot Cancer Institute.

Fabio Hecht, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Cancer Metabolism and Cancer Microenvironment

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Fabio received his undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He then obtained his Ph.D. under the joint supervision of Dr. Corinne Dupuy (Université Paris Saclay) and Dr. Denise Pires de Carvalho (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ) working on thyroid cancer and reactive oxygen species. Afterward, he became a lecturer of Molecular Biology at UFRJ and is currently a postdoctoral fellow working on the impact of extracellular GSH on cancer.

Emily Tuttle
Technical Associate/Lab Manager

Understanding the roles of antioxidants in disease

Emily a lifelong Western New Yorker and currently lives in Geneseo. Emily graduated from MCC with an AAS in Biotechnology in 2008 and have worked here at UR since then. She lives with her husband and 2 kids. They have 2 cats named Butters and Stewie. 

Fatemeh Alimohammadi

Fatemeh is from Babol, located in the north of Iran. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Mazandaran in 2015, and her Masters in Genetics from the University of Isfahan in 2018. Previously, she was studying the roles of interferon beta in autoimmune diseases.

Gloria Asantewaa, MS
BMB - Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Ph.D. Program

Interplay Between Glutathione and Hepatic Lipid Metabolism

Gloria is from Kumasi, Ghana, and obtained her undergraduate degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She was a teaching and research assistant in the antimicrobial antioxidant and anticancer researches of Drs. F.C. Mills-Robertson and C.K. Firempong. She then joined the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens as a graduate fellow.

TashJaé Scales

TashJaé is from Dallas, Texas, and obtained her undergraduate degree in Biology and Master’s in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her background has focused on both clinical and research-orientated questions, including high-throughput technologies.

Marco Zocchi
Genetics - Biomedical Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. Program

Research Interest:

Cancer Metabolism and Cancer Microenvironment

Marco was born in Rochester, NY, but grew up in Colorado. He studied biology at the University of Colorado Denver. Previously, he examined maternal effect genes in Xenopus embryos in the lab of Dr. Amanda Charlesworth.