Allyson K. Friedman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Allyson received her undergraduate degree in biology from Barnard College at Columbia University and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the department of Pharmacology and System Therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her work explores the ionic and neural circuit mechanisms of susceptibility and resilience to major depressive disorder in order to identify novel targets for treatment.
Allyson started the lab in 2015 in the Department of Biology at Hunter College at the City University of New York.
Afriedman@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu
Yuka Miura
Yuka is a graduate of Hokkaido University and is currently a Ph.D candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Safa Sheik
Safa is Biology major in the BP-EDURE program.
Lauren Renzoni
Lauren is a Biology major with a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience in the Macaulay Honors program at Hunter College.
Rania Darwish
Rania is a Human Biology major in the Macaulay Honors program at Hunter College.
Emine Ustundag
Emine is majoring in Human Biology in hopes of becoming a pediatric cardiologist.
Jessica Wang
Jessica is a NYU GSTEM student from New York. She is interested in Psychiatry and will be applying to college Fall 2023.
Subhiksha Thevar
Subhiksha is a NYU GSTEM student from Portland, Oregon. She is interested in biology and is applying to college this Fall 2023. She plans on pursuing a degree in the healthcare field.