Ramkumar Research Lab Team

Meet the Team

Interested in joining the Ramkumar Research Lab? Please contact Niru Ramkumar with your CV at Nirupama.ramkumar@hsc.utah.edu

Nirupama Ramkumar, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator

Deborah Stuart, BS

Senior laboratory specialist

Divya Sundar

Lab Member

Lukas Kennett

Lab Member

Mohammad Sako, MD PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Emma McManus

AHA Summer research intern

Sherie Agcaoili

Haumana O’ Pasifika Summer research intern

Will Wheatley, MS

Laboratory Specialist

Dhruvan Gopinath

Undergraduate student

Chunyan Hu, PhD

Research Scientist

Caitlin S. Peterson, BS

Laboratory Technician

Connor Weatherly

Undergraduate Student

Nikita Abraham

Undergraduate Student

Matias Calquin

Undergraduate student

Ramkumar lab personnel

woman standing next to poster — Deborah Stuart presenting at American Physiology Summit 2025.

woman standing next to poster — Divya Sundar presenting at American Physiology Summit 2025, recipient of Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award and ‘Abstract of Distinction – Renal Section’.

woman standing next to poster — Emma McManus, undergraduate student from University Nebraska, Lincoln and summer research intern, recipient of the American Heart Association Institutional Research Enhancement Award/University of Utah SPUR program presenting at University of Utah Undergraduate Research Symposium Summer 2025.

woman standing next to poster — Divya Sundar presenting at the at University of Utah Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025.

woman standing next to poster — Sherie Agacoili, undergraduate student from University of Southern California and summer research intern, Haumana O’Pasifika program, poster prize winner for Best in Wellness, Health and Medicine, University of Utah Undergraduate Research Symposium Summer 2025.

A diverse group of six individuals standing together near large windows with a view of the outdoors in a healthcare environment. — Lab group picture Summer 2025, left to right (Niru Ramkumar, Divya Sundar, Sherie Agcaoili, Deborah Stuart, Emma McManus, Mohamad Sako.