Our Team
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Fei Li Kuang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor [Principal Investigator]
A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine MD-PhD program and Allergy Immunology fellowship program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Fei Li established the Kuang Allergy Research group at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2019.
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Delaney Catania
Research Technician
Delaney received her B.S from the University of Iowa in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She joined the Kuang Allergy Research group to explore her interest in human disease through studying eosinophilic allergic conditions.
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Jim Norton
Research Laboratory Manager, Division of Allergy-Immunology and Laboratory Technician
Jim received his MS Degree in Biological Sciences from University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been working in research laboratories at Northwestern University for over 20 years and joined the Kuang Allergy Research group to support the groups research goals while expanding his knowledge of eosinophils and technical skills for studying their biology and role in eosinophilic diseases.
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Noor Hamideh
Clinical Fellow
Noor is a graduate of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a current Allergy/Immunology clinical fellow. She joined the Kuang Allergy Research group to study drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS).
Former Members
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Krishan Chhiba, MD, PhD
Advanced Research Fellow
Krishan is an MD-PhD graduate of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he worked on mast cells. During his time in the Kuang Allergy Research group, he studied a different granulocyte, the eosinophil, as part of his fellowship in allergy immunology.
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Richard Kasjanski
Laboratory Technician and Manager
Richard helped run the Kuang Allergy Research lab from 2019 through 2025.
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Marcus Chang
Roy Patterson Summer Research Student (Summer 2025)
Marcus Chang is a graduate from the University of Southern California, receiving a degree in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He worked on PROs in EGIDs and culturing an eosinophil cell line model to further our understanding of eosinophil biology in health and disease.
He is currently in the process of applying to medical school.
Celebrating the completed enrollment of one of the study arms (6/2024)
Dropping off the bulk RNA sequencing experiment on one of our studies. (12/2024)