Mona Batish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mona Batish is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences with adjunct faculty appointments in the Department of Biological Sciences and jDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences at University of Delaware since 2017. She started her laboratory in the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers University in 2012. She received her PhD in 2011 from UMDNJ (currently Rutgers University), working with Dr. Sanjay Tyagi on understanding the mechanism by which mRNAs are transported from the cell body to active synapses in distant dendrites of the hippocampal neurons. Dr. Batish started her own laboratory via an accelerated path as a recipient of NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (EIA) 2012 for using single molecule imaging tools to use RNA as diagnostic biomarker for various malignancies. Since 2012, Utilizing single-molecule RNA imaging, we visualize, quantify and study the associations of RNA targets in fixed and live cells in different contexts and various biological systems to address basic biology questions and apply them to translational biology.
Current Lab members
Brigette Romero
Ph.D. student
Erfan Rehmani
Ph.D. Student
Ritu Raj Singh
Masters student
Zainab Alhejairi
Masters student
Manisha Kanwar
Masters student
Undergraduate students: Elissa Kouemeni
Olivia Cassale
Rebekah Tuminaro
Recent lab graduates
Ahmed G A Abdelgawad
Ph.D. (2025)
Now Scientist at Gene Editing Institute, Christiana Care, DE
Aakash Koppula
Ph.D. (2024)
Now Scientist at QPS Holdings Inc, DE
Christina Tao
MS (2022)
Now Law Student at Seton Hall University, NJ
Fatu B Markey
Ph.D. (2018)
now at Rita Allen foundation
Paul Wolujewicz
M S (2017)
now Assistant Professor Biomedical Sciences at Quinnipiac University, CT