People

Medical Students

Curran Varma B.S.

Curran joined the lab in 2025. He is a first-year medical student at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine and is interested in pursuing a residency in ophthalmology. He received his B.S. from Molloy University, after which he spent several years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in an Alzheimer’s disease lab using proteomics to identify biomarkers of aging and cognitive decline. His research interests include using translational omics to discover novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets for retinal diseases.

Charlotte Weixel B.S.

Charlotte joined the lab in 2026. She is a medical student at Stanford interested in pursuing ophthalmology. Prior to Stanford, she earned her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis where she studied applications of focused ultrasound in the brain. During medical school, Charlotte has explored spatial transcriptomic and cell free mRNA research and is interested in applying her -omics research experience in ophthalmology. In 2026, she was awarded the RPB Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship to study the tear proteome in the Mahajan lab.