Our Team

Laboratory Leadership

Daniel Bellissimo, PhD, FACMG 
Laboratory Director 
 

Fen Guo, PhD, FACMG, FCCMG 
Associate Laboratory Director  
 

Dara Kozak, BS 
Director of Operations 
 

Lindsey Kelly, PhD 
Laboratory Manager  
 

Executive Leadership

Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD
Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences
Dean, John and Gertrude Petersen School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh 

Mark W. Geraci, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research, Health Sciences
Vice Dean for Research, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh

Health Sciences Core Research Facilities
3500 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, Suite 202
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: 412-648-9440

Lab Team Members

In addition to the leadership team, the HTGC is powered by a team of molecular genomics specialists, bioinformaticians, and a software engineer. 

Gopi Vyas, MS
Bioinformatics Supervisor
gov7@pitt.edu

Heng-Yuan (Henry) Tung, PhD
Bioinformatics Scientist
het77@pitt.edu

Sanket Unde, MBA, PMP, ITIL, Six Sigma Green Belt
Senior Software Engineer
ssu16@pitt.edu

Yogita Mayekar, BS, MT, MLT (ASCP)CM
Lead Molecular Genomics Specialist 
yam99@pitt.edu

Sarah Kebe, MS
Molecular Genomics Specialist II
sarah.kebe@pitt.edu

Madeleine Adams, BS, MB (ASCP) 
Molecular Genomics Specialist I
maa921@pitt.edu