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Jennifer Kelschenbach, PhD

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Jennifer-KelschenbachJennifer Kelschenbach, PhD
Research Associate Professor
E-mail: jk3983@drexel.edu

Jennifer is a research associate professor in the department. She earned a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Minnesota and completed postdoctoral training in the Molecular Virology Division at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. She was then promoted to an associate research scientist and then research assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai before joining Drexel in 2025 as part of the Meucci Lab.

Jennifer has extensively studied HIV-1 and substance use comorbidity in the EcoHIV mouse model. Her work has described how opioids and other substances modulate neuroimmune function, and how this may contribute to HIV associated neurocognitive impairment. She has generated data for opioid- and cocaine-related projects within the SCORCH consortium (Single Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV), and she is an MPI on R01 awards focused on how cannabinoids affect HIV-associated neuroinflammation, and how buprenorphine controls monocyte migration to the brain during HIV infection.

In the Meucci Lab, Jennifer is continuing her studies on buprenorphine and contributing to ongoing translational research on the effects of HIV-infection/substance abuse on neuronal networks and function, using a variety of animal and human-based neuroHIV models.

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Waleed Iqbal, PhD

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Waleed-IqbalWaleed Iqbal, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
E-mail: wi24@drexel.edu

Waleed is a postdoctoral fellow in the Meucci Lab. He earned a BS in cell & molecular biology from The State University of New York at New Platz before joining Drexel to complete an MS degree in cancer biology and a PhD in bioinformatics.

During his PhD training, Waleed built software pipelines to process and explore multi-omics datasets from primary tumors and metastases. His research in the Meucci Lab spans the fields of cancer and neuroscience. He currently develops software to analyze large datasets of multi-electrode array recordings and publicly available CNS omics datasets to examine how neuroHIV and substance use disorders alter neuronal networks. He is also engaged in long-term collaborative studies on brain malignancies between the Meucci Lab and other groups.