Yashaswini Ramananda is a PhD candidate currently working at the Department of Molecular & Developmental Biology in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care Medicine in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Her PhD dissertation focuses on the role of Adenylate Cyclases in Mucociliary Clearance. She received her M.S in Medical Biotechnology from The University of Illinois, Chicago, Rockford campus in 2018. Her research interests, besides studying Mucociliary dysfunction, include understanding CFTR biology, cellular signaling, and the role of polarity proteins in epithelial organization.

Anjaparavanda P. Naren is a Thomas Boat Chair in Cystic Fibrosis Research, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, a Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Center in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, and a Professor at the UC Department of Pediatrics. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science in 1993.

Dr. Kavisha Arora is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She received her Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Biochemistry from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2013. She was awarded the prestigious Paul J. Quigley Scholarship and Gerwin Fellowship at UTHSC for excellence in graduate research work. Her research interests include identifying mechanisms of airway mucociliary clearance in CF, developing personalized medicine tools for CF therapy, identifying protein-protein interactions relevant to the correction of mutant CFTR in CF, and understanding the role of signaling pathways such as autophagy in CFTR-related disorders.