Faculty in the NYU-Regeneron Veterinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Laboratory Animal Medicine are leading laboratory animal veterinarians and pathologists.

Molly M. Klores, VMD, DACLAM

Co-Director, NYU-Regeneron Veterinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Laboratory Animal Medicine
Associate Director and Head of Veterinary Services, Division of Comparative Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health

Dr. Klores received her veterinary medical degree from The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and subsequently underwent postdoctoral training with the NYU-Regeneron Veterinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Laboratory Animal Medicine. She is the Associate Director of Veterinary Services at NYU Langone Health and has been an American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) diplomate since 2022. She also serves as the Attending Veterinarian for her alma mater, Vassar College. Her interests include rodent behavioral models, teaching, animal ethics and welfare, and anesthetic and analgesic refinements.

Jennifer Pullium, MVB, DACLAM

Senior Director and Attending Veterinarian, Division of Comparative Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health

Dr. Pullium received her veterinarian degree from University College, Dublin, and completed her laboratory animal medicine training at Emory University. She has been a diplomate of ACLAM since 2002.

Ellen Levee, BA, DVM

Senior Director of Veterinary Services and Vivarium Operations, Regeneron

Dr. Levee has more than 28 years of experience in laboratory animal medicine and science. She served for more than 18 years in academia and as director of comparative medicine at New York Medical College for 10 years before joining Regeneron. She has served as a consultant to various laboratory animal facilities. She has also served as president as well as council member on the Metropolitan New York branch of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science.

Balagangadharreddy (Balu) Reddyjarugu, DVM, DACLAM

Director, Vivarium Operations and Veterinary Services, Regeneron

Dr. Reddyjarugu is a licensed laboratory animal veterinarian who joined Regeneron in June 2015. He is originally from India and went to veterinary school there. He then pursued an MS in infectious diseases at University of Georgia, Athens, and worked as a small animal veterinarian in Atlanta, Georgia. He spent three years (2012–15) in the Laboratory Animal Medicine Residency Program at Cornell University.

Kevin A. Prestia, DVM, MBA, MPH, DACLAM

Director, Division of Comparative Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health

Dr. Prestia has worked in comparative medicine for nearly a decade, and before he joined NYU Langone, he served as associate director of Columbia University’s Institute of Comparative Medicine as well as assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology. Dr. Prestia earned his veterinary medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed an internship at the Animal Medical Center and Margaret M. Caspary Research Institute in New York City. He fulfilled his residency training in the Institute of Comparative Medicine and a fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology in the laboratory of Michael R. Rosen, MD, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He received his MPH from the Mailman School at Columbia University and is currently pursuing an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Adam Michel, DVM, DVSc, DACVP

Associate Director, Pathology, Regeneron

A Swiss-Canadian native, Dr. Michel received his veterinary degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He worked as an infectious disease scientist for the Robert Koch Institute with fieldwork in Kinshasa and Ipope, Democratic Republic of the Congo, researching highly infectious zoonoses of non-human primates and bats. In 2014, he pursued a pathology residency at University of California, Davis, and passed the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) boards in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he was at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, first as a fellow and then as staff pathologist. Since 2021, Dr. Michel has been associate director of pathology at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and is responsible for safety assessment and discovery pathology. Dr. Michel has expertise in monoclonal/bispecific antibody therapy, and cellular (CAR-T) and oligonucleotide therapeutics. His areas of interest include ophthalmic, auditory, and cardiovascular pathology. He is a member of The Society of Toxicologic Pathology.

Erica Lachenauer, DVM, PhD, DACLAM

Staff Veterinarian, Veterinary Services, Regeneron

Dr. Lachenauer completed the combined DVM/PhD program at Cornell University in 2021. Her PhD thesis investigated gene, nutrient, and environmental interactions in the development of neural tube defects in mice. She went on to complete her lab animal residency with Rutgers University, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Princeton University in 2023. In 2024 she became a diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM).

Mandy Kain, DVM, MS, DACLAM

Manager, Veterinary Services and Vivarium Operations, Regeneron

Dr. Kain received a master’s degree in molecular and cellular pathology from the University of Michigan before attending veterinary school at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. She completed a laboratory animal residency at the Tri-Institutional Training Program in 2020 and became a diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) in 2023.

Diana Chang, DVM

Clinical Veterinarian, NYU Langone Health Division of Comparative Medicine

Diana received her Bachelor's of Science in Biology and Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences from Pennsylvania State University. She received her doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Western University of Health Sciences in 2021 and completed a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Laboratory Animal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in 2024. Diana is working towards becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.