M1s
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Bianca Bigit
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Djalian
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: James Boyett
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Federle
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Mason Clark
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Palmer
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Karis Gorak
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Lutz
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Shrinidhi Kadkol
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Merrill
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Jacqueline Kieltyka
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Parbhkar
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Jeff Kim
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Papautsky
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Oreoluwa Omoba
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Perez
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Anna Patterson
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Glover
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Tanya Pulido Gonzalez
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Kitajewski
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Ashley Ross
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Loeb
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Timur Rusanov
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Dai
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Itay Solomon
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Shin
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Ainsley Tran
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Lazarov
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
M2s
Name: Katherine Alexander
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Er
2022: Naba
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Marilyn Barragan
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Argos
2022: Person
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Duncan Claypool
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Oberstein
2022: Chronis
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Alyssa Debra
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Hsu
2022: Donnenberg and Crooks
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Emily Hayes
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Buhmsci
2022: Stocco
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Elise Hu
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Perterson
2022: Beirne
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Deanna Keen
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Lutz
2022: Freitag
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Brenna Kirkpatrick
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Burdette
2022: Moul
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Katherine Knowles
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Shi
2022: Alsberg
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Victoria Marino
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Esmailbeigi
2022:
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Anisha Nagpal
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Moul
2022: Penalver
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Joseph Najjar
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Finn and Perkins
2022: He
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Judy Wang
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Gowrishankar
2022: Lee
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Alia Welsh
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Rong
2022: Yoon
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Reggie Woods
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Federle
2022: Di Pietro
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Heidi Yuan
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater:
Rotations:
2021: Lazarav
2022: Di Pietro
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
G1s
Name: Suzanne Alvernaz
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: California Polytechnic State
Rotations:
2019: Richner
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Luis Aponte Cofresi
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Puerto Rico
Rotations:
2019:Brodie
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Alejandra Cavazos Saldana
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Texas-San Antonio
Rotations:
2019: Hay
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Haley Cropper
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Michigan
Rotations:
2019: Lutz
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Ali Farhat
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of California- Los Angeles
Rotations:
2019: Yang Dai
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Samuel Feldstein
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Northwestern University
Rotations:
2019: T. Sano
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Julianne Jorgensen
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Franklin Olin College of Engineering
Rotations:
2019: Minshall
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Jacob Neethling
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana
Rotations:
2019: Kitajewski
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Theresa Nguyen
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of California- Berkely
Rotations:
2019: Ajilore
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Adam Ruprecht
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Pennsylvania
Rotations:
2019: Krishnan
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Juliana Theorell
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Illinois at Chicago
Rotations:
2019: Richner
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
G2s
Name: Miles Barney
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Chicago
Rotations:
2018: Pradhan
2019: Komarova
Research Interests: Neurobiology of Pain and Addiction
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Jordan Barone
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Vanderbilt University
Rotations:
2018: Maki
2019: Ajilore
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Mitchell Butler
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Southern California
Rotations:
2018: Leow
2019: Zhou
Research Interests: Neurobiology of Pain and Addiction
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Deion Cheng
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Northeastern University
Rotations:
2018: MacDuff
2019: G. Cho
Research Interests: Cellular pathways governing innate immunity
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: David Gong
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Rotations:
2018: Leow
2019: J. Liang
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Cody Justice
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Ohio State University
Rotations:
2018: O'Donnell
2019: Darbar
Research Interests: Improving cardiac arrest outcomes with novel therapeutics
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Jessica Lee
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: UCLA
Rotations:
2018: Federle
2019: Finn/Perkins
Research Interests: Identifying molecular markers that characterize physiological and disease states
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Bani Medegan Fagla
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Nebraska
Rotations:
2018: Rong
2019: Goba
Research Interests: Infectious diseases, microbiology and global health related research
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Samuel "Tanner" Roach
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Washington University - St. Louis
Rotations:
2018: Diamond
2019: Federle
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Margaret Schulz
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Loyola University - Chicago
Rotations:
2018: Sargis
2019: Argos
Research Interests: Biochemistry, biophysics, pathogenesis of endocrine disorders, signaling and computational biology
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Michelle Sheena
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Tulane University
Rotations:
2018: Steiff
2019: Ajilore
Research Interests: VR/AR for neurofeedback for psychiatric conditions and brain connectome visualization
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
Name: Amanda Snead
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Tulane University
Rotations:
2018: Loeb
2019: Lazarov
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program:
Mentor:
G3s
Name: Tova Bergsten
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Princeton University
Rotations:
2017: Rong
2018: Burdette
Research Interests: Ovarian Cancer
PhD Dept/Program: Medicinal Chemistry
Mentor: Joanna Burdette
Name: Nathan Calzadilla
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Rotations:
2017: Khetani
2018: Linninger
Research Interests: Microfabricated liver models for studying disease and drug screening
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: Salmon Khetari
Name: Ellen Drake
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Oberlin College
Rotations:
2017: McLachlan
2018: Kenter
Research Interests: Characterizing a specific IncRNA and its role in IgH compaction
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology/Immunology
Mentor: Amy Kenter
Name: Samuel Eallonardo
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Notre Dame
Rotations:
2017: Freitag
2018: Prabhakar
Research Interests: Understanding the biological mechanisms and outcome determinants of host-pathogen interactions
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology/Immunology
Mentor: Nancy Freitag
Name: Benjamin Gordon
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Cornell University
Rotations:
2017: Kitajewski
2018: Frasor
Research Interests: Cancer, Genetics, Development, Stem Cells, Angiogenesis
PhD Dept/Program: Physiology
Mentor: Jan Kitajewski
Name: Fred Lee
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Arizona State University
Rotations:
2017: Janson
2018: Merrill
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program
Mentor
Name: Hannah Steinberg
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Rotations:
2017: Eddington
2018: Ross
Research Interests: Diagnostic devices for preventable/treatable illness in low resource settings
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology/Immunology
Mentor: Nancy Freitag
G4s
Name: May Barakat
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Harvard University
Rotations:
2016: Saxena
2017 (1): DiPietro
2017 (2): Tamplin
Research Interests: Regeneration, stem cells, regenerative and personalized medicine, aging and development
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology/Immunology
Mentor: Luisa DiPietro, DDS, PhD
Name: YiShin Chang
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Duke University
Rotations:
2016: Lagenecker
2017 (1): Phan
2017 (2): Loeb
Research Interests: Diffusion and functional MRI of the human brain. Potential areas of graduate study include neurology and biomedical engineering
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: David Perkins, MD, PhD and Patricia Finn, MD
Research Interests: Bioengineering and Neuroscience
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: Thomas Royston, PhD
Name: Gregory Heller
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of California-Riverside
Rotations:
2016: Bongarzone
2017 (1): Madhaven
2017 (2): L. Tai
Research Interests: Neurodegenerative disorders and epidemiology
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Ernesto Bongarzone, PhD
Name: Kai Huang
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Northwestern University
Rotations:
2016: Khetani
2017 : Finn/Perkins
Research Interests: Biomaterials, drug delivery, microfluidics, high throughput/organ on a chip assays, novel biochemical sensors
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: David Perkins, MD, PhD and Patricia Finn, MD
Name: Olivia Ly
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Cornell University
Rotations:
2016: Darbar
2017 (1): Amirouche
2017(2): Royston
Research Interests: Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, microfluidic devices for disease modeling and drug delivery, neurodegenerative diseases, 3-D virtual reality
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: Dawood Darbar, MBChB, MD
Research Interests: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Physiology and Biophysics
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: David Perkins, MD, PhD and Patricia Finn, MD
Name: Terilyn Stephen
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Alaska
Rotations:
2016: Dr. Jan Kitajewski
2017: Lazarov
Research Interests: Brain and heart ischemia and injury; cerebrovascular and cardiovascular physiology; neuroprotection and cell repair; and drug development
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Orly Lazarov, PhD
Name: Paul Thomas
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Ohio State University
Rotations:
2016: Brady
2017 (1): Ajilore/Phan
2017 (2): Cuervo
Research Interests: Neuromuscular disorders, movement disorders, neuroscience, mycology, deep brain stimulation, gene therapy
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD
G5s
Name: Matthew Kleinjan
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotations:
2015: Ackerman
2016 (1): Bonini
2016 (2) : Kitajewski
Research Interests: Biochemistry; Protein Interactions and Kinetics, Development of new drugs
PhD Dept/Program: Physiology & Biophysics
Mentor: Jan Kitajewski, PhD
Name: Trevor Leonardo
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of California, Davis
Rotations:
2015: Finn and Perkins
2016 (1): S. Pandey
2016 (2) : Y. Dai
Research Interests: Epigenetics using a bioinformatics approach
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology and Immunology
Mentor: Luisa DiPietro, DDS, PhD
Name: Richard Marszalek
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Illinois at Chicago
Rotations:
2015: Gaponenko
2016 (1) : A. Mankin
2016 (2): J. Liang
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program: Physiology and Biophysics
Mentor: John Solaro, PhD and Beata Wolska, PhD
Name: Michael Metrick
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: James Madison University
Rotations:
2015 and 2016 - NIH
Research Interests: Protein misfolding disorders; Prions; Preventative methods for proteinopathies
PhD Dept/Program: NIH Cambridge Program
Mentor:
Research Interests: Cancer cell biology, mathematical modeling of tumorigenesis and wound healing
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: Bradley Merrill, PhD
Research Interests: Gastronintestinal Malignancies. Tumor Cell Biology, Tumor Microenvironment/Immunology, Transforming Growth Factor β Singnaling, Transgenesis
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Mentor: Ajay Rana, PhD
Name: Rachael Smith
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Pittsburgh
Rotations:
2015: Maki
2016 (1) : Saxena
2016 (2): S. Langenecker
Research Interests: Stress; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neurobiology of behavior
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Ernesto Bongarzone, PhD
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering
Mentor: Jae-Won Shin, PhD
M3s
Name: Russell Dulman
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Duke University
Rotations:
2015: S. Pandey
2016 (1): J. Roitman
2016 (2): Pinna
Research Interests: Environmental Effects on the brain and development of psychiatric disorder
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Subhash Pandey, PhD
Name: Osama El-Sayed
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Michigan
Rotations:
2014: Z. Chen
2015: Prabhakar
Research Interests: Role of regulatory t-cells in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis
PhD Dept/Program: Public Health- Epidemiology
Mentor: Lisa Powell, PhD
Name: Joseph Geraghty
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: SUNY Geneseo
Rotation:
1st - Summer 2014 - Feinstein
2nd - Summer 2015 - Freitag
3rd - Summer 2015 - Loeb
Research Interests: Seizure Activity, Inflammation, and Drug Therapy in a Rat Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: J. Loeb, MD, PhD
Name: Evguenia (Jane) Ivakhnitskaia
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Cornell University
Rotation:
1st - Summer 2014 - Bongarzone
2nd - Summer 2015 Chiek - Chang
3rd - Summer 2015 - Rosenblatt
Research Interests: Corneal nerve regeneration and functionality of new neurons
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD, MBA
Name: Cutler Lewandowski
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Minnesota
Rotations:
2015: Bongarzone
2016(1): Thatcher
2016 (2): Gemeinhart
Research Interests: Drug discovery and drug delivery in neurological diseases
PhD Dept/Program: Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Mentor: Gregory Thatcher, PhD
Name: Kate Rahbari
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Temple University
Rotations:
2015: Shukla
2016 (1) : Freitag
2016 (2): Federle
Research Interests:
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: Michael Federle, PhD
Name: Michael Sun
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Rotation:
1st - Summer 2014 - Malik
2nd Summer 2015 - D. Mehfa
3rd - Summer 2015 - Rosenblatt
Research Interests
PhD Dept/Program: Pharmacology
Mentor: Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD
Research Interests: microRNA and ProteinKinase
PhD Dept/Program: Pathology
Mentor: Larisa Nonn, PhD
M4s
Name: Artemis Gogos
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Grinnell College
Rotation:
1st - Summer 2014 - Simonovic
2nd - Summer 2015 - Federle
3rd - Summer 2015 - Freitag
Research Interests: Elucidate the downstream targets of the Rgg2/3 pathway in Streptococus pyogenes
PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology and Immunology
Mentor: M. Federle, PhD
Name: Allison Kirchner
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Wisconsin
Rotation:
1st - Summer 2014 - Larson
2nd - Summer 2015 - Loeb
3rd - Summer 2015 - Rosenblatt
Research Interests
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: J. Loeb, MD, PhD
Name: Cory Reiter
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: University of Denver
Rotation:
1st - Summer 2014 - Bongarzone
2nd - Summer 2015 - Feinstein
3rd - Summer 2015 - Yoshi
Research Interests: Dysmyelination: Mechanisms of oligodendrocyte mediated leukodystrophies
PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: E. Bongarzone, PhD
Name: Catherine (Casey) Blaha
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Northwestern University
Rotation:
1st - Summer 2013 -Tyner
2nd - Summer 2014 - Hay
3rd - Summer 2014 - Raychaudhuri
Research Interests: The role of the hexokinase 2 in breast cancer metastasis
PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Mentor: N. Hay, PhD
Name: Joshua Jones
Email: [email protected]
Alma Mater: Unversity of Illinois at Chicago
Rotation: |
1st - Summer 2013 - Yuan
2nd - Summer 2014 - J. Loeb
Research Interests: Understanding the role of Endothelial PLVAP in Acute Lung Injury
PhD Dept/Program: Pharmacology
Mentor: Asrar Malik, PhD and Richard Minshall, PhD