Graduate Alumni (PhD and MD/PhD students)
| Name | Lab | PhD Awarded | Current Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrie Fitzpatrick | Katzen | 2003 | Associate Professor, Director, Constitutional Cytogenetics and Cytogenomics Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago |
| Siau Min Fung | Katzen | 2003 | Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics, Vanguard University, California |
| Shr-Jeng Leu | Lau | 2003 | Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan. |
| Tatiana Grzeszkiewicz | Lau | 2003 MD/PhD | Board of Directors, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Stanford University Medical Center |
| Monika Stankiewicz | Ackerman | 2004 | Senior Clinical Research Project Manager, Protocol Development Team, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago |
| Aleksandra Jovanovic Poole | Tyner | 2004 | Vice President, Research and Development at AIVITA Biomedical |
| Tanya Bondar | Raychaudhuri | 2004 | Deputy Editor, Blood Cancer Discovery |
| Abhishek Datta | Raychaudhuri | 2004 | Head, Biologics Drug Discovery, Scholar Rock |
| Taewon Yoon | Raychaudhuri | 2004 | CEO, Yuhan USA |
| Amy Jacobs | Caffrey | 2004 | Research Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY |
| Vladimir Jovasevic | Mokyr | 2004 | Principal Scientist II, Novartis-NIBR |
| Gerald Buldak | Mirkin | 2004 | Advanced Lecturer in Biology, Loyola University, Chicago |
| Andrea Haegebarth | Tyner | 2005 | Senior Vice President, Head of R&D Strategy, Portfolio and Operations, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Berlin, Germany |
| Cristiane Lin | Lau | 2005 MD/PhD | Physician at Pediatrix Medical Group, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| Siwanon Jirawatnotai | Kiyokawa | 2005 | Dept of Pharmacology at Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Pratibha Khanduri | Gudkov (Rosewell Park Cancer Center) | 2005 | Associate at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, Washington DC |
| Aatur Singhi | Gudkov (Rosewell Park Cancer Center) | 2005 | Associate Professor of Pathology, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
| Alexander D. Boiko | Gudkov (Rosewell Park Cancer Center) | 2005 | Assoc. Professor, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA |
| Susanna McRenolds | Caffrey | 2006 | Regulatory Manager and Technical Supervisor, Fertility Genetics, Lone Tree, CO |
| Ekaterina V. Mirkin | Mirkin | 2006 | Lecturer in Genetics, Tufts University |
| Jennifer Skeen | Hay | 2006 | Vice President, Custom Services and Support at Berkeley Lights, Inc. |
| Melissa Dee Laughery | Kaplan | 2006 | Science Teacher, Palo Alto Prep School, Mountain View, CA |
| IL-Man Kim | Costa | 2006 | Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology, Indiana University |
| I-Ching Wang | Costa | 2006 | Associate Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan |
| Viktor Todorovic | Lau | 2006 | Principal Research Scientist at Discovery Dermatology and Fibrosis at AbbVie |
| Carrie Franzen | Lau | 2006 | Senior Scientist at Tempus Labs, Inc. |
| Shalu Shiv | Colley | 2006 | Senior Data Scientist at IBM Watson Health |
| William Brad Ruzicka | Guidotti (Pychiatry) | 2006 MD/PhD | Research Psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School |
| Dario Segura-Peña | Lavie | 2007 | Postdoctoral Scientist at University of Pennsylvania |
| Nikolina Sekulic | Lavie | 2007 | Group Leader at Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine |
| Sanober Amin | Bulun (Northwestern Univ.) | 2007 MD/PhD | Dermatologist, Dermatology Solutions, Grapevine, Texas |
| Maher Alayyoubi | Gettins | 2007 | Principal Scientist at Arcturus Therapeutics |
| Fiona Fenteany | Colley | 2007 | Contract Scientist at Pfizer |
| George Scaria | Katzen | 2007 MD/PhD | Internal Medicine, Allina Health Nicollet Mall Clinic, Minneapolis, MN |
| Jayita Sen | Caffrey | 2007 | Associate Director, Clinical Research, ImmunoGen, Inc. |
| Irina Voineagu | Mirkin (Tufts Univ.) | 2008 | Assoc. Professor, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia |
| Richa Bedi | Ackerman | 2008 | Administrative Laboratory Director, AMITA Health St.Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago |
| Vladimir Petrovic | Tyner | 2008 | Clinical Biomarkers at Gilead Sciences |
| Prashanth Bhaskar | Hay | 2008 | |
| Tao Bai | Lau | 2009 | Research Fellowship, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
| Joon Il Jun | Lau | 2009 | Research Assistant Professor, UIC |
| Vladislava Juric | Lau | 2009 | Associate Director, Early Discovery Biology at Pionyr Immunotherapeutics |
| Christine Doyle | Ackerman | 2009 MD/PhD | Physician, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dupage Medical Group, IL |
| Evan Osmundson | Kiyokawa (Northwestern Univ.) | 2009 MD/PhD | Assoc. Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, TN |
| Carmen Dominguez-Brauer | Raychaudhuri | 2009 | Principal Scientist at QIAGEN |
| Yi-Ju Chen | Raychaudhuri | 2009 | Technology & Resource Development Scientitst, The Jackson Laboratory, Maine |
| Hyun Jung Park | Raychaudhuri | 2009 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, England |
| Tanya Stoyanova | Raychaudhuri | 2009 | Assistant Professor, Stanford University |
| Marija Kundakovic | Grayson (Psychiatry) | 2009 | Assistant Professor, Fordham University, NY |
| Chia-Chen Chen | Hay | 2009 | Senior Manager, ScinoPharm Taiwan Ltd |
| Deepa Sundararajan | Hay | 2009 | Medical Editor at Cactus Communications, Chennai, India |
| Ivana Tonic | Hay | 2009 | Personalized Healthcare Expert at Roche Farma España, Madrid, Spain |
| Weihan Zhao | Colley | 2009 | Associate Director, Statictics; AbbVie, IL |
| Adriana Zimnicka | Kaplan | 2009 | Research Assistant Professor; UIC (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) |
| Patrick Brauer | Tyner | 2010 | Senior Scientist, STEMCELL Technologies |
| Deirdre Foley | Colley | 2010 | Senior Program Manager, Ambys Medicines |
| Ninh Doan | Gettins | 2010 MD/PHD | Assistant Prof. at University of South Alabama, Department of Neurosurgery |
| Saugata Hazra | Lavie | 2010 | Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India |
| Ming-Fong Lye | Lavie | 2010 | Scientist III; Aldevron |
| Dragana Kopanja | Raychaudhuri | 2010 | Research Assistant Professor, UIC |
| Lyne Khair | Nakamura | 2010 | Senior Research Scientist, UMASS Medical School, Worcester, MA |
| Laxmi Subramanian | Nakamura | 2010 | Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London, England, United Kingdom |
| Brandon Nicolay | Frolov | 2010 | Director, Head of Pharmacology at Cedilla Therapeutics |
| Laura Pereira | Merrill | 2010 | Principal Scientist, Patch Biosciences |
| Fei Yi | Merrill | 2010 | Director of Cell Engineering, Ambys Medicines |
| Evan Small | Mesecar | 2010 MD/PhD | Emergency Medicine Physician; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
| Sherwin Abraham | Gaponenko | 2011 | Associate Director, Drug Product, Apellis Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA |
| Youngshim Lee | Gaponenko | 2011 | Postdoctoral fellow; Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Janai R. Carr-Ascher | Raychaudhuri | 2011 MD/PhD | Assistant Professor in Residence, UC Davis Health |
| Jessica Celigoy | Caffrey | 2011 | Manager of Platform Development Specialists-North America at Sartorius |
| Jessica Gierut | Tyner | 2011 | Principal Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA |
| Ansu Perekatt | Tyner | 2011 | Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Sang-min Jeon | Hay | 2011 | Associate Professor; Ajou University, South Korea |
| Jennifer Kwan | Hay | 2011 MD/PhD | Cardiology Fellow at Yale University School of Medicine |
| Jennifer McEllin | Katzen | 2011 | Research Assistant, Dissel Lab, Universityof Missouri, Kansas City |
| Margritte (Mella) Rovani | Katzen | 2011 | Assistant Professor of Biology, at Harper College Palatine, IL |
| Thomas Wubben | Mesecar (Purdue Univ.) | 2011 MD/PhD | Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, MI |
| Marianna Halasi | Tyner/Gartel | 2012 | Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Yu (Eric) Zheng | Tyner | 2012 | Senior Scientist II at Prime Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA |
| Jackson Hoffman | Merrill | 2012 | Biologist, NIEHS, Morrisville, NC |
| Nilotpal Roy | Raychaudhuri | 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, CA |
| Matt Thompson | Colley | 2012 | Life Sciences Management Consultant at Accenture |
| Kristin Ivy | Kaplan | 2013 | Senior Medical Science Liaison; Global Blood Therapeutics, FL |
| Mustafa Okur | O’Bryan (Pharmacology) | 2013 | Assistant Researcher, Kheradvar Lab, University of California, Irvine. |
| Krushna Patra | Hay | 2013 | Assistant Prof. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH |
| Wan-Ni Yu | Hay | 2013 | Nonclinical unit head, Taiwan Liposome Company |
| Maoyu Peng | Tyner | 2013 | Scientist, Kite Pharma, Los Angeles, CA |
| Zebin (Sarah) Wang | Raychaudhuri | 2013 | Clinical Biomarker Director at GSK, Boston, MA |
| Sumeyye Yar | Solaro (Physio. & Biophysics) | 2013 | Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Researcher & Science Outreach Educator; Genspace, New York City, NY |
| Joseph Zapater | Colley | 2013 MD/PhD | Endocrinology Fellow, UI Health |
| Aaron Ambrus | Frolov | 2013 | Assistant Project Scientist, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| Mike Beshiri | Benevolenskaya | 2014 | Research fellow, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| Ya-Ting Chang | Nakamura | 2014 | Senior Scientist I at Exelixis |
| Michael Chastkofsky | Tyner | 2014 | Statistical Programmer at Amgen |
| Tanmay Chavan | Gaponenko | 2014 | Medical Writer, MedVal Scientific Information Services, LLC |
| Jacob Choi | Lau | 2014 MD/PhD | Oncology Fellow, Northwestern University |
| Yuka Shimizu | Garcia (Univ. of Arizona) | 2014 | Head of Process Development at Orbsen Therapeutics Limited, Galway, Ireland |
| Chun-I Wu | Merrill | 2014 | Senior Scientist at SQZ Biotechnologies |
| Brian Shy | Merrill | 2015 MD/PhD | HS Clinical Instructor, UCSF Cellular Therapy Development Laboratory |
| Rachel French | Simonovic | 2015 | Field Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies |
| Kaitlyn Holman | Simonovic | 2015 | Senior Scientist, Research and Development at Abbott |
| Priya Mathur | Tyner | 2015 | Senior Publications Manager, Immunology-Dermatology at AbbVie |
| Battuya Bayarmagnai | Frolov | 2015 | Research Scientist at WuXi AppTec |
| Alexandra Vilkova | Benevolenskaya | 2015 | Medical Science Liaison at Novartis Pharmaceuticals |
| Kimberly Gao Laffey | Ackerman | 2016 | Postdoctoral Associate; Dept. of Mol. Micorbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO |
| Aleksandar Antanasijevic | Caffrey | 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute |
| Malgorzata Dobosz-Bartoszek | Simonovic | 2016 | Support Scientist at Cytiva |
| Dannielle DeWaal | Hay | 2016 | Independent Researchers of America for Conservation |
| Jane Kim | Segev | 2016 | Director, Medical Strategy, 21GRAMS |
| Gaurang Bhide | Colley | 2017 | Senior Scientist, Biologics Discovery (Glycobiology at AbbVie) |
| David Ebenezer | Natarajan (Pharmacology) | 2017 | Senior Scientist, Lab Head, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals |
| Akshay Pandey | Raychaudhuri | 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Standford Univ. |
| Shuo Huang | Raychaudhuri | 2017 | Senior Associate, Baidu Ventures |
| Indira Elangovan | Reddy (Pediatrics) | 2017 | |
| Darren Wozniak | Tyner | 2017 | Senior Consultant, LI-COR Biosciences |
| Joshua Bernstein | Shikano | 2017 | Senior Scientist at Abbott |
| Yu (Jenny) Zheng | Merrill | 2017 MD/PhD | Residency: Psychiatry, Northwestern University |
| Stefanie Kall | Lavie | 2018 | Product Marketing Manager, NanoTemper Technologies, Chicago, IL |
| Amanda Mennie | Nakamura | 2018 MD/PhD | Residency: Internal Medicine -PSTP University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas TX |
| Xinyu Chen | Hay | 2018 | Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Medicine, Stanford University |
| Matthew Durst | Lavie | 2019 MD/PhD | Resident Physician, Univ. of Toledo Medical Center |
| Ben Hitchinson | Gaponenko | 2019 | Scientist,Longeveron Inc, Miami, FL: |
| Matthew Macdougall | Merrill | 2019 MD/PhD | Resident Physician at Stanford University |
| Ryan Clarke | Merrill | 2019 | CEO, Cellgorithmics, Chicago, IL |
| Georgina Mancinelli | Grippo (Gastroenterology) | 2019 | Postdoc., Macleod Lab, Univ. of Chicago |
| Casey Blaha | Hay | 2020 MD/PhD | Medical School, UIC |
| Majd Ariss | Frolov | 2020 | Scientist, Cell Signaling Technology, Saugus, MA |
| Adam Didier | Nakamura | 2020 | Microbiome Scientist III, Millipore-Sigma, Chesterfield, MO |
| Anu Puppala | Simonovic | 2021 | Scientist, Cellgorithmics, Chicago, IL |
| Alex Terry | Hay | 2021 MD/PhD | Medical School, UIC |
| Danny Principe | Rana (Surgery) | 2021 MD/PhD | Medical School, UIC |
| Naiyuan Cheng | Lau | 2022 | Mandatory Military Service (Taiwan) |
| Milica Gilic | Tyner | 2022 | Postdoc., Kalodimos Lab, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis. |
| Wanian Alwanian | Tyner | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia |
| Hannah Pennington Kluger | Merrill | 2022 MD/PhD | Medical School, UIC |