Lab Alumni

Sakina Farzana Hussain (PhD 2002)
Mojgan Ahmadzadeh (PhD 2002)
Sandeep Krishnan, (Ph.D. 2002) - currently Gastroenterologist, Steward Medical Group, Boston
Vishal Warke (Ph.D. 2002) - Director, Himedia labs India
Adam Bingaman, M.D., Ph.D., transplant fellow (2002-2004) - currently transplant surgeon, San Antonio, TX
David Leeser, M.D., transplant fellow (2003-2004) - currently Professor and Chief, Surgical Immunology and Transplantation, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Vaishali Moulton (Ph.D. 2006) - currently Associate Director, Translational Science, Immunology, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson
David Verhoeven, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow (2007-2010) - currently Assistant Professor, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine
John Teijaro, (Ph.D. 2009) - currently Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Scripps Institute
Alp Sener, M.D., Ph.D, transplant fellow (2007-2009) - currently Chair/Chief of Urology, Associate Professor of Surgery and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario
Francesca Okoye (MD/PhD 2009) - currently Rheumatologist, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Nicholas Bushar (Ph.D. 2009, UMB) - currently Section Chief, Policy Planning and Reporting, NIAID, NIH
Smita Chandran, (Ph.D. 2009) - currently Senior Research Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute
Taheri Sathaliyawala, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow (2010-2012) - currently Immunologist, Chinook Therapeutics, Inc.
Kara Bickham, M.D., Associate Research Scientist (2011-2014) - currently Chief Medical Officer at Affinivax
Claire Gordon, M.D., Transplant ID fellow (2012-2016) - currently Infectious Diseases Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health
Naomi Yudanin, (Ph.D. 2015) - currently Chief Data scientist, Nanowear
Joseph Thome (Ph.D. 2015) - currently Managing Director, Senior Biotechnology Equity Research Analyst at Cowen and Company
Kyra Zens (Ph.D. 2016) - currently post-doctoral fellow at ETH Zurich
Damian Turner, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow (2010-2016) - currently Assistant Professor of Biology, Williams College
Tomer Granot, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow (2014-2017)

Jun Kui Chen (Ph.D. 2017) - currently Data Engineer, Meta
Brahma Kumar, (MSTP 2018) - currently Vice President (Biotechnology) at Longitude Capital
Mark Snyder, M.D., post-doctoral fellow (2016-2018) - currently Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Filip Cvetkovski (Ph.D. 2019) - currently Laboratory Director, Research and Development, ITBMed Biopharmaceuticals
Michelle Miron (Ph.D. 2019) - currently Senior Scientist at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies
Takashi Senda, M.D., clinical fellow (2015-2018) - currently Attending Surgeon, Chiba University, Japan
Pranay Dogra, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow (2017-2020) - currently Senior Scientist, Oncology Biomarker Development, Genentech
Puspa Thapa, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow (2017-2021) - currently Immunology Scientist, NovaRock Biotherapeutics
Daniel Paik (MSTP 2020), Resident, Department of Medicine, Cornell Medical College
Maya Poon, (MSTP 2023), currently finishing MD at Columbia University, Intern / Resident, Dermatology, Memorial Sloan Kettering / Stanford University
Ksenia Rybkina (Ph.D. 2022), currently faculty, University of Alberta Marissa Bradley, Senior Research Technician (2020-2023) - currently at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Benjamin Redenti (MS 2023, MD 2024) - Intern / Resident, Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System
Rei Matsumoto, M.D. (Ph.D. 2023) - Transplant fellow, University of Virginia Rebecca Korenberg - Research Coordinator (2022-2023) - Medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Rory Morrison-Colvin, Senior Research Worker Paige Ruschke, Senior Research Technician - currently PhD student at University of Maryland