The Alumni

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Alumni

Margo MacDonald, PhD Photo
Margo MacDonald, PhD

Asst Teaching Professor, Biomed Eng, UNC/NCSU

Degree Year: 2024

Mentors: Margaret Gardel, Melody Swartz

Daozheng Gong, PhD Photo
Daozheng Gong, PhD

Postdoc, Harvard University

Degree Year: 2024

Mentors: Norbert Scherer, Jason MacLean

Vilmos Zsolnay, PhD Photo
Vilmos Zsolnay, PhD

Financial Consultant, Bain & Company

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Dave Kovar, Greg Voth

Elizabeth White, PhD Photo
Elizabeth White, PhD

Patent Scientist, Quarles and Brady

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Ed Munro

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Iva Veseli, PhD

Post-doc, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at Oldenburg

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Meren, Bana Jabri

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Steven Redford, PhD

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College, London

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Margaret Gardel

Jessica Morgan, PhD Photo
Jessica Morgan, PhD

Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Educational Outreach Coordinator

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Jean Greenberg, Bozhi Tian

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Andrew Molina, PhD

MSTP, return to meidcal training

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Tobin Sosnick, BenoÎt Roux

Kourtney Kroll, PhD Photo
Kourtney Kroll, PhD

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Tobin Sosnick, Ron Rock

Hendrik Glauninger, PhD Photo
Hendrik Glauninger, PhD

MSTP, return to medical training

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: D. Allan Drummond, Tobin Sosnick

Wen-hung Chou, PhD Photo
Wen-hung Chou, PhD

Postdoc, Washington University

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Margaret Gardel, Dave Kovar

Walter Alvarado, PhD Photo
Walter Alvarado, PhD

Scientist, Space Biosciences Research Branch, NASA 

Degree Year: 2023

Mentors: Juan de Pablo, Andrew Ferguson

Yifan Zhou, PhD Photo
Yifan Zhou, PhD

Bioinformatics Scientist 2, GRAIL

Degree Year: 2022

Mentors: Mengjie Chen, Xin He

Vedant Sachdeva, PhD Photo
Vedant Sachdeva, PhD

Research Scientist, Platform research, Evozyne

Degree Year: 2022

Mentors: Stephanie Palmer, Arvind Murugan

Amar Risbud, PhD Photo
Amar Risbud, PhD

Postdoc, City College of New York

Degree Year: 2022

Mentors: Stephanie Palmer, Mark Westneat

Andrés Moya Rodríguez, PhD Photo
Andrés Moya Rodríguez, PhD

Asst Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Degree Year: 2022

Mentors: Oni Basu, Jun Huang

Young Hoon Koh, PhD Photo
Young Hoon Koh, PhD

Postdoc, Seoul National University 

Degree Year: 2022

Mentors: Benoît Roux, Eduardo Perozo

Evan Kiefl, PhD Photo
Evan Kiefl, PhD

Protein Bioinformatician, Arcadia Science

Degree Year: 2022

Mentors: A. Murat Eren, Sean Crosson

Jiacheng Zhang, PhD Photo
Jiacheng (Jeff) Zhang, PhD

ReviR Therapeutics

Degree Year: 2021

Mentors: Jingyi Fei, Chuan He

Alan Selewa, PhD Photo
Alan Selewa, PhD

Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health

Degree Year: 2021

Mentors: Xin He, Oni Basu

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Matthew Reyer, PhD

Computational Biologist, III
Oregon Health & Science University

Degree Year: 2021

Mentors: Jingyi Fei, Aaron Dinner

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Devin Harrison, PhD

Scientist, Tome Biosciences

Degree Year: 2021

Mentors: Jun Huang, Yun Fang

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Nabil Faruk, PhD

Senior Scientist, QuantX Biosciences

Degree Year: 2021

Mentors: Benoît Roux, Tobin Sosnick

Christopher Boughter, PhD Photo
Christopher Boughter, PhD

Position: Postdoc, NIH

Degree Year: 2021

Mentors: Erin Adams, Benoît Roux

Catherine Triandafillou, PhD Photo
Catherine Triandafillou, PhD

Damon Runyon Postdoc Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Degree Year: 2020

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, D. Allan Drummond

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Alon Shaiber, PhD

Position: Computational Biology Team Lead

Ummunai

Degree Year: 2020

Mentors: Eugene Chang, Murat Eren

Lu Hong, PhD Photo
Lu Hong, PhD

Position: Research Scientist, AbCellera

Degree Year: 2020

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Michael Rust

Wenli Dai, MD PhD Photo
Wenli Dai, MD PhD

Position: Resident physician, UPMC

Degree Year: 2020

Mentors: Pancho Bezanilla, Christopher Weber

Héctor Acarón Ledesma, PhD Photo
Héctor Acarón Ledesma, PhD

Position: Bioengineering Scientist, ODDITY

Degree Year: 2020

Mentors: Bozhi Tian, Wei Wei

Vaughn Spurrier, PhD Photo
Vaughn Spurrier, PhD

Position: Data Scientist, Proscia

Degree Year: 2019

Mentors: Jason MacLean, Stephanie Palmer

Kevin Song, PhD Photo
Kevin Song, PhD

Position: Data Scientist, Amazon Web Services

Degree Year: 2019

Mentors: Tobin Sosnick, Benoît Roux

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Ryan Mork, Ph.D.

Position: Director of Data, Evozyne

Degree Year: 2019

Mentors: Julie Bubeck-Wardenburg, Andrey Rzhetsky

Daniel Kerr, PhD Photo
Daniel Kerr, PhD

Beamline Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory 

Degree Year: 2019

Mentor: Ka Yee Lee

César Cardona, PhD Photo
César Cardona, PhD

Position: Senior Bioinformatics Cloud Engineer, Second Genome, Inc.

Degree Year: 2019

Mentors: Jack Gilbert, Christopher Henry

Joshua Riback, PhD Photo
Joshua Riback, PhD

Position: Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Degree Year: 2018

Mentors: D. Allan Drummond, Tobin Sosnick

Ramya Parameswaran, MD PhD Photo
Ramya Parameswaran, MD PhD

Position: Resident physician, UCSF

Degree Year: 2018

Mentors: Bozhi Tian, Erin Adams

Boleslaw Osinski, PhD Photo
Boleslaw Osinski, PhD

Position: Senior Data Scientist, Tempus, Inc

Degree Year: 2018

Mentors: Leslie Kay, Nicolas Brunel

Eugene Leypunskiy, PhD Photo
Eugene Leypunskiy, PhD

Position: Financial Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

Degree Year: 2018

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Michael Rust

Samantha Stam, PhD Photo
Samantha Stam, PhD

Position: Postdoc, University of Utah

Degree Year: 2017

Mentors: Wendy Zhang, Margaret Gardel

Monika Scholz, PhD Photo
Monika Scholz, PhD

Position: Group Leader, Caesar Institute in Bonn, Germany

Degree Year: 2017

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, David Biron

Gabriel Salzman, MD PhD Photo
Gabriel Salzman, MD PhD

Position: Resident physician, Stanford University

Degree Year: 2017

Mentors: Shohei Koide, Demet Araç-Özkan

William McFadden, PhD Photo
William McFadden, PhD

Position: Data Scientist, Color Genomics

Degree Year: 2017

Mentors: Ed Munro, Margaret Gardel

Herman Gudjonson, PhD Photo
Herman Gudjonson, PhD

Position: Postdoc, Sloan Kettering 

Degree Year: 2017

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Albert Bendelac

Vu Dinh, PhD Photo
Vu Dinh, PhD

Position: Resident Physician, Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Degree Year: 2017

Mentors: Chuan He, Bana Jabri

Alan Hutchison, MD PhD Photo
Alan Hutchison, MD PhD

Position: Resident physician, University of Chicago

Degree Year: 2016

Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Chuan He

Moira Flanagan, PhD Photo
Moira Flanagan, PhD

Position: Laboratory Instructor in Biochemistry and Chemistry, Smith College

Degree Year: 2016

Mentor: Greg Engel

Peter Dahlberg, PhD Photo
Peter Dahlberg, PhD

Position: Panofsky fellow, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Degree Year: 2016

Mentor: Greg Engel

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Charles Wright, Ph.D.

Position: Director of Data Innovation, Prescouter, Inc

Degree Year: 2015

Mentors: David Biron, Norbert F. Scherer

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David Weinstein, Ph.D.

Position: Data Scientist, Colfax Communications

Degree Year: 2015

Mentors: Shohei Koide, Richard B. Jones

Caitlin Sullivan Trejo, PhD Photo
Caitlin Sullivan Trejo, PhD

Position: Risk Manager, McKinsey & Company

Degree Year: 2015

Mentors: Phoebe Rice, Ronald S. Rock

Guillermina Ramírez-San Juan, PhD Photo
Guillermina Ramírez-San Juan, PhD

Position: Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Degree Year: 2015

Mentor: Margaret Gardel

Sean Gibbons, Ph.D. Photo
Sean Gibbons, Ph.D.

Position: Associate Professor, Institute for Systems Biology

Degree Year: 2015

Mentors: Jack Gilbert, Maureen Coleman

James Crooks, PhD Photo
James Crooks, PhD

Position: Software Engineer, Site Reliability at Google

Degree Year: 2015

Mentors: Ridgway Scott, Erin Adams

Ivy Fitzgerald, PhD Photo
Ivy Fitzgerald, PhD

Position: Instructor, Missouri State University

Degree Year: 2014

Mentors: Benjamin S. Glick, Chuan He

Ernesto Vargas, PhD Photo
Ernesto Vargas, PhD

Position: Postdoc, Northwestern University, 2014-2017

Degree Year: 2013

Mentors: Francisco Bezanilla, Benoît Roux

Gregory Tietjen, PhD Photo
Gregory Tietjen, PhD

Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University

Degree Year: 2013

Mentors: Ka Yee C. Lee, Erin Adams

David Medovoy, PhD Photo
David Medovoy, PhD

Position: Director, Juvenescence

Degree Year: 2013

Mentors: Benoît Roux, Eduardo Perozo

Phillip Long, PhD Photo
Phillip Long, PhD

Position: Solution Manager, McKinsey & Company

Degree Year: 2013

Mentor: Greg Engel

Tobias Falzone, PhD Photo
Tobias Falzone, PhD

Position: Postdoc, UCSD 2013-2015

Degree Year: 2012

Mentors: Margaret Gardel, David Kovar