Lab Alumni

Former Grad Students

Jagannathan Sundaram (1999-2002), Genentech
Joy Baxter (1999-2004), Consultant 
Ahmet Tezel (1999-2004), Johnson & Johnson
Pankaj Karande (2000-2005), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Elizabeth Chambers (2000-2006), Clorox
Tuan Dinh (2001-2006), Archimedes Inc.
Chinmay Pangarkar (2001-2006), Private Biotech Company
Julie Champion (2001-2007), Georgia Tech
Sumit Paliwal (2002-2007), Novartis 
Kathryn Whitehead (2002-2007), Carnegie Mellon University
Angela Zivkovich (2003-2005), US Peace Corps
Sejal Hall (2003-2008), Novartis
Anubhav Arora (2004-2009), Chrono Therapeutics
Tracy Hsu (2005-2011), Amgen
Nishit Doshi (2006-2010), Roche
Poornima Kolhar (2006-2012), LEK Consulting
Chris Brunquell (2007-2012), University of Connecticut
Aaron C. Anselmo (2010-2015), University of North Carolina
Kathryn Camacho (2010-2015), Kite Pharma
Michael Zakrewsky (2010-2015), Johnson & Johnson
Maria I. Ruocco (2013-2017), Rice University
Mengwen Zhang (2013-2018), Wolf Greenfield
Douglas Vogus (2012-2018), Fount Bio, Inc. USA
Anusha Pusuluri (2013-2018), Kala Pharmaceuticals, USA
David Smith (2013-2018), Merck 
Maksymilian Nowak (2013-2019)
Tyler Brown (2014-2019), i2o Therapeutics 
Michael Evans (2014-2019), Poseida Therapeutics
Apoorva Sarode (2014-2019), Genentech
Debra Wu (2015-2020), Amgen
Kelly Ibsen (2016-2020), i2O Therapeutics
Anvay Ukidve (2016-2020), Sanofi
Kevin Peng (2016-2021), The Block
Li-Wen (Lily) Wang (2018-2023), Landmark Bio
Alex Curreri (2019-2023), Merck
Neha Kapate (2019-2023), AbbVie
Ninad Kumbhojkar (2019-2023), Tessera Therapeutics
Regan Ellis (2022-2023)
Alex Gottlieb (2022-2023), Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Supriya Prakash (2019-2023), Elevate Bio

Former Post Docs

Zancong Shen (2000-2003), Ardea Biosciences
Elisabeth Kaltenbock (2001-2002), Ventura College
Amit Kumar Jain (2002-2005), Axcella
Yogesh Katare (2005-2006), VNS Institute of Pharmacy, Bhopal, India
Eiichi Torisaka (2007-2008), Oita University
Alisar Zahr (2007-2008), Johnson & Johnson
Makoto Ogura (2007-2010), Roche 
Sumit Paliwal (2007-2010), Novartis
Monica James-Smith (2008-2010), The Lubrizol Corporation
Jin-Wook Yoo (2008-2011), Chosun University: College of Pharmacy
Linden Bolisay (2009-2010), L'Garde, Inc.
Yasunari Michinaka (2009-2010), Hisamitsu
Nishit Doshi (2010-2011), Roche
Paul Tumeh [NIH K08 trainee] (2012), UCLA Medical School
Maarten Bakker (2013), Eindhoven University of Technology 
Sunali Bhatnagar (2013), Oxford University
Vivek Gupta (2013), Keck Graduate Institute 
Byeong Hee Hwang (2013), Incheon National University
Francesca Cavalieri (2013-2014), University of Rome
Tomoyuki Mitoma (2013-2014), Higuchi Inc.
Ming Chen (2011-2014), Xiamen University
Sutapa Barua (2011-2014), Missouri University of Science and Technology
Sunny Kumar (2013-2014), Celgene
Stefano Menegatti (2013-2015), North Carolina State University
Amrita Banerjee (2013-2017), North Dakota State University
Christian Agatemor (2017-2018), John Hopkins University
Vinu Krishnan (2015-2019), Fount Bio, Inc. USA
Shirin Mesbah Oskui (2018-2019), Healthcare Consultancy Group
Md Nurunnabi (2019), University of Texas at El Paso
Junling Guo (2019), Sichuan University
C. Wyatt Shields IV (2018-2019), University of Colorado Boulder
Abhirup Mandal (2018-2020), CAGE Bio
Daniel Pan (2017-2020), Versatope Inc. 
Eden Tanner (2017-2020), University of Mississippi 
Pavimol Angsantikul (2018-2020), Population Council
Zongmin Zhao (2017-2021), University of Illinois, Chicago
Qin (Maggie) Qi (2018-2021), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Clegg (2019-2021), University of Oklahoma
Mayuka Nakajima (2019-2022), Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Jayoung Kim (2018-2022), University of North Texas Health Center College of Pharmacy
Tao Sun (2018-2022), Northeastern University
Kenry (2020-2023), University of Arizona
Michael Dunne (2020-2023), Moffitt Cancer Center
Yongsheng Gao (2017-2023), University of Texas, Dallas

Former Fellows and Associates

Rikke Vicki Benjaminsen (2010), Technical University of Denmark
Zhimin Zhou (2010-2011), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Kanuzari Aoayagi (2014), Nitto Denko
Marta Broto (2015), Nanobiotechnology and Biomolecular for Diagnostics
Andres Da Silva (2015), University of Santiago de Compostela
Jianping Qi (2015-2016), Fudon University 
Yasunori Iwao (2015-2016), University of Shizuoka
Yen Wah Tong (2015-2016), National University of Singapore
Anshuman Dasgupta (2017-2019), RWTH Aachen University
Isabella Suzuki (2018-2019), University of São Paulo – Brazil   
Vimisha Dharamdasani (2018-2019), Cambridge University, UK
Christine Hamadani (2017-2019), The University of Vermont
Katharina Cu (2018-2020), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Naoya Ohmori (2018)
Bijay Singh (2018-2019)
Wei He (2019) China Pharmaceutical University
Yujie Shi (2019-2020), Peking University
Marwa Sallam (2020), Alexandria University
Nao Nakajima (2019-2021), Niigata University
Mayumi Ikeda-Imafuku (2020-2022), Wakayama Medical University
Eun Ji Paige Chung Yoo (2022), University of Southern California
Archit Devarajan (2022-2023), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Tatsuya Fukuta (2022-2023), Wakayama Medical University, Japan
Andrés Da Silva Candal (2023), Universidade da Coruña

Former Undergraduates

(By Graduate Year)

2000
Nicarter Gordon
Philip Le
Elizabeth Mallon
Marc Soares

2001
Ruben Ayala
Kathy Bange
May Brickey
Justin Cisar
Ocean Feniger
Adam Hartwick
Armondo Jimenez
Richard Keeler
Brian Kluck
Eve Lee
Penny Letts
Veronica Mora
Tamara Murray
Emile Plise
Beison Ramirez
Haydee Rodriguez
Seth Sanford
Vivian Shen
Joe Tucherer

2002
Paul Andersen
Nitasha Bakhru
Nocol Balquidra
Steve Bush
Maria Casanon
Maricela Casteneda
Celia Chen
Luis Diaz
Lauren Fix
Michael Hedvat
Jefferey Katrencik
Drew Lassen
Berlyn Mellein
Ana Misic
Cecelio Morello
Jeff Oneil
Brian Piorek
Araceli Rojo
Ashley Sanders
Kelly Smith
Courtney Still

2003
Ashwinin Ashokkumar
Tiffany Coleman
Kaitleen Ergun
Tawni Koutchesfahani
Thien Khahn Pham
Amanda Walker
Nicholas Williams
Arthur Wojcicki

2004
Varun Bharadwaj
Moon Jean Ho
Vincent Kispersky
Thomas Minner

2005
Heather Becker-Brungard
Natalie Karr

2006
Santosh Gupta
Gabriel Martinez
Alejandro Sanchez
Casey Schmidt
Zareen Zapadia

2008
Holly Bovey
Shayla Brooks
Marjorie Fernandez
David Gebauer
Jordanne Gregorio
Brittney Hellner
Natalie Karr
Alex Morales
Lindsay Palmer
Steven Pease
David Wilson

2009
Ricardo Alamillo
Nancy Annunziato
Ari Pritchard-Bell
Brian Ilker

2010
Rahul Lele

2011
Martin Bryant
Michele Corrigan
Michael Grambow
Jessica Hoy
Martin Manley
Yuan Pan
Daniel Schiffels
Jordanne Wang

2013
Nathan Dias
Vivian Le
Shane Nourizadeh
Austin Pearce
Mayra Perez
Annie Ragusa
Ambarneil Roy
Dana Rutherford

2014
Ami Thakar
Vanessa Wagner

2015
Sanjana Apte
Zoe Fuchs
Jenny Lee
Sateja Paradkar

2016
Ileana Garcia
Juan Diego Carval
Francis Cunningham
Rohan Gogoi
Joshua Sanchez De Oliveira
Mayuri Kasaraneni

2017
Rohit Bhatt
Gabrielle Jung
Omar Lujano

2018
Shirin Bakre
Ved Dhole
Akshaya Annapragada
Carter Kendig
Joel Balkaran
Nicole Kim
Andrew Yang
Jessica Klusty
Mikhail Grushko
Alexandra Fehnel
Alyssa Salinas
Siddarth Iyer
Mohammed Ebied
Chi Chi (Chidimma) Nwodoh
Matthias Fluhr
Nadia Selig-Wober

2019
Ginamarie Gioia
Giovanna Medeiros Reis
Brian Josephson
Jessica Ehondor
Salena (Ye) Chua
Kelly Luo
Amaya Razmi
Eva Cai

2020
Akshay Chubal

2022
Ani Srinivasan
Juhee Goyal
Dania Villafuerte
Andrew Lu
Paola Carillo Gonzalez
Solomina Darko
Mehrin Faisal
Bolu Ilelaboye
Cherish Jongwe

2023
Naaz Thotathil
Litsa Kapsalis