Alumni
Former Graduate Students:
Gustavo Arrizabalaga, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1993 - 1999
Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indianapolis, IN
Heather Broihier-Tarczy, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1992 - 1998
Associate Professor, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH
Nam Cho, MD/PhD
Lab Tenure: 1997 - 1999
Resident Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Ryan Cinalli, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2005 - 2013
Chief Scientific Officer, LifeSci Venture Partners
Leslie Ciruna, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2002 - 2007
Domestic Engineer, Toronto. Canada
Remi-Xavier Coux, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2010 - 2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cohen-Tannoudji and Navarro-Gil labs Pasteur Institute, Paris
Marie Davis, MD, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2002 - 2006
Board Certified Neurologist and Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
Matthew DeGennaro, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2003 - 2008
Associate Professor at Florida International University
Yolande Grobler, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2013 - 2018
Medical Associate at Healthcare Consultancy Group HCG, New York
Prabhat S. Kunwar, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2002 - 2007
Senior group leader in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Michelle LeBlanc, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2010 - 2017
Senior Project Associate, Regeneron, Tarrytown, NY
Jen Mach, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1990 - 1996
jennifer.mach@planteditors.com
Founding Editor, Plant Editors
Lisa Moore, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1993 - 1998
Senior Director, Business Development and Strategy at RAPT Therapeutics, Inc.
Juhee Pae, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2013-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, Gabriel Victora Lab, Rockefeller University
Francisco Pelegri, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1988 - 1994
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Chris Rongo, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1991 - 1996
Professor, Department of Genetics, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Carlos Sanchez, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2010 - 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Novartis
Ana Santos, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1998 - 2005
Therapeutic Area Head (Retina and I&D) Research Scientist at Novartis, Lisbon
Michelle Starz-Gaiano, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1998 - 2002
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jennifer Stein, MD, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1998 - 2002
Professor, Deptartment of Dermatology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Charlotte Wang, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1988 - 1995
Physician Assistant at the Critical Care Unit of U. Mass Medical Hospital, Boston MA
Ju-Yu Wang, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2004 - 2010
IP & Legal Officer at BRIM Biotechnology in Taipei, Taiwan
Anne Williamson, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1990 - 1996
Yoga Teacher, Boston MA
Former Post-docs:
Angelika Amon, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1994 - 1996
Professor, Biology MIT/HHMI, Cambridge, MA, USA
Torsten Banisch
Lab Tenure: 2016 - 2021
torsten.banisch@nyulangone.org
Vienna, Austria
Vitor Barbosa, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2003 - 2009
Senior Medical Scientist, Amgen, Mexico
Douglas Barker, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1988-1995
Director of Bioinformatics in the Center for Genomic Medicine
Lacy Barton, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2015 - 2022
Assistant Professor at University of Texas, San Antonio
Daniel Chagnovich, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1996 - 2001
Principal at 3elms Life Science Consulting, Detroit
Daniel Curtis, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1989 - 1995
daniel.curtis@pharma.novartis.com
Chief Development Officer, Amyllon Therapeutics, Boston, USA
Emily Dawson, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2018 - 2020
Fellow at the Board of Health Science Policy, National Academy of Sciences
Anne Ephrussi, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1989 - 1992
EPHRUSSI@hera.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
Group Leader and Coordinator, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Janice Fischer, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1991 - 1992
Professor, Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Zandy Forbes, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1996 - 2000
President and CEO of MeiraGTx, New York, NY, USA
Liz Gavis, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1990 - 1995
Professor, Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Lilach Gilboa, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2004 - 2007
Assistant Professor, Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (present position: writer)
Thomas Hurd, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2009-2018
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
Benjamin Lin, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2015-2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Stony Brook University
Colin Malone, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2010-2015
Co-Founder & Head of Biology at VNV, New York
Rui Martinho, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1999 - 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, University of Algrave, Portugal
Thomas Marty, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2001 - 2003
Owner, Advisor, Science and Research Organization Consulting (SCIROC), Zurich, Switzerland
Jason Morris, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1997 - 2003
Professor and Chair, Fordham University, New York, NY
Caryn Navarro, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1996 - 2008
Senior Scientific Writer, Department of Systems Biology/UMASS Chan Medical School
Prashanth Rangan, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2004 - 2012
Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Andrew Renault, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2002 - 2007
andrew.renault@tuebingen.mpg.de
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
Sara Ricardo, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2005-2011
Business Developer at QMENTA /MCAA Board Member/ Life Scientist, Barcelona, Spain
Brian Richardson, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2008 - 2012
Freelance Medical Writer, Portland, OR
Hiroko Sano, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2002 - 2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Kurume, Japan
Jessica Seifert, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2007-2014
Assistant Professor, Farmingdale State College, New York
Daria Siekhaus, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2003 - 2012
Group Leader, The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
Maija Slaidina, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2010 - 2021
Assistant Director at Healthcare Incubator, and Innovation Advisor at University of Bergen
Felipe Karam-Teixeira, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2011 - 2017
felipe.karam-teixeira@gen.cam.ac.uk
Group Leader, Instructor Department of Genetics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Tatjana Trcek, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2013-2019
Assistant Professor, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Mark Van Doren, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1994 - 1999
Professor, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Christopher Yohn, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1996 - 2002
Director, Discovery Technologies, Unity Biotechnology, Brisbane CA, USA
Phillip Zamore, PhD
Lab Tenure: 1993 - 1999
Professor, Dept. of Biochem and Mol Biol/HHMI, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Andrea Zamparini, PhD
Lab Tenure: 2006 – 2013
Consultant, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina