Alumni

Postdocs

  • Juan Martin-Serrano, Ph.D. 2000-2004 - Professor of Viral Cell Biology, Kings College London

  • Yi-Jun Zhang, Ph.D. 2000-2001 - Postdoctoral Fellow, NCI Frederick

  • David Perez-Caballero, Ph.D. 2002-2010 - Principal Consultant/CMC Biologics Expert, Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios

  • Veronique Zennou, Ph.D. 2003-2004 - Director of Manufacturing, Safeguard Biosystems

  • Scott Eastman, Ph.D. 2004-2008 - Executive Director, BioImaging/Discovery Technologies at Loxo Oncology at Eli Lilly and Company

  • Fengwen Zhang, Ph.D. 2004-2017 - Senior Research Associate, Bieniasz Lab, Rockefeller University

  • Nolwenn Jouvenet, Ph.D. 2005-2011 - Group Leader, Pasteur Institute Paris

  • Stuart Neil, Ph.D. 2005-2007 - Professor, Head Dept of Infectious Diseases and Director of Programme Infection & Immunity, Kings College London

  • Matthew McNatt, Ph.D. 2007-2015 - Scientific Advisor, Haug Partners

  • Sam Wilson, Ph.D. 2008-2012 - Professor, University of Cambridge

  • Rachel Liberatore, Ph.D. 2008-2014 - President & Chief Scientific Officer, RenBio

  • Sebla Kutluay, Ph.D. 2009-2014 - Associate Professor, Washington University at St. Louis

  • Shalini Yadav, Ph.D. 2009-2012 - Instructor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • Steven Soll, Ph.D. 2010-2014 - Biology/Chemistry Lecturer, Clackamas Community College/University of Portland

  • Julia Bitzegeio, Ph.D. 2010-2015 - State Office for Health and Social Affairs, Berlin

  • Melissa Kane, Ph.D. 2012-2018 - Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

  • Ashley York, Ph.D. 2014-2016 - Chief Editor, Nature Reviews Microbiology

  • Tonya Kueck, Ph.D. 2014-2019 - Scientist, BioNTech SE

  • Fabian Schmidt, Ph.D. 2014-2022 - Assistant Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  • Sebastian Giese, Ph.D. 2015-2015 - Patent Attorney, Hoffman Eitle Biotechnology group

  • Daniel Gonçalves-Carneiro, Ph.D. 2017-2022 - Research Fellow (Faculty of Medicine), Imperial College University of London

  • Chen Peng, Ph.D. 2017-2018 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Bernard Moss Lab NIH

  • Jennifer Bohn, Ph.D. 2018-2023 - Program Manager for Research Education, Rockefeller University

  • Yiska Weisblum, Ph.D. 2018-2023 - Assistant Professor, Hebrew University Jerusalem

  • Frauke Muecksch, Ph.D. 2019-2022 - Chica-and-Heinz Schaller Group Leader, University of Heidelberg Germany

  • Masashi Iwamoto, Ph.D. 2022-2024

Students

  • Youngnam Lee, Ph.D. 2004-2009 - Freelance Consultant Jolt Communications

  • Steven Soll, Ph.D. 2005-2010 - Biology/Chemistry Lecturer, Clackamas Community College/University of Portland 

  • Maria Zhadina,  Ph.D. 2005-2010 - Physician, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics University of Pennsylvania

  • Mowgli Holmes, Ph.D. 2010-2013 - CEO, Phylos Biosciences

  • Suzannah Rihn, Ph.D. 2010-2014 Research Fellow, MRC Center for Virus Research University of Glasgow

  • Siddarth Venkatesh, Ph.D. 2010-2014 - Assistant Professor, Institute for Systems Biology

  • Daniel Blanco-Melo, Ph.D. 2011-2016 - Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

  • Matthew Takata, Ph.D. 2014-2019 - Management Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

  • Daniel Poston, M.D./Ph.D.(c) 2018-2022 - Medical Student, Weill Cornell College of Medicine

Interns/Research Assistants

  • Jesse Jenkins, 2021-2024 - PhD Student, University of Rochester

  • Debby Park, 2022-2024 - PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

  • Maria Guzman-Cardozo, 2022-2023 - PhD Student, University of Edinburgh

  • Leander Witte, 2022 - PhD student, University of Oxford

  • Eva Bednarski, 2019-2022 - PhD student, Mt Sinai School of Medicine

  • Justin DaSilva, 2018-2022 - Sr Associate Scientist, Regeneron

  • Magdalena Rutkowska, 2019-2021 - PhD student, Mt Sinai School of Medicine

  • Heley Ong, 2017-2019 - District Sales Manager, Genscript

  • Maria Mercedes, 2018 - PhD student, Mt Sinai School of Medicine

  • Elena Cassella, 2017-2018 - Lab Manager, Center for Discovery and Innovation

  • Morgan Pantuck, 2017-2018 - MD/PhD student, Temple University

  • Emily Joy Mastrocola, 2017 - Scientist, Pfizer

  • Aidin Shabro, 2017 - Lab Manager, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  • Jessie Willen, 2017 - Senior Principal Scientist, Prevail Therapeutics