Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Alumni

year left the group

name

degree

where are they now?

2024

Soumen Das

Research Scientist II

Aera Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

2023

Alexandre Marques

Principal Research Scientist

Assistant Prof., U. Southern Mississippi

2023

Nathan Honorato

visiting student

UFMG, Brazil

2023

Sonia Bhattacharya

Ph.D.

ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, CDC

2023

Robert Hincapie

Ph.D. and postdoc

Postdoctoral Fellow (S. Correa), Columbia U.

2023

Anand Podilapu

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., Emory School of Medicine (w. James Dhalman)

2023

Binoy Maiti

Postdoc

Scientist, Kemira Chemicals, Atlanta

2022

Nick Bruno

Postdoc

Research Scientist, Osmoses, Inc.

2021

Minghao Xu

Postdoc

Res. Sci. II, Synthetic Chem., Poseida Therapeutics

2021

Ruyi Yang

M.Sc.

Pacific Biosciences, San Diego, CA

2021

Asheley Chapman

Ph.D.

Postdoc, MIT (D. Irvine)

2021

Liangjun Zhao

Postdoc

Senior Scientist, Genentech

2021

Lucrezia DePascalis

Ph.D.

Scientist, Agios Pharma

2021

Kirstie Thompson

Ph.D.

Scientist (Future Leaders Program), BASF

2019

Saona Seth

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., Tezpur University, India

2019

Jessica Lloyd

M.Sc.

2019

Breanne Hamlett

Ph.D.

Scientist, Defense Forensic Science Center

2018

Jennifer Beveridge

Ph.D.

Scientist, National Nuclear Security Agency

2018

Annika Yau

Postdoc

Senior Scientist, Mersana Therapeutics

2018

Srinivas Tekkam

Postdoc

Senior Scientist, Concert Pharmaceuticals

2018

Stephen Crooke

Ph.D.

Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2018

Zhishuai Geng

Ph.D.

Assistant Prof., Beijing Institute of Technology

2018

Allison Aioub

Ph.D.

Analyst, Boston Consulting Group

2018

Mike Baksh

Postdoc

Senior Scientist, Hexagon Bio

2018

Carlos Sanhueza Chavez

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., St. John’s University

2017

Jiri Schimer

Postdoc

Research Scientist, Inst. Org. Chem. Biochem., Prague

2017

Rena Ingram

M.Sc.

Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow, Kennesaw State U.; Creekside High School

2016

Tamara Vilches Romero

Postdoc

Assistant Director of Laboratories, Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. John’s University

2016

Christian Scheibe

Postdoc

Protein Chemist, Allergopharma, Hamburg

2016

Jenny Cheng

technician

Scientist, Novartis (Cambridge, MA)

2016

Craig McKay

Postdoc

Scientific Director, Bioconjugation @ Dynamic Cell Therapies

2016

Igor Rupniewski

Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Elegen, Inc.

2015

Cody Higginson

Ph.D.

Scientist, BioCellection, Menlo Park, CA

2014

Roman Valiulin

Postdoc

Senior Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

2014

Hanna Wisniewska

Postdoc

Scientist, Pfizer Research & Development

2014

Zinaida Polonskaya

Ph.D.

Principal Scientist, Discovery Immunology, Bristol Myers Squibb

2014

Marisa (Hovlid) Martino

Ph.D.

Strategic Alliance Manager, ThermoFisher

2014

Jaume Farres

sabbatical

Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

2013

Laurie Smith

Administrative wizardry

Freelance writer, Taos, NM

2013

Alexander Kislukhin

Ph.D.

Consultant, Albond Technologies

2012

Katarzyna Kaczanowska

Postdoc

Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Captor Therapeutics, Wroclaw, Poland

2012

Jason Fiedler

Ph.D.

Research Plant Molecular Geneticist, US Department of Agriculture

2012

Sanjay Dutta

Postdoc

Assoc. Prof., Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata

2012

Kurt Breitenkamp

Postdoc

Managing Scientist, Exponent, Inc.

2012

Jin-Kyu Rhee

Postdoc

Assoc. Prof., Ewa Womans University, Seoul, Korea

2012

Srinivas Chirapu

Postdoc

postdoc with K.B. Sharpless, TSRI, then ?

2011

Marta Comellas Aragones

Postdoc

Program and Team Manager, TU/e innovation Space, Eindhoven Univ.

2011

Burkardt Laufer

Postdoc

Senior Scientist, Ascendis Pharma, Heidelberg

2011

Cathy Préville

visiting scientist

Patent Liaison, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson

2011

Adrian Accurso

M.Sc.

Actuarial Analyst, CNA Insurance

2011

Stanislav Presolski

Ph.D.

Assistant Prof., Yale-National University Singapore

2011

Jonathan Pokorski

Postdoc

Assoc. Prof., UCSD, Nanoengineering

2010

Florian Manzenrieder

Postdoc

Head, Translation Department, TBK Munich

2010

Sreeman Mamidyala

Postdoc

Head, Translation Department, TBK Munich

2010

Jolene Lau

Ph.D.

Director, Competitive Intelligence, BioMarin Pharmaceutical

2010

Steve Brown

Ph.D.

Director, Software & Analytics, Zafrens, Inc.

2010

Vu Hong

Ph.D.

Co-Founder, TravinBio

2010

Hiroaki Kitagishi

sabbatical

Professor, Dept of Molecular Chemistry and Biochemistry, Doshisha University

2009

Petr Cigler

postdoc

Assoc. Prof., Institute of Org. Chem. and Biochem., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

2009

Steve Craig

sabbatical

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Duke University

2009

Deboshri Banerjee

postdoc

Senior Scientist, Warner Babcock Inst. for Green Chemistry

2008

Reshma Jagasia

Ph.D.

Regulatory Affairs, CymaBay Therapeutics

2008

Dong-Gyu Cho

postdoc

Professor, Inha University, S. Korea

2008

Andrew Udit

postdoc

Professor, Dept of Chemistry, Occidental College

2008

So-Hye Cho

postdoc

Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology

2008

Takayoshi Suzuki

sabbatical

Professor, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

2008

Yeon-Hee Lim

postdoc

Director, Discovery Chemistry, Merck

2008

Sejin Lee

postdoc

Senior Scientist, Agency for Defense Development, Korea

2007

Jane Kuzelka

postdoc

Patent agent, McNeill-Baur, San Diego

2007

Eiton Kaltgrad

Ph.D.

Assay Development Lead, Abbott Technologies

2007

Valentin Rodionov

Ph.D.

Assistant Prof., Macromol. Sci. Eng., Case Western Reserve Univ.

2007

Duane Prasuhn

Ph.D.

Postdoc, Naval Research Laboratory, then ??

2007

Jeremiah Johnson

visiting summer student

Professor of Chemistry, MIT

2007

Lisa Landino

sabbatical

Professor, College of William and Mary

2007

Erica Strable

Ph.D.

Principal Scientist, Merck