Students and Alumni
Current G&D Students
- Zeynep Coban Akdemir
Dr. Barton - Neeraj Aryal
Dr. Lozano - Nancy Azizian
Dr. H. Wang - Samantha Barkey
Dr. Swindell - Vida Chitsazzadeh
Dr. Tsai - Patty Dimarco
Dr. Gladden - Aundrietta Duncan
Dr. Barton - Kevin Farquhar
Dr. Balázsi - Ramon Flores Gonzalez
Dr. Flores - Amanda Haltom
Dr. Jafar-Nejad - Le Huang
Dr. Huff - Richard Huang
Dr. Tyler - Yun Seong Jeong
Dr. Lin - Juyeon Jo
Dr. Galko - Eun Young Kim
Dr. Schwartz - Connie Larsson
Dr. Lozano - Moon Sup Lee
Dr. McCrea - Marco Leung
Dr. Navin - Jing Li
Dr. Barton
- Qin Li
Dr. Lozano - Lindsey Cauthen Minter
Dr. Barton - William Muñoz
Dr. McCrea - Niza Nemkul
Dr. Krushel - Mark Nolte
Dr. Behringer - Javier Ortiz
Dr. Lozano - Sangita Pal
Dr. Tyler - Blake Palculict
Dr. Huff - Atanu Paul
Dr. Wang - Esmeralda Ramirez-Peña
Dr. Mani - Aaron Raymond
Dr. Nagarajan - Andria Schibler
Dr. Dent - Mehrnoosh Tashakori
Dr. Lozano - Kaushik Thakkar
Dr. Barton - Jeannette Tucker
Dr. Johnson - Avinash Venkatanarayan
Dr. Flores - Alejandro Villar-Prados
Dr. Gladden - Pingping Wang
Dr. Tyler
G&D Alumni (Partial List)
- Allen, Luetta (Ph.D. 2001, Dr. Laurence Etkin)
Project Director, External Collaborations, Translational Research, UP's Office
MD Anderson Cancer Center - Arango, Nelson (Ph.D. 1999, Dr. Richard Behringer)
Instructor
Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital - Chandler, Dawn (Ph.D. 1998, Dr. William Mattox)
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University - Childress, Jennifer (Ph.D. 2006, Dr. Georg Halder)
Senior Advisor, Science
Achieve - Garrett Sinha, Lee Ann (Ph.D. 1996, Dr. Benoit de Crombrugghe)
Associate Professor
University at Buffalo - Gilbreth, Mary (Ph.D. 1998, Dr. Stevan Marcus)
Registered Patent Agent
Gilbreth & Associates, P.C. - Gully, Christopher (Ph.D. 2011, Dr. Mong Hong Lee)
Industrial Process Manager
CEVA Biomune - Horan, Gerald (Ph.D. 1995, Dr. Richard Behringer)
Principal Scientist
Molecular Discovery, Biogen Idec - Hu, Qiyong (Jackie) (Ph.D. 2002, Dr. Richard Behringer)
Senior Biotech Analyst
Oppenheimer, New York City - Huang, Wendong (Ph.D. 1998, Dr. Benoit de Crombrugghe)
Associate Professor
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope - Lagow, Errin (Ph.D. 2002, Dr. Daniel Carson)
Associate Director
Asuragen, Inc. - Lee, Hu-Hui (Ph.D. 2003, Dr. Richard Behringer)
Assistant Professor
National Chiayi University, Taiwan - Li, James (Ph.D. 1998, Dr. Richard Behringer)
Associate Professor
University of Connecticut Health Center - Ovchinnikov, Dmitry (Ph.D. 2002, Dr. Richard Behringer)
Research Fellow
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia - Parant, John (Ph.D. 2001, Dr. Gigi Lozano)
Assistant Professor
University of Alabama - Park, Jae-il (Ph.D. 2006, Dr. Pierre McCrea)
Assistant Professor
MD Anderson Cancer Center - Qyang, Yibing (Ph.D. 2002, Dr. Stevan Marcus)
Assistant Professor
Yale School of Medicine and Yale Stem Cell Center - Reinke, Valerie (Ph.D. 1998, Dr. Gigi Lozano)
Associate Professor
Yale University - Ren, Yongsheng (Ph.D. 1999, Dr. Warren Liao)
Assistant Professor
Director of Molecular Diagnostic Service
University of Alabama - Rivera, Jaime (Ph.D. 1997, Dr. Richard Behringer)
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School - Vivian, Jay (Ph.D 1999, Dr. William Klein)
Assistant Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center - Wagner, Daniel (Ph.D. 1997, Dr. William Klein)
Associate Professor
Rice University - Xu, Allison (Wanting) (Ph.D. 1999, Dr. Sharon Dent)
Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco - Zhang, Wenzheng (Ph.D. 1998, Dr. Sharon Dent)
Associate Professor
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston - Zhao, Qi (Ph.D. 1996, Dr. Benoit de Crombrugghe)
Assistant Investigator
Johns Hopkins University
G&D Alumni Trainees at Institutions
More recent G&D graduates are doing postdoctoral research at these institutions:
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Dana-Farber Institute
- Duke University
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Harvard Medical School
- Huntsman Cancer Institute-University of Utah
- Indiana University
- Johns Hopkins University
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- National Institutes of Health
- Ordway Research Institute
- Rockefeller University
- Salk Institute
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Swiss Institute of Technology
- UCLA
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- University of Washington
- Vanderbilt University

