Alumni - Current Positions

If you are an alumnus and your information is not up to date, please contact Aileen Rosales at  (212) 746-6250 to provide us with your current information.   

(updated 06/2026)

Name Year of Graduation Advisor's Name Thesis Project Current Position
Helen Hoxie 2026 Lorraine Gudas

"Identifying the Role of Retinoic Acid Receptor Gamma in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma"

TBA

Arianna Izawa-Ishiguro 2026 Ingo Mellinghoff

Leveraging Radiotherapy to Enhance Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Glioblastoma

 

TBA

Kenneth W. Johnson 2026 Conor Liston

"Circuit Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Maladaptation and Neuromodulatory Recovery in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex"

TBA

Billy Lu 2026 Dawid Nowak

"Tracing the Clonal Evolution of Bladder Cancer Progression using the EvoCaB Platform"

TBA

Brittany Pham 2026 Heeseon An

"Regulation of UCK2 and its Therapeutic Potential"

 

Life Science Communications as an Account Executive 

Naira Abou-Ghali 2025 Giannkakakou

AR-V7 Utilizes an Noncanonical Nuclear Localization Sequence to Maintain Androgen Independent Nuclear Import 

Health Program - California

Ifé Akano 2025 Yael David

"Chromatin Regulation Beyond DNA Repair: Epigenetic Functions of SMARCA3, SHPRH, and EV-DNA in Cancer"

Life Science Specialist - L.E.K. Consulting

Ersilia Barin 2025 Heeseon An

Rapid Degradation of Ribosomal Proteins Determines the Role of R-proteins After Ribosome Biogenesis

TBD

Kaylah Birmingham 2025 Jessica Tyler
Methionine Restriction Extends Budding Yeast Lifespan Through Activating NNS Autophagy

Technology Specialist at Wolf Greenfield

Quinlan Cullen 2025 Keshari

[13C]-Fructose as A Glycolytic and Fructolytic Imaging Probe For Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

TBD

Domenic Gargiulo 2025 Dawid Nowak

Metabolic Adaptations in the Progression of Prostate Cancer to Metastasis

Scientist II at Revalia Bio

Justin Hachey 2025 Jason Lewis

A Theranostic Approach Against Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Targeting the Extracellular Matrix for ImmunoPET and Radioimmunotherapy

Discovery Scientist with Evergreen Theranostics

Tran Hoang 2025 Jason Lewis

Development of Antibody-Based Theranostic Agents for Delta-Like Ligand 3-Expressing Neuroendocrine Neoplasms

Postdoctoral Fellow - Dr. Jason Lewis Lab, MSKCC

Riley Hughes 2025 Elena Piskounova/John Blenis

Mechanism and Function of tRNA Wobble Uridine Modifications and a Related System in Melanoma Metastasis 

Hui-Hsuan Kuo 2025 Olivier Elemento

Patient-Derived Organoids as Translational Models For Precision Oncology And Tumor Microenvironment Research

Translational Scientist | Oncology, San Jose, California