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 03/2025)

Name Year of Graduation Advisor's Name Thesis Project Current Position
Chiara Evans 2024 Kharas

Arginine Methylation of the RNA-binding Protein MUSASHI2 Regulates Normal and Malignant Blood Fate

Postdoctoral Researcher at Sloan Kettering Institute

Jessica Falci 2024 Yueming Li

Development and Mechanism of Autophagy Modulators for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Postdoctoral Fellow - D r. Yueming Li Lab

Jacob Ferreira 2024 Buck/Levin

Regulation of the Full-Length Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase Isoform

Postdoctoral Fellow - Buck/Levin Lab

Pamela Hatfield 2024 Marcel van den Brink

Microbiota-Derived Indoxyl Sulfate Enhances CAR T Cell Cytotoxicity in a Lymphoma Tumor Model

Postdoctoral Fellow - Marcel van den Brink Lab

Chieh Hsiao 2024 Dan Bachovchin

The Regulation of the NLRP1 and CARD8 Inflammasomes

Postdoctoral Fellow - Harvard Medical School

Mindy Hugo 2024
Elizabeth Isaac 2024 Jan Grimm

Harnessing the Therapeutic Potential of Iron and Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in the Treatment of Solid Tumors

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MSKCC specializing in Cancer Research, Nanotechnology, and Tumor Immune Microenvironment

Keifer Kurtz 2024 David Scheinberg

Orthogonal approaches for enhancing immunotherapies

Scientist I at Nurix Therapeutics

Wendy Lin 2024 Joao Xavier

Fusobacterium nucleatum Reprograms ColorectalCancer Cells to Evade NK Cell Killing

Fellow - Baret Scholars
Brandon Ng 2024 Van Den Brink

Engineered Il-18 Secretion and Multi-Antigen Targeting Enable CAR T cells to Eliminate Multiple Myeloma with Low Antigen Expression in an Immunocompetent Mouse Model

Research Scientist II at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Nathaniel Tse 2024 Francis Lee

Preadolescent Stress Impairs Social Interaction and Alters Social Circuit Activity in the mOFC-BLA Projection

Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Francis Lee's Lab

Mildred Unti 2024 Samie Jaffrey

A Method for Expressing Circular mRNA in Mammalian Cells and its Use as A Therapeutic and Research Tool

Scientist at Stealth Startup

Svena Verma 2024 Merghoub/Wolchok

Targeting Tumor Glycolysis Redirects Intratumoral Glucose Uptake and Improves Anti-Tumor Immunity

Postdoctoral Fellow, Merghoub/Wolchok Lab

Daniel Worroll 2024 Yueming Li

4-Aminoquinoline Inhibitors of the Autophagy-Lysosomal Pathway (ALP) as a Therapeutic Approach For Pancreatic Cancer

Postdoctoral Fellow - Dr. Yueming Li Lab

Lia Zallar 2024 Kristen Pleil

"The Reciprocal Relationship Between Estrogen, Alcohol, and the P450 Enzyme Aromatase"

 Postdoctoral Scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University