Alumni - Current Positions
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(updated 03/2025)
| Name | Year of Graduation | Advisor's Name | Thesis Project | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Blawski | 2019 | Minkui Luo |
An Investigation of KMT2 Family Methyltransferases: Novel Roles for Protein Lysine Methylation in Cancer. |
Postdoctoral Fellow - Minkui Luo Lab MSKCC |
| Charles Ferranti | 2019 | Kolesnick, Richard |
Radiation-Induced "Nanopores" Facilitate Calcium-Mediated Apoptosis via ASMase Activity. |
Associate Director, External Innovation at Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Christopher Horoszko | 2019 | Daniel Heller |
Under Stress From Oncogenic Ras: Secretory Phospholipase A2 Activity and Lipid Dysregulation. |
R&D Scientist | Consultant |
| Lauren T Marek (Forbes) | 2019 | Kentsis, Alex |
Functional Proteomics and Pharmacologic Disassembly of Oncogenic Enhanceosomes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. |
Investor Communications @ LifeSci Advisors |
| Claire Yan-Cheer Oh | 2019 | Scheinberg, David |
Regulating Antigen Presentation And Unmasking New Cancer Antigens Through ALK, RET, And MEK Inhibitors. |
Senior Business ConsultantSenior Business Consultant - Veeva Systems |
| David Schachter | 2019 | Li, Yueming |
Characterizing Notch1 Signaling and Amyloid Beta Cleavage. |
Patent Agent at Cooley LLP |
| Benjamin I. Schwartz | 2019 | Gross, Steven |
Applications of Mass Spectrometry-based Metabolomics to Address Biomedical Problems. |
Independent Biopharma Consultant |
| Ryan Serio | 2019 | Lorraine Gudas |
Ethanol-Mediated Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells via Retinoic Acid-Retinoic Acid Receptor-Gamma Signaling. |
Postdoctoral Fellow - Dr. Dawid Nowak's Lab, NYC |
| Joshua Zuk | 2019 | Gross, Steven |
The Mitochondrial Folate Transporter: Role in Breast Cancer Cell Metabolism and Consequences of Loss. |
Senior Scientist at Evotec |
| Elaine A. Ballinger | 2018 | Nathan, Carl |
Identification of a Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase Inhibitor that Kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a Novel Mechanism of Resistance. |
Research Scientist - AgonOx, Inc. |
| Sara Elizabeth Dinapoli | 2018 | Houvras, Yariv |
Aberrant Polycomb Activity in Melanocyte Development and Disease. |
Director, Scientific Programs at the Melanoma Research Alliance |
| Ron Shlomo Gejman | 2018 | Scheinberg, David |
The Fault is in Our TCRs: Searching for On and Off-Targets in T Cell Receptor Based Therapies |
Fellow in Hematology/OncologyFellow in Hematology/Oncology - Columbia University Irving Medical Center |
| Wan-Ying Hsieh | 2018 | Mellinghoff, Ingo |
Characterization of Ran-binding protein 6 as a Novel Regulator of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Cancer. |
Senior Scientist - REVOLUTION Medicines |
| Jocelin Marie Kalish | 2018 | Gudas, Lorraine |
Evaluation Of Bmi-1 Function In The Normal Tongue Epithelium And During Oral Carcinogenesis In A Murine ModelOf Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. |
Health and Wellness Instructor |
| Suranjit Mukherjee | 2018 | Chen, Shuibing |
Derivation and Characterization of a UCP1 Reporter Human ES Cell Line |
Vice President - BTIG |