Alumni - Current Positions

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(updated 06/2024)

Name Year of Graduation Advisor's Name Thesis Project Current Position
Iva Dincheva 2013 Lee, Francis The Role of Neurotrophins and Neurotrophin-like Receptors in CNS Disorders Technical Specialist, Intellectual Property Dept. at WilmerHale, NY
Kasia Marcinkiewicz 2013 Gudas, Lorraine Altered Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression in Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cell Lines Locum Assistant Editor at Nature Biotechnology at Springer Nature, New York, NY
Elissaveta Petrova 2013 Resh, Marilyn Development of Hedgehog Acyltransferase Inhibitors as a Novel Method to Inhibit Sonic Hedgehog Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer Laboratory Head at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Gina Rocco 2013 Cartegni, Luca Characterization of Alternative Splicing Events of AML1-ETO Fusion Protein in Leukemia Senior Medical Writer at BGB Group, New York, NY
Daniele Rohle 2013 Mellinghoff, Ingo Characterization of the Role of Mutant Isocitrate Dehydrogenase (IDH1) in Gliomagenesis. Scientist at Roche, Basel Area, Switzerland
Aneesh Sheth 2013 Scheinberg, David Inhibition of Mitochondrial Peptide Deformylase Causes Apoptosis in C-myc Overexpressing Cancers CEO, Dr. Sheth Enterprises, Mumbia, India
Matthew Sung 2013 Giannakakou, Paraskevi

Towards the Understanding of Clinical Taxane Resistance

Director at AstraZeneca

Rui Wang 2013 Luo, Minkui Profiling Substrates of Protein Methyltransferases with SAM Analogues and Engineered Enzymes Senior Scientist at AbbVie Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jacob Bitterman 2012 Levin/Buck Pharmacologic and Genetic Modulation of Adenylyl Cyclase Activity. Residue Chemistry Reviewer at FDA CVM Washington D.C. Metro Area/Pharmaceuticals
Aikaterini Chatzi 2012 Melnick, Ari Mechanisms of BCL6 Transcriptional Repression in Germinal Center B cells and Lymphoma Postdoctoral Fellow, Ari Melnik lab, WCMC
Jonathan Chen 2012 Levin/Buck Molecular Identification of Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase in Somatic Tissues. Radiation Oncology Resident Physician at Weill Cornell Medicine Greater New York City Area
Ken Hess 2012 Buck/Levin

A cAMP Microdomain Contained Within Eukaryotic Mitochondria

Associate Director, Business Development Analytics at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.)

Jonathan Wei Ji Chang 2012 Shuman, Stewart Formation and Roles of the Trimethylguanosine Cap Update Coming Soon
Mark Lundquist 2012 Jaffrey, Samie MICAL-2 Regulates Nuclear Actin Postdoctoral Researcher, Meyer Cancer Center (Cantley Lab) Weill Cornell Medicine
Tal Nuriel 2012 Gross, Steven Unbiased Identification and Quantification of Protein Nitration Sites and Investigation of their Reversibility Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, New York