Alumni
Tit-Yee Wong, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1981-1983.
Current: Professor, Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
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Donna Fontana, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1982-1986.
Current: Physician, Arthritis & Rheumatology Consultants, Edina, MN
Barry Knox, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1985.
Current: Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
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Anne Theibert, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1981-1985
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987
Current: Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
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Cathy Berlot, M.D., Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1983-1985
Award: Medical Scientist Training Program Scholarship, 1982-87
Previously: Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine
Current: Founder and President, PDX VEG, Portland, OR
Peter Klein, M.D., Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1984-1988
Award: Paul Ehrlich Research Award, 1987
Current: Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology), Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Director, Physician-Scientist Pathway, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Roxanne Vaughan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1986-1989
Current: Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
T. Julia Sun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1990.
Current: Staff Scientist, Industry Research, Taiwan
Maureen Brandon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1986-1991.
Dean, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. (Retired, 2017)
Robert Gundersen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1986-1991
Current: Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Molecular & Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME
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Ronald Johnson, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1987-1992
Awards:
- Predoctoral NRSA Award, 1987-89
- JHU Young Investigator’s Award, 1992
Current: Program Director, Cancer Etiology Branch, Division of Cancer Biology, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Geoffrey Pitt, M.D., Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1988-1993
Awards:
- Medical Scientist Training Program Scholarship, 1988-93
- Paul Ehrlich Research Award, 1993.
Current: Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY
Lijun Wu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1994
Current: Chief Scientific Officer, Fosun Pharma USA; President and CEO, Archimmune Therapeutics, Inc.
Pamela Lilly McNelis, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1987-1994
Previously: Staff Scientist at ChemDex
Current: Homemaker, Cupertino, CA
Robert Insall, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1992-1995
Award: Postdoctoral Research Award, 1995
Current: Professor of Computational Cell Biology, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK.
Michael Caterina, M.D., Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1989-1995
Awards:
- Searle Scholars Program, 2001
- Beckman Young Investigator, 2001
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1995
- Gate Pharmaceuticals Medical Student Award, 1995
Current: Solomon H. Snyder Professor of Neurosurgery; Professor and Director, Department of Biological Chemistry; Director, Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Dale Hereld, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1989-1995
Awards: Damon Runyun-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund Fellowship Award, 1990-92
Current: Program Director, NIH/NIAAA, Division of Metabolism and Health Effects, Bethesda, MD
Jacqueline Milne, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1996
Awards:
- Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1991-93
- Medical Research Council of Canada Centennial Fellowship, 1993-96
- JHU Young Investigator’s Award, 1996.
Current: Head, Electron Microscopy Core / Associate Scientist, NCI/CCR/NIH, Bethesda, MD
Ji-Yun Kim, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1989-1997 Current: Sr. Research Scientist, Bayer Healthcare, Richmond, CA
Mei-Yu Chen, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1991-1997
Award: Merck Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1992-97
Current: Professor, Institute of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
Brenda Blacklock, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1997
Current: Teaching Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Zhan Xiao, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1994-1999
Current: Associate Research Investigator, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott, IL
Misook Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1998-1999
Current: Homemaker, Korea
Yihong Yao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-2000
Current: Senior Scientist, Abbott Bioresearch Center, Worcester, MA
Carole Parent, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1992-1996
Instructor: 1996-2000
Awards:
- Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993-1996)
- American Cancer Society Institutional Award (1996-1997)
- NIH R01 Co-PI with Dr. Devreotes.
Current: Raymond and Lynne Ruddon Collegiate Professor of Cancer Biology and Pharmacology, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Saskia Van Es, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1996-2000
Current: Planner, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tian Jin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1994-2001 Awards:
- NIH Nephrology Training Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-99
- NIH National Public Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996-98 Current: Chief, Chemotaxis Signal Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD
Ning Zhang, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1996-2001
Current: Professor and Deputy Director, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China
Jeffrey Keefer, M.D.
Research Fellow: 2001
Current: Head, Pediatric and Rare Disease Center of Excellence, IQVIA, Baltimore, MD; Senior Medical Director, Hematology and Oncology, Therapeutic Science and Strategy Unit, IQVIA, Baltimore, MD
James Silverman, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1997-2004
Current: Medical Science Liaison, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries
Yi(Elaine) Huang, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1999-2004 Current: Research Scientist, CRISPR Therapeutics, Boston, MA
Carol Manahan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2004
Current: Associate Director, Scientific Education & Review, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Chris Janetopoulos, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2003 Research Associate: 2004-2005 Awards:
- ACS Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000
- JHU Albert Lehninger Young Investigators Award, 2002
Current: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
Miho Iijima, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2004
Research Associate: 2004-2006
Award: JHU Young Investigator's Award.
Current: Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University Biology School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Mark Landree, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2006
Award: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-05. Current: GenBank Biologist, NCBI/NIH ComputerCraft, Inc., McLean, VA
Francesca (Paquita) Vazquez, Ph.D.
Research Associate: 2003-2006
Current: Director of the Cancer Dependency Map Project, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Lingfeng Chen, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2000-2006
Current: Unknown
Linnan Tang, M.D., Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 1999-2007
Current: Associate Staff, Vascular & Spine Interventional Radiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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Sandra de Keijzer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2006
Current: Head of the Chemistry and Physics Department at NWO (Dutch Research Council), The Netherlands.
Stacey Willard, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow: 2005-2009
Award: Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006-08
Current: Head of Commercial & Technical Programs, Cytiva
Jonathan Franca-Koh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2003-2009
Current: Program Director, NCI Division of Cancer Biology, Physical Sciences-Oncology, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Josephine (Hoi Yan) Lee, M.D.
Current: Predoctoral Fellow [Master's Program]: 2009-2010
Physician, Richmond Hospital, Richmond, BC, Canada
Meghdad Rahdar, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2005-2010
Current: Director, Caribou Biosciences, Berkeley, CA
Yoichiro Kamimura, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2004-2011
Current: University Research Administrator, Nara Medical University, Center for Research Capability Development, Nara, Japan
Zachary Gagnon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2009-2011
Current: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Justin Galloway, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2007-2012 Current: Process Engineer, Novozymes
Doriane Sanseau, Ph.D.
Exchange Student: 2008-2012
Current: Directeur d’étude en immunolgie, Charles River Laboratories, Évreux, Normandie, France
Bill Diplas, M.D., Ph.D.
Predoctoral [Master's Program]: 2011
Current: Radiation Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Runchi Gao, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2012-2013
Current: Jr. Faculty member, School of Life Science, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming City, China
Ming (Michelle) Tang, Ph.D.
Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2014
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Department of Human Genetics, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
Nghia Nguyen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2012-2014
Current: Head, Genetic Laboratory, Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam
Kristen Swaney, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2005-2012
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2012-2015
Current: Scientific Project Administrator, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Huaqing Cai, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2007-2013
Research Associate: 2013-2015
Awards:
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009-2012
- Daniel Nathans Young Investigator Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2014.
Current: Assistant Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Chuan-Hsiang (Bear) Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2008-2014
Research Associate: 2014-2016
Award: Harold L Plotnick Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, 2009
Current: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Yulia Artemenko, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2008-2014
Research Associate: 2014-2016
Current: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York College at Oswego , Oswego, NY.
Thomas Lampert, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2012-2016
Research Associate: 2016-2017
Award: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Current: Senior Field Scientist (Atlantic Region), Agilent Technologies
Marc Edwards, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2014-2018
Award: Johns Hopkins University Provost's Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship FY2017
Current: Assistant Professor of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
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Yuchuan Miao, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2012-2019
Award: Michael A. Shanoff Young Investigators' Day Award from Johns Hopkins University, 2018
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Xiaoguang Li, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2016-2020
Awards:
- Bae Gyo Jung Young Investigators' Day Award from Johns Hopkins University, 2019
- American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, 2020
Current: Sr. Scientist II, AbbVie, Cambridge, MA
Zhihua Jiao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2017-2021
Current: Sr. Scientist, Scientific Research & Innovation, Crown Bioscience, Beijing, China
Suchitra Mitra, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2021-2024
Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Bedri Abubaker-Sharif
MD/PhD Predoctoral Fellow: 2015-2019 and 2021-2025 Current: Medical School, Johns Hopkins University
David (Huiwang) Zhan, Ph.D.
Predoctoral Fellow: 2014-2020; Postdoctoral Fellow: 2020-2025). Current: Principal Investigator, BeOne Medicines (formerly, BeiGene), Beijing, China
