Former Group Members 


Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students

Dr. Anna Truong – Postdoctoral Fellow at Prof. Wendy Mok’s lab, UCONN Health

Dr. Justin Davis – Assistant Professor of Biology, North Carolina Wesleyan University

Dr. Erin Schroeder – Senior Scientist, Merck

Dr. Christopher Mansfield – Research Scientist, Sound Biologics

Elise Bell – Senior Science Analyst, Schmidt Sciences

Dr. Hannah D'Ambrosio – Senior Scientist, Moderna

Dr. Amber Costakes – Senior Scientist/Group Leader, KBI Biopharma

Dr. John “Jack” Ganley – Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Prof. Mo Seyedsayamdost’s lab, Princeton University

Dr. Aaron Keeler – Scientific Consultant, Eva Garland Consulting

Dr. Kuan-Yi Lu – NIAID K99 Postdoctoral Fellow at Prof. Brian Conlon’s lab, UNC, Chapel Hill

Marisha Perkins – Program Manager, UVI’s Research and Technology Park

Dr. Dora Posfai – Associate Director of Research Cores, New England Biolabs

Dr. Kayla Sylvester – Senior Research Scientist I, Promega Corporation

Dr. Maria Toro Moreno – Hanna Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr. Rene Raphemot – Regulatory Coordinator II, Cedars-Sinai


Undergraduate students

Elizabeth Boger – MD Candidate, Frist College of Medicine

James Bradford, MD – General Surgeon, UChicago Medicine

Francesca Brancati – Resident Doctor, Duke University Health System

Xiaoyu Cai, MD – Opthalmology, Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Alyssa Carter – Ph.D. Student, Stanford School of Medicine

Estella Chen, MD – Resident Physician, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Daniel Cheong – B.S. Chemistry 2021

McKenna Crawford – Ph.D. Student, UCSF

Quinlan Cullen – Ph.D. Student, Sloan Kettering Institute

Ankita Das – High School Chemistry Teacher, Teach for America

Charlie Farquhar – Chief Analytical Officer, Innocular AI

Rechel Geiger – MSTP Student, University of Washington

Cody Goldberger – Medical Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ruitian (Xeno) Hu – Clinical Research Coordinator, Massachusetts General Hospital

Eric Lakey – Resident Physician, University of Florida

Olivia Liu – Medical Student, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Margaret Lundberg – Data Platform Engineer, Jewelers Mutual Group

Peter Luo – MSTP Student, University of Texas Southwestern

Arjun Nanda – Medical Student, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

Moreen Njoroge – Medical Student, Duke University School of Medicine

Ahmed Noor, MD – Resident Physician, University of Illinois Hospital

Danielle Pitchon – Medical Student, Duke University School of Medicine

Daniel Ryan – MD/Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Sabrina Sebastian-San Miguel – B.A. Anthropology 2024

Meg Shieh – Ph.D. Student, Brown University

Tamanna Srivastava – Ph.D. Student, University of Pennsylvania

Keying Sun – Financial Insurance Officer, Sunshine Insurance Company

Michael Tran – Associate Principal, SciVida

Dr. Grace Zimu Wang – Patent Agent, McNeill PLLC

Lauren Waskowicz, MD – Internal Medicine Resident and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center


High School Students

Ritvik Bodducherla – NC School of Science and Mathematics, 2017

Eric Chen – NC School of Science and Mathematics, 2022 – 2023

Jeffrey He – NC School of Science and Mathematics, 2015

Cindy Lui – NC School of Science and Mathematics, 2018 – 2019

Smruti Patil – William G. Enloe Magnet High School, NC, 2022

Vibha Puri – NC School of Science and Mathematics, 2015 – 2016

Farzana Ripa – Hillside High School, NC, 2017

Nishma Vias – NC School of Science and Mathematics, 2016

Chenyue (Michelle) Zhao – Peddie School, NJ, 2021