John Maciejowski
“My lab is focusing on a dysfunction of the chromosomes that affects cancer development. My experiences and training at GSK really helped me get a fast start at Rockefeller University, where I did my postdoctoral work. As researchers at MSK, we have the opportunity to discover really cool things and the privilege to do what we really love.”
John Maciejowski, 2014 Graduate
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Nicholas M. Adams, PhD
Tri-I MD-PhD student
Dissertation: Regulation and heterogeneity of antiviral natural killer cell responses (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Joseph Sun, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Yale University
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Steven K. Albanese, PhD
Computational Drug Discovery Scientist at Schrödinger, Inc in New York, NY
Dissertation: Predicting selectivity and the functional impact of clinical cancer mutations for small molecule kinase inhibitors using physical modeling (2019)
Thesis Mentor: John Chodera, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
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Michael Langberg, PhD
Medical Writer at WebMD in New York, NY
Dissertation: Substrate Profiling of Human and Yeast Arginine Methyltransferases Using Chemical Tools (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Minkui Luo, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Vassar College
Qing Li, PhD
Scientist at CRISPR Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Investigating The Mechanism Of Human Definitive Endoderm Differentiation Through Genome-Scale Crispr Screens (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Danwei Huangfu, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona
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Brian H. Santich, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, NY
Dissertation: Understanding the Relationship Between Bispecific Antibody Design and Function: How Valency and Spatial Configuration Can Improve Anti-Tumor Responses (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PhD; Morgan Huse, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
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2018
Scott J. Callahan, PhD
Medical Writer at BGB Group, New York, NY
Dissertation: Modeling the origins of melanoma using zebrafish and human embryonic stem cells
Thesis Mentor: Richard White, MD, PhD; Lorenz Studer, MD
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
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Weiran Feng, PhD
Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY
Dissertation: BRCA2 Suppresses Replication Stress Through Homologous Recombination (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Maria Jasin, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Peking University
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Jens C. Hamann, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Dissertation: Cell Death Responses to Nutrient Deprivation (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Michael Overholtzer, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Yun-Han Huang, PhD
Tri-I MD-PhD Student
Dissertation: Escape from TGFß Tumor Suppression in Pancreatic Cancer (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Joan Massagué, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mehmet Erman Karasu, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dissertation: The role of cyclin B3 in mammalian meiosis
Thesis Mentor: Scott Keeney, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Bilkent University
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Edward Kastenhuber, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Dissertation: Functional interrogation of genetically simple and complex cancers
Thesis Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Pittsburgh
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Mary E. Klein Dooley, PhD
Clinical Research Coordinator at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dissertation: Defining CDK4 Inhibitor-Induced Senescence After Growth Arrest: A New Transition with Clinical Implications (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Andrew Koff, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona
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Catherine Konopacki, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Molecular Features of Regulatory T Cells in Health and Disease (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Alexander Rudensky, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: The University of British Columbia
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Kelsey R. Temprine, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI
Dissertation: Regulation of the Error-Prone DNA Polymerase polκ by Oncogenic Signaling (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Richard White, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Texas Austin
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George Vaisey, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Dissertation: Ion permeation and calcium-dependent regulation of the bestrophin channel (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Stephen B. Long, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: MBiochem, University of Oxford
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Raymond Wu, PhD
Healthcare Equity Research Associate at Ladenburg Thalmann in New York, NY
Dissertation: Engineering Chromosomal Rearrangements in Hematopoietic Cells (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
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2017
Emily C. Casey, PhD
Medical Writer at Health Interactions, San Francisco, CA
Dissertation: Reinventing the mouse wheel: A new mouse for the more accurate pre-clinical study of therapeutic antibodies for patients with cancer (2017)
Thesis Mentor: David A. Scheinberg, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Cornell University
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Kinisha Gala, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: KMT2C directs estrogen receptor activity in normal and transformed mammary cells (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: The College of New Jersey
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Marta Kovatcheva, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
Dissertation: New roles for old proteins: MDM2 and ATRX drive the transition from quiescence to senescence (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Andrew Koff, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Toronto
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Shefali Krishna, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La-jolla, California
Dissertation: Regulation of Lysosome Trafficking and Nutrient Homeostasis (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Michael Overholtzer, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: National University of Singapore
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Danilo G. Macalinao, PhD
Continuing Education- Master of Divinity, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
Dissertation: Mechanisms of Metastatic Latency and Outgrowth in HER2+ Breast Cancer (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Joan Massagué, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Wesleyan University
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Gregory Mazo, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: The Function of Subdistal Appendages in the Spatial Control of Cilia (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
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Brandon Nemieboka, PhD
Dissertation: MUC16 and L1CAM Targeted Molecular Imaging of Ovarian Cancer (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Jason S. Lewis, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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Joseph N. Pucella, PhD
Postdoctoral Position: NYU Langone, New York City, NY
Dissertation: The Elusive Role of MIR-182 and Clustered Paralogs in Adaptive Immunity
Thesis Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
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Piero Sanfilippo, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCLA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Dissertation: Landscape, biogenesis and function of 3’ UTR isoforms in Drosophila (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Eric C. Lai, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Keyon College
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Neel Shah, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Dissertation: Regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in prostate cancer disease progression and resistance to antiandrogen therapy (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Charles L. Sawyers, MD
Undergraduate Institution: The University of British Columbia
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Alison K. Spencer, PhD
Data Scientist, Dotdash, New York, NY
Dissertation: Scaling of cytoskeletal organization with cell size in Drosophila (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Jennifer A. Zallen, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Rochester
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2016
Robert Bowman, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Interrogation of the immune contexture in brain malignancy (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Johanna Joyce, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University
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Theresa L. Geiger, PhD
Scientist in Clinical Immunology at PACT Pharma in Hayward, CA
Dissertation: Developmental Control of Innate Lymphoid Cells (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Joseph Sun, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology
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Isabel Lam, PhD
Research Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Dissertation: The meiotic recombination initiation landscape in yeast: Evolutionary dynamics and factors that shape its distribution (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Scott Keeney, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: New York University
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Chong Luo, PhD
Scientist, Exploratory Biology at Juno Therapeutics, Inc., Seattle, WA
Dissertation: Transcriptional Control of T Cell Tolerance and Immunity (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Ming Li, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University
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Daniel H. Marks, PhD
Associate at RA Capital in Boston, MA
Dissertation: TRIP13 is a Critical Regulator of Mitotic Duration and Proliferation in Mad2-Overexpressing Cells (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Robert Benezra, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Yale University
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Anna Sophia McKenney, PhD
Interventional Radiology Resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Dissertation: Modeling Transformation From Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Ross L. Levine, MD
Undergraduate Institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic University
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Prashant Monian, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at Wave Life Sciences, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Mechanisms and Regulation of Apoptotic and Ferroptotic Programmed Cell Death (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Xuejun Jiang, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Georgia
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Oakley C. Olson, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dissertation: Mechanisms of Macrophage-Mediated Chemoprotection in Breast Cancer (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Johanna Joyce, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Brown University
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Cindy Puente, MA, PhD
Scientific Associate, Ogilvy CommonHealth Medical Education, Westwood, New Jersey
Dissertation: Sensing and Relayaing of the Autophagic Signal by the ULK1 Kinase Complex (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Xuejun Jiang, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Hunter College
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Leili Ran, PhD
Junior Associate McKinsey & Company Shanghai, China
Dissertation: Understanding and Targeting ETV1 in Sarcomas (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Ping Chi, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University
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Lei Wei, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Dissertation: Regulation of DNA replication initiation and the DNA damage response (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University
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Yilong Zou, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University and the Broad Institute, Boston, MA
Dissertation: Dissection of Transcriptional Programs in Embryonic and Metastatic Stem Cells (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Joan Massagué, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University
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2015
Jenny M. Karo Leeds, PhD
Associate, Bank of America, New York, NY
Dissertation: The RAG recombinase dictates functional heterogeneity and cellular fitness in natural killer cells (2015)
Thesis Mentor: Joseph Sun, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Tufts University
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Lindsay M. LaFave (Saunders), PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Role of the BAP1/ASXL1 Complex in Malignant Transformation and Therapeutic Response (2015)
Thesis Mentor: Ross L. Levine, MD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan
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Armine Matevossian, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc., Boston, MA
Dissertation: Structure and function of Hedgehog Acyltransferase in normal and cancer cells (2015)
Thesis Mentor: Marilyn Resh, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Structural and Functional Characterization of the RNA Exosome from S. cerevisiae (2015)
Thesis Mentor: Christopher D. Lima, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
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2014
Jennifer E. (Nnoli) Adeleye, PhD
Associate Director, Clinical Scientist at ADC Therapeutics in New Providence, New Jersey
Dissertation: IL-6/Stat3 Mediated Down-Regulation of Estrogen Receptor Alpha (ER) Expression in Breast Cancer (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Jacqueline F. Bromberg, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: California State University, Northridge
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Neha Bhagwat, PhD
Research Scientist, Prelude Therapeutics, Inc.
Dissertation: JAK2 is a Therapeutic Target in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Ross L. Levine, MD
Undergraduate Institution: Drexel University
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John Halliday, PhD
Dissertation: Assessment of Cell Type Specific Gene Expression Regulation in Proneural Glioma and Response to Therapy (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Eric C. Holland, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
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John Maciejowski, PhD
Assistant Member, Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, MSKCC; Assistant Professor, GSK, MSKCC
Dissertation: (Phospho) Regulation of Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachment and Spindle Checkpoint Activity by the Mps1 Kinase (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: New York University
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James P. Mahaffey, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, NYU School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: The Dual Roles of WNT Signaling: Directing Cell Fate and Tissue Morphogenesis During Early Mouse Development (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Kathryn V. Anderson, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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Justine D. Miller, PhD
Senior Scientist, Neurodegeneration at AbbVie, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Human iPSC-Based Modeling of Late-Onset Disease Via Progerin-Induced Agingm (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Lorenz Studer, MD
Undergraduate Institution: Connecticut College
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Moriah Heller Nissan, PhD
Science Writer and Editor at the Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: NF1 Loss is a Functional Genomic Event in Melanoma (2014)
Thesis Mentor: David B. Solit, MD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Rochester
Berenice Ortiz Thompson, PhD
Associate Scientific Director (Sales Training), Ethos Healthcare Communications, Yardley, PA
Dissertation: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Function of the Tyrosine Phosphatase PTPRD in Cancer (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Timothy A. Chan, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
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Sadia Rahman, PhD
Scientist at New York Genome Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Functional Genomics of Cohesin Acetyltransferases in Human Cells (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Wesleyan University
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Jessica Rios-Esteves, PhD
Project Manager MS&T at Novartis Morris Plains, NJ
Dissertation: Fatty Acylation of WNT Proteins by the Acyltranferase Porcupine (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Marilyn Resh, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
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William Walkowicz, PhD
Current Position: Co-founder & CEO at Chemitope Glycopeptide
Dissertation: Design and Synthesis of Quillaja Saponin Adjuvants and Synthesis of Lablaboside Saponins
Thesis Mentor: David Y. Gin, PhD; Derek Tan, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
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Shannon Yu, PhD
Medical Scientist, Immuno-Oncology, Lung Cancer at Bristol-Myers, Squibb, NY, NY
Dissertation: The Role of the Actin Cytoskeleton during Muscle Development in Drosophila and Mouse (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Mary Baylies, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Georgia
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2013
Minna Balbas, PhD
Medical Writer Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. Novato, CA
Dissertation: Mutation Based Resistance to Antiandrogens in Prostate Cancer (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Charles L. Sawyers, MD
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
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Nicholas Paul Gauthier, PhD
Staff Scientist, Dana Farber Cancer Center, Boston, MA
Dissertation: Cell Type Specific Labeling with Amino Acid Precursors (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Chris Sander, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Utah
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Yvonne Gruber Mica, PhD
Manager, Field Applications - Cell Biology Thermo Fisher Scientific New York, NY
Dissertation: Modeling Neural Crest Induction, Melanocyte Specification and Disease-Related Pigmentation Defects in hESCs and Patient-Specific iPSCs (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Lorenz Studer, MD
Undergraduate Institution: Wellesley College
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Ellen Hukkelhoven, PhD
Biotech Analyst, Perceptive Advisors, New York, NY
Dissertation: Phosphorylation – Dependent Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor TRIM3 (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Andrew Koff, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
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Karen Hunter Cohn, PhD
Director, Translational Science Celmatix New York, NY
Dissertation: Investigation of Tumor Cell Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulators of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumorigenesis (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Johanna Joyce, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Alexandria N. Miller, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate at HHMI/Janelia, Ashburn, VA
Dissertation: Structural and Biochemical Studies of the Human Two Pore Domain Potassium Channel K2P1 (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Stephen B. Long, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Smith College
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Jeffery R. Smith
Vice President, Investment Banking, H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, New York, NY
Dissertation: The Role of Rho GTPases in Breast Cancer Progression (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Alan Hall, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: University of Iowa
Ly Vu, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: The Role of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase – 4 (PRMT4) in normal and malignant hematopoiesis (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Stephen D. Nimer
Undergraduate Institution: Dai hoc Quoc Gia Hanoi
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2012
James Dowdle, PhD
Medical Science Liaison (Dermatology), Biofrontera Pharma GmbH, Columbus, Ohio
Dissertation: Expression and Function of the Chromatin Remodeling Factor ACF1 (BAZ1A) during Mouse Development (2012)
Thesis Mentor: Scott Keeney, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
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2011
Eric S. Alonzo, PhD
Scientist II, Cellular Analytics at Bluebird Bio, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Transcriptional Regulation During Innate T Cell Development (2011)
Thesis Mentor: Derek Sant’Angelo, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: San Francisco State University
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Semanti Mukherjee, PhD
Assistant Attending Geneticist, Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Integrative Genome-Wide Analysis to Study the Germline Genetics of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (2011)
Thesis Mentor: Robert Klein, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
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Dimiter V. Tassev, PhD
Current Position: Biotech Analyst, Surveyor Capital/Citadel LLC, New York, NY
Dissertation: Generation and Use of HLA-A2-Restricted, Peptide-Specific Monoclonal Antibodies and Chimeric Antigen Receptors
Thesis Mentor: Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: The Ohio State Unversity
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