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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2023
Bradley Benjamin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at Pre-Therapeutic Target Discovery / RGC in Tarrytown, NY
Dissertation: Structure/Function Analyses of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe Proteins Ppn1 and Asp1, Two Agents of Transcription Termination and Phosphate Homeostasis
Thesis Mentor: Stewart Shuman, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Tufts University; MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Mollie Chipman, PhD
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group, New York, NY
Dissertation: Understanding the Glioblastoma Tumor Immune Microenvironment as Foundation for Refining Immunotherapeutic Strategies: Contributions from Tumor Cell Lineage and NF1 Alterations
Thesis Mentor: Luis F. Parada, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Tufts University
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Anton Dobrin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Antigen Agnostic Co-Stimulation for Engineered TCR T-Cells
Thesis Mentor: Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, University of Toronto; MS, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Florisela Herrejon Chavez, PhD
Dissertation: RNA binding protein SYNCRIP is required for maintaining normal hematopoietic and leukemia stem cell self-renewal
Thesis Mentor: Michael G. Kharas, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Portland State University
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Yasemin Kaygusuz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN
Dissertation: L1CAM and Planar Cell Polarity Maintain the SOX2+ Progenitor-Like State in Lung Cancer Metastasis (2023)
Thesis Mentor: Joan Massagué, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Bilkent Universitesi
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Buren Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Structure and Activation Mechanism of the Replication Checkpoint Kinase ATR-ATRIP
Thesis Mentor: Nikola P. Pavletich, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, MS, University of Toronto
Miguel A. Miranda-Roman, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at Boehringer Ingelheim in Ridgefield, CT
Dissertation: Overcoming Resistance to MEK Inhibitor Treatment in NF1-Deficient MPNST
Thesis Mentor: Ping Chi, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
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Gemma L. Regan-Mochrie, PhD
Dissertation: Regulation of DNA Replication Initiation and Elongation
Thesis Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BA, Smith College
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Adina R. Schonbrun, PhD
Dissertation: Kinetic Mechanism and Substrate Specificity of Hedgehog Acyltransferase
Thesis Mentor: Marilyn Resh, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BA, Yeshiva University
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Maria Sirenko, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Langone, New York, NY
Dissertation: Integrative single cell profiling and population genomic studies to characterize the role of somatic mutations in hematologic malignancies
Thesis Mentor: Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Cornell University
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Adele Whaley, PhD
Dissertation: mTORC1 Selective Inhibitors for the Treatment of KRAS G12C Mutant Cancers
Thesis Mentor: Neal Rosen, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, SUNY Stony Brook
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2022
Paige Arnold, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate at Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Dissertation: Identifying Metabolic Determinants of Cell Identity (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Lydia Finley, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Duke University
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Jacob A. Boyer, PhD
Ludwig Princeton Scholar in Cancer Metabolism at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Dissertation: Estrogen Receptor Alpha Translation, Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Implications
Thesis Mentor: Neal Rosen, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Pennsylvania State University
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Hsuan-An (Sean) Chen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Dissertation: Senescence Rewires the Microenvironment Sensing Program to Facilitate Immune Surveillance (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, National Taiwan University (Taiwan); PhD, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New York, NY
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Tingxu Chen, PhD
Project Manager at Wuxi Biologics, Cranbury, NJ
Dissertation: A Hypomorphic Mutation in Pold1 Disrupts the Coordination of Embryo Size Expansion and Morphogenesis During Gastrulation (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Danwei Huangfu, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University
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Rui Gao, PhD
Patent Law Clerk at Arnold and Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC
Dissertation: Novel Approaches for in vitro and in vivo Manipulation of the Mouse Genome
Thesis Mentor: Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U. of London; Master of Research, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U. of London
Caroline Gleason, PhD
Medical Associate, The Scienomics Group, New York, NY
Dissertation: Defining the Pathway to Cellular Senescence: Implications for Cancer Therapy and Physiology (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Andrew Koff, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BA, Barnard College
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Nayan Jain, PhD
Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY
Dissertation: Epigenetic Programming of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Stella Paffenholz, PhD
Analyst, Nexttech, Boston, MA
Dissertation: Flexible Preclinical Models of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma to Elucidate Mechanisms of Treatment Sensitivity and Resistance (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: PhD, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School, New York, NY
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Zhongmin Wang, PhD
Scientist 3, Immunology Discovery, Genentech, San Francisco, CA
Dissertation: Ontogeny and Function of Regulatory T Cells during Established Inflammation and at Intestinal Mucosa (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Alexander Rudensky, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BSc, The University of Hong Kong; PhD, Gerstner Sloan Kettering
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2021
Corina Amor Vegas, MD, PhD
CSHL Independent Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Dissertation: From Cancer to Aging: Harnessing CAR T Cells to Deconstruct Senescence (2022)
Thesis Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: MD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain); PhD, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New York, NY
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Kevin M. Boehm, MD, PhD
Resident Physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Multimodal Models to Stratify Ovarian Cancer Patients. (2021)
Thesis Mentor: Nikolaus Schultz, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Yale University
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Tyler Hitchman, PhD
Scientist at Loxo Oncology at Lilly in New York, NY
Dissertation: Interrogating and Targeting Essential Signaling Pathways in Uveal Melanoma. (2021)
Thesis Mentor: Yu Chen, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Clarkson University
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Brian J. Joseph, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, New York, NY
Dissertation: Cryptic Splice Sites are Agents of Order and Chaos During pre-mRNA Splicing (2021)
Thesis Mentor: Eric C. Lai, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Emily Kansler, PhD
Science Policy Analyst, Office of Public Policy and Government Affairs, American Association of Immunologists, Rockville, MD
Dissertation: An Innate Lymphocyte Cancer Cell Sensing Program Governs Immunosurveillance of Human and Murine Malignancies. (2021)
Thesis Mentor: Ming Li, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Salisbury University; ScM, Johns Hopkins University
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Xiaoyi Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jay Shendure Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dissertation: A Novel Experimental Approach to Map. (2021)
Thesis Mentor: Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Tsinghua Univeristy
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Amy Shyu, PhD
Associate, McKinsey & Company, Boston, MA
Dissertation: Metabolic Regulation of T Lymphocytes in Infection and Cancer. (2021)
Thesis Mentor: Ming Li, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, National Taiwan University; MS, University of Pennsylvania
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Sarah Tang, PhD
Scientist I, Department of Biology, Neomorph, Inc., San Diego, CA
Dissertation: Molecular Mechanisms of BTK Dependency in Primary CNS Lymphoma. (2021)
Thesis Mentor: Ingo K. Mellinghoff, MD, FACP
Undergraduate Institution: BS, UC Irvine
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2020
Mark J. Jelcic, PhD
Scientist at Fate Therapeutics Inc, San Diego, CA
Dissertation: Uncovering ATP Interactors and Signaling Mechanisms in Inflammation and Wound (2020)
Thesis Mentor: Philipp Niethammer, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BA, New York University
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Michelle M. E. Riegman, PhD
Technical Regulatory Affairs Manager at Roche in Basel, Switzerland
Dissertation: The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Regulated Cell Death (2020)
Thesis Mentor: Michael Overholtzer, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, University College Utrecht; MB, University of Pennsylvania
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Ryan C. Smith, PhD
Scientist, Dopamine Cell Biology, at BlueRock Therapeutics, New York, NY
Dissertation: Understanding the Developmental Specificity of the Histone H3.3 K27M Mutation in Pediatric Gliomas (2020)
Thesis Mentor: Viviane Tabar, MD
Undergraduate Institution: BA, Wesleyan University
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Benjamin Y. Tischler, PhD
Senior Life Sciences Specialist at L.E.K Consulting, New York, NY
Dissertation: Platelets are Necessary for Survival and Tissue Integrity in a Murine Model of Aspergillus fumigatus Infection (2020)
Thesis Mentor: Tobias M. Hohl, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Columbia University
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Hannah Wise, PhD
Lead Clinical Data Analyst at Flatiron Health, New York, NY
Dissertation: Characterization of Epigenetic Regulators in Urothelial Carcinoma (2020)
Thesis Mentor: David B. Solit, MD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Yuchen Xie, PhD
Data Scientist at Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ
Dissertation: Genetic Loss-of-Function Studies of SETD2 in Tumorigenesis (2020)
Thesis Mentor: Emily H. Cheng, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Tsinghua University
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Zeda Zhang, PhD
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Dissertation: Investigating Mechanisms of Antiandrogen Resistance in Human Prostate Cancer (2020)
Thesis Mentor: Charles L. Sawyers, MD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Zhongshan University
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2019
Nicholas M. Adams, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University School of Medicine
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
Principal Scientist, 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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Scott J. Callahan, PhD
Vice President, Director of Medical Strategy at Havas Health & You, New York, NY
Dissertation: Modeling the origins of melanoma using zebrafish and human embryonic stem cells (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Richard White, MD, PhD; Lorenz Studer, MD
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
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Ivan J. Cohen, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Dissertation: Tumor glycolysis is a mechanism of immune exclusion in solid tumors (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Ronald G. Blasberg
Undergraduate Institution: BA/MA, Hunter College
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Christopher Hulton, PhD
Senior Scientist, Drug Discovery Biology, Treeline Biosciences, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Direct Genome Editing of Patient-Derived Xenografts Using CRISPR-Cas9 Enables Rapid in vivo Functional Genomics (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Charles M. Rudin; Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Northeastern University
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Mehmet Erman Karasu, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dissertation: The role of cyclin B3 in mammalian meiosis (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Scott Keeney, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Bilkent University
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Edward (Ted) Kastenhuber, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Dissertation: Functional interrogation of genetically simple and complex cancers (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: PhD, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School, New York, NY
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James W. Keith, Jr., PhD
Dissertation: Impact of gut-dwelling, antibiotic-resistant pathobionts on mucosal immune activation and antimicrobial defenses (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Eric Pamer
Undergraduate Institution: BA, Vassar College
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Nicholas F. Kuhn, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, San Francisco, CA
Dissertation: Engineering Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells to Elicit an Endogenous Antitumor Immune Response (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Renier Brentjens
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg; MS, Charité University Medicine Berlin
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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
Director of Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy Research at YmAbs Therapeutics 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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George Vaisey, PhD
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Dissertation: Ion permeation and calcium-dependent regulation of the bestrophin channel (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Stephen B. Long, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: MBiochem, University of Oxford
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Brittany A. Woods, PhD
Equity Research Associate at William Blair Cowen, Inc., New York, NY
Dissertation: Determinants of Clonal Evolution in JAK2V617F-Driven Myeloid Malignancies (2019)
Thesis Mentor: Ross L. Levine, MD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, Boston College
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2018
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
Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim, 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, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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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Mary E. Klein Dooley, PhD
Project Manager 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
Analyst, Avoro Capital, 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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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 (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Joan Massagué, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Wesleyan University
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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 (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
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Neel Shah, PhD
Clinical Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in prostate cancer disease progression and resistance to antiandrogen therapy (2018)
Thesis Mentor: Charles L. Sawyers, MD
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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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
Principal Scientific Communication Lead at Genentech, 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
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
Staff Scientist 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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Daniel H. Marks, PhD
Principal at RA Capital, Boston, MA
Dissertation: TRIP13 is a Critical Regulator of Mitotic Duration and Proliferation in Mad2-Overexpressing Cells (2017)
Thesis Mentor: Robert Benezra, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Yale 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
Medical Science Liaison, Eli Lilly and Company, New York, NY
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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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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Alison K. Spencer, PhD
Data Scientist, OM1, Boston, MA
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
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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. Hunter (Geiger), PhD
Principal Scientist, Capstan Therapeutics, 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
Associate Director at Tome Biosciences, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Transcriptional Control of T Cell Tolerance and Immunity (2016)
Thesis Mentor: Ming Li, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University
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Anna Sophia McKenney, MD, 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
Senior Scientist at Wave Life Sciences, Boston, 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, PhD
VP of Scientific Services, PRI Healthcare Solutions, Parisppany, NJ
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
Investment Analyst at Superstring Capital, New York, NY
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
Healthcare Investor- Counterpoint Global at Morgan Stanley, 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
Principal Scientist at EMD Sero Inc., Cambridge, 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
Assistant Professor, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
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
Director, Clinical Scientist at G1 Therapeutics, Inc, Research Triangle Park, NC
Dissertation: IL-6/Stat3 Mediated Down-Regulation of Estrogen Receptor Alpha (ER) Expression in Breast Cancer (2014)
Undergraduate Institution: California State University, Northridge
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Neha Bhagwat, PhD
Associate Director, Translational Medicine at Prelude Therapeutics Inc., Wilmington, Delaware
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
Self Employed, New York, NY
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 Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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
Vice President at Emerald Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
Dissertation: The Dual Roles of WNT Signaling: Directing Cell Fate and Tissue Morphogenesis During Early Mouse Development (2014)
Undergraduate Institution: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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Justine D. Miller, PhD
Principal Scientist at AbbVie, Boston, 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
OncoKB Scientist, 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
Senior Manager, WW Training Design and Development at Bristol Myers Squibb, New York, NY
Dissertation: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Function of the Tyrosine Phosphatase PTPRD in Cancer (2014)
Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
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Sadia Rahman, PhD
Biotech Equity Research Associate, Bank of America, 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
Technical Program Lead, Legend Biotech, Piscataway, 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 E. Walkowicz, PhD
Co-founder & CEO of Chemitope Glycopeptide, Brooklyn, NY
Dissertation: Design and Synthesis of Quillaja Saponin Adjuvants and Synthesis of Lablaboside Saponins (2014)
Thesis Mentor: Derek Tan, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BS, University of Wisconsin- LaCrosse
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Shannon Yu, PhD
Associate Director, 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
Senior Manager, Clinical Science, Loxo Oncology at Lilly, San Francisco, 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
Senior Scientist at 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
Managing Director at Perceptive Advisors, New York, NY
Dissertation: Phosphorylation – dependent Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor TRIM3 (2013)
Thesis Mentor: Andrew Koff, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: BA, Princeton University
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Karen Hunter Cohn, PhD
Scientific Advisor, 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
Assistant Professor, University of Iowa - Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Iowa City, IA
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
Director, Equity and Venture Capital at Bristol Myers Squibb, 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
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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
Eric S. Alonzo, PhD
Director, Analytical Development at bluebird bio, CMC Lead, Early Oncology Programs at bluebird bio, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: Transcriptional Regulation During Innate T Cell Development (2012)
Thesis Mentor: Derek Sant’Angelo, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: San Francisco State University
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James Dowdle, PhD
Medical Science Liaison, United Therapeutics Corporation
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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Semanti Mukherjee, PhD
Assistant Attending Geneticist at MSKCC, New York, NY
Dissertation: Integrative Genome-Wide Analysis To Study The Germline Genetics Of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (2012)
Thesis Mentor: Robert J. Klein, PhD
Undergraduate Institution: Institution: BS, Nagpur University
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2011
Dimiter V. Tassev, PhD
Portfolio Manager ExodusPoint Capital Management, 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 University
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