Current Students of GSK

During the first year of study, our students complete several courses along with participating in journal club and laboratory rotations. They begin their full-time dissertation research at the beginning of their second year.

First-Year Students

Jalwa Afroz

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BS, SUNY Stony Brook, Cancer Biology

Nibras Ahmed

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BA, CUNY Hunter College, Cancer Biology

Kai Beattie

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BS, Northeastern University, Cancer Biology

Shelby Cherkas

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BS, Duke University, Cancer Engineering

Ana Perea del Angel

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BS, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Cancer Engineering

Olivia Hanselman

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BS, Johns Hopkins University, Cancer Engineering

Sylvia Illouz

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BS, UC Berkeley, Cancer Engineering

Matthew Lange

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BS, Columbia University, Cancer Engineering

Bailey Levin

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BS, Tufts University, Cancer Engineering

Ruofei Li

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BA, Bryn Mawr College, Cancer Biology

Karina Magnus

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BA, Columbia University, Cancer Biology

Lauren McIlhenny

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BS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Cancer Biology

Mohammed Mutaher

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BA, Harvard University, Cancer Biology

Rebecca Nadler

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BS, University of Pennsylvania, Cancer Biology
Mentor: Christopher A. Klebanoff

Tatiana Pavletich

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BS, University of Wisconsin, Cancer Biology
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

Eleanor Pope

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BA, Northwestern University, Cancer Biology

Adithya Prabakaran

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BS, Cornell University, Cancer Engineering

Hannah Styers

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BS, North Carolina State University, Cancer Biology

Carleigh Sussman

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BS, Northeastern University, Cancer Biology

Christina Ta

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BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cancer Engineering

Stephanie Tarrab

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BS, Columbia University, Cancer Engineering

Christina Volpe

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BS, University of Florida, Cancer Biology

Michael Xiao

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MS, University of Cambridge, Cancer Biology
Mentor: Michael G. Kharas

Zhi (Zack) Zheng

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BS, Southern University of Science and Technology; Cancer Biology

Second-Year Students

Param Amin

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BS, Rutgers University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Gretchen Diehl

Hannah Arkin

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BA, Wheaton College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Mary Baylies

Paloma Bravo

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BA, Carleton College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Michael Overholtzer

Thomas Close

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BS, Oregon State University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Iestyn Whitehouse

Brandon Cuevas

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BS, Columbia University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Michael Overholtzer

Suchitra Dara

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BS, California Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Jason S. Lewis

Ayush Deep

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BS, Albany College of Pharmacy; Cancer Biology
Mentor: John Chodera; Caleb Lareau

Annie Ikemoto

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BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Daniel A. Heller

Zihan (Vicky) Jiao

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BS, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Chrysothemis Brown

Brian LaFleche

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BA, Colgate University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

Linna Lahmadi

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BS, University of Vermont; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joo-Hyeon Lee

Zonglin Liu

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BS, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Mara Sherman

Robin Lu

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BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joo-Hyeon Lee

Caden McQuillen

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BS, UCLA; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Junhong Choi

Justin Nelson

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BA, UC Berkeley; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kathryn Taylor

Jorge Nunez

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BS, Yale University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Charles M. Rudin

Emily Pratt

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BS, University of New Hampshire; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Maria Akhmanova

Meysoon Quraishi

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BS, Pennsylvania State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Eric C. Lai

Diego Rodriguez

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BS, Oregon State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Piro Lito

Ana Rosu

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BS, Johns Hopkins University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Jason S. Lewis

Sahil Sahni

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BS, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joe Chan

Aisha Saldanha

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BA, Wellesley College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

Ella Serrano-Wu

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BS, Harvard University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran

Nyle Sharif

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BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alban Ordureau

Ashley Sullivan

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BS, SUNY Binghamton; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran

Elana Sverdlik

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BS, Princeton University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Wesley Tansey

Muskaan Vasandani

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BS, University of Rochester; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Michael Overholtzer

Isabella Vegas

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BS, Johns Hopkins University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty

Allison Vela

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Caleb Lareau

Helen Wang

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BA, Smith College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Luis F. Parada

Shih-Chun Wang

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BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao

Nicholas Wen

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

Gianfranco Yee

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BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Chrysothemis Brown

Ningjing Zhang

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BS, Case Western Reserve University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Xinbo Yang

Yunlin Zhang

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BS, UCLA; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Ivan Maillard

Hongyu (Vicky) Zhu

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BS, University of Toronto; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Naama Aviram

Third-Year Students

Andrea Lang Goldgewicht

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BA, University of Pennsylvania; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alan M. Hanash

Jacob Gutierrez

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BA, Lewis & Clark College / MS; Oregon Health Sciences University, MS; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Caleb Lareau

Gary Guzman

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BS, University of Texas, Dallas; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

Monika Komza

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BS, Fordham University / MS, Icahn School of Medicine, MS; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lydia Finley

Joshua Lau

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Benjamin Greenbaum

Sophia Park

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BS, University of Virginia; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao

Kate Ryan

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BS, Syracuse University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

Arturo Salazar

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BS, UC Irvine; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Asmin Tulpule

Ecenur Turkay

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BS, Boğaziçi University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: David B. Solit

Yixuan (Skye) Zhao

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BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kayvan R. Keshari

Fourth-Year Students

Monica Acosta

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Gretchen Diehl

Tejiri Agbamu

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BS, University of Minnesota; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jian Carrot-Zhang; Nikolaus Schultz

Subha Baniya

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BA, Wellesley College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: David A. Scheinberg

Elizabeth Benitez

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BS, UC Los Angeles; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

Emmanuel M. Bruno

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BS, MS, Università degli studi di Milano; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran

Nima Hooshdaran

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BS, UC Los Angeles; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alexander Rudensky

Jiachen Hu

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BS, Tsinghua University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang

Vivian Kuan

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BS, University of Minnesota; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri

Mariah Lee

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BS, Newberry College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

Tiffany Merlinsky

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BA, CUNY Hunter College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

Samuel Molina

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BS, Texas State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty

Achuth Nair

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BA, Columbia University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Justin Perry

Lila Peters

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BS, University of Michigan; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Christine Mayr

Stephanie A. Pierre

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BS, University of Georgia; Cancer Biology
Mentor: David A. Scheinberg

Madison Rex

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BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Agnel Sfeir

James A. Rodrigues

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BA, MA, Rutgers University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Yu Chen; David B. Solit

Clark Thomson

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BS, MS, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire

Isabelle C. Top

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BS, Yale University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Mary Baylies

Lucia Wang

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BSc, MSc, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Dirk Remus

Xiaoyi "Claire" Wang

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BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lorenz Studer

Colin Zenge

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BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alban Ordureau

Siqi (Linsey) Zhang

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BA, Swarthmore College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran

Fifth-Year Students

Peter Chhoy

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BS, University of Notre Dame; MS, Duke University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang

Isabella Del Priore

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BS, Tufts University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe

Yassmin Elbanna

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BA, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Morgan Huse

Rebecca Gelfer

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BA, University of Pennsylvania; MS, University of Pennsylvania; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

Yuzuka Kanno

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BPharm, Tokyo University of Science; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alexander Gitlin

Klavdija Krause

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BSc, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems; MSc, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

Kathleen Ann Luckett

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BS, Ithaca College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

Lisa McGary

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BA, UC Berkeley; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

Ashley Nichols

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BS, Chapman University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: John Maciejowski

Jesus Romero-Pichardo

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BS, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Justin Perry

Manisha Srinivas Raghavan

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BTech, Vellore Institute of Technology; MS, Tufts University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

Melissa Yao

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BS, SUNY Stony Brook; MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Ventura

Sixth-Year Plus Students

Ilinca Aricescu

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BSc, University of Cambridge; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Rona Yaeger

Yan-Ting Chen

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BS, National Chiao Tung University; MS, National Taiwan University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

Juliana I. Delgado

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BS, American University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew Koff

Zaza Gelashvili

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BA, Clark University; MS, Clark University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer

Ziqi Jiao

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BA, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Ventura

Hyunu Kim

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AB, Washington University in St. Louis; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

Dingyu Liu

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BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu

Thomas F. McNamara

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BS, Trinity College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew M. Intlekofer

Brianna Naizir

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BS, The City College of New York; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Schietinger

Jenna Snyder

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BS, Pennsylvania State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire

Anran Tang

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BA, Pomona College; MS, Harvard University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Thomas Norman

David J. Van Dongen

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BA, Drew University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Stephen B. Long

Isaac Wakiro

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BS, College of St. Scholastica; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Michael G. Kharas