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

benitem2@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

maestrei@sloankettering.edu
BS, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; MS, Fachhochschule Technikum Wien

islamm2@sloankettering.edu
BA, Skidmore College

jacksob1@sloankettering.edu
BA, University of California Berkley
Mentor: Lydia W. Finley

kazansky@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Maryland, College Park

kennedm4@sloankettering.edu
BS, The College of New Jersey

kimh7@sloankettering.edu
AB, Washington University in St. Louis

liud5@sloankettering.edu
BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University

mcnamat1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Trinity College

naizirb@sloankettering.edu
BS, The City College of New York

nguyenm4@sloankettering.edu
AB, Mount Holyoke College

perlees@sloankettering.edu
BS, The University of Vermont

RobinsT1@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of California, Santa Barbara

SancheA6@sloankettering.edu
BS, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

trant2@sloankettering.edu
BS, New York University Abu Dhabi; M.Sc, University of Toronto

vandongd@sloankettering.edu
BA, Drew University

wakiroi@sloankettering.edu
BS, College of St. Scholastica

xun@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Wisconsin, Madison

zhangh5@sloankettering.edu
BS, BA, The University of Chicago

zhengz1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Southern University of Science and Technology
Second-Year Students

Benjamib@sloankettering.edu
BS, Tufts University; MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mentor: Stewart H. Shuman

Boehmk@sloankettering.edu
BS, Yale University
Mentor: Sohrab P. Shah

cheny4@mskcc.org
BA, Columbia University; BS, City University of Hong Kong
Mentor: John Maciejowski

dangc1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: Joseph C. Sun

Gaos1@sloankettering.edu
BS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mentor: Ming Li

Johnse@sloankettering.edu
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Richard M. White

Melnike@sloankettering.edu
BS, Pacific Union College

Mullenk1@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mentor: Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue

Nguyenc1@sloankettering.edu
BA, Colgate University
Mentor: Marcel R. M. van den Brink

Settlea@sloankettering.edu
BS, Cornell University
Mentor: Morgan Huse

Shih@sloankettering.edu
BS, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mentor: Nikolaus D. Schultz and Sohrab P. Shah

Waartsm@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Chicago
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

Yanj3@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Chicago
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu
Third-Year Students

amorvegc@sloankettering.edu
MD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD

aronowij@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Rochester
Mentor: Piro Lito

aufierom@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Texas Austin
Mentor: Tobias M. Hohl, MD, PhD

chipmanm@sloankettering.edu
BS, Tufts University
Mentor: Luis F. Parada

herrejof@sloankettering.edu
BS, Portland State University
Mentor: Michael Kharas

horstee@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Michigan Ann Arbor; MS, Loyola University Chicago
Mentor: Christine Mayr

lib@sloankettering.edu
BS, MS, University of Toronto
Mentor: Nikola P. Pavletich

wakschla@sloankettering.edu
BA, Yeshiva University
Mentor: Marilyn D. Resh

shenz@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC Los Angeles
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer

whaleya@sloankettering.edu
BS, SUNY Stony Brook
Mentor: Neal X. Rosen
Fourth-Year Students

cheny5@sloankettering.edu
MD, National Yang Ming University; MS, National Yang Ming University
Mentor: Luis Parada

dejesusm@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of the Philippines
Mentor: Morgan Huse

galianom@sloankettering.edu
BA, Connecticut College
Mentor: Zhirong Bao

hitchmat@sloankettering.edu
BS, Clarkson University
Mentor: Yu Chen

luor@sloankettering.edu
BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu

paffenhs@sloankettering.edu
MS, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (Germany); BS, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Germany)
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD

shyua@sloankettering.edu
BS, National Taiwan University; MS, University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Ming Li

sirenkom@sloankettering.edu
BS, Cornell University
Mentor: Elli Papaemmanuil

smolkinr@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC Los Angeles
Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri

wangz2@sloankettering.edu
BSc, The University of Hong Kong
Mentor: Alexander Rudensky
Fifth-Year Students

arnoldp@sloankettering.edu
BS, Duke University
Mentor: Lydia Finley

chenh2@sloankettering.edu
BS, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe, PhD

chent1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Mentor: Kathryn Anderson

dobrina@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Toronto; MS, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Mentor: Michel Sadelain

gaor@sloankettering.edu
BS, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U. of London; Master of Research, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U. of London
Mentor: Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD

gleasonc@sloankettering.edu
BA, Barnard College
Mentor: Andrew Koff

kanslere@sloankettering.edu
BS, Salisbury University; ScM, Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Ming Li

kaygusuy@sloankettering.edu
BS, Bilkent Universitesi
Mentor: Joan Massaguè

mirandm4@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Mentor: Ping Chi

reganmog@sloankettering.edu
BA, Smith College
Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao

tangs@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC Irvine
Mentor: Ingo Mellinghoff
Sixth-Year Plus Students

boyerj@sloankettering.edu
BS, Pennsylvania State University
Mentor: Neal Rosen

jainn@sloankettering.edu
B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Mentor: Michel Sadelain

jelcicm@sloankettering.edu
BA, New York University
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer

josephb1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: Eric C. Lai

lix@sloankettering.edu
BS, Tsinghua Univeristy
Mentor: Andrea Ventura

riegmanm@sloankettering.edu
BS, University College Utrecht; MB, University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Michael Overholtzer

smithr@sloankettering.edu
BA, Wesleyan University
Mentor: Viviane Tabar

tischleb@sloankettering.edu
Columbia University
Mentor: Tobias Hohl

johnsenh@sloankettering.edu
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: David B. Solit

xiey1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Tsinghua University
Mentor: Emily Cheng

zhangz3@sloankettering.edu
BS, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Mentor: Charles L. Sawyers