Alumni
Timothy Aballo, PhD
Position title: Senior Scientist, Analytical Research and Developmentm, AbbVie, Chicago, IL
Kristen Andersen Birschbach, PhD
Position title: Director, Program Management, Catalent Pharma Solutions, Madison, WI
Aileen (Erickson) Barnes, MS
Position title: Biologist, Section on Heritable Disorders of Bone and Extracellular Matrix, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD
Deannalee M. Beauvais, PhD
Position title: Associate Scientist, Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jabe Best, MD, PhD
Position title: Associate Physician of Psychiatry, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA
Amit Bhatt, MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Washington University Physicians
Sarang Brahma, MS
Position title: Senior Scientist - Analytical Development Group Lead at Asklepios Biopharmaceutical (AskBio) in RTP, North Carolina
Amanda (Urban) Branam PhD
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Peterson Lab, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brandon Burbach, PhD
Position title: Senior Research Associate Scientist – Lab Medicine and Pathology Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Delana (Hopkins) Butz, PhD
Position title: Associate Group Leader, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Middleton, WI
Deborah Capes, PhD
Position title: Senior Manager, Medical Writing, Cerevel Therapeutics, Madison, WI
Alex Carlson, PhD
Position title: Medical Writer, Technical Resources International, Washington D.C.
Ryan Chaffee, MS
Position title: Pharmacy Intern, Allina Health, Minneapolis, MN; PharmD Student, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
Keefe Chan, PhD
Position title: Research Officer, Division of Cancer Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Jaehyung “Gus” Cho, PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Young C. Cho, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Pharmacy, Marshall B. Ketchum University, Fullerton, California
Blue-Leaf (Hannah) Cordes, MD, PhD
Position title: Physician, UW School of Medicine and Public Health
Monika Davare, PhD
Position title: Sada and Rebecca Tarshis Endowed Professor, Pediatric Research Associate Director, Pape Pediatric Research Institute Member: Knight Cancer Institute Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology School of Medicine Oregon Health & Science University
Ishani De, PhD
Position title: Technology Consultant, Life Sciences Practice Deloitte Consulting, LLP
Ashley (Conrad) Doan, PhD
Position title: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bryant and Stratton College, Milwaukee, WI
Renee Doughman, PhD
Position title: Director - Human Research Oversight/IRB, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Corinne (Vokoun) Esquibel, PhD
Position title: Light Microscopy Core Facility Manager, Van Andel Institute, Greater Grand Rapids Area
Chantell Evans, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna Gray Fellow
Dominique Fontanilla, PhD
Position title: Senior Director, Head of Datamonitor Healthcare (Citeline) Chicago, IL
E. Camilla Forsberg, PhD
Position title: Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Allison (Friedlein) Fuelling, MS
Position title: High School Science Teacher, Marshall Public School, Marshall, WI
Bryan Glaser, PhD
Position title: Senior Vice President of Business Development, Invenra, Inc. Madison, WI
Michael L. Gonzales, PhD
Position title: Senior Product Applications Specialist, Fluidigm Corporation Biotechnology Company, San Francisco, CA
Jennifer E. Grant, PhD
Position title: Concentration Director, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Biology Department College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Management
Kevin Hayes, PhD
Position title: Global Lead, Data Science Strategy and Communications, Corteva Agriscience
Jessica Heck, PharmD, PhD
Position title: Acute Care Clinical Pharmacist, Denver VA Medical Center (ECHCS), Denver, CO
Brian Hoffmann, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Biology and Bioengineering Center Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Tony T. Huang, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor, Co–Course Director, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology, New York University
Jill Humston, PhD
Position title: Organizing Fellow, National Education Association and Iowa State Education Association
Shreeya Jayaraman, MBA, MS
Position title: Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives, TAKE Solutions, Chennai Area, India
Jeffrey R. Jones, PhD
Position title: Postdoc, Gage lab at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Nate T. Jones, PhD
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Ming-Fen Ho Lab, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Misuk Kang, PhD
Position title: Deputy General Manager/Project Manager, Green Cross Corporation, Yongin, South Korea
Stacey Kigar, PhD
Position title: Postdoc Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry
James Kinter, MS
Position title: Health, Wellness, and Fitness Professional, Brandywine Crossfit, West Chester, PA
Lucas Klemm, PhD
Position title: Scientist II, iPSC Editing, Regenerative Medicine, ElevateBio, Waltham, MA
Jessica (Holden) Kloda, PhD
Position title: Senior Project Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Technical Resources International, Washington D.C. Metro Area
Stephen Knight, JD, MS
Position title: Registered Patent Attorney, Compliance Analyst Special Counsel, Greater Denver Area, CO
Cynthia J. Koziol-White, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers University
Sujatha (Venkataraman) Kumar, PhD
Position title: Senior Scientist, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
Pratik Lalit, PhD
Position title: Principal Scientist/Associate Director, Cell Therapy, Cardiovascular Stem Cell Biology Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AIRM), Marlborough, MA
Jennifer Lamberski, PhD
Position title: Patent Examiner, US Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA
A. Soren Leonard, PhD
Position title: Patent Examiner (Pharmacology), US Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA
Indra Lim, MD, PhD
Position title: Physician, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institiute Minneapolis, MN
Bernice Lin, PhD
Position title: Vice President of Operations, Lin-Zhi International, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA
Matthew Marengo, PhD
Position title: Discovery Team Lead, Enabling Technologies, Bayer Crop Science, St. Louis, MO
Lisa M. Maurer, MD, PhD
Position title: Fellow, Pediatrics-Hematology/Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Kevin W. McCool, MD, PhD
Position title: Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School
Benjamin Meline, MS
Position title: Senior Research Specialist at Cellular Dynamics International, Madison, WI
Walatta Mesquitta, PhD
Position title: Research Fellow, Camargo Lab, Stem Cell Program, Hematology/Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Katarzyna Modzelewska, PhD
Position title: Associate Director of Preclinical Research Resource, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
Yukiko Muroi, PhD
Position title: Instrumental Scientist Product Performance Evaluation, L’Oréal, Kanagawa, Japan
Hulya Zeynep Oktay, MD, MSc
Position title: PhD Student, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Institute for Medical Immunology), Germany
Christian Ortiz Hernandez, MS
Position title: Associate Scientist, PPD/Thermo Scientific, Middleton, WI
Michael Palte, MD, PhD
Position title: Principal Clinical Scientist, Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit, Biogen
Harrison Pantera, PhD
Position title: Research Specialist, Gene Expression Facility, UW-Madison Biotechnology Center
Natalie Patzlaff, PhD
Position title: Manager, Medical Communications, Global Medical Affairs, United Therapeutics
Derek Pavelec, PhD
Position title: Director of Bioinformatics, UW Biotechnology Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew Petersen, PhD
Position title: Senior Scientist in iPSC group at Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc (FCDI), Madison, WI
Prashant Rajbhandari, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator Co-Director, Director, Metabolic Assessment Core, Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Institute, Disease Mechanism and Therapeutics Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Hospital, Manhattan, NY
Subramaniam Ramachandran, PhD
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Michelle (Perry) Rittenhouse, PhD
Position title: Manager Clinic Integration and Support, Centura Health, Centennial, CO
Lindsey Roper, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor of Biology, Grace A. Tanner Distinguished Faculty Lecturer (2023), College of Science, Southern Utah University
Gail Seabold, PhD
Position title: Scientific Skills Coach, National Institutes of Health, Washington D.C. Area
Patrick Smith, PhD
Position title: Postdoc, Dr. Amy Lee Lab, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Shihu Sun, PhD
Position title: Investment and Business Development, InnoSpring, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Sainath Suryanarayanan, MS
Position title: Assistant Scientist, Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joseph Szulczewski, PhD
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Hahn Lab
Jay Tan, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Aging Institute of UPMC, Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
David Thiriot, PhD
Position title: Principal Scientist, Vaccine Research and Development at Merck, Greater Philadelphia Area
Lucas Tomko, PhD
Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Kentucky; Dr. Jessica Blackburn lab
Jessica Townsend, MS
Position title: Scientist I - Analytical Development, bluebird bio, Cambridge MA
Matthew Wagoner, PhD
Position title: Senior Director of Investigative Toxicology, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
Ping Wang, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Siobhan Wilson, MD, PhD
Position title: Clinical Associate Professor, UW Health East Clinic & Internal Medicine at UW Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
Marites Woon, PhD
Position title: Assistant Scientist, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison
Felix Yeh, PhD
Position title: Director, Head of Biomarker Sciences and Operations, Project Team Leader, Alector
Lauren Zasadil, PhD
Position title: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, Amon Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nicole Zwifelhofer, MS
Position title: Senior Scientist, Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), Madison, WI