Past Predoctoral Trainees
(years trained, current or last listed position)
Nancy Kohl, PhD (82-85) Consultant, Institute for Applied Cancer Science, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX
George Yancopoulos*, MD PhD (82-86) President and Chief Scientific Officer (& Founding Scientist), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY (*US National Academy of Sciences Member)
T. Keith Blackwell, MD PhD (82-86) Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Senior Investigator and co-head of the Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA
Stuart Lutzker, MD PhD (85-88) Vice President, BioOncology Exploratory Clinical Development, Genentech, San Francisco, CA
Kathy Zimmerman, PhD (84-89) Senior Director, Emerging Initiatives, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18013.
Robert Collum, MD PhD (86-90) Internist, Denville Associates of Internal Medicine, Denville, NJ
Maureen Morrow, PhD (86-91) Professor of Biology, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
Russell Smith, PhD (85-92) Associate Director, Informatics & IT, Hydra Biosciences, Cambridge, MA
Ami Okada, PhD (87-94) Clinical Research Manager, Clinical Trials Office, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Jue Jillian Zhang, PhD (90-94) Associate Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
Yang Xu, PhD (90-94) Professor Emeritas, Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, full professor in China
Russell Lansford, PhD (89-96) Investigator, Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Research Radiology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
James Gorman, MD PhD (90-96) Co-Lead, Brain Targeting Program, Wyss Institute, Cambridge, MA
Zhiying Li, PhD (92-96) Associate, Ropes and Gray Law Firm, New York, NY
Robert Monroe, MD PhD (95-99) Chief Scientificl Officer-Oncology, DH Diagnostics, San Mateo, CA
Darryll Dudley, PhD (98-03) Senior Scientist, Jacobs ASG, Salt Lake City, UT
Sean Rooney, PhD (98-03) Chief Science Officer at VMLY&R, New York City, NY
David Jung, MD PhD (00-05) Physician & Surgeon, Medical Director, Joseph B. Nadol, Jr. Training Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, HMS, Boston, MA
Thomas Perlot, PhD (04-08) Regulatory CMC Manager, Sandoz GmbH, Kundl, Austria
Cristian Boboila, PhD (05-11) Senior Principal Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals., New York, NY
Tingting Zhang-Kharas, PhD (06-11) Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation US Northeast, New York, NY
Suprawee Tepsuporn, PhD (07-13) Senior Assistant Dean for Graduate Professional Development, University of Delaware, Newark DE
Rohit Panchakshari, PhD (11-16) Associate Director, Immunology Translational Science, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, San Diego, CA
Joyce Hwang, MD PhD (12-17) Hematology-Oncology Fellow, House Staff, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Vipul Kumar, MD PhD (12-17) Clinical Research Fellow, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Amelia Chang, PhD (12-17) Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company, Boston, MA
Sherry Lin, Ph.D. (12-17) Associate, BridgeBio Pharma, Palo Alto, CA
Aseda Tena Ph.D. (16-24) Postdoctoral Associate, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston MA
Yiwen Zhang, PhD (20-24) Equity Research Fellow, Leerink Partners, Boston. MA
Past Postdoctoral Trainees
(years trained, current or last listed position)
*Michael Reth, PhD (82-84) Professor of Molecular Immunobiology, Max Plank Institute, Freiburg, Germany; Scientific Director, BIOSS, Freiburg, Germany (*U.S. National Academy of Sciences International Member)
Perry Nisen, MD PhD (84-86) Executive Partner, Sofinnova Investments, Board of directors, Teva Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, CA
Edith Legouy, PhD (85-87) Assistant to the Head of the Dept., Plant Breeding and Genetics Dept., National Institute for Agricultural Research, Versailles, France
*Ronald DePinho, MD (84-88) Professor and Past President, Harry Graves Burkhart III Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (*U.S. National Academy of Sciences Member)
Ewald Mensink, MD PhD (84-88) Assistant Professor, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Scott Mellis, MD PhD (86-88) Vice President, Early Clinical Development & Experimental Science, Rare Diseases, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY
Andrew Furley, PhD (87-88) Senior Lecturer and Post Graduate Research Director, Dept. of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Pierre Ferrier, MD, PhD (86-89) Director of Research, CIML, INSERM/CNRS Marseille, France
Roberta Pollock, PhD (86-89) Professor of Biology & Biochemistry, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
*George Yancopoulos, MD PhD (86-89) President and Chief Scientific Officer (& Founding Scientist), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY (*U.S. National Academy of Sciences Member)
T. Keith Blackwell, MD PhD (87-89) Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Senior Investigator and co-head of the Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA
Renate Dildrop, PhD (87-89) Research Associate, Institute for Animal Development and Molecular Biology, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ton Logtenberg, PhD (87-89) Chief Executive Officer, President & Co-Founder, Merus N.V. Biopharmaceuticals, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jeffrey Berman, PhD (84-90) Assistant Professor, Microbiology &, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MD
Ellen Hsu, PhD (87-90) Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn, NY
Barbara Malynn, PhD (85-91) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, School of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Lori Covey, PhD (86-91) Dean of Life Sciences, Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Paul Rothman, MD (87-91) Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D. Dean of the Medical Faculty, Vice President for Medicine of The Johns Hopkins University, and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Jean Charron, PhD (87-91) Professor, Dept. of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Centre de recherché de L'Hôtel- Dieu de Québec, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Grace Lee, PhD (87-91) Research Associate, Columbia University, College P&S, New York, NY
Suzanne Li, MD PhD (87-91) Rheumatologist, Department of Pediatrics, Hackensack Univ. Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
Tarik Möröy, PhD (88-91) Director of Hematopoiesis & Cancer research unit; Former Past President and Professor at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, Montréal, Canada
Gary Rathbun, PhD (87-92) Deceased
Eugene Oltz, PhD (87-93) Samuel Saslaw Professor of Infectious Diseases, Chairman, Department of Microbial Infection & Immunity, Professor of Medicine, Wexner Medical Center, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
Toshihisa Komori, MD PhD (91-93) Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Unit of Basic Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Michel Cogné, MD PhD (92-93) Director, GEIST Institute, University of Limoges, Limoges, France and Professor, Faculte de Medicine, Limoges, France
Jianzhu Chen, PhD (90-94) Cottrell Professor of Immunology, Professor of Biology, MIT, The David H. Koch Institute, Cambridge, MA
Averil Ma, MD (88-95) Rainin Distinguished Professor of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Guillermo Taccioli, PhD (90-95) Director, US Oncology Field Based Medical Engagement. Pfizer, Needham, MA
Jocelyne Demengeot, PhD (90-95) Principal Investigator, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
Yoichi Shinkai, PhD (90-95) Chief Scientist, Cellular Memory Laboratory, RIKEN; Professor, Experimental Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Jean Christophe Bories, PhD (92-95) Director of Research, INSERM, and Laboratory Director, Université Paris, Paris, France
Dennis Willerford, MD (93-95) Physician, Harrison HealthPartners Hematology and Oncology, Poulsbo, WA
Faith Young, MD (88-96) Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Wasif Khan, PhD (91-97) Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Director, Postdoctoral Programs Office, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Ryushin Mizuta, MD PhD (92-97) Professor, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Andrea Bottaro, PhD (91-98) Asst. Dean and Professor, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ
Nienke van der Stoep, PhD (95-98) Research Scientist and Clinical Molecular Geneticist, Leiden University Medical Center, Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Laboratory for Diagnostic Genome Analysis, Leiden, The Netherlands
Jun Ohsumi, PhD (96-98) Group Director, Pharmacology and Molecular Biology Research Laboratory, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Tokyo, Japan
Scott Snapper, MD PhD (94-99) Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; Wolpow Family Chair and Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center (Boston Children's Hospital) Physician, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology (Brigham and Women’s Hospital), Egan Family Foundation Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Transitional Medicine & Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School), Boston, MA.
Barry Sleckman, MD PhD (94-99) Director, O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham
John Manis, MD (95-99); Associate Director Transfusion Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Eiko Sakai, PhD (95-99) Assistant Professor, Pathology Division, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan
Frank Gärtner, MD (97-99) Staff Physician, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg (CCCF), Freiburg University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany
Timo Breit, PhD (98-99) Principal Investigator, MicroArray Department and Integrative Bioinformatics Unit, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Keiko Fujikawa, MD PhD (98-99) Associate Professor, Immunology and Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
Angela Eggleston, PhD (1999) Senior Editor and Biology Team Leader, Nature, Nature Publishing Group, Boston, MA
Yijie Gao, PhD (94-00) S. Principal Scientist, Pfizer, Cambridge, MA
Yansong Gu, PhD (94-00) President, Obenomics LLC, Managing Director, EpiMed LLC, Bellevue, WA
Wojciech Swat, PhD (94-00) Director of Cancer Genomics Service at GenPath Diagnostics, Elmwood Park, NJ
Ignacio Moreno de Alboran, PhD (95-00) Assistant Professor, Dept. Immunology & Oncology, National Center for Biotechnology- CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Karen Frank, MD PhD (95-00) Chief, Microbiology Service, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Katherine Seidl, PhD (96-00) Vice President, Immunology, SQZ Biotechnologies, Watertown, MA
Albert Shaw, MD PhD (96-01) Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT
Geoffrey Parsons, PhD (98-01) Director, bluebird bio, Jamaica Plain, MA
Reiko Shinkura, MD PhD (99-02) Professor, Laboratory of Immunology & Infection Control. Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Tomoki Yamadori, MD PhD (00-02) Occupational Health Physician, Panasonic Electronic Devices Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Japan
JoAnn Sekiguchi, PhD (97-03) Associate Professor of Human Genetics & Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Craig Bassing, PhD (97-03) Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Feng Chen, PhD (97-03) Deceased
Chengming Zhu, PhD (97-03), Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
David Ferguson, MD PhD (99-03) Deceased
Cherry Huiqing Wu, PhD (99-03) Senior Research Scientist, Pfizer, Pearl River, New York
Ming Tian, PhD (94-04) Senior Researcher, Boston Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Kevin Mills, PhD (99-04) Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cyteir Therapeutics, Lexington, MA
Eric Pinaud, PhD (02-04) Associate Professor, University of Limoges, FRANCE
Alex Fazeli, MD PhD (02-04) Physician & Surgeon, Hoag Memorial Hospital, Aliso Viejo, CA
Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD (97-05) Professor, Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Katrin Chua, MD PhD (01-05) Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology & Metabolism), Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Ali Zarrin, PhD (00-07) Senior Director, TRex Bio, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Sheila Ranganath, PhD (01-07) Senior Vice President, Portfolio Lead, Oncology & Immunolgy, Pioneering Medicines at Flagship Pioneering Cambridge, MA
Raul Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD (01-07) Professor of Medicine, Laurel Schwartz Professor of Oncology (Medicine), Scientific Co-Director, MGH Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Catherine Yan, PhD (99-08) Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
David Lombard, MD, PhD (03-08) Clinical Professor, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami ,FL
Gang Li, PhD (03-08) Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Aging Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburg, PA.
Sonia Franco, MD, PhD (04-08) Medical director, GlaxoSmithKlien, Collegeville, PA.
Shan Zha, MD, PhD (03-09) James A. Wolff Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Uttiya Basu, PhD (04-09) Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
Ryan Phan, PhD (05-09) Managing Director & Head, Molecular Genetic Pathology & Cytogenics-Kaiser Permanente & CLIA Laboratory Director, San Francisco, CA
Abhishek Datta, PhD (05-09) Director, Antibody Discovery & Engineering, Scholar Rock Inc., Cambridge, MA
Yu Nee Lee, PhD (05-09), Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Primary Immunodeficiency, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Vivian Choi, PhD (06-09) Head of Global Gene Therapy Research, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
Jing Wang, MD, PhD (04-10) Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Cosmas Giallourakis, MD (04-10) Entrepreneur in Residence, Third Rock Ventures, Cambridge, MA
Andrew Franklin, PhD (07-10) Medical Scientific Liaison, Novartis, United Kingdom
Yu Zhang, PhD (05-12) Tenyared, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing, CHINA
Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD (08-13) Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Monica Gostissa, PhD (04-14) Chief Scietific Officer, Egle Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Bjoern Schwer, MD, PhD (07-14) Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurological Surgery, UCSF,Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, CA
Chunguang Guo, PhD (08-14) Director, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY
Hye Suk Yoon, PhD (10-14) Senior Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY
Valentyn Oksenych, PhD (10-14) Research Professor, Dept. of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergin Norway.
Feilong Meng, PhD (09-15) Principal Investigator & Professor, Institute of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, CHINA
Leng Siew Yeap, PhD (10-15) Professor, Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, CHINA
Jiazhi Hu, PhD (12-16) Professor, School of Life Science, Peking University, Beijing, CHINA
Richard Frock, PhD (10-17) Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Junchao Dong, PhD (11-17) Professor, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, CHINA
Rohit Panchakshari, PhD (16-17) Associate Director, Immunology Translational Science, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, San Diego, CA
Zhou Du, PhD (14-18) Senior Data Scientist, Takeda, Cambridge, MA
Yu Zhang, PhD (13-18) Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Suvi Jain, PhD (11-18) Senior Director, Cell & Gene Therapy, Sana Biotechnology, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Pei-Chi Wei, PhD (13-19) Junior Research Group Leader, German Cancer Research Center (DKFG), Heidelberg, GERMANY
Cheng-Sheng Lee, PhD (15-19) Assistant Professor, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, TAIWAN
Huan Chen, PhD (15-20) Lab Head, Principal Scientist II, Immuno Oncology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Chong Wang, PhD (16-20) Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Boston, MA
Jiangman Lou, PhD (18-21) Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Hai-Qiang Dai, PhD (17-21) Principal Investigator, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, CHINA
Xuefei Zhang, PhD (16-21) Assistant Professor, Peking University, Beijing, CHINA
Zhaoqing Ba, PhD (14-21) Assistant Investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, CHINA
Yuxiang Zhang, PhD (17-22) Senior Scientist, Biocytogen, Waltham, MA
Sai Luo, PhD (17-23) Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Changbin Jing, (21-23). Product Scientist, Kactus Biotechnology, Waltham, MA
Zhuoyi Liang, (17-23) Assistant Professor in Bioscience & Biomedical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou), Hong Kong, China
Hongli Hu (18-25) Principal Investigator, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China