Training Grants

DBTP Program Alumni

DBTP Alumni

  • Julian Boggiano, PhD 2011 (Rick Fehon, advisor) is a medical science liaison at Sanofi in the North Carolina Research Triangle
  • Ariel M. Pani, PhD 2013 (Christopher Lowe, advisor) is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Virginia
  • Vlad Nicolaescu, PhD 2016 (Jocelyn Malamy, advisor) is a staff scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory
  • Crystal Love, PhD 2014 (Victoria Prince, advisor) is a research development leader at the University of Chicago
  • Audrey Garnatz, PhD 2013 (Eric Svensson, advisor) is Sr. Agile Product Owner at Vizient, Inc 
  • Kacy L. Gordon, PhD 2014 (Ilya Ruvinsky, advisor) is an assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Caroline B. Albertin, PhD 2016 (Cliff Ragsdale, advisor) is an assistant professor at the Marine Biological Laboratory
  • Adam Isabella, PhD 2016 (Sally Horne-Badovinac, advisor) is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota
  • Trevor L. Davis, PhD 2017 (Ilaria Rebay, advisor) is an independent biomedical investing consultant in Chicago
  • Andrew R. Gehrke, PhD 2016 (Neil Shubin, advisor) is a senior scientist at Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Steven D. Briscoe, PhD 2017 (Cliff Ragsdale, advisor) is the owner of Briscoe Scientific, LLC.
  • Christopher Quintanilla, PhD 2020 (Robert Ho, advisor) is a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University.
  • Haley Stinnett Brown, MS 2014 (Robert Ho, advisor) is a project management team lead at Samba Scientific on Boulder, Colorado
  • Darcy Ross, MS 2014 (Neil Shubin, advisor) is an author and marketing manager at Darrington Press.
  • Lindsey Fong Mao PhD 2019 (Robert Ho, advisor) is an assistant professor of the biological sciences at Benedictine University
  • Anastasia Beiriger PhD 2020 (Victoria Prince, advisor) is a proect manager at Real Chemistry
  • Sonja Lazarevic PhD 2022 (Ivan Moskowitz, advisor) is an NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago
  • Julie F. Szymaszek (Neil Shubin, advisor) is an administrative director at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Alexander Guzzetta MD 2022, PhD 2019 (Ivan Moskowitz, advisor) is an anatomic pathology resident at the University of Chicago.
  • Audrey Williams PhD 2023 (Sally Horne-Badovinac, advisor) is an NRSA postdoctoral fellow at Duke University
  • Manuel Rocha PhD 2021 (Victoria Prince, advisor) is a biotech analyst at Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago
  • Erick Bayala, PhD 2022 (Marcus Kronforst, advisor) is a NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan.
  • Stephanie Sang PhD 2022 (Robert Ho, advisor) is a consultant with Bain & Co.
  • Vishruth Venkataraman (Victoria Prince and Michael Coates, advisors) is currently in training, studying morphogenesis of the vertebrate head
  • Natalie Grace Schulz (Clifton Ragsdale, advisor) is currently in training, studying octopus arm regeneration
  • Sarah Ann King (Xiaoyang Wu, advisor) PhD December 2023
  • Jake Henderson (Ellie Heckscher, advisor) is currently in training, studying the development of somatosensory neural circuits in drosophila
  • Sean Corcoran (Edwin Munro, advisor) is currently in training, studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms guiding sonic hedgehog (Shh) dispersal during the anterior-posterior patterning of the limb bud
  • Sierra Schwabach (Sally Horne-Badovinac, advisor) is currently investigating the mechanisms underlying the collective migration of somatic follicle cells in the Drosophila egg chamber
  • Manasa Prahlad (Paschalis Kratsios, advisor) is currently investigating motor neuron development in C. elegans.
  • Zarion Marshall (Ellie Heckscher, advisor) is currently investigating neural development and specification via molecularly encoded birth timing.