Training Grants

MTCR Program Alumni

MTCR Alumni (since 2003)

  • David VanderWeele, PhD 2005 (Advisor, Charles Rudin) – Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology), Northwestern University
  • John Joslin, PhD 2006 (Advisor, Michelle LeBeau) – Director, Head of Assay Development & High Throughput Screening, Genomics Institute of Novartis
    Research Foundation
  • Jennifer Brace, PhD 2006 (Advisor, Charles Rudin) – Research Scientist, Northwestern University
  • Christy Hagan, PhD 2006 (Advisor, Charles Rudin) – Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
  • Ryan Hansen, PhD 2006 (Advisor, Eileen Dolan) – Principal Scientist, Boundless Bio, San Diego CA
  • Cindy Leung, PhD 2006 (Advisor, John Crispino) – Associate Director, Worldwide Publications, Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Ben Spike, PhD 2007 (Advisor, Kay Macleod) - Assistant Professor in Department of Oncological Sciences, the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
  • Jeff Knight, PhD 2009 (Advisor, Ken Onel) – Director of Business Development, Tempus Labs, Inc.
  • Susan Ferrari, PhD 2009 (Advisor, Doug Bishop) – Assistant Dean & Director Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations, Grinnel; College IA
  • Bernard Liu, PhD 2009 (Advisor, Piers Nash) – Senior Research Scientist, Oncology, Gilead Sciences
  • James Knabb, PhD 2010 (Advisor, Kay Macleod) – Technology Transfer Specialist, National Cancer Institute
  • Kristin Tracy, PhD 2010 (Advisor, Kay Macleod) – Senior Scientist, BioMarin Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco 
  • Matt Walker, PhD 2010 (Advisor, Geof Greene) – Principal Scientist, Element Genomics, Inc.
  • Mrinal Shah, PghD 2010 (Advisor, Lucy Godley) – Associate Director, Global Scientific Publications, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals
  • Chika Nwachukwu, PhD 2010 (Advisor, Funmi Olopade) – Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern 
  • Colleen Doci, PhD 2011 (Advisor, Mark Lingen) – Assistant Professor, Marian University, Indiana
  • Marion Curtis, PhD 2011 (Advisor, Ernst Lengyel) - Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic
  • Brooke Sylvester, PhD 2011 (Advisor, Fumni Olopade) – Director, Worldwide Medical Oncology - Thoracic Cancers, Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Kin Leung, PhD 2012 (Advisor, Richard Jones) – Scientific Content Marketing Manager, ABclonal Technology
  • Wenndy Hernandez, PhD 2012 (Advisor, Rick Kittles) – Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
  • Timothy Best, PhD 2012 (Advisor, Ken Onel) – Senior Director - Global Medical Affairs, Kite Pharma, Inc.
  • Erika Moen, PhD 2014 (Advisor, Eileen Dolan) – Assistant Professor, Dartmouth University
  • Sapana Vora, PhD 2014 (Advisor, Ken Onel) – Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Defense
  • Ayelet Sivan, PhD 2015 (Advisor, Tom Gajewski) – Physician Scientist, Medical Resident, Columbia University
  • Colles Price, PhD 2015 (Advisor, Janet Rowley) – Principal Scientist, Takeda Oncology
  • Kate Wolak, PhD 2015 (Advisor, Ken Onel) – Research fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
  • Steve Kregel, PhD 2015 (Advisor, Don Vander Griend) – Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
  • Aparajita Chourasia, PhD 2016 (Advisor, Kay Macleod) – Vice President, BioTheryx Inc, San Diego CA
  • Dan Leventhal, PhD 2016 (Advisor, Pete Savage) – Principal Scientist, Generate Biomedicines, Inc., Cambridge MA
  • Brendan Horton, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Tom Gajewski) – Post-doctoral fellow, MIT
  • Tim Fessenden, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Margaret Gardel) – Scientific Editor, Journal of Cell Biology
  • Alan Chang, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Maciej Lesniak) – Postdoc Machine learning + systems immunology in health and disease, Stanford University
  • Dan Rabe, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Marsha Rosner) – Post-doctoral fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Keston Aquino-Michaels, PhD 2016 (Advisor, Nancy Cox) – Data scientist, SparkBeyond
  • Hannah Brechka, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Don Vander Griend) – Publication Manager, Costello Medical, Cambridge, England
  • Marianna Johnson, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Suzanne Conzen) – Senior Manager, Seagenes, Inc.
  • Ashley Sample, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Yu-Ying He)  – Associate Director, Magnolia Innovation
  • Dana Gilmore, PhD 2017 (Advisor, Pete Savage) – Senior Scientist - Autoimmunity, Chroma Medicine
  • Anna Dembo, PhD 2019 (Advisor, Geof Greene) – Manager, Intellectual Property and Technology Development, Polsky Center at the University of Chicago
  • Yuanyuan Li, PhD 2019 (Advisor, Xiaoyang Wu) – FDA Consumer Safety officer, Chicago
  • Calvin Van Opstall, PhD 2019 (Advisor, Don Vander Griend) – Lead Scientist, Labcorp Drug Development
  • Lindsey Ludwig PhD 2019 (Advisor, James LaBelle) – Research Scientist II, 2seventy bio
  • Maya Springer, PhD 2019 (Advisor, Kay Macleod) – Senior Scientist - Applied Research, Abbott
  • Alexander Ling, PhD 2019 (Advisor, Stephanie Huang) – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Logan Poole, PhD 2021 (Advisor, Kay Macleod) – Postdoctoral Scientist, Abbott Research Cooperation
  • Kyle Delaney, PhD 2020 (Advisor, Yingming Zhao) 
  • Stephen Arnowitz, PhD 2022 (Advisor, Lucy Godley)
  • Eric Bueter,  PhD 2021 (Advisor, Russell Szmulewitz) - Postdoctoral Fellow, Seattle Children's Hospital
  • Jeff Dewey, PhD 2021 (Advisor, Bryan Dickinson) - Postdoctoral Researcher, Argonne National Lab
  • Jessica Fessler, PhD 2021 (Advisor, Tom Gajewski) - Postdoctoral NIH Fellow, Stanford University
  • Katrina Maxcy, PhD 2022 (Advisor, James LaBelle) – Postdoctoral Fellow, Sloan Kettering
  • Mathew Perez-Neut, PhD 2021 (Advisor, Yingming Zhao) - Scientific Team Lead, Evozyne
  • Jill Rosenberg, PhD 2021 (Advisor, Jun Huang) – Scientist, 2seventy bio
  • Rosie Huggins, PhD 2023 (Advisor, Geof Greene) – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
  • Christopher Lee, still in training (Advisor, Ray Moellering)
  • Rosy Liao, PhD 2023 (Advisor, James Labelle) – Biotech Equity Research Associate, Guggenheim Partners
  • Alexandra Smith, MS 2020 (Advisor, Kay Macleod) – Chemistry and Biology Teacher, Palmer Trinity School
  • Jimmy Lee, PhD 2022 (Advisor, Xiaoyang Wu) – Assistant Professor, University of Taiwan
  • Julian Lutze, PhD 2022 (Advisor, Steve Kron and Megan McNerney) – Senior Life Sciences Specialist, LEK Consulting
  • Cara Anderson, still in training (Advisor, Kay Macleod)
  • Juan Apiz, still in training (Advisor, Alexander Muir)
  • Nicholas Asby, still in training (Advisor, Jun Huang and Barbara Kee)
  • Anthony Carlos, still in training (Advisor, Ray Moellering) 
  • Althea Bock-Hughes, still in training (Advisor, Kay Macleod)
  • Juan Ibarra, PhD 2023 (Advisors, Shannon Elf and Scott Oakes) – Postdoctoral Researcher, Indiana University
  • Patrick Jonker, still in training (Advisor, Alexander Muir)
  • Benjamin Nicholson, still in training (Advisor, Phoenix Miao)
  • Colin Sheehan, still in training (Advisor, Alexander Muir)
  • Emma Wilkinson, still in training (Advisor, Yu-Ying He)
  • Maia Clare, still in training (Advisor, Melody Swartz)
  • Josh McKeever, still in training (Advisor, Andrew Koh)
  • Benjamin Nicholson, still in training (Advisor, Phoenix Miao)
  • Freya Zhang, still in training (Advisor, Jing Chen)
  • Leah, Siolkowski, still in training (Advisor, Kay Macleod)
  • Nia, Hammond, still in training (Advisor, Brandon Faubert) 
  • Sidney, Wang, still in training (Advisor, Justin Kline) 
  • Sara, Woessner, still in training (Advisor, Jun Huang) 
  • Isabel, Alcazar, still in training (Advisor, Ernst Lengyel) 
  • Stephen Barrett, still in training (Advisor, Thomas Gajewski) 
  • Nicholas Zolnerowich, still in training (Advisor, Justin Kline) 
  • Marta Storl-Desmond, still in training (Advisor, Simon Schwörer)