Training Grants

Program Alumni

  • Meera Patel, PhD 2019 (Xiaoxi Zhuang and Daniel McGehee, advisors) is pursing a career in biotechnology
  • Elisa Pabon, PhD 2021 (Harriet De Wit and Andrea King, advisors) is an NRSA Postdoctoral IRACDA Fellow, UCLA
  • Chad Heer PhD 2023 (Mark Sheffield, advisor) is a NRSA Spire IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill
  • Caroline Szujewski PhD 2024 (Alfredo Garcia, advisor) is a scientist at a neuroscience start-up
  • Nelson Medina PhD 2023 (Daniel Margoliash, advisor) is a postdoctoral researcher
  • Ross Mansouri-Rad (Daniel McGehee, advisor) is in training
  • Loren Riedy PhD 2025 (Ming Xu, advisor) is a Consultant at Bain & Co.
  • Benjamin Wang PhD 2024 (Xiaoxi Zhaung, advisor)
  • Jessica Koranda, PhD (Xiaoxi Zhuang) is a principal scientist, R&D at Abbott Laboratories
  • Ashley Vena, PhD (Andrea King and Harriet de Wit) Project Leader-Scientist, Emmes
  • Scott Schepers, PhD  (Harriet de Wit) Senior Medical Science Liaison, Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  • Theron Russell, PhD (William Green and Xiaoxi Zhuang) is a researcher at University of Chicago
  • Conor Murray, PhD  (Harriet de Wit) is a research scientist at UCLA and the founder of Psynautics
  • Wanhao Chi, PhD (Xiaoxi Zhuang) is a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University
  • Matthew Zammit, PhD (Chin-Tu Chen) is a PET/MRI and radiochemistry scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Emma Brett, PhD (Andrea King) is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago
  • Francis Lee, PhD (John Schneider) is a research consultant
  • Sam Robinson, PhD (Don Hedeker) is a research data scientist
  • Karan Rai, MD is a pulmonary critical care fellow at Ohio State University
  • Niloufar Dousti Mousavi, PhD (Don Hedeker, advisor)
  • Seetha Krishnan, PhD (Mark Sheffield, advisor) is an assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University