M.D./Ph.D. Student Directory

Undergraduate Institution: Harvard
Undergraduate Major: Chemical & Physical Biology with a Spanish Language Citation 
Post-undergraduate research:  Multi-omic studies on the effects of heart disease and aging on single cell cardiomyocytes
Ph.D. Lab:  Undecided
Research Interest: Cancer biology and therapeutic targets
Clinical Interest: Pediatrics/Internal Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University - NB
Undergraduate Major: Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Post-undergraduate research: 1 year - I continued working at the Manzini Lab at the Child Health Institute in NJ. I was developing and characterizing zebrafish models of Congenital Muscular Dystrophy caused by various genetic mutations.
Ph.D. Lab: not decided yet
Research Interest: Maternal Fetal Medicine, Development, Reproductive Health 
Clinical Interest: OB/Gyn, Pediatrics, Neurology

Undergraduate Institution:  Princeton University
Undergraduate Major:  Molecular Biology
Ph.D. Lab:  Undecided
Research Interests:  Developmental Biology, Immunology
Clinical Interests:  Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dermatology

Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
Undergraduate Major: Biomedical Engineering
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years in a medical image analysis lab
Ph.D. Lab: Undecided
Research Interest: Computational Biology
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Major: Biology & History (double major)
Post-undergraduate research: Position with the Protease and Tissue Remodeling Section of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) studying the modification of anthrax toxin for translational use as a potential cancer therapeutic by using toxin variants that are cleaved by proteases specific to varying tumor microenvironments. Toxin entry into target cells causes membrane GFP expression viewed through confocal microscopy and quantified through RNA single-cell sequencing.
Ph.D. Lab: Undecided
Research Interest: Cancer Biology/Cancer Immunology
Clinical Interest: Surgical/Medical Oncology

Undergraduate Institution: New York University
Undergraduate Major: Biomolecular Science
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - cancer immunotherapy and metabolic research on solid tumors at MSKCC (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Immunology, oncology, virology, neuroscience, translational and personalized medicine (immunotherapy development and delivery, etc.)
Clinical Interest: Internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology

Undergraduate Institution: University of Scranton
Undergraduate Major: Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - studying eucaryotic translation at the National Cancer Institute of NIH 
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Molecular biology
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
Undergraduate Major: Molecular Biology
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - Studied immune cell-cell interactions in tumors at The Rockefeller University
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Intersection between immune system and complex organ systems 
Clinical Interest: Dermatology and Pediatrics

Undergraduate Institution: Fordham University
Undergraduate Major: Neuroscience
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - research in the Psychiatry and Genetics departments at Mount Sinai and Yale, studying epigenetic correlates of neuropsychiatric disease in iPSC-derived neurons
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: iPSC models of psychiatric disease and neurological disorder, regenerative medicine
Clinical Interest: Neurosurgery, neurology

Undergraduate Institution: Grinnell College
Undergraduate Major: Anthropology
Post-undergraduate research: 4 years -working at the San Francisco Dept of Public Health: 1 year doing HIV and substance use research, 3 years doing HIV case management, and the last few months doing COVID-19 emergency response
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Qualitative and mixed methods health equity research, infectious disease, housing and homelessness, feminist/queer science studies
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University
Undergraduate Major: Oboe Performance and Chemistry
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - studied interaction between cancer cell metabolism and radiation at NCI and Emory University 
PhD Lab: Joshua Rabinowitz, Princeton University
Research Interest: Cellular and organismal metabolism
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
Undergraduate Major: Biological Sciences
Post-undergraduate research: None
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Development of novel therapies
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: Emory University
Undergraduate Major: Neuroscience/Behavioral Biology and English/Creative Writing
Post-undergraduate research: 3 years - at NIH employing behavioral neuroscience research to investigate the function of adult hippocampal neurogenesis
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Neuropsychiatric disorders, virology, immunology, pharmacology
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: Keystone College
Undergraduate Major: Biology and Public Health
Post-undergraduate research: 5 years – at NIH studying cell-free DNA and mitochondrial DNA biomarker analysis for heart and lung transplant biology 
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Molecular, cell, and systems biology
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: Fordham University
Undergraduate Major: Biology + Sociology (minor)
Post-undergraduate research: None 
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Oncology, immunotherapy, and metabolomics
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Undergraduate Major: Genetics and Genomics
Graduate Institution:  Rutgers University and New York Genome Center
Graduate Major: Molecular Biosciences
Post-undergraduate research: Weill Cornell Medicine
Ph.D. Lab: Ganesan & Sanjana labs
Research Interest: Cancer Biology, Epigenetics, and Functional Genomics
Clinical Interest: Neurological surgery

Undergraduate Institution: Tufts University
Undergraduate Major: Biology & Dance (minor)
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - at a biotech start-up developing methods to generate platelets from stem cells  
PhD Lab: Montagna Lab, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey 
Research Interest: Viral integration and tumorigenesis, molecular genetics, cancer biology  
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine/Undecided

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Undergraduate Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder 
Undergraduate Major: Molecular Biology + Neuroscience + Biochemistry 
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - at Mayo Clinic doing electrophysiologic characterization of ion channel mutations from Long QT Syndrome patients  
PhD Lab: 
Research Interest:  Computational Genomics
Clinical Interest: Precision medicine

Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University 
Undergraduate Major: Molecular Biology 
Post-undergraduate research:  None 
PhD Lab: Devenport Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest: cell and developmental biology, melanoma, epidermal intercellular adhesions
Clinical Interest: Dermatology

Year: G2

Undergraduate Institution: Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
Undergraduate Major: Mathematics, Physics
Graduate Institution: Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
Graduate Major: Genetics and Neuroscience
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - studying pediatric and adult H3K27M gliomas at the single-cell level
Ph.D. Lab: Hossein Khiabanian Lab, Rutgers CINJ
Research Interest: Longitudinal single-cell analysis of pediatric AMLs
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: Columbia University 
Undergraduate Major: Biomedical Engineering 
Post-undergraduate research:  1 year - Research technician at NYU Langone Health investigating lipid metabolism in the immune system. 
PhD Lab: Libutti Lab, Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ 
Research Interest: Cancer immunotherapy 
Clinical Interest: Surgery

Undergraduate Institution: Widener University 
Undergraduate Major:  Biochemistry
Post-undergraduate research: None  
PhD Lab: Schindler Lab, Rutgers Human Genetics Institute of NJ
Research Interest: Precision and individualized medicine - translating genetic variation into better outcomes through diagnostics and therapeutics 
Clinical Interest: Pediatrics, maternal-fetal medicine, medical genetics

Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University 
Undergraduate Major: Neuroscience 
Post-undergraduate research: 1 year - Princeton University investigating neurogenesis, perineuronal nets and autism spectrum disorder  
PhD Lab: Notterman Lab, Princeton
Research Interest: Investigating the mechanisms underlying brain injury-induced neurodegeneration 
Clinical Interest: Pediatric Neurology/Neurosurgery, NICU, neuro-anesthesia

Undergraduate Institution: Middlebury College 
Undergraduate Major:  Conservation Biology
Post-undergraduate research:  4 years - 1 year at The Nature Conservancy. 3 years split between EcoHealth Alliance computationally modeling zoonotic disease spread, and NYP-Weill Cornell Medical College researching a novel biomarker for sepsis risk stratification. 
PhD Lab: Dominguez-Bello Lab, Rutgers University
Research Interest:  Environmental Determinants of Health, Microbiome / Microbiology, Neurodevelopment
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago 
Undergraduate Major:  Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Post-undergraduate research:  2 years (1 year as co-founder of MealFlour, a sustainable nutrition start-up in the western highlands of Guatemala; 1 year NIH post-bac IRTA fellowship at the Mankodi Lab developing screening tools for the diagnosis of rare neurological diseases) 
PhD Lab: Anthropology (advisor: Omar Dewachi), Rutgers University
Research Interest: Impacts of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and global AMR stewardship policies on infectious disease care amongst indigenous K'iche' Maya communities in the western highlands of Guatemala
Clinical Interest: Environmental & Occupational Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Undergraduate Major: Microbiology 
Post-undergraduate research: 1 year -Worked in a Parkinson's research lab at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center  
PhD Lab: Schwarzbauer Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest:  Extracellular Matrix in Bioengineering and Disease, Fibrosis, Diabetic Retinopathy
Clinical Interest: Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Pathology

Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota 
Undergraduate Major: Biomedical Engineering 
Post-undergraduate research: None  
PhD Lab: Moghe Lab, Rutgers University
Research Interest: Tissue engineering/Nanoparticles 
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: Georgetown University 
Undergraduate Major:  Neurobiology
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years as a Clinical Research Scientist and Translational Lab Technician at Celgene
PhD Lab: Notterman Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest:  Virology - Relationship of HCMV and Host Telomerase
Clinical Interest: Clinical trials/clinical research 

Undergraduate Institution:  Tufts University
Undergraduate Major:  Chemical Engineering
Post-undergraduate research:  2 years - 1 year as an intern at Novartis using computational approaches for Car-T manufacturing and 1 year as a research technician at the Massachusetts General Hospital studying high-dimensional single-exome profiling 
PhD Lab: De Lab, Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ
Research Interest: Cancer data science 
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution:  Barnard College
Undergraduate Major:  Biochemistry
Post-undergraduate research: 1 year -working as a research assistant in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard performing metatranscriptomic analysis of Bangladeshi and Vietnamese well water to investigate arsenic presence.  
PhD Lab: Avalos Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest: The link between metabolic dysfunction and neurodegeneration. 
Clinical Interest: Emergency Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: Macaulay Honors College (CUNY- Hunter) 
Undergraduate Major: Neurobiology + Media Studies 
Post-undergraduate research: 3 years - Disaster preparedness post- Hurricane Sandy. Administrator. Worked as a research associate, studying microglia and synaptic plasticity.
PhD Lab: Murthy Lab - Princeton University
Research Interest:  Computational and systems neuroscience (multisensory circuits), Brain-body intersections, Psychosis, Computational Modeling
Clinical Interest: Undecided, Healthcare disparities

Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University 
Undergraduate Major: Cell Biology & Neuroscience; Exercise Science and Sport Studies 
Post-undergraduate research:  None 
PhD Lab: Matise Lab, Rutgers RWJMS
Research Interest: Endogenous response of the central nervous system to acute insults (i.e., stroke) and injury 
Clinical Interest: Neurosurgery

Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland 
Undergraduate Major:  Bioengineering
Post-undergraduate research:  None 
PhD Lab: Yarmush Lab, Rutgers Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest:  Computational Biology, Immune-Oncology, microfluidics
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution:  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Undergraduate Major:  Psychology
Post-undergraduate research:  5 years - 3 years as a biologist at NIH, and 2 years at UIUC studying learning and memory using optogenetics. 
PhD Lab: Berry Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest:  Systems neuroscience (the role of feedback input from higher cortical areas to the primary visual cortex for visual processing)
Clinical Interest: Undecided 

Undergraduate Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University 
Undergraduate Major: Biomedical Engineering 
Post-undergraduate research:  6 years - MSc in Medical Anthropology from the Univ of Oxford; American Cancer Society employee; Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho; Part-Time Lecturer (PTL) at Virginia Commonwealth University in International Studies 
PhD Lab:
Research Interest: Perinatal protective exposure in the northeastern highlands of Lesotho; embodied experiences of immunitas and communitas; medical humanitarianism and global health assemblages 
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics

Undergraduate Institution:  Marymount University
Undergraduate Major:  Biology
Post-undergraduate research:  7 years -  I worked as a Research Assistant at Henry Jackson Foundation studying HIV and gynecologic cancers and as a Technical Writer at a Contract Research Organization 
PhD Lab: Monheit Lab, Rutgers School of Public Health
Research Interest:  Health Systems and Policy
Clinical Interest: Psychiatry

Undergraduate Institution: St. Olaf College
Undergraduate Major: Religion, Biomedical Studies
Post-undergraduate research: 2 years - Jesuit Volunteer Corps, working at a crisis emergency shelter for youth; scribe/clinical associate for an addiction psychiatrist
PhD Lab: Center for Prevention Science, RU School of Social Work
Research Interest: Inclusion health, health disparities for people experiencing chronic homelessness, housing as a health intervention, harm reduction
Clinical Interest: Family Medicine

Undergraduate Institution:  Emory University
Undergraduate Major:  Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
Post-undergraduate research: None.  
PhD Lab: Buschman Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest:  Quantitative biology, systems neuroscience
Clinical Interest: Interventional Radiology

Undergraduate Institution:  University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Major:  Biology
Post-undergraduate research: 1 year - at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center performing breast cancer and integrative medicine research  
PhD Lab: Donia Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest:  The human microbiome's contribution to disease pathology and personalized medicine  
Clinical Interest: Dermatology, Internal Medicine

Undergraduate Institution: The New School 
Undergraduate Major:  Interdisciplinary Science, Gender Studies
Post-undergraduate research:  5 years - Studied innate immunity post-viral infection at Rockefeller University; Tet protein regulation of hydroxymethylation during zebrafish development at MSKCC (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) 
PhD Lab: Gu Lab, Rutgers University
Research Interest:  Epigenetics and Nuclear RNAi
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: Brown University 
Undergraduate Major:  Geoscience
Post-undergraduate research:  1 year – Medicinal chemistry work at Gilead Sciences 
PhD Lab: Seyedsayamdost Lab, Princeton University
Research Interest: antibiotics discovery 
Clinical Interest: undecided