M.D./Ph.D. Student Directory

Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern University
Undergraduate Major: Biology
Post-undergraduate research: None
PhD Lab: Undecided
Research Interest:  Information theory, dynamical systems, tumor resistance mechanisms, emergent properties, communication systems and signal processing.
Clinical Interest: Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Undergraduate Institution: Duke University
Undergraduate Major: Biomedical Engineering
Post-undergraduate research: Biochemistry/Structural Biology, Lefkowitz Lab (Duke University)  
PhD Lab: Undecided
Research Interest:  Cell and Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery

Undergraduate Institution: Georgetown University
Undergraduate Major: Biochemistry with a minor in Disability Studies
Post-undergraduate research:  2 years at CHOP investigating novel therapeutics and combination therapies for Ewing sarcoma, osteosarcoma, and synovial sarcoma
PhD Lab: Undecided
Research Interest: Genetics, Drug Development, Cancer 
Clinical Interest: Pediatrics, Genetics, Hematology/Oncology

Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Undergraduate Major:  Biomathematics, Statistics
Post-undergraduate research:  Pancreatic Cancer, Tumor Evolution, Drug Resistance
PhD Lab: Undecided
Research Interest:  Cancer Biology and Genetics
Clinical Interest: Medical Oncology

Undergraduate Institution: Tulane University
Undergraduate Major: Neuroscience with minor in Cell & Molecular Biology  
Post-undergraduate research:  3 years at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigating the fundamental biology of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex and its effect on cell fate specification as well as its implication in cancer etiology when perturbed. 
PhD Lab: Undecided
Research Interest:  biophysics of the cell/biomolecular condensates, chromatin biology, epigenetics, cell fate decisions, neurodevelopmental diseases and cancers 
Clinical Interest: Neurology, Neuro-Oncology, Hematology, Radiation Oncology

Undergraduate Institution: Lehigh University
Undergraduate Major: Bioengineering
Post-undergraduate research: 3 years- at CHOP investigating novel fetal and neonatal therapies for congenital diaphragmatic hernia and esophageal atresia
Ph.D. Lab: Undecided
Research Interest: Development, biomechanics, fetal medicine
Clinical Interest: Neonatology

Undergraduate Institution: New York University
Undergraduate Major: Biology
Post-undergraduate research: Two years in a neurodegenerative disease research lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Ph.D. Lab: Undecided
Research Interest: Mechanisms in neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment.
Clinical Interest: Neurology, Oncology

Undergrad institute: Rutgers University New Brunswick
Undergraduate Major: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, with minors in English and Chemistry
Post-undergraduate research: The impact of traumatic brain injury on sleep and circadian rhythms in Drosophila
Ph.D. Lab: Undecided
Research Interest: Neurodegeneration, neuroplasticity, glial functionality in disease, inflammatory processes, and aging.
Clinical Interest: Neurology, hematology oncology, otherwise undecided.

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:  Joshua Rabinowitz, Princeton University
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: Anika Barber, Rutgers University
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:  Illeana Cristea, Princeton University
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: Aaron Milstein, Rutgers University
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: Alexander Ploss, Princeton University
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: Alexander Ploss, Princeton University
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: Liz Gavis, Princeton University
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: Danelle Devenport, Princeton University
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: Sam Wang, Princeton University
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: Ed Cohen, Rutgers University
Research Interest: Qualitative and mixed methods health equity research, infectious disease, housing and homelessness, feminist/queer science studies
Clinical Interest: Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
Undergraduate Major: Biological Sciences
Post-undergraduate research: None
PhD Lab: Mohamed Abou Donia, Princeton University
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: John Brooks, Princeton University
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: Martin Wuehr, Princeton University
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: Yibin Kang, Princeton University
Research Interest: Oncology, immunotherapy, and metabolomics
Clinical Interest: Undecided

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: Jian Cao, Rutgers University
Research Interest:  Computational Genomics
Clinical Interest: Precision medicine

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: Shridar Ganesan, Rutgers University
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: Cristina Montagna, Rutgers University
Research Interest: Viral integration and tumorigenesis, molecular genetics, cancer biology  
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine/Undecided

Undergraduate Institution: University of Hartford
Undergraduate Major:  
Post-undergraduate research:   
PhD Lab: Paul Duberstein, Rutgers University
Research Interest:  
Clinical Interest: 

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Daniel Herranz, Rutgers University
Research Interest: Longitudinal single-cell analysis of pediatric AMLs
Clinical Interest: Internal Medicine

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

Undergraduate Institution: Widener University 
Undergraduate Major:  Biochemistry
Post-undergraduate research: None  
PhD Lab: Karen Schindler, Rutgers University
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: Elizabeth Gould, Princeton University
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: Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Rutgers University
Research Interest:  Environmental Determinants of Health, Microbiome / Microbiology, Neurodevelopment
Clinical Interest: Undecided

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: Jean Schwarzbauer, 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: Prabhas Moghe, Rutgers University
Research Interest: Tissue engineering/Nanoparticles 
Clinical Interest: Undecided

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

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