Past Predoctoral
Nanette Nascone, PhD (1993-1997)
Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Valerie Schneider, PhD (1994-2000)
Staff Scientist (T-42), National Institutes of Health, NCBI
Melissa Rones, PhD (1995-2001)
Attorney, Ropes and Gray, Boston, MA
Julie Woda, PhD (1997-2002)
Project Manager, Juventas Therapeutics, Cleveland, OH
Joshua Rutenberg, PhD (1999-2005)
Product Manager, Hewlett Packard,
Joaquim Cabral Teixeira, PhD (2004-2010)
Venture Capital Strategist, Lisbon, Portugal
Paul Bushway, PhD (2007-2012)
Postdoc, University of California, San Diego
Elvira Forte, PhD (2008-2010)
Postdoc, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Prof. Richard Harvey)
Karen Wei, PhD (2006-2011)
Manager in Biologics Market Development, NuVasive, Inc. (San Diego)
Frederick Lo, PhD (2006-2012)
Scientist/Informatician, Novartis
Vipul Bhargava, PhD (2007-2013)
Staff Scientist, Janssen Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA
Wenqing Cai, PhD (2008-2013)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Stuart Orkin, Advisor
Stephanie Chang, BS (2015-2016)
Graduate Student, Robotics, Northwestern University
Ximena Garate, PhD (2016-2017)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Santiago Miriuka Lab, LIAN-CONICET, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dirk Wilhelmus Francken, MS (2017)
Shenghan Michael Yu, PhD (2013-2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA
Wesley Mckeithan, PhD (2013-2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Past Postdoctoral
Michael K. Dunn, PhD (1994-1996)
Director, Business Development, Ferring Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Paris Ataliotis, PhD (1993-1996)
Senior Lecturer in Developmental Genetics, St. George's , University of London
Karen Symes, PhD (1992-1996)
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Michael Levin, PhD (1996-2001)
Professor, Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Kelly McLaughlin, PhD (1996-2002)
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Kristin B. Artinger, PhD (1997-2002)
Professor, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver
Martha Marvin, PhD (2000-2002)
Lecturer in neuroscience, Williams College
Ann C. Foley, PhD (2000-2007)
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Clemson University and Departments of Cell and Regenerative Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina
Victor M. Campa, PhD (2002-2007)
Manager of the Advance Microscopy Facility, Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria, Spain
Rosa Guzzo, PhD (2003-2007)
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
Hiroko Kita-Matsuo, PhD (2004-2007)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kyoto University, Japan
Cecilia Maria Scimia, MD (2009-2011)
Medical Liason officer, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Natalia Kan, PhD (2008-2011)
Senior Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
Masanao Tsuda, PhD (2009-2014)
Senior Scientist, Vertex, San Diego, CA
Erik Willems, PhD (2009-2014)
Senior Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Life Technologies), San Diego, CA
Fabio Cerignoli, PhD (2012-2015)
Applications Scientist, ACEA Biosciences
Alexandre R. Colas, PhD (2010-2015)
Assistant Professor, Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Institute, La Jolla, CA
Ke Wei, PhD (joint with Dr. Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, 2010-2016)
Assistant Professor, Tongjia Medical College, China
Ramón Díaz-Trelles, PhD (2010-2016)
Scientist, Arcturus Therapeutics, San Diego, CA
Derek Lemons, PhD (2012-2016)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, San Diego, CA
Alex Savtchenko, PhD (2013-2017)
Research Scientist, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Ichige Kajimura, MD (2016-2017)
Pediatric Cardiologist, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Japan