(last known position)

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Aaron Lin, Ph.D. (2020-2026, joint with Adamson Lab), at Princeton, Damon Runyon Fellowship, senior scientist at Infinity Bio

Glenn Hogan, Ph.D. (2021-2023), at Princeton, NJCCR postdoctoral fellowship, research specialist at University of Pennsylvania

Saori Suzuki, DVM Ph.D. (2019-2022), at Princeton, Senshin Medical Research Foundation fellowship, Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, Japan

Tomokazu Tamura, DVM Ph.D. (2019-2021), at Princeton, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship, Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Japan

Yongzhen Liu, Ph.D. (2019-2024), at Princeton, NJCCR and ACS (declined) postdoctoral fellowship, Assistant Professor at Nanjing University, China

Lei Wei, Ph.D. (2016-2021), at Princeton, NJCCR fellowship recipient, Assistant Professor at West Lake University, Hongzhou, China

Elham Shirvani-Dastgerdi, Ph.D. (2016-2019), at Princeton, DFG fellowship recipient, Precision Medicine Strategy Lead, Regeneron

Florian Douam, Ph.D. (2014-2019), at Princeton, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Peter Paul Career Development Professor, National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory, Boston University, MA 

Qiang Ding, Ph.D. (2014-2018), at Princeton, NJCCR fellowship recipient, Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Yael Sharon, M.D. (2016-2017), at Princeton, Senior Ophthamologist, Rabin Medical Center, Israel

Julie Sellau, M.D. (2016), at Princeton, DFG fellowship recipient, Teamlead PS USP @ Norbitec GmbH, Germany, 

Markus von Schaewen, M.D. (2013-2015) at Rockefeller & Princeton, DFG fellowship recipient, Senior Physician, Caritas-Klinik Maria Heimsuchung, Gastroenterology,

Natalia Frias-Staheli, Ph.D. (2011-2013), at Rockefeller, Senior Technology Analyst at Trillium Medical Ventures

Markus Dorner, Ph.D. (2009-2013), at Rockefeller, DFG fellowship recipient, Senior Non-Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London, U.K. 

Eva Billerbeck, Ph.D. (2009-2013), at Rockefeller, DFG fellowship recipient, now Assistant Professor at Albert-Einstein College of Medicine

Former Graduate Students

Michael Schwoerer (2020-2025), predoctoral HMEI-STEP fellow by the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, postdoc at Harvard Medical School 

Jiayu Zhang (2020- 2025), China Scholarship Council (CSC), postdoc at the Institute for Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

Keith Berggren (2019-2024), Consultant at McKinsey and Company

Stephanie Maya (2019-2024), NJCCR predoctoral fellowship, postdoc at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Emily Mesev (2018-2023), co-mentored by Jared Toettcher (Princeton University), Senior Copywriter, Heartbeat

Robert LeDesma (2017-2022), NSF predoctoral fellowship, Scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Ila Nimgaonkar (M.D. Ph.D. program, 2016-2021), Medical Oncology Fellow at British Columbia Cancer Center 

Benjamin Winer (2013-2019), NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship, NJCCR predoctoral fellowship, postdoc with Morgan Huse (MSKCC), Schmidt Science Fellow, since 2025 Assistant Professor at New York University

Jenna Gaska (2013-2019), now Medical Writer at Nucleus Global, NJ

Former Undergraduate Students

Blaise Stone, ’26 (2024–2026), Sigma Xi Book Award (for best thesis in department)

Sofia Sepulveda Pizarro, ’26 (2024–2026), Fulbright Fellowship

Jonathan Afowork, ’26 (2024–2026)

Noah Im, ’26 (2024–2026)

Arwa Abdelshafi, ’26 (2024–2025)

Mujtuba Yousufi, ’25 (2024–2025)

Ronald Anglade, ’25 (2024–2025)

Fariha Begum, ’25 (2024–2025)

Sydney Mullin, ’24 (2023–2024), research specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, graduate student at Harvard Medical School

Heidi Temple, ’24 (2022–2024), research specialist at MIT

Emily Schoeman, ’23 (2021–2023), medical student at Columbia University

Olivia Sakaguchi, ’23 (2021–2023), Research Assistant in Anna Nam’s lab at Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Brian Kang, ’22 (2021–2022), co-advised with Cameron Myhrvold, Research Assistant in the Ploss & Myhrvold labs at Princeton University (2022–2023), graduate student at Stanford University

Mansi Totwani, ’22 (2020–2022), medical student at Harvard Medical School

Debby Park, ’22 (2020–2022), Research Assistant in Paul Bieniasz’s lab at The Rockefeller University, graduate student at

Maricar Almeda, ’22 (2020–2022), MS-MD student at Berkeley and UCSF

Daniel Beard, ’22 (2020–2022)

Emma Guare, ’21 (2019–2021), medical student at Penn State College of Medicine

Vrinda Madan, ’21 (2019–2021), medical student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Jacob Stheingart, ’20 (2019–2020), Philosophy major, Analyst at ClearView Healthcare Partners

Leslie Chan, ’20 (2019–2020), graduate student at Stanford University

Celeste Claudio, ’20 (2019–2020), Strategy Analyst at Marwood Group

Raymond Guo, ’19 (2017–2019), Medical Student at Baylor College of Medicine, Resident at MGH

Evelyn Wu, ’19 (2017–2019) 

Nicholas Archer, ’19 (2017–2019), research assistant in Jeremy Rock’s lab at The Rockefeller University

Gabriel Lipkowitz, ’19 (2016–2019), MSc student in Applied Computational Science and Engineering at Imperial College London (Fulbright Fellowship), PhD student at Stanford, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

David Kim, ’18 (2016–2018), Medical Student at UCLA

Metodi Balev, ’18 (2016–2018), currently Medical Student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Avanthi Cole, ’17 (2016), switched majors, Intellectual Property Litigation Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates

Hulaimato Jalloh, ’17 (2016–2017), Sigma Xi Award, Medical Student at Johns Hopkins

Tiffany Huang, ’17 (2016–2017), Sigma Xi Book Award (for best thesis in department), research assistant in David Artis’ lab at Weill Medical College, New York City, NY; Medical Resident at the University of Pennsylvania

Michael Chang, ’16 (2015–2016), 2016–2017 research assistant in Tom Tuschl’s lab at The Rockefeller University, New York City, NY; Medical Student at Harvard Medical School; medical resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Yentli Soto-Albrecht, ’16 (2015–2016), Senior Thesis Prize (awarded to top few theses in department), research fellow in Alejandro Balazs’ lab at the Ragon Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; MD-PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania

Alexander Jafari, ’16 (2014–2016), postbac researcher in John Mascola’s Lab, Vaccine Research Center (VRC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD; Medical Student at Tulane Medical School

Alexander Smith, ’15 (2013–2015), research fellow in Ted Pierson’s lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD; Medical Student at Tufts Medical School

Evelyn Siu, ’15 (2013–2015), Fulbright Scholarship for conducting a research project in Taiwan; Life Sciences Consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners

Former visiting students

Suki Chen (06/2026-08/2026), Rutgers University

Maxime Dubois (06/2026-08/2026), University of Vermont

Zi Wang (06/2025-08/2025), Zhejiang University, China

Jianche Liu (06/2024-08/2024), Zhejiang University, China

Javier Caballero-Gomez (09/2019-12/2019), University of Cordoba, Spain

Jiayu Zhang (09/2018-04/2019), Zhejiang University, China

Sam Hibbs (09/2017-01/2018), University of Oxford, UK

Cristiana Banila (9/2016-1/2017), University of Oxford, UK

Ann Cirincione (summer 2015), University of Maryland, graduate student at Princeton University

Mihai-Alexandru Pais (2014-2015), University of Freiburg, Germany

Alexander Vogt (2012), MD at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Lisa Sandmann (2012) Hannover Medical School

Qian Feng (2010), now post-doc at ETH Zurich

Former Research Specialists

Brian Kang (2022-2023), graduate student at Stanford University 

Thomas Cafiero (2020-2023) graduate student at Princeton University

Andrew Berneshawi (2018-2020), MD/MS candidate at Stanford University

Gabriela Hrebikova (2013-2018), research specialist, Moderna Therapeutics

Sherif Gerges (2013-2014), graduate student and postdoc at Harvard University 

Bridget Donovan (2011-2013), medical student at Harvard Medical School, Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Rachael Labitt (2011-2013), veterinary student at Cornell University, Resident, CARE Lab Animal Medicine, Facility Veterinarian at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 

Tamar Friling (2011-2013)

Joshua Horwitz (2009-2011), graduate student at The Rockefeller University, postdoc at Harvard Medical School, Sr. Scientist, Virology at PureTech Health 

Walter Barry (2009-2011), graduate student at The Johns Hopkins University 

Kathy Mu (2009-2011), Tulane School of Architecture, now city planner in New York.

Valeriya Gaysinskaya (2008-2009), graduate student at Carnegie Institution for Science , Senior Scientist at Circulomics Inc.

Jen Korol (2008-2009), graduate student at NYU, scientist at Toxicologykinetics Research 

Hana You (2006-2008), currently, Associate Scientist at Pharmacyclics, San Francisco