Former Lab Members

Paola De Candia
Postdoctoral Researcher [December 2005 – June 2007]
Currently a Senior Researcher (University of Milano – Bicocca)

Lab Manager [September 2005 – April 2008]

Graduate Student [September 2005 – February 2010]
Currently an Assistant Professor (University of Minnesota)

HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow [May 2008 – February 2011]
Currently an Assistant Professor (University of Montreal)

NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow [August 2008 – August 2011]
Currently an Assistant Professor (Penn State University)

Chicago Postdoctoral Fellow [March 2010 – February 2012]
Currently an Assistant Professor (Duke University)

Graduate Student [September 2006 – April 2012]
Currently a Postdoctoral Scholar (UCSF)

Graduate Student [June 2006 – June 2012]
Currently a Remote Medical Writer

AHA Predoctoral Fellow – Graduate Student [June 2008 – September 2012]
Currently a Postdoctoral Scholar (MIT)

Research Associate (Assistant Professor) [February 2012 – February 2013]
Staff Scientist (Washington University)

Technician [May 2009 – May 2013]
Currently a Field Applications Scientist (Illumina, Inc)

Post-doc [May 2011 – June 2013]
Currently a Bioinformatics programmer analyst at Affymetrix

NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow [September 2011 – December 2013]
Currently an Assistant Professor (University of Maryland)

Graduate Student [August 2009 – November 2013]
Currently a Postdoctoral Scholar (University of Washington)

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow [September 2011- August 2014]
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (Université de Lausanne)

Graduate Student [August 2010 – December 2014]
Currently a Postdoctoral Scholar (Cornell University)

Graduate Student [August 2011 – July 2015]
Currently an MBA student (University of Chicago)

Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow [March 2011 – July 2015]
Currently a Nanyang Assistant Professor (Nanyang Technological University)

NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow [September 2013 – November 2015]
Currently a Senior Scientist I (AbbVie)

Technician [May 2012 – December 2015]
Currently a Physician Assistant student (Chatham University)

NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellow [July 2012 – July 2016]
Currently a Postdoctoral Scholar (Translational Genomics Research Institute
and Mayo Clinic)

MSTP Student [July 2012 – August 2016]
Currently a Medical School Student (University of Chicago)

Graduate Student [September 2011 – October 2016]
Freelance Scientific Software Developer

Postdoctoral Scholar [October 2012 – September 2016]
Currently an Assistant Professor (University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston – Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Technician [May 2010 – September 2012]
Graduate Student [September 2012 – April 2018]
Currently a Postdoctoral Scholar (UCSF)

Technician [2012 – May 2018]

Po-Yuan Tung
Postdoctoral Fellow [July 2014- July 2018]
Currently a Scientist at Berkeley Lights

Joyce Hsiao
Postdoctoral Fellow [Summer 2015- Summer 2019]
Currently a Senior Scientist at Moderna Therapeutics

Michelle Ward
EMBO Long-term Postdoctoral Fellow
[ Winter 2014 – Winter 2020 ]
Assistant Professor at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX

Lauren Blake
Graduate Student [Summer 2015 – Winter 2019]
NSF Graduate Fellow
Data Scientist at Alto Neuroscience

Briana Mittleman
Graduate Student [Fall 2016 – Summer 2020]
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellow
Currently in law school (Stanford)

Reem Elorbany
MSTP Student [Fall 2016- Summer 2020]
Currently in medical school (UChicago)

Ittai Eres
Graduate Student [Summer 2015- Winter 2020]
Senior Associate Scientist at Amgen

Emilie Briscoe
Research Technician [2018-2020]
Currently in nursing school

Claudia Cuevas
Lab Manager
Retired