Alumni

Graduate Students

Dr. TinTin Luu (PhD), Current: Scientist, Flagship Pioneering
Dr. Marek Zorawski (MD/PhD), Current: Duke University School of Medicine
Dr. Antonia Bruce (PhD)
Dr. Emily Swanson (PhD), Current: Research Scientist, VitaKey
Dr. Justin Martyr (PhD), Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Dr. James Falese (PhD), Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety (NIEHS)
Dr. Kamillah Kassam (PhD): Current: ASEE Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech
Dr. Alex (Zhengguo) Cai (PhD), Current: Drug Design Researcher, Deep Potential Technologies, Beijing, China
Dr. Mikey Kwon (PhD), Current: Science Advisor/Patent Agent, Goodwin Procter, Boston, MA
Dr. Martina Zafferani (PhD), Current: Scientist II at Flagship Pioneering
Dr. Aline Umuhire Juru (PhD), Current: Postdoctoral Associate, Janelia Farms
Dr. Sarah Wicks (PhD), Current: Postdoctoral Scientist at Nucleic Acid Based Drugs (NUBAD), LLC
Dr. Emily J. McFadden (PhD), Current: Patent Technical Advisor with Colley LLP
Dr. Anita Donlic (PhD), Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Dr. Christopher Eubanks (PhD), Current: Scientist I, KBI Biopharma, Durham, NC
Dr. Brittany Morgan (PhD), Current: John V. O'Connor Assistant Professor in Cancer Drug, Notre Dame University

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Greta Bagnolini (PhD), Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, Bolognesi MedChem Lab, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Dr. Giacomo Padroni (PhD), Current: Medicinal Chemistry Scientist, Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD), University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Dr. Sean Piwarski (PhD), Current: Scientific Consultant, Eva Garland Consulting, Raleigh, NC
Dr. Neeraj Patwardhan (PhD), Current: Associate Director, Delivery Chemistry - Beam Therapeutics Inc., Cambridge, MA
Dr. Gary Kapral (PhD), Current: Director of Operations, PhD Posters, Durham, NC

Staff

Dr. Jordan Forte (MD), Current: Resident, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Christopher Laudeman, Current: Research Scientist, Rabyow Pharma, Brevard, NC

Undergraduate Students

Ryan Fortier (UTM 2026)
Felicia Chang (UTM 2027)
Vedant Galgalikar (UTM 2026)
Neo Farenick (UTM 2026)
Olamide Olajide (UTM 2027)
Dhanasheel Muralidharan (Duke 2022), Current: Pfizer, Boston, MA
Kashyap Sreeram (Duke 2024)
Adeline Monaghan (Duke 2022)
Alex Wilson (Duke 2020), Current: Analyst, ClearView Healthcare Partners, New York, NY
Rachel Dveirin (Duke 2020), Current: PhD Student, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Shantal Jayawickreme, Current: Student, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Angela Liu (Duke 2019), Current: Orthopedic Surgery Intern, Stetson Powell Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Bilva Sanaba (Duke 2019), Current: Software Engineer, Amazon, San Francisco, CA
Malavika Puri (Duke 2019), Current: Gruber Science Fellow and PhD Student, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Noey Boldizsar (Duke 2021)
Colby Newson (Duke 2018)
Diane Karloff (Duke 2018), Current: PhD student, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Carlos Roble (Duke 2018)
Adina Jan (Duke 2018)
Jordan Forte (Duke 2015, Research Associate), Current: Student, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC
Rebecca Culver (Duke 2017), Current: PhD student, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Jason Xu (Duke 2017), Current: Student, University of California Irwine School of Medicine, Irwine, CA
Akshay Patel (NCSSM 2017)
Dillan Casanova (Duke 2016); Current: Student, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA
Rozalina Abramov (Queens College 2016); Current: Student, Long Island University School of Pharmacy, Brooklyn, NY
David Jones (Duke 2015), Current: Student, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Vihasa Govada (Duke 2017), Current: Student, Florida Atlantic University School of Medicine, Boca Raton, FL
Barbara Blachut (Duke 2015); Current: Student, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Young-Hyun Moon (Duke 2016)