Success Stories
The training program at NHLBI is designed to prepare Fellows for positions in Academics either in the U.S. or Abroad as well as in Government, Industry or Public Service. Some examples of recent trainees at NHLBI include:
U.S. Academic Appointments:
Basic Science Departments
Gregory Alushin, Ph.D., Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and head of Laboratory, Rockfeller University. Dr. Alushin was a fellow under Dr. Waterman’s lab and became early independent scientist at the NHLBI in his early fellowship. He currently studies how cells respond to mechanical forces at Rockfeller University.
Michael Adams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Campbell University School of Pharmacy. Dr. Adams was a fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Lance Pohl from 2003-2005. His project involved mechanisms of drug-induced liver toxicity. He was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Nathan Baird, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Sciences, PA. He was a fellow in RAN Biophysics and Cellular Physiology Laboratory the under Dr. Adrian Ferre-D’ Amare from 2011 – 2014. During his fellowship, his research concerned on biophysical and structural techniques to understand how riboswitches control cellular physiology in response to the concentration of metabolites.
Jianjun Bao, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University. Dr. Bao was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Adelstein from 2002-2006. Her work concerned understanding the roles of cardiac myosin using knockout mice.
Artem Barski, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Chindren's Hospita. Dr.Barski was a fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Keji Zhao from 2006-2011. His project involved epigenomics of T cell activation, differentiation, and memory.
Suresh Cuddapah, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY. Dr. Cuddapah was a fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Keji Zhao from 2002-2010. His project involved epigenomics of T cell activation, differentiation, and memory.
Cynthia Ju, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Immunology and Toxicology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado. Dr. Ju was a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Lance Pohl from 1999-2002. Her research was in the area of immunotoxicology.
Dinari Harris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Howard University, DC. Dr. Harris was a fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Imaging under Dr. Justin Taraska from 2011 – 2014. During his fellowship, his research focused on different fluorescent techniques in humans and C. elegans.
Roby Joehanes, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, Institute for Aging Research, Insructor in Medicine, Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Hard Medical School. Dr. Joehanes was a fellow in Framingham Heart Study under Dr. Daniel Levy. He is interested in integrating various genome-wide “omics” resources.
Jeffery Klauda, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland. Dr. Klauda was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Computational Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Bernard Brooks from 2003-2007. His research was on molecular modeling.
Michael Lerner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Earlham College, Richmond, In. Dr. Lerner was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Computational Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Pastor from 2007-2011. His research was on molecular modeling.
Amanda Lobell, Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Lecturer at Harvard University, MA. Dr. Lobell was in Laboratory of Systems Genetics under Dr. Susan Harbison from 2012 – 2015. While she was at NHLBI, her research concerned GWAS on phenotypes that impact fitness in Drosophila and the degree to which the genetic architecture of sleep is conserved between Drosophila and humans.
Hongjun Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Liu was a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Toren Finkel from 2004-2010. His research concerned the role of wnt signaling in aging. He was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee. He is a recipient of a K99/R00 Pathways to Independence Award.
Zhongping Lu, Ph.D., Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Dr. Lu was a fellow in under Dr. Michael Sack from 2005 – 2013.
Abigail Mabe, Ph.D., Instructor of Biology, Walters State Community College, Morristown, TN. Dr. Mabe was an IRTA Fellow in the Developmental Neurobiology Section under the mentorship of Dr. Herbert Geller in 2009. Her project concerned the role of proteoglycan GAG chains in spinal cord injury.
Edward Mills, Ph.D.,Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mills was a Fellow in the Cardiovascular Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Toren Finkel from 1997-2004. His research involved a molecular approach to understanding the basis of hyperthermia caused by Ecstasy.
Jackob Moskovitz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. Moskovitz was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Biochemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Earl Stadtmanfrom 1997-2003. His project was understanding how methionine and methionine sulfoxide can protect cells from oxidative damage.
Joon Y. Park, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Temple University. Dr. Park was a Fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Hwang from 2005 - 2008. His project was to understand the interaction between P53 and mitochondrial respiration.
Takeshi Sakamoto, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University. Dr. Sakamoto was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology under the mentorship of Dr. James Sellers from 2001-2009. His research project concerned understanding the function of myosins at the single-molecule level. He is the recipient of an NIH K99/R00 Pathways to Independence award. Link to his publications at NHLBI.
Smita Sampath, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University. Dr. Sampath was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics under the mentorship of Dr. Eliot McVeighfrom 2004-2007. Her project was to develop methods for real-time cardiac MRI imaging. She was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Lizzie Santiago, Ph.D., Instructor, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University. Dr. Santiago was a Fellow in the Developmental Neurobiology Section under the mentorship of Dr. Herbert Geller from 2007 -2008. Her project was to understand the role of non-muscle myosins in controlling growth cone dynamics.
Dustin Schones, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA. Dr. Schones was a fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Keji Zhao from 2006-2010. His project involved computational approaches to epigenetics. He was a recipient of an NHLBI K22 Career Transition Award.
Sruti Shiva, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Dr. Shiva was a Fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Gladwin from 2004-2008. Her project was to understanding the role of nitric oxide in regulating mitochondrial function and the response to ischemia/reperfusion. She was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
George Stan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati. Dr. Stan was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Computational Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Bernard Brooks from 2002-2006. His research was on molecular modeling. He received a FARE award from NIH and was a recipient of a Lenfant Fellowship at NHLBI. He also received an AHA Scientist Development Grant.
Mikiei Tanaka, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oklahoma. Dr. Tanaka was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Biochemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Earl Stadtmanfrom 2000-2008. His project was understanding how methionine and methionine sulfoxide can protect cells from oxidative damage causes aging and cell death.
Zhibin Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Wang was a fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Keji Zhao from 2006-2010. His project involved chromatin modifications in the regulation of gene expression.
Qize Wei, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Dr. Wei was a fellow in the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Adelstein from 1997-2004. His research involved understanding the transcriptional regulation of muscle development. His research was supported by an NHLBI K22 Research Transition Award. Link to his publications at NHLBI.
H. Lee Woodcock, III, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of South Florida. Dr. Woodcock was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Computational Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Bernard Brooks from 2003-2009. His research was on molecular modeling. He was a recipient of a Lenfant Fellowship at NHLBI. He also received an NHLBI K22 Career Transition Award. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/research/training/programs/independent/career-transition-k22.
Hai-Hui Xue, M.D, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa Medical School, Iowa City, Iowa. Dr. Xue was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Warren Leonard from 2000-2006. His research concerned the regulation of interleukin 7 receptor alpha-chain gene expression in T cells. He was a recipient of a Lenfant Fellowship at NHLBI. Link to his publications at NHLBI.
Wenjun Zheng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Buffalo. Dr. Zheng was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Computational Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Bernard Brooks from 2003-2007. His research concerned multidimensional molecular dynamic models of protein structure.
Clinical Departments
Minoo Battiwalla, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY. Dr. Battiwalla was a Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of A. John Barrett from 2000-2004. His project was involved with emerging therapeutic and transplant strategies for myelodysplastic syndromes.
Thomas Cimato, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Buffalo. Dr. Cimato was a Fellow in the Cardiology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Elizabeth Nabel from 2002-2007. His project involved stem cells in cardiovascular disease.
Souheil Y. El-Chemaly, M.D.,Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. El-Chemaly was a Fellow in the Cardiopulmonary Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Joel Moss from 2005-2011. His project involved basic mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis.
Peiman Hematti, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology), University of Wisconsin. Dr. Hematti was a Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Cynthia Dunbar from 1999-2004. His project was involved with modeling human hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy in nonhuman primates.
Cynthia St. Hilaire, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at Pittsburg Heart, Lung and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute. Dr. St. Hilarie was a fellow in under Dr. Manfred Boehm from 2009 – 2015. During her fellowship, she focused on the signaling mechanisms and regulation of endothelial to mesenchymal transition in vascular injury and specific study of EndoMT that occurs in our mouse model of Marfan’s syndrome.
Moonjung Jung, M.D., Clinical Scholar and Instructor in Clinical Investigation, Rockfeller University. Dr. Jung was a clinical fellow in Molecular Hematopoeisis Section under Dr. Cynthia Dunbar from 2012 – 2016.
Jason Kovacic, M.D., Assistant Professor, Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York. Dr. Kovacic was a Clinical Fellow in the Cardiovascular Branch under the mentorship of Manfred Boehm from 2004-2008. His research concerned understanding the role of stem and progenitor cells in cardiovascular disease, such as atherosclerosis.
Sabrina Martyr, M.D., Hematologist & Oncologist with Pinnacle Health Cancer Center in Harrisburg, PA. She was a clinical fellow under Dr. Charles Bolan from 2011 – 2014. Dr. Martyr did an interview about her career with Pinncale Health System in 2015.
Shyama Masilamani, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Masilamani was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Knepper from 1997-2004. Her research involved understanding the regulation of the expression of renal transporters. Her research was supported by an NHLBI K22 Research Transition Award.
Anupama Rao, M.D., Cardiologist at Medstar Washington Hospital, DC. Dr. Rao was a clinical fellow in the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory under Dr. Andrew Arai from 2014 – 2015. Dr. Rao specializes in cardiovascular disease and practices medicine in Washington, D.C.
Ivan Rosas, M.D.,Lecturer on Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Rosas was a Clinical Fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Branch from 1997-2005. His project involved studies of pulmonary fibrosis. He was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Bipin Savani, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Savani was a Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. John Barrett from 2003-2007. His project was involved with modeling human hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy in nonhuman primates.
International Academic Appointments:
Argentina
Marina Uhart de Bustos, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, IIB-INTECH, Chascomús. Dr. Uhart was a Visiting Fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch under the supervision of Dr. Martha Vaughan from 2007-2009.
Canada
Alexander J. Dick, M.D., Cardiologist, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto. Dr. Dick was a Clinical Fellow in the Cardiovascular Branch from 2001-2003 under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Lederman. His research concerned the application of interventional MRI to cardiovascular disease. A link to his publications at NHLBI is provided here.
Arnold Kristof, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Critical Care Division
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. Dr. Kristof was a Clinical Fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Branch from 1998-2004 under the mentorship of Dr. Joel Moss. His research concerned the role of nitric oxide in mediating lung injury.
Ian Paterson, M.D., C.M., Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta. Dr. Paterson was a Fellow in the Cardiovascular Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Andrew Arai from 2002-2004. His research involved clinical studies of cardiac MRI.
Richard B. Thompson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton. Dr. Thompson was a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics under the supervision of Dr. Eliot McVeigh from 2000-2003.
Chile
Ignacio J. Bravo, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University del Desarrollo. Dr. Bravo was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism under the mentorship of Dr. Maurice B. Burg from 2007-2009. His research concerned the role of microRNAs in renal function.
Pedro Gallardo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Dr. Gallardo was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism under the mentorship of Dr. Maurice B. Burg from 2005-2007. His research concerned signaling mechanisms in renal function.
China
Yufeng Cheng, M.D., Ph.D., Research Professor, Hematology Deparment, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University. Dr. Cheng was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the supervision of Dr. Neal Young from 2004 to 2006. Her research involved studies of parviovirus and aplastic anemia.
Jingqiong Hu, M.D., Associate Professor, Stem Cell Research Center, Wuhan. Dr. Hu was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the supervision of Dr. Cindy Dunbar and in the Laboratory of Developmental Biology under Dr. Yosuke Mukoyama from 2004 to 2009. Her research involved studies of gene therapy and brain/vascular stem cell interactions.
Wenfei Jin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology, SUSTech at Guandong, China. Dr. Jin was a fellow in Laboratory of Epigenome Biology under Dr. Keji Zhao from 2013 – 2017. During his fellowship, he focused on histone moedification and turnover of H2A.Z and H3.3.
Jun Lu, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Beijing Capital Medical University. Dr. Lu was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the supervision of Drs. Kevin Brown and Neal Young from 2002 to 2006. Her research involved studies of parviovirus and aplastic anemia. She was a member of the NHLBI DIR Fellows Advisory Committee. Link to her publications at NHLBI.
Xin Pan, Ph.D., Associate Investigator, National Center of Biomedical Analysis of China. Dr. Pan was fellow in Dr. Toren Finkel from 2011 – 2014. During his fellowship, he created a knockout mouse model of MCU defining and began phenotypic characterization of mouse and knockout cells.
Jianjun Xie, M.D., Senior Clinician, Beijing Dao-Pei Hospital. Dr. Xie was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the supervision of Dr. Cindy Dunbar from 2007 to 2009. His research involved studies gene therapy vectors.
Kai-Feng Xu, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Peking Union Medical College. Dr. Xu was a Visiting Fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Branch under the supervision of Dr. Martha Vaughan from 2002-2005. His research involved signal transduction pathways involved in vesicular trafficking.
Panpan Yu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Guandong- Hongkong – Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Yu was a fellow in Developmental Neurology Section under Dr. Herbert Geller from 2009 – 2015.
Denmark
Robert Fenton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Water and Salt Research Center, University of Aarhus. Dr.Fenton was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Knepper from 2001-2005. His research involved understanding the function of renal ion transporters in regulating salt and water balance. Dr. Fenton received a Lenfant Fellowship for his research accomplishments. Link to his publications at NHLBI.
Helena Mora-Jensen, Ph.D., Technical Supervisor, Department of Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Mora-Jensen was a visiting fellow in Laboratory of Lymphoid Malignancies under Dr. Adrian Wiestner from 2014 – 2016. During her fellowship, Dr. Mora-Jensen worked on effects of three drugs in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Finland
Kira Holmstrom, Ph.D., Project leader at Institute of Biotechnology in University of Helsinki. Dr. Holmstrom was a fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology under Dr. Toren Finkel from 2012 – 2015. She now aims to fight neurodegeneration by focusing on mitochondrial health.
Mikko Laukkanen, Ph.D., Group Leader, Medicity Research Laboratory, University of Turku. Dr. Laukkanen was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the direction of Dr. Cynthia Dunbar from 2002-2005. His work concerned gene therapy of hematopoietic diseases.
France
Benjamin Lelouvier, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Vaiomer. Dr. Lelouvier was a fellow in Protein Trafficking and Organelle Biology Laboratory under Dr. Rosa Puertollano from 2008 to 2012. During his fellowship, Dr. Lelouvier focused on protein trafficking.
Berengere Vire, Ph.D., Project Manager at ALCEDIAG. Dr. Vire was a fellow in Laboratory of Lymphoid Malignancies under Dr. Adrian Wiestner from 2006 – 2007. During his fellowship, Dr. Vire focused on studying the effects of resistance to Rituximab (monoclonal anti-CD20) therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients.
Germany
Ashok Rout, Ph.D., Research Associate at Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany. Dr. Rout was a fellow in Laboratory of Structural Biophysics under Dr. Nico Tjandra from 2011 – 2016. Currently, he works at Department of NMR-based structural Biology.
Ruth Seggewiss, M.D., Department of Hematology/Oncology, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, University of Würzburg. Dr. Seggewiss was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Cynthia Dunbar from 2004-2005. Her work concerned gene therapy of hematopoietic diseases.
Hungary
Elfrieda Fodor, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary. Dr. Fodor was a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Cell Biology under the supervision of Dr. Ann Ginsburg from 2003-2007. Her research concerned biophysical approaches to intermolecular interactions.
Mihály Kovács, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest. Dr. Kovács, was a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology under the supervision of Dr. James Sellers from 2002-2005. His research concerned biophysical approaches to intermolec kinetic properties of myosins. Dr. Kovács received a Lenfant Fellowship, and a member of the NHLBI DIR Fellows Advisory Committee. He was awarded an NIH R01 Global Health Research Initiative Program for New Foreign Investigators (GRIP) grant to support his initial research efforts in Hungary. Link to his publications at NHLBI.
India
Siddhartha Jana, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. Dr. Jana was a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology under the supervision of Dr. Robert Adelstein from 2002-2007. His research concerned the properties of non-muscle myosins.
Pushpa Shukla, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai University. Dr. Shukla was a visiting fellow at Dr. Nico Tjandra’s lab from 2015 – 2017. During her fellowship, she focused on melanoregulin protein which transfers melanin pigment into skin and hair.
Indonesia
Indra Bachtiar, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at Stemcell and Cancer Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia. Dr. Bachtiar was aVisiting Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Nico Tjandra from 2001-2005. His research concerned NMR characterization of protein/lipid interactions.
Japan
Hirofumi Arai, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries Sciences, Nagasaki University. Dr. Arai was a Visiting Fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Branch under the direction of Dr. Joel Moss from 2003-2005. His work concerned the molecular diagnosis of pulmonary disease.
Nanae Harashima, M.D., Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, Shimane University School of Medicine. Dr. Harashima was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Childs from 2005-2007. His work concerned hematopoietic cell transplantation therapies for cancer patients.
Kohei Hosokawa, M.D., Medical Staff and Assistant professor at Kanazowa University, School of Medicine. Dr. Hosokawa was a fellow in Hematology Branch under Dr. Neal Young from 2013 – 2016. Dr. Hosokawa worked on clarifying the immune pathophysiology of bone marrow failure such as aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.
Yoshihuki Takahashi, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University School of Medicine. Dr. Takahashi was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Childs from 2001-2005. His work concerned hematopoietic cell transplantation therapies for cancer patients.Link to his publications at NHLBI.
Tomoiko Takaku, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Takaku was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Neal Young from 2007-20010. His work concerned human and murine bone marrow architecture visualized by confocal microscopy.
Hisayuki Yokoyama, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai. Dr. Yokoyama. was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Childs from 2006-2008. His work concerned hematopoietic cell transplantation therapies for cancer patients.
Jordan
Feras Hawari, M.B.B.S., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, King Hussein Cancer Center, University of Jordan. Dr. Hawari was a Clinical Fellow in the Pulmonary and Clinical Care Medicine Branch under the supervision of Dr. Stewart Levine from 2000-2004. His research concerned how the shedding of TNF receptors affects signal transduction.
Mexico
Victor Meza-Carmen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Facutly of Medicine, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgon, Morelia. Dr. Meza- Carmen was a Visiting Fellow in the the Translational Medicine Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Martha Vaughan from 2005-2009. His research concerned signal transduction pathways in lung disease.
Singapore
Pakorn (Tony) Kanchanawong, Ph.D., Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore. Dr. Kanchanawong was a fellow in Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics under Dr. Clare Waterman from 2007 – 2011.
South Korea
Hyoung-Pyo Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Medical Biology, Yonsei University College of Medicine. Dr.Kim was a Research Fellow in the the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Warren Leonard from 1998-2008. His research concerned interleukin receptor signaling.
In Hye Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science, Ehwa Women’s University, South Korea. Dr. Lee was a research fellow in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation under Dr. Martha Vaughan from 2007 – 2013. During her fellowship, she published papers in “Science”, “Nature” and “PNAS”.
Tae-Young Roh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Dr. Roh was a Research Fellow in the the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Keji Zhao from 2002-2008. His research concerned genome-wide assessment of chromatin modifications.
Ho Jun Sung, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of BIomedical Laboratory Science, College of Health, Eulji University. Dr. Sung was a Visiting Fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Hwang from 2006-2010. His research concerned the role of mitochondrial function in cell survival.
Jeanho Yun, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Dong-A University. Dr. Yun was a visiting fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology under Dr. Toren Finkel from 2012 – 2014. He was a recipient of Orloff Innovation Science Award in 2016.
Spain
Patricia Perez Galan, Ph.D., Junior Investigator, Hematopathology Department, Institut D'Investigacions Biomedicas August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona. Dr. Galan was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Adrian Wiestner from 2008-2010. Her research concerned understanding signal transduction pathways in chronic lympocytic leukemia.
Sweden
Andreas Lundqvist, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centre Karolinska, Stockholm. Dr. Lundqvist was a Visiting Fellow in the the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Childs from 2003-2009. His research concerned novel roles of NK cells in cancer immunotherapy.
Shou-Lin Chang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology / The Department of Life Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu. Dr. Chang was a Visiting Fellow in the the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Nico Tjandra from 2001-2005. His research concerned structural dynamics of proteins using NMR techniques.
Thailand
Dr. Supachai Topanurak, Ph.D., Lecturer at Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand. Dr. Topanurak was a fellow in Renal Cellular and Molecular Biology Section under Maurice Burg from 2006 – 2007. During his fellowship, he worked on proteomics of thermophile Bacillus.
The Phillipines
Philip Padilla, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Miag-ao. Dr. Padilla was a Visiting Fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Branch under the supervision of Dr. Martha Vaughan from 2001-2005. His research involved signal transduction pathways involved in vesicular trafficking. He was a member of the NHLBI DIR Fellows Advisory Committee. Find him on Linkedin.
United Kingdom
Jonathan Hill, M.B. Ch.B., Consultant Cardiologist, King’s College Hospital, London. Dr. Hill was a Clinical Fellow in the Cardiovascular Branch from 1999-2003 under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Lederman. His research concerned the application of interventional MRI to cardiovascular disease. A link to his publications at NHLBI is provided here.
Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D., Visiting Reader, Imperial College School of Medicine/Hammersmith Hospital, London. Dr. Rezvani was a Clinical Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. John Barrett from 2001-2007. Her research concerned the immune responses to stem cell transplantation. She was a recipient of a Lenfant Fellowship at NHLBI. Link to her publications at NHLBI.
Andrew Wragg, M.B. Ch.B., Consultant Cardiologist, London Chest Hospital, London. Dr. Wragg was a Clinical Fellow in the Cardiovascular Branch from 2003-2006 under the mentorship of Dr. Manfred Boehm. His research concerned the role of stem cells in vascular injury. A link to his publications at NHLBI is provided here.
Former Trainees in the Federal Government
Jacob Bitterman, Ph.D., Residue Chemistry Reviewer, FDA. Dr. Bitterman was a fellow in the Laboratory of Obesity and Aging Research under Dr. Jay Chung from 2013 – 2015. During his fellowship, he studied exploring whether HSP90 knockdown, or mutation to eliminate a phosphorylation site effects cAMP production.
Jessica Chertow, Ph.D., Scientific Program Analyst at National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH. Dr. Chertow was a research fellow at Sickle Cell Branch under Dr. Hans Ackerman from 2014 – 2015. Her research focused on determining role of DDAH1 enzyme in nitric oxide regulation in sickle cell disease.
Denise Crooks, Ph.D., Technology Transfer Specialist, NHLBI Office of the Director. Dr. Crooks was a fellow in the Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Branch under Dr. Joel Moss from 2000-2005, where her research concerned the molecular and genetic analysis of Lymphangioleiomyomatosis. She was a member of the NHLBI DIR Fellows Advisory Committee.
Jenna Dumond, Ph.D., Chemist at Center for Tobacco Products, FDA. Dr. Dumond was a fellow in Epithelial Systems Biology Laboratory under Dr. Mark Knepper’s mentorship from 2013 – 2016. During her fellowship, she studied proteomics analysis of identification of protein-protein interactions with NFATS transcription factor.
Richard Francis, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Develoomental Biology, NHLBI. Dr. Kim was a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Developmental Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Cecilia Lo from 2003-2008. His work concerned using genetic approaches to understand cardiac development.
Brian Glancy, Ph.D., Earl Stadman Investigator at Muscle Energetics Laboratory, NHLBI and NIAID, NIH. Dr. Glancy was a fellow in the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics under Dr. Robert Balaban from 2009 – 2016. He recently received Orloff award 2017 for his research providing us with a better understanding of how potential energy is distributed across the muscle cell via a mitochondrial reticulum.
Mary Jane Hinrichs, Ph.D., Pharmacology Toxicology Reviewer, Division of Biological Oncology Products, FDA. Dr. Hinrichs was an IRTA Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of of Dr. Lance Pohl from 2004-2008. Her research concerned protective strategies for drug-induced liver disease.
Jingsung Hong, Ph.D., Cell culture Scientist at Vaccine Production Program Lab, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID. Dr. Hong was a fellow in the Molecular Cell Biology Section under Dr. John Hammer from 2015- 2017, where his research concerned how actin and myosin complexes contribute to TCR mediated mechano-transduction at the immunological synapse using super-resolution imaging technique.
Charles Joyce, Ph.D., Scientific Review Administrator, Review Branch, NHLBI. Dr. Joyce was a Fellow in the Molecular Diseases Branch under the mentorship of Drs. Silvia Fojo and Bryan Brewer, where his esearch focused on the role of the ABC1 cholesterol transporter in cardiovascular disease. He was also a participant in the Fellows Rotation in Extramural Research, which provides an opportunity for NHLBI fellows to take time from their experiments to learn about extramural research administration.
Nisha Narayan, Ph.D., Intellectual Property and Partnerships Manager, FDA. Dr. Narayan was a fellow in Laboratory of Molecular Biology under Dr. Toren Finkel from 2009 – 2013. During her fellowship, she concerned characterizing of SIRT2 knockout mouse and discerning the role of the protein in autophagy and disease.
Tiffany Nguyen, Ph.D., Biochemist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Nguyen was a fellow in the Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology under Dr. Elizabeth Murphy from 2010 – 2014. During her fellowship at NHLBI, she studied the role of S-nitrosylation of cyclophilin D on the regulation of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore.
Alexander Sodt, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at NICHD, NIH. Dr. Sodt was a fellow in the Laboratory of Computational Biology under Dr. Richard Pastor from 2009 – 2015, where his research concerned development of a critical assessment of phase-space sampling algorithms for biophysical simulations.
Chang Sook Kim, Ph.D., Scientific Review Administrator, Review Branch, NHLBI. Dr. Kim was a Fellow in the Molecular Diseases Branch under the mentorship of Drs. Silvia Fojo and Bryan Brewer, from 2002-2004. She was also a participant in the Fellows Rotation in Extramural Research, which provides an opportunity for NHLBI fellows to take time from their experiments to learn about extramural research administration.
Kye-Young Kim, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Cardiology Branch, NHLBI. Dr. Kim was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Adelstein from 2003-2008. Her work concerned understanding the roles of cardiac myosin using knockout mice.
Lijuan Liu, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Atherothrombosis & Coronary Artery Disease Branch, NHLBI. Dr. Liu was a Fellow in the Molecular Diseases Branch under the mentorship of Drs. Silvia Fojo and Bryan Brewer, from 2003-2007 where her research focused on the role of the cholesterol transporters in cardiovascular disease. She was also a participant in the Fellows Rotation in Extramural Research, which provides an opportunity for NHLBI fellows to take time from their experiments to learn about extramural research administration.
Ryan Morris, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center For Scientific Review, NIH. Dr. Morris was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism un the mentorship of Dr. Mark Knepper from 2002-2006 where his research focused on novel kinases in renal function. Dr. Morris was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Birgit Neuhuber, Ph.D.,Program Analyst, Neurodegeneration Cluster, NINDS. Dr. Neuhuber was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Cell Biology, under the mentorship of Dr. Mathew Daniels, from 1998-2003 where her research focused on the role of agrin in growth cone guidance.
Eric Odom, Ph.D., Technology Transfer Liaison, Henry M Jackson Foundation Dr. Odom was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Developmental Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Kramer from 2006-2008 where his research focused on the role of proteoglycans in zebrafish development.
Kazuo Takeda, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID. Dr. Takeda was a Fellow in the Pathology Section and Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Adelstein from 1998-2005. Her work concerned the pathophysiology of cardiac defects in myosin knockout mice.
Roberto Weigert, Ph.D., Tenure Track Investigator, National Institute of Dental and Cranionfacial Research, NIH. Dr. Weigert was a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Julie Donaldson from 2001-2006. His research concerned trafficking of cellular organelles.
Kevin Welch, Ph.D.,Research Toxicologist, Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Logan, UT. Dr. Welch was an IRTA Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Lance Pohl from 2002-2005. His research concerned proteomic identification of potential susceptibility factors in drug-induced liver disease. Dr. Welch was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Katherine Wood, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Vascular Biology and Hypertension Branch, NHLBI. Dr. Wood was a Fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch, under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Gladwin, from 2007-20010 where her research focused on the role of nitric oxide in sickle cell disease. She was a member of the NHLBI DIR Fellows Advisory Committee. She was also a participant in the Fellows Rotation in Extramural Research, which provides an opportunity for NHLBI fellows to take time from their experiments to learn about extramural research administration.
Steven Yee, Ph.D.,Toxicologist, Center for Aerobiological Sciences, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD. Dr.Yee was an IRTA Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Lance Pohl from 2003-2008. His research concerned protective strategies for drug-induced liver disease. Dr. Yee was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Former Trainees in Industry or Public Service:
Georgios Amexis, Ph.D., Regulatory Manager, Oncology, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Amexis was a Visiting Fellow in the Hematology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Neil Young from 2003-2007. His research concerned the development of novel peptide antigens for vaccine development.
Fraser Brown, Ph.D., Patent Attorney, Cooley, LLP, Washington, D.C. Dr. Brown was a fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Julie Donaldson from 2000-2005, where his research concerned protein trafficking. He was a member of the NHLBI Fellows Advisory Committee where he became interested in Patent Law.
Ambika Bumb, Ph.D., CEO and founder at Bikanta Corporation. Dr. Bumb was a fellow in the Laboratory of Single Molecule Biophysics under Dr. Keir Neuman from 2012 – 2013. Dr. Bumb started a company based on the FND IP developed in the lab at the NIH.
Chiara Buono-Dalton, M.D.,, Principal Scientist, Novartis, Cambridge, MA. Dr. Buono was a Fellow in the Cardiology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Howard Kruth from 2004-2007. Her research focused on mechanisms of cholesterol transport in macrophages.
Brian Busser, Ph.D., Team leader at Cellectis. Dr. Busser was a fellow in the Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology under Dr. Alan Michelson from 2007 – 2009. He manages team to create new therapeutic verticals by combining editing with vectors.
Ye Che, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Exploratory Medical Sciences, Pfizer, Groton, CT. Dr. Che was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Computational Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Bernard Brooks from 2003-2008. His research was on molecular modeling. He received a FARE award from NIH. Find him on Linkedin.
Martin Crook, Ph.D., Biology Program Team Leader, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ. Dr. Crook was a fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Nabel from 2001-2005, where his research focused on the role of cell cycle signaling in atherosclerotic cell proliferation. He was a member of the NHLBI DIR Fellows Advisory Committee. Find him on Linkedin.
Lara Campbell, Ph.D., Senior Program Associate, Research Competitiveness Program, AAAS, Washington DC. Dr. Campbell was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Biochemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Thressa Stadtmanfrom 2001-2003, where her research focused on the effects of HIV infection on cellular redox reactions. She was an active member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Federica Gibellini, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, GeneDx, Gaithersburg, MD. Dr. Gibellini was a Visiting Fellow in the Hemaology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Adrian Wiestner from 2006-2010 where her research concerned the role of chemokines in tumor progression.
Aarif Khakoo, M.D., Executive Director, Cardiovascular Discovery Research, Amgen. Dr. Khakoo was a Clinical Fellow in the Cardiovascular Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Toren Finkel from 2001-2005 as part of the Johns Hopkins University Clinical Training Program. His research concerned the application of stem cells in cardiovascular therapies.
Daniel Kraushaar, Ph.D., Technical Director at Baylor College of Medicine, Genomic and RAN Profiling Cord Facility. Dr. Kraushaar was a fellow in Laboratory of Epigenome Biology under Dr. Keji Zhao from 2010 – 2015. During his fellowship, he concerned conversion of pluripotent embryonic stem cells and he served in Fellow Advisory Committee as a member.
Heather Kusnetz, Ph.D., Proposal coordinator and Technical Writer at Sodexo, MD. Dr. Kusnetz was a fellow in the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics under Dr. Robert Balaban from 2012 to 2015, where her research concerned bioenergentics of the mammalian heart.
Joseph Laakso, Ph.D., Associate Director, Science Policy at the Endocrine Society. Dr. Laakso was a fellow in Molecular Cell Biology Section under Dr. John Hammer from 2009 – 2012. During his fellowship, he concerned about imaging single motor proteins and associated cargoes undergoing rapid directional transport in live cells.
Dazhi Lai, Ph.D., CEO of Magnifygen, MD. Dr. Lai was a research fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under Dr. Warren Leonard from 2010 – 2011. His company focuses on development of antibody-based therapeutics for cancer.
Takumi Matsumoto, Ph.D., Researcher, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Matsumoto was a fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Hwang from 2006-2008. His research concerned the interaction of p53 with oxidative stress.
Niveen Mulholland, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Midwest Research Institute, Rockville, MD. Dr. Mulholland was a Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Keji Zhao from 2003-2006. Her research focused on the role of chromatin remodeling in the control of gene transcription.
Sricharan Murugesan, Ph.D., Account manager at Carl Zeiss Microscopy. Dr. Murugesan was a fellow in the Molecular Cell Biology Section under Dr. John Hammer from 2013 – 2016. During his fellowship, he studied actin cytoskeletal organization at the immunological synapse in T cells.
Daniel Northrup, Ph.D., Technical advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton. Dr. Northrup was a fellow in Laboratory of Epigenome Biology under Dr. Keji Zhao from 2009 – 2014. He primarily works on the TERRA and ROOTS plant breeding and phenotyping programs with an emphasis on genetics and optimizing phenotyping and genotyping research.
Bum-Chan Park, Ph.D.,Research Director, Antibody and Receptor Technology, Inc, South Korea. Dr. Park was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Cell Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Lois Greene from 2007-2011. His research concerned the role of prion proteins in cellular function.
B. Scott Perrin Jr., Ph.D., Software Developer at Pifzer, Inc. Dr. Perrin Jr. was a fellow in Laboratory of Computational Biology under Dr. Richard Pastor from 2011 – 2017. During his fellowship, Dr. Perrin Jr. was awarded outstanding fellow at NHLBI Research Festival 2016.
Paola Pozzi, Ph.D., Patents, Biotechnology Transfer Centre, San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park, Milan, Italy. Dr. Pozzi was a Visiting Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Marshall Nirenberg from 2001-2004, Her research concerned the genetics of neural development in Drosophila.
Emily Rothstein, Ph.D., Pre-Clinical Imaging Leader, Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Rothstein was an IRTA fellow in the the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Balaban from 2003-2006. Her research concerned in vivo imaging of cardiac energetics. Dr. Rothstein was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Brigitte Simons, Ph.D.,Product Application Lab Scientist, MDS Analytical Technologies, Toronto. Dr. Simons was a Visiting fellow in the the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Knepper from 2005-2007. Her research concerned proteomic approaches to kidney function. Dr. Simons was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Rachael Strong, Ph.D., Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Technical Resources International, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Strong was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry under the supervision of Dr. Henry Fales from 2005 to 2006. Her research concerned mass spectrometric analysis of protein structure. She was also a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Anitaben Tailor, Ph.D.,Field Application Scientist, Meso Scale Discovery, Gaithursburg, MD. Dr. Tailor was an IRTA Fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Gregory Kato from 2007 - 2008. Her project involved understanding the changes in the proteome as a result of Sickle Cell Disease.
Adam Trexler, Ph.D., Data Scientist at Northrop Grunman Systems Corporation. Dr. Trexler was a fellow in Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Imaging under Dr. Justin Taraska from 2013 – 2017. During his fellowship, Dr. Trexler served in Fellows Advisory Committee. During his fellowship, he investigated the localization and arrangement of proteins involved in exocytosis of dense core vesicles in PC12 cells.
Alexandre Vignaud, Ph.D., Technical Specialist, Siemens Medical Solutions, Paris, France. Dr. Vignaud was a Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Cardiac Engergetics under the mentorship of Dr. Han Wen from 2003-2005. His research concerned the development of novel MR imaging techniques for myocardium.
Elke Wagner, Ph.D., Research Scientist Plasma Analytics/Development & Optimization, Baxter AG, Vienna, Austria. Dr. Wagner was a Visiting Fellow in the Translational Medicine Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Alan Remaley from 2003-2007. Her research concerned the biochemistry of lipid transport and metabolism.
Matt Wolfe, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Schafer Corporation, Arlington, VA.. Dr. Wolfe was an IRTA fellow in the Laboratory of Biochemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Thressa Stadtman from 2001-2005. His research concerned the enzymology of selenosphosphate synthetase. Dr.Wolfe received a Lenfant Fellowship. Link to his publications at NHLBI.
Zheng You, Ph.D., Research Investigator, DuPont Company, Wilmingon, DE., Dr. You was an Visiting fellow in the Laboratory of Biochemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Rodney Levine from 2007-2010. Her project concerned protein purification and biochemistry. She was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
H. Daniel Zang, Ph.D., CEO, MEDIPOST America, Inc., Washington, DC. Dr. Zang was a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Developmental Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Yosuke Mukoyama from 2006-2008. He was a member of the Fellows Advisory Committee.
Rong Zeng, Ph.D., Investigator, Mediummune, Gaithersburg, MD. Dr. Zeng was a Research Fellow in the the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Warren Leonard from 2002-2008. His research concerned Interleukin 21.
Last Updated December 2012