Location of Early Career Investigators – 2019-2023

Kenneth Nephew, PhD
Indiana University
OCA Dean

Jessica Lang
Manish Patankar, mentor
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ronny Drapkin, MD, PhD
Penn University
OCA Assistant Dean
Alexander (Alex) Melamad
Robert Coleman, Cesar Castro, mentor
Harvard Medical School
Lindsay Brubaker
Benjamin Bitler, mentor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Melissa Merritt
Shelly Tworoger, Anne Cust, mentor
The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney
Elizabeth Christie
David Bowtell, mentor
Peter MacCallum Cancer Center
Dimitrios Nasioudis
Fiona Simpkins, mentor
University of Pennsylvania
Marion Curtis
Scott Kaufmann, Diane Jelinek, mentor
College of Medicine and
Science, Mayo Clinic
Achuth Padmanabhan
le-Ming Shih, Charles Bieberich, mentor
UMBC, University of Maryland
Denarda Dangaj
Jose Conejo-Garcia, George Coukos, mentor
Ludwig Institute for Cancer
Research Lausanne
Rebecca Porter
Panagiotis Konstantinopoulos, mentor
Harvard Medical School
Mohammed Dwidar
Ofer Reizes, mentor
Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine
Thing Soong
Elizabeth Swisher, Anda M. Vlad, mentor
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Shailendra Kumar Dhar Dwivedi
Resham Bhattacharya, Priyabrata
Mukherjee, Anil K. Sood, mentors
University of Oklahoma Health
Science Center
Priyanka Verma
Dineo Khabele, mentor
Washington University School of Medicine
Alexandre (Alex) Gaspar-Maia
Fergus Couch, John Weroha, mentor
Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic
Nan Zhang
Rugang Zhang, mentor
Wistar Institute