PHCP Alumni
| Name (Years) | Grad Group | PhD Thesis (Advisor) | PHCP Project (Advisor) | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kara Coleman (2006-11) | CAMB CB | Uncovering the role of the BRCA1-RAP80 complex in cancer susceptibility and DNA repair (Roger Greenberg) | Factors influencing participation of high-risk African-American women in breast cancer genetic counseling programs (Tim Rebbeck) | Vice President - Grants and Research, The V Foundation |
| Leah Sabin (2006-11) | CAMB MVP | The role of RNA silencing in Drosophila antiviral immunity (Sara Cherry) | A Model of Rift Valley Fever Virus Transmission Dynamics Between Mosquito and Domestic Ruminant Populations in the Greater Philadelphia Metro Area (Gary Smith) | Executive Director, Regeneron Genetic Medicines |
| Rebeccah Lijek (2007-12) | CAMB MVP | Host-Pathogen Interactions Between Bacterial Pathogens of the Upper Respiratory Tract (Jeff Weiser) | Antibody responses to S Aureus in a human cohort (Jeff Metlay) | Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College |
| Christopher Skipwith (2007-12) | BMB | Regulation of ADAMTS13 function in hemostasis by cofactor and substrate exosite interactions (X. Long Zheng) | Developing a tool to evaluate genetic risk perception among patients with severe to moderate hemophilia A (Chanita Hughes-Halbert) | Faculty Program Coordinator/ Senior Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University |
| Alyssa Huegel MacMillan (2008-13) | CAMB MVP | Interactions Between APOBEC3 and Murine Retroviruses: Mechanisms of Restriction and Drug Resistance (Susan Ross) | Determine specific barriers to drug adherence in HIV patients initiating antiretroviral drug therapy (Robert Gross) | Manager - qPCR Field Applications Team, Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Jamie Lemon (2010-15) |
CAMB MVP | The Role Of Cytosolic Access In Streptococcus Pneumoniae Nasopharyngeal Colonization (Jeff Weiser) | Trends in Antibiotic Resistance of Staphylococcal Veterinary Isolates (Shelley Rankin & Hillary Nelson) | Associate Director - Infectious Disease Diagnostics, Northwell Health |
| L. Dillon Birdwell (2010-16) | CAMB MVP | Interactions of the OAS-RNASE L Pathway with Murine Coronavirus (Susan Weiss) | Schmallenberg Virus Review (Gary Smith & Mike Levy) | Medical Editing Director, Digitas Health LifeBrands |
| Seleeke Flingai (2011-16) | CAMB GTV | Engineered DNA-Mediated Antibody Gene Transfer for Prophylaxis against Infectious Diseases (David Weiner) | Energize the Chain Impact Assessment Framework (Harvey Rubin) | Senior Associate - National Equity Atlas, PolicyLink |
| Megan Wise (2011-16) | CAMB MVP | Novel Approaches to Improve DNA Vaccine Induced Responses Against Difficult Infectious Disease Targets (David Weiner) | Developing Question and Answer sheets for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education Center in their special topics series (Charlotte Moser & Paul Offitt) | Senior Director - Global Regulatory Affairs, Merck |
| Joseph Benci (2013-17) | CAMB CB | Tumor Interferon Signaling Initiates and Sustains a Multigenic Resistance Program to Immune Checkpoint Blockade (Andy Minn) | Survivorship Care Plan Utilization Among Skin Cancer Patients (Christine Hill-Kayser) | Senior Director - Early Development Program Lead, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Devin Christopher (2011-17) | CAMB GTV | Pre-Clinical Development of AAV Mediated Gene Therapy for Familial Lecithin Cholesterol Acyltransferase Deficiency (Daniel Rader) | Throughput Analysis of an Expanded Dual-Model Second-Visit Mass Prophylaxis Functional Exercise (Steve Alles) | Business Manager and Co-Founder, Inu Bathhouse Luxury Dog Salon |
| Rachel Leibman (2011-17) | CAMB MVP | Engineering Chimeric Antigen Receptors for Durable Control Over HIV-1 Replication (Jim Riley) | Utilizing Philadelphia STD Clinic Data to Analyze the Status of Chlamydia in MSM (Clare Newbern) | Scientific Director - Oncology Clinical Development, AbbVie |
| Yuxiang Zhang (2011-17) | PGG | Circadian Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism by Nuclear Receptors REV-ERB and ROR (Mitch Lazar) | Association between serum resistin concentration and hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Lei Zhou) | Scientist - CMC Cell Therapy, Takeda |
| Kristel Emmer (2011-18) | CAMB GTV | Induction of antibodies to HIV-1 envelope using simian adenovirus vaccines (Hildegund Ertl) | Memory T cell responses to heterologous prime-boost Ad35/AERAS-402 and MVA85A in BCG-vaccinated adults (Alex Hanlon & Aeras Institute) | MPH Candidate, University of Pennsylvania |
| Elisabet Bjanes (2014-19) | CAMB MVP | The Mitochondrial Protein CARD19 Regulates Membrane Intergrity and Terminal Lysis Downstream of Caspase Activation and Gasdermin Cleavage (Igor Brodsky) | Combating the antimicrobial resistance crisis (Hillary Nelson & Ricardo Castillo-Neyra) | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego |
| Annie Chen (2013-19) | CAMB MVP | Stress and Survival of Enterobacteriaceae: Studies of Dehydration Tolerance and Polymyxin Resistance (Mark Goulian) | Analysis of blood culture utilization at an academic hospital: Addressing a gap in benchmarking (Irving Nachamkin) | Climate Health Epidemiologist, California Department of Public Health |
| Alexandra DeLaney (2014-19) | CAMB MVP | The Mechanism of Caspase-8-Mediated Gene Expression and Its Integral Rolin Host Defense (Igor Brodsky) | Supervised Administration of Hydromorphone is Essential to Addressing Injection of Drugs in Public Settings (Evan Anderson) | Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
| Jamie DeNizio (2013-19) | BMB | Nucleobase, Nucleoside, and Neighboring Nucleotides: Intrinsic Preferences for TET Enzyme-Mediated Oxidation of 5-Methylcytosine (Rahul Kohli) | Review of environmental pathogens and recommendations for safe-participation in outdoor mud-sports (David Hewitt) | Associate Director, Verve Therapeutics |
| Enrique Lin Shiao (2013-19) | BMB | Establishment and Regulation of Epithelial Enhancers by P63 (Shelley Berger) | Lessons in immigrant health - What I learned from trying to help others (Hillary Nelson & Ricardo Castillo-Neyra) | Principal - Venture Investments, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
| Shannon Christensen (2015-20) | CAMB MVP | Protective Potential of H1N1 Influenza Hemagglutinin Stalk Domain Antibodies: Implications for a Universal Influenza Vaccine (Scott Hensley) | Design and Implementation of CAMB Mentee Training – A Pilot Study (Dan Kessler) | Scientific Program Lead, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania |
| Courtney Comar (2015-21) | CAMB MVP | Interactions of Highly Pathogenic Human Coronaviruses with dsRNA-Induced Innate Immune Pathways (Susan Weiss) | Tuberculosis, Pregnancy, & Contraception: Is there an unmet need in care for women with TB? (Chelsea Morroni) | Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; Assistant Professor - Department of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University |
| Nawar Naseer (2016-21) | CAMB MVP | Investigating Human Cell Type-Specific Inflammasome Responses to Salmonella Infection (Sunny Shin) | Contact tracers: Biggest hurdle in slowing COVID-19 spread is getting people to talk (Carolyn Cannuscio) | Research Project Manager, Penn Medicine Biobank |
| Sophia Reeder (2016-21) | IMUN | Vaccine Mediated Immunity to Malaria (David Weiner) | Disease vector abundance, dispersion and speciation in Botswana | Lecturer, University of Washington |
| Elisha Segrist (2016-21) | CAMB MVP | Tissue Specific Immunity: A Study of Antiviral Defenses and the Influence of the Microbiota (Sara Cherry) | A Scientist Steps out of the Lab During a Pandemic (Hillary Nelson & Ricardo Castillo-Neyra) | IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
| Mary Margaret Addison (2015-22) | CAMB MVP | Investigating the MHC-II Processing Landscape of HIV-1 (Laurence Eisenlohr) | Black Churches as a Dissemination Tool for Disease Prevention and Education (Ross Johnson) | Assistant Program Manager, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense |
| Nina Montoya (2017-22) | CAMB MVP | Elucidating the role of the Kingella kingae lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in galactan surface anchoring and membrane dynamics (Joseph St. Geme, III) | The Penn Public Health COVID-19 Communications Team: A culturally responsive campaign to fight pandemic misinformation in Philadelphia (Carolyn Cannuscio) | Program Manager - Life Sciences, The New York Academy of Sciences |
| Prioty Sarwar (2016-22) | CAMB MVP | Prevotella phylogeny: Genomic and molecular insights into the role of the human commensal Prevotella in health and disease (Paul Planet) | Case Study: Sex Education in a Middle School Classroom |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Wellesley College |
| Katie Strelau (2017-22) | CAMB MVP |
Integrating epidemiology and genomics for a health-equity centered response to SARS-CoV-2 in Philadelphia (Carolyn Cannuscio) |
Contact tracers: Biggest hurdle in slowing COVID-19 spread is getting people to talk (Carolyn Cannuscio) | Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC |
| Sangya Agarwal (2016-23) | CAMB GTV | Disruption of CTLA-4 but not PD-1 Enhances and Invigorates Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells (Carl June) | Applying Advanced Cell and Gene Therapy to Treat Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC): A Healthcare Delivery Model for Costa Rica | Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University |
| Andrew Hart (2016-23) | IMUN | Tumor Necrosis Factor Family-Associated Dysregulation of Naive and Effector Cd4+ T Cell Chromatin Accessibility in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | Racial Disparities in Clinical Trials on Systemic lupus erythematosus (Terri Laufer and Hillary Nelson) | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania |
| Dan Ju (2017-23) | CAMB G&E | The architecture of adaptation: evolution of height and skin pigmentation in humans | Importance of Including Non-European Populations in Large Human Genetic Studies to Enhance Precision Medicine (Sarah Tishkoff) | Postdoctoral Researcher, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Matt Martinez (2019-24) | BMB |
In situ structural biology of the rhoptry secretion system of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum |
Modeling the impact of volatile organic compounds towards mosquito feeding behaviors on malaria dynamics (Gary Smith) | Postdoctoral Fellow, Sanofi |