Current Students of GSK

During the first year of study, our students complete several courses along with participating in journal club and laboratory rotations. They begin their full-time dissertation research at the beginning of their second year.

First-Year Students

Param Amin

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BS, Rutgers University; Cancer Engineering

Hannah Arkin

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BA, Wheaton College; Cancer Biology

Paloma Bravo

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BA, Carleton College; Cancer Biology

Thomas Close

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BS, Oregon State University; Cancer Engineering

Brandon Cuevas

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BS, Columbia University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Michael Overholtzer

Suchitra Dara

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BS, California Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering

Ayush Deep

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BS, Albany College of Pharmacy; Cancer Biology

Annie Ikemoto

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BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Engineering

Zihan (Vicky) Jiao

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BS, McGill University; Cancer Biology

Brian LaFleche

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BA, Colgate University; Cancer Biology

Linna Lahmadi

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BS, University of Vermont; Cancer Biology

Zonglin Liu

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BS, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering

Robin Lu

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BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Biology

Caden McQuillen

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BS, UCLA; Cancer Biology

Justin Nelson

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BA, UC Berkeley; Cancer Biology

Jorge Nunez

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BS, Yale University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Charles M. Rudin

Emily Pratt

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BS, University of New Hampshire; Cancer Biology

Meysoon Quraishi

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BS, Pennsylvania State University; Cancer Biology

Diego Rodriguez

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BS, Oregon State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Piro Lito

Ana Rosu

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BS, Johns Hopkins University; Cancer Engineering

Sahil Sahni

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BS, McGill University; Cancer Biology

Aisha Saldanha

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BA, Wellesley College; Cancer Biology

Ella Serrano-Wu

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BS, Harvard University; Cancer Engineering

Nyle Sharif

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BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alban Ordureau

Ashley Sullivan

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BS, SUNY Binghamton; Cancer Engineering

Elana Sverdlik

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BS, Princeton University; Cancer Engineering

Muskaan Vasandani

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BS, University of Rochester; Cancer Biology

Isabella Vegas

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BS, Johns Hopkins University; Cancer Biology

Allison Vela

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology

Helen Wang

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BA, Smith College; Cancer Biology

Shih-Chun Wang

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BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology

Nicholas Wen

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology

Gianfranco Yee

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BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering

Ningjing Zhang

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BS, Case Western Reserve University; Cancer Engineering

Yunlin Zhang

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BS, UCLA; Cancer Engineering

Hongyu (Vicky) Zhu

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BS, University of Toronto; Cancer Biology

Second-Year Students

Andrea Lang Goldgewicht

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BA, University of Pennsylvania; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alan M. Hanash

Jacob Gutierrez

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BA, Lewis & Clark College / MS; Oregon Health Sciences University, MS; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Caleb Lareau

Gary Guzman

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BS, University of Texas, Dallas; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

Monika Komza

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BS, Fordham University / MS, Icahn School of Medicine, MS; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lydia Finley

Joshua Lau

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Benjamin Greenbaum

Sophia Park

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BS, University of Virginia; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao

Kate Ryan

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BS, Syracuse University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

Arturo Salazar

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BS, UC Irvine; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Asmin Tulpule

Ecenur Turkay

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BS, Boğaziçi University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: David B. Solit

Yixuan (Skye) Zhao

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BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kayvan R. Keshari

Third-Year Students

Monica Acosta

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BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Gretchen Diehl

Tejiri Agbamu

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BS, University of Minnesota; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jian Carrot-Zhang; Nikolaus Schultz

Subha Baniya

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BA, Wellesley College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: David A. Scheinberg

Elizabeth Benitez

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BS, UC Los Angeles; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

Emmanuel M. Bruno

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BS, MS, Università degli studi di Milano; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran

Nima Hooshdaran

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BS, UC Los Angeles; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alexander Rudensky

Jiachen Hu

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BS, Tsinghua University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang

Vivian Kuan

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BS, University of Minnesota; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri

Mariah Lee

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BS, Newberry College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

Tiffany Merlinsky

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BA, CUNY Hunter College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

Samuel Molina

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BS, Texas State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty

Achuth Nair

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BA, Columbia University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Justin Perry

Lila Peters

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BS, University of Michigan; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Christine Mayr

Stephanie A. Pierre

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BS, University of Georgia; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Schietinger

Madison Rex

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BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Agnel Sfeir

James A. Rodrigues

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BA, MA, Rutgers University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Yu Chen; David B. Solit

Clark Thomson

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BS, MS, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire

Isabelle C. Top

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BS, Yale University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Mary Baylies

Lucia Wang

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BSc, MSc, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Dirk Remus

Xiaoyi "Claire" Wang

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BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lorenz Studer

Colin Zenge

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BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alban Ordureau

Siqi (Linsey) Zhang

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BA, Swarthmore College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran

Fourth-Year Students

Peter Chhoy

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BS, University of Notre Dame; MS, Duke University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang

Isabella Del Priore

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BS, Tufts University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe

Yassmin Elbanna

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BA, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Morgan Huse

Rebecca Gelfer

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BA, University of Pennsylvania; MS, University of Pennsylvania; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

Yuzuka Kanno

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BPharm, Tokyo University of Science; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alexander Gitlin

Won Jun Kim

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BS, California Institute of Technology; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Omar Abdel-Wahab

Klavdija Krause

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BSc, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems; MSc, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

Kathleen Ann Luckett

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BS, Ithaca College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

Lisa McGary

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BA, UC Berkeley; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

Ashley Nichols

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BS, Chapman University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: John Maciejowski

Jesus Romero-Pichardo

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BS, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Justin Perry

Amin Sabet

BA, Macalester College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Charles M. Rudin

Manisha Srinivas Raghavan

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BTech, Vellore Institute of Technology; MS, Tufts University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

Yung Yu Wong

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BS, UC Los Angeles; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Morgan Huse

Abigail Xie

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BS, Duke University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lydia Finley

Melissa Yao

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BS, SUNY Stony Brook; MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Ventura

Fifth-Year Students

Ilinca Aricescu

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BSc, University of Cambridge; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Rona Yaeger

Yan-Ting Chen

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BS, National Chiao Tung University; MS, National Taiwan University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

Juliana I. Delgado

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BS, American University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew Koff

Zaza Gelashvili

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BA, Clark University; MS, Clark University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer

Ziqi Jiao

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BA, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Ventura

Jenna Snyder

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BS, Pennsylvania State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire

Anran Tang

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BA, Pomona College; MS, Harvard University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Thomas Norman

Sixth-Year Plus Students

Mariano Aufiero

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BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tobias M. Hohl

Marimar Benitez De La Vega

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BS, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew Koff

Yanyang Chen

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BA, Columbia University; BS, City University of Hong Kong; Cancer Biology
Mentor: John Maciejowski

Celeste Dang

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BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

Mohammed T. Islam

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BA, Skidmore College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Thomas S. Vierbuchen

Margaret Kennedy

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BS, The College of New Jersey; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe

Hyunu Kim

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AB, Washington University in St. Louis; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

Dingyu Liu

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BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu

John Maciejowski

New York University
Mentor: Prasad Jallepalli

Thomas F. McNamara

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BS, Trinity College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew M. Intlekofer

Brianna Naizir

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BS, The City College of New York; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Schietinger

Ella M. M. Nguyen

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BS, Pacific Union College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Christopher D. Lima

Troy M. Robinson

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BS, University of California, Santa Barbara; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

Ana Sanchez

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BS, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Stewart Shuman

David J. Van Dongen

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BA, Drew University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Stephen B. Long

Isaac Wakiro

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BS, College of St. Scholastica; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Michael G. Kharas

Nan Xu

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BS, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lorenz Studer

Jielin Yan

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BS, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu

Zhi (Zack) Zheng

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BS, Southern University of Science and Technology; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Scott Keeney