Alumni
Graduate Students
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Dr. Jessica Peijia Yuan
Graduate Student, 2014-2018 (Ph.D. awarded May 2018)
Associate Scientific Director, Envision Pharma Group

Dr. Alexandra Khitun
Graduate student, 2014-2019 (Ph.D. awarded May 2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill with Kevin Weeks

Yang Vicky Luo
Graduate Student, 2015-2020 (Ph.D. awarded December 2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with Christine Mayr
Postdoctoral Associates

Wuhan University, Ph.D. 2019
Assistant Professor, Central South University, China

Dr. Nadia D’Lima
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017
Development Scientist, Protein Engineering @ Biogen

Dr. Travis Ness
Postdoctoral Associate, 2018-2019
Senior Scientist, Amide Technologies

Xiongwen Cao
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Postdoc, 2019-2022
Assistant Professor, East Shanghai Normal University

Yanran Chen
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Postdoc, 2021-2022

Zhenkun Na
National University of Singapore
Postdoc, 2016-2023
Assistant Professor, Institute for Basic Medicine and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Post-graduates

Lauren Winkler
Research Associate, 2014-2016
Ph.D., Yale MCDB

Guna Mandava
Research Associate, 2022-23
Ph.D. student, University of Chicago Chemistry

Ayodya Jayatissa
Post-Graduate Researcher, 2022-23
Ph.D. student, ETH Zurich
Undergraduates

Chris Rudeen
Undergrad, 2015-2017
Graduate Student @ Harvard History of Science

Stephanie Smelyansky
Undergrad, 2017-2019
NSF Graduate Fellow @ MIT Chemistry
Elizabeth Olatunji
Undergrad, 2017-2020
Medical School @ Johns Hopkins University

Dante Petruzziello
Undergrad, 2021-2022