Lab Alumni
Former Postdocs and Graduate Students
Lab alumni are listed in rough chronological order.
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Pierre D. McCrea, PhD
Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Noriko Funayama, PhD
Associate Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
Kris Vleminckx, PhD
Professor, Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, University of Gent, Belgium
François Fagotto, PhD
Chair of Excellence, Labex EPIGENMED, Montpellier, France
(French Ministry of Research and Education “Laboratoires d’Excellence” initiative)
Ursula Glück, PhD
Deceased
Alpha Yap, MD, PhD
Professor and Head, Division of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
Richard Nelson, PhD
Professor of Biology and Department Chair, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Yun Zhong, MD, PhD
Pathologist, East Meadow, New York
Cara Gottardi, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Carien Niessen, PhD
Professor and Principal Investigator, Head of Platform Education, Career Development and Gender Equality, CECAD – Cluster of Excellence, University of Cologne, Germany
Sophie Chappuis-Flament, PhD
Founding Partner, CEO, e-ophtalmo SAS, Lyon, France
Telemedicine Platform Associate Founder, President, Bio Booster SAS, Lyon, France (operations support for entrepreneurs)
Founder, President, 66°30 SAS, Lyon, France (operations advisor to management)
Anke Reinacher-Schick, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chief Physician for Internal Medicine, Department of Hematology and Oncology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Mirna Perez-Moreno, PhD (email)
Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Alice Wong, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Xuejun Chen, PhD
Staff Scientist/Lab Manager, Virology Laboratory/Virology Core Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
Sreekala Mahadevaiyer, PhD
India
Michael Perrais, PhD
Scientist, INSERM U837, Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Center, Université Lille 2, Lille, France
Hitomi Tsuiji, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan
Eunjin Koh, PhD
Scientist, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Yonsei University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Nam Gyun Kim, PhD
Acting Assistant Professor, Deptartment of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Yuliya Petrova, PhD
Staff Scientist, Virology Laboratory/Virology Core Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
Ki-Sook Park, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Medicine/East-West Medical Research Institute, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
Michael Yoder, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Penn State Brandywine, Media, Pennsylvania
Run Fan, PhD (microbiology), MS (biostatistics)
Biostatistician II, Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenessee
Hongbin Li, PhD
Research Scientist, Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville
Stephanie Maiden, PhD
Assistant Professor, Deptartment of Biology, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri
Alisha Mendonsa, PhD
Current postdoctoral fellow, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
Tae Young Na, PhD
Current postdoctoral fellow, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
Former Graduate Students
Young-Sook Son (née Choi), PhD (email)
Professor of Genetic Engineering, Dean, Graduate School of Biotechnology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
Ted J. Lowenkopf, MD
Medical Director, Providence Stroke Center, Oregon Stroke Center at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
Chung-Hyun Lee-Sogaard, PhD
Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, New York
William Brieher, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Vivian Tang (née Wong), PhD (lab page)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Elena Keeling (née Levine), PhD (regenerative medicine page)
Professor, Biological Science Department, Co-Coordinator, MS in Regenerative Medicine Program, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) San Luis Obispo
Kathleen Molyneaux (née Guger)
Contract Editor, American Journal Experts (AJE), Durham, North Carolina (Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, 2004–2010)
Alin Vonica, MD, PhD
Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York (Research Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center through 2015)
Eun-Kyung Suh, PhD (lab page)
Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Chong Xu, PhD, MBA
Senior Associate, F-Prime Capital Partners (early-stage healthcare venture capital), Cambridge, Massachusetts
Allison Maker
Current graduate student/PhD candidate in laboratory, Deptartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle
Mariana Longhi
Formerly visiting graduate student in laboratory, PhD student, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Miriam Wahlhutter, MS
Masters thesis in laboratory, Master in Molecular Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden
