MD/PhD Current Trainees
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Entered 2023
Vlad Dobrin
Alma Mater: University of Maryland-College Park
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Joseph Piccolo
Alma Mater: Emory University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Andrew Schildcrout
Alma Mater: University of Chicago
Graduate Program: Bioethics
Zihao Sui
Alma Mater: University of Chicago
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Entered 2022
Chloe Casagrande
Alma Mater: Creighton University
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Elizabeth Chang
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Margaret Sten
Alma Mater: University of California – San Diego
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Bryan Weselman
Alma Mater: College of William and Mary
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Alvin Ya
Alma Mater: University of Maryland, College Park
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Entered 2021
David Allegakoen
Alma Mater: University of California-Berkeley
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Gina Choe
Alma Mater: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Madeline Hamborg
Alma Mater: The College of William & Mary
Graduate Program: NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program
Jacob Macro
Alma Mater: University of Connecticut
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Philip Pikus
Alma Mater: Bowdoin College
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Alexander Sukharev
Alma Mater: University of Maryland-College Park
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Entered 2020
Matthew Amontree
Alma Mater: University of Florida
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Kathy Conant, MD
Rohith Battina
Alma Mater: University of Maryland-College Park
Graduate Program: Pharmacology
Thesis Mentor: Anna Riegel, PhD
Alexander Lekan
Alma Mater: Georgetown University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Lou Weiner, MD
David McFall
Alma Mater: Princeton University
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Patrick Forcelli, PhD
Anna Molotkova
Alma Mater: Georgetown University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Aykut Uren, MD
Entered 2019
Michel Fallah
Alma Mater: City University of New York Brooklyn College
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Rebekah Evans, PhD
Funded by F30NS132399 “Dissecting functional subgroups and closed-loop circuits between the pedunculopontine nucleus and the basal ganglia”
Sidharth Jain
Alma Mater: New York University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD
Nancy Luo
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Bill Rebeck, PhD
Funded by F30AG082448 “Characterizing Entorhinal Cortex Circuit Dysfunction in an APOE Mouse Model of Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairment”
Christopher Priestly-Milianta
Alma Mater: University of California-San Diego
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Samir Khleif, MD
Noah Steinberg
Alma Mater: Lafayette College
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Max Reisenhuber, PhD and Kareem Zaghloul, MD, PhD
Funded by F30MH134507 “The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Categorical Decision Making”
Entered 2018
Matthew D’Antuono
Alma Mater: Brown University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Nagi Ayad, PhD
Richard Klein
Alma Mater: Davidson College
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Peter Bandettini, PhD and Ashley VanMeter, PhD
Rachael Maynard
Alma Mater: University of South Carolina Columbia
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Lou Weiner, MD
Madeline Marcelle
Alma Mater: University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Elissa Newport, PhD and William Gaillard, MD
Funded by F30DC020642 “Development of White Matter Language Tracts after Early Life Epilepsy and Stroke”
David Saxon
Alma Mater: Claremont McKenna College
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Joshua Corbin, PhD and Stefano Vicini, PhD
Entered 2017
Daniel Chapman
Alma Mater: Eckerd College
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Mark Burns, PhD
Funded by F30NS122281 “Interrogating Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Contextual Fear Conditioning Amnesia in Rodent Model of Highly Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury“
Tyler Ketchabaw
Alma Mater: Boston University
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD
Alec McIntosh
Alma Mater: Simpson College
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Chunling Yi, PhD
Funded by F30CA264884 “The Oncogenic functions of YAP/TAZ in Renal Cell Carcinoma“
YoungRok Park
Alma Mater: Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Todd Waldman, MD, PhD
Jerry Xiao
Alma Mater: University of California-Berkeley
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Dick Schlegel, MD, PhD
Entered 2016
Megan Barefoot
Alma Mater: Georgetown University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD
Funded by F30CA250307 “Decoding the Tissue of Origin of Cellular Damage from Cell-free DNA in Liquid Biopsies“
Gregory Gallanis
Alma Mater: University of Southern California
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD
Bryce Jones
Alma Mater: Notre Dame University
Graduate Program: Pharmacology
Thesis Mentor: Moshe Levi, MD
Funded by F30DK129003 “Obeticholic acid as a novel treatment for Alport syndrome“
Joshua McCall
Alma Mater: McGill University
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD
Funded by F30DC019024 “Investigating the Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Error Monitoring in Aphasia“
Entered 2015
Irfan Khan
Alma Mater: University of Maryland College Park
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD
Funded by F30CA243357 “Impact of local and systemic cellular senescence toward Triple Negative Breast Cancer growth and drug therapy“
Joey Posner
Alma Mater: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Rhonda Friedman, PhD
Funded by F30DC018503 “Reading Network Functional Pathways and How They Account for Alexic Variation“
Entered 2014
Safwan Hyder
Alma Mater: University of Missouri-Columbia
Graduate Program: Pharmacology
Thesis Mentor: Patrick Forcelli, PhD
Funded by F30NS110318 “Optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations of striatal output pathways for seizure control“