MD/PhD Current Trainees
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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

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

Rohith Battina
Alma Mater: University of Maryland-College Park
Graduate Program: Pharmacology

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

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

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

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
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

J. Vivian Dickens
Alma Mater: University of Georgia
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD
Funded by F30DC018215 “Mapping the Neurocognitive Architecture of Reading“

Allison Fitzgerald
Alma Mater: Colorado College
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Lou Weiner, MD
Funded by F30CA239441 “The Potential Role of Firboblast Activation Protein as a Natural Killer Cell Immune Checkpoint in Pancreatic Cancer“

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“

Laya Rajan
Alma Mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Thesis Mentor: Chandan Vaidya, PhD
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“

Jay Patel
Alma Mater: Brandeis University
Graduate Program: Tumor Biology Program
Thesis Mentor: Steve Byers, MD