Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Former Postdocs

Name Training Period Former Academic Degree Current Position
Mark Benson 1995 - 1998 M.D., Ph.D. - 1990 - Baylor College of Medicine Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Elsa Beyer-Krall 2010 - 2012 Ph.D. - 2010 - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Director, Discovery Oncology, Merck
Chris Brandl 1986 - 1989 Ph.D. - University of Toronto, Canada Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Sukalyan Chatterjee 1992 - 1997 Ph.D. - 1992 - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Deceased. Formerly Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, Centre of Neurosciences of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Martine Collart 1990 - 1992 Ph.D. - 1986 - University of Geneva, Switzerland Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
Rabih Darwiche 2018 - 2021 Ph.D. - 2016 - University of Fribourg, Switzerland Scientist, Laronde Inc. Cambridge, MA
Jutta Deckert 1997 - 2002 Ph.D. - 1996 - SUNY at Albany, NY Executive Director, Translational R & D; Iksuda Therapeutics, Newton, MA
Gauri Dhavan 2001 - 2002 Ph.D. - 1999 - Yale University, New Haven, CT Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, ZOLL Medical Corporation, Chelmsford MA
Sudhanshu Dole 2002 - 2006 Ph.D. - 2002 - Institute for Genetics, Cologne, Germany
David Dorris 1994 - 2000 Ph.D. - 1994 - University of Texas at Dallas President & CEO of Bay Medical
Xiaochun Fan 2004 - 2011 Ph.D. - 2004 - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Senior Scientist, International Flavors and Fragrances, Wilmington, DE
Paulo Gameiro 2014 - 2016 M.D. - 2013 - University of Coimbra, Portugal Junior Leader and Principle Investigator, NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal
Adelaida Garcia-Gimeno 1995 - 1999 Ph.D. - 1994 - University of Valencia, Spain Researcher, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (CSIC), Spain
Rajani Gudipatti 2012 - 2012 Ph.D. - 2009 - Centre de Genetique Moleculaire, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France Postdoctoral fellow, Grosshans lab, Frederich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Zlata Gvozdenov 2018 - 2023 Ph.D. - 2017 - University of Illinois- Champaign Urbana Senior Scientist, Moderna Inc. Cambridge, MA
Daniel Hall 1998 - 2004 Ph.D. - 1997 - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA Senior Scientist, Extend Biosciences, Cambridge, MA
Yuko Hasegawa 2016 - 2020 Ph.D. - 2011 - University of Tokyo, Japan Postdoctoral fellow, Brighman and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Lizhi He 2013 - 2020 Ph.D. - 2007 - McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Scientist, Vizgen Inc. Cambridge, MA
David Hill 1982 - 1985 Ph.D. - Indiana University Principle Scientist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Heather Hirsch 2003 - 2009 Ph.D. - 1998 - Michigan State University, East Lansing MI Vice President Translational Research, IMV Inc., Cambridge, MA
Linus Ho 1994 - 1999 M.D., Ph.D. - 1991 - Stanford University School of Medicine, CA Chief Medial Officer, EMPIRI
Associate Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ian Hope 1984 - 1987 Ph.D. - 1984 - University of Edinburgh, UK Professor, School of Biology, University of Leeds, UK
Dimitrios Iliopoulos 2007 - 2010 Ph.D. - 2006 - Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA Director, Center for Systems Biomedicine and Associate Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Andreas Janzer 2012 - 2014 Ph.D. - 2012 - University of Bonn, Germany Global Program Manager Oncology Development, Bayer Pharma, Berlin, Germany
Zhe Ji 2012 - 2017 Ph.D. - 2012 - Rutgers University Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Yi Jin 2009 - 2015 Ph.D. - 2008 - Washington State University, Pullman, WA Director of Science Platform, Senior Manager, Inari Inc. Cambridge, MA
Matthias John 1996 - 2000 Ph.D. - 1996 - Universit̩ Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Senior Director Analytical Development, Abata Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Amita Joshi 2001 - 2008 Ph.D. - 2001 - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Senior Director Alliance Management, Intellia Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Susumu Kanazawa 1985 - 1986 Ph.D. - Kyoto University
Yael Katan-Khaykovich 2000 - 2010 Ph.D. - 1999 - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Senior Scientist, Process Development and Analytic Sciences, Omega Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Marie Keaveney 1995 - 1999 Ph.D. - 1991 - National University of Ireland Development Director, Pfizer, Boston, MA
Alexandra Khitun 2019 - 2021 Ph.D. - 2019 - Yale University
Joon Kim 1990 - 1993 Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley, CA Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Korea University
Peter Kosa 1998 - 2000 Ph.D. - 1998 - Yale University, New Haven, CT Managing Director, Myeloma Investment Fund, Boston MA
Dmitry Kulish 1998 - 2000 Ph.D. - 1998 - Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Professor of the Practice, Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
Laurent Kuras 1997 - 2000 Ph.D. - 1995 - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France Research leader, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France
Nathan Lamarre-Vincent 2007 - 2012 Ph.D. - 2007 - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Jia Jing Lee 2008 - 2011 Ph.D. - 2008 - Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Xuan Li 2009 - 2010 Ph.D. - 2008 - University of California, Davis Senior Research Scientist, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Pennington, NJ
Marianne Lindahl Allen 2008 - 2012 Ph.D. - 2007 - King's College, London, UK Director of Medical and Molecular Medicine, Precision Health Technology Holdings
Co-founder and President, LEAS lab,
Subramony Mahadevan 1987 - 1989 Ph.D. - Tufts University Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Xuhong Mai 1997 - 2000 Ph.D. - 1996 - University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Paul Mason 2000 - 2004 Ph.D. - 2000 - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Senior Scientist, Genzyme Corp., Cambridge, MA
Mario Mencia 1997 - 2001 Ph.D. - 1996 - Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Profesor Ayudante Doctor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Benoit Miotto 2004 - 2009 Ph.D. - 2004 - LGPD-IBDM Campus Universitaire de Luminy, Marseilles, France Group leader, Institute Cochin, Paris, France
Ilan Morad 1994 - 1997 Ph.D. - 1992 - Tel Aviv University, Israel CEO, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies (AEBi Ltd.), Ness Ziona, Israel
Huck-Hui Ng 2000 - 2003 Ph.D. - 1999 - University of Edinburgh, Scotland Assistant Chief Executive, Biomedical Research Council, A*STAR Agency for Science Technology and Research
Senior Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
Salvatore Oliviero 1988 - 1992 Ph.D. - University of Torino, Italy Professor of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Italy
Natalia Petrenko 2013 - 2021 Ph.D. - 2012 - Princeton Senior Research Scientist, Vizgen Inc. Cambridge, MA
Alfred Ponticelli 1988 - 1992 Ph.D. - 1988 - University of Washington, Seattle, WA Associate Professor of Biochemistry, SUNY Buffalo, NY
Markus Proft 2001 - 2004 Ph.D. - 1997 - Johann Wolfgang Goethe-UniversitÌ_t, Frankfurt, Germany Principle Investigator, Instituto de Biomedicina, CSIC, Valencia Spain
Juliet Reid 1999 - 2002 Ph.D. - 1999 - Cambridge University, UK Senior Director Discover Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline, Wheathampstead, UK
Asaf Rotem 2009 - 2015 Ph.D. - 2009 - Technion, Haifa, Israel Senior Director, Translational Medicine, Astra Zeneca, Waltham, MA
Raffael Schaffrath 1996 - 1997 Ph.D. - 1995 - University of Leicester, UK Professor of Microbiology, Universitat Kassel, Germany
Edward Sekinger 2001 - 2005 Ph.D. - 2001 - LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA Senior Research Scientist, Luminex Corporation, Austin, TX
Joan Sellers 1985 - 1990 Ph.D. - 1985 - SUNY at Albany, NY
Victoria Singer 1987 - 1991 Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley CEO, Base Pair Biotechnologies, Pearland, TX
Ruisheng Song 2013 - 2021 M.D., Ph.D. - 2011 - Peking University, China Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Laurie Stargell 1993 - 1997 Ph.D. - 1993 - University of Rochester, NY Professor and Chair , Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Michel Strubin 1990 - 1992 Ph.D. - University of Geneva, Switzerland Professor, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University Medical Centre (CMU), Geneva, Switzerland
Dimitris Tzamarias 1990 - 1996 Ph.D. - 1989 - University of Crete, Greece Associate Professor, University of Crete, Greece
Hanif Vahedian Movahed 2017 - 2021 Ph.D. - 2017 - Rutgers Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School
Peter Vaillancourt 1990 - 1992 Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley Research and Development, Stratagene Cloning Systems, La Jolla, CA
Elmar vom Baur 1997 - 2001 Ph.D. - Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Senior Director, Project Leader Development Projects, Numab Therapeutics AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Joseph Wade 2001 - 2007 Ph.D. - 2001 - University of Birmingham, UK Associate Professor, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany NY
Qian Wang 2005 - 2008 Ph.D. - 2005 - New York University School of Medicine CEO, Genee Group, Tianjin, China and Cambridge, MA
Guannan Wang 2008 - 2011 Ph.D. - 2008 - Rutgers University Postdoctoral Scientist, Columbia University, New York, NY
Richard Wobbe 1987 - 1991 Ph.D. - University of Tennessee Adjunct Teaching Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA; Volunteer Leader, Habitat for Humanity, Worcester MA
Koon Ho (Chris) Wong 2008 - 2013 Ph.D. - 2007 - University of Melbourne, Australia Associate Professor, University of Macau