University of Rochester - Medical Scientist Training Program

Current Students

Student Program Advisor Year in Program Interests
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Robert D. Ambrosini
Manhattan College

Grad 4

Automatic detection of lesions in MRI brain scans

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Tara L. Arndt
University of Washington

Med 4

Early origins of autism

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Abdallah Y. Bitar
Canisius College

Grad 3

Combinatorial chemistry, organic synthesis, drug design

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Qi NanNan Cui
University of Arizona

Grad 3

Auditory and Visual Integration and Plasticity

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Debbie Dao
University of Southern California

Grad 2

Signaling pathways involved in anabolic and catabolic processes in bone and their relation to osteoarthritis.

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Laura DiChiacchio
University of California, Irvine
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

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Cindy Duke
City College, CUNY

Med 3

Optimization of HIV-1 immunogen design and delivery for use in HSV-1 amplicon vectors

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Adam Christopher Dziorny
Johns Hopkins University

Grad 3

Auditory Development Insults and Windows of Rescue

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Katherine Eisenberg
Princeton University

Grad 3

Lead poisoning in refugee children

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Yasser Elshatory
University of Rochester

Grad 3

Transcriptional regulation of interneuron differentiation and neurotransmitter phenotype.

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Vincent Fong
Lehigh University

Grad 2

Conditionally replicating adenovirus

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Laura Fornarola
University of Rochester
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

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Richard Gaines
Temple University
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

Orthopaedics

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Candace D. Gildner
University of Rochester

Grad 3

Tissue engineering

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Natasha Golub
College of William and Mary
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

Epidemiology

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James M. Hart
Alfred University

Grad 5

NMR experiments to improve the accuracy of RNA secondary structure predictions

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Michael Simon Jacob
University of California, Berkeley

Grad 1

All things neuroscience

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Conan Kinsey
Bucknell University

Grad 4

Cooperative changes in gene expression via oncogenic ras and mutant p53 transformation, and the role of these cooperatively regulated genes in cancer.

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Sarita Anisha Kishore
Wellesley College

Med 3

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Anat Kohn
University of Rochester
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

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Susan Sojung Lee
Pomona College

Grad 2

Autism, fMRI, mirror neurons, imitation, language

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Kevin Makino
Oberlin College

Grad 3

Quality of life / burden of disease, mental health epidemiology, public health and policy

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Daniel Marker
Clarkson University
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

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Rebekka Matheson
Brigham Young University
  • TBD

Med 2

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Marlene Mathews
University of Maryland

Grad 5

Cardiovascular signal transduction

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Kofi Mensah
University of Rochester

Grad 2

Osteoimmunology

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David Meoli
Dartmouth College

Grad 4

Vascular biology/pulmonary hypertension

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Michael James Moravan
Clarkson University

Grad 4

The role of IL-1 in the effects of gamma radiation on the central nervous system.

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Amish Naik
University of Pennsylvania

Grad 3

Signaling and biomechanics of fracture healing and tissue injury

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Nancy Ann Elizabeth Oberheim Bush
Dartmouth College

Grad 4

Glial cell biology

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Keith Olsen
Williams College

Grad 1

The dampening of Interferon gamma signaling in trophoblast cells and the role this may play in the immunology of pregnancy and cancer immunology

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Alexander T. Pearson
Cornell University

Grad 4

Variable selection in high variable number-to-observation ratio settings using evolutionary paradigm algorithms for censored survival time data

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Scott Peslak
University of Scranton
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

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Andrew Pistner
Northwestern University
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

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Rebecca Porter
University of Rochester

Grad 1

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Imran Punekar
Villanova University
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

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Phillip Rappold
Cornell University
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

Neurodegenerative diseases

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Babak Razavi
Washington University in St. Louis

Med 3

Multi-sensory influences on sound localization in humans

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Chris Richardson
Brigham Young University

Grad 3

B-cell tolerance and autoimmunity

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Laurie Robak
Canisus College

Grad 5

Mechanisms of axon guidance

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Danny A. Rogers
Brigham Young University

Grad 1

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Shuolun Ruan
Yale University

Grad 2

Health policy, health economics

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Solomon S. Shaftel
Binghamton University

Med 3

The role of IL-1 beta in neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease

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Adam Simning
Pomona College

Grad 1

Neurological Diseases, Psychiatry, and Oncology

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Mercedes Szpunar
Loyola University Chicago

Grad 1

Women's and developmental health, and their environmental influences

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Erika Szymanski
Grove City College

Grad 1

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Ana Tablante
Wellesley College

Grad 2

Susceptibility of brain cancer stem cells to antioxidants

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Joanna Touger
Williams College
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 2

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Edward Vuong
New York University

Grad 1

Developmental defects

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Jonas Wilson-Leedy
University of Idaho
  • TBD
  • TBD

Med 1

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Michael Dacheng Wu
Carnegie Mellon University

Grad 1

Cancer, Stem Cells

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Christine Gorman Zanghi
Denison University

Med 4

Development of modified lambda phage vectors for targeted DNA delivery to mammalian cells