Current Students
2019 Incoming Students
The MSTP's greatest asset is its talented and dedicated students. Our students are devoted to biomedical science and medicine, participating in the MD Double Helix Curriculum, a wide variety of graduate programs, and co-curricular events of the MSTP. In addition, our students volunteer in a range of medical and scientific outreach activities and take an active role in program administration.
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John Bennett - Hamilton College
PhD Degree Program: Chem - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Bioactive natural product diversification via CYP450, drug discovery, organic synthesis, directed evolution
Alan Finkelstein - CUNY Queens College
PhD Degree Program: BME - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Applications of multimodal neuroimaging and machine learning in neuropathology
Emily Isenstein - Cornell University
Year: Med 2
Interests: Proprioceptive functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Maxime Jean - Barry University
Adviser: Jian Zhu, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: IMV - Year: Med 4
Interests: HIV latency, antiretroviral drug discovery for HIV
Howard "Mark" Kenney - University of Rochester
PhD Degree Program: PWD - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Lymphatic dysfunction, inflammatory arthritis
Hayley Martin - SUNY Geneseo
Adviser: Ann Dozier, RN, Ph.D., FAAN
PhD Degree Program: EPI - Year: Med 3
Interests: Maternal child health epidemiology, specifically looking at prenatal care delivery and breastfeeding outcomes and motivation
Michael Meadow - University of California, Los Angeles
Year: Med 1
Interests: Understanding and exploiting mechanisms of protein degradation in the context of aging/longevity
Adwiteeya "Aditi" Misra - Dartmouth College
Adviser: Eric Small, Ph.D. | Small Lab
PhD Degree Program: BME - Year: Grad 3
Interests: Influence of Cytokines on the Regenerative Potential of the Epicardium. Extracted and incubated hearts from embryos mice in cytokines
Emily Przysinda - Skidmore College
PhD Degree Program: NSC - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Neural correlates of social cognition and hierarchical processing of language and music in clinical populations
Bryan Redmond - Xavier University of Louisiana
Year: Med 2
Interests: Integrated neuro-ophthalmology, psychophysics, clinical and translational science research
Noah Salama - Washington & Jefferson College
Adviser: Deborah Fowell, Ph.D. | Fowell Lab
PhD Degree Program: IMV - Year: Grad 1
Interests: To characterize long-term, post resolution polarized resident macrophage cell types and ascertain their phenotypic role in maintaining the tissue polarized state
Daniel Savage - University of Rochester
Adviser: Krystel Huxlin, Ph.D. & Wayne Knox, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: OPT - Year: Med 4
Interests: Investigating photo modification of corneal ultrastructure using femtosecond pulsed laser light for potential applications in refractive vision correction
Colleen Schneider - Colgate University
Adviser: Brad Mahon, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: BCS - Year: Grad 5
Interests: Visual cortical plasticity in patients with strokes or brain tumors
Michael Sportiello - University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
PhD Degree Program: IMV - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Resident memory T cells, influenza immune response, influenza vaccine development, applied bioinformatic methods
Jomy Varghese - Loyola University
Adviser: Danielle Benoit, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: BME - Year: Med 4
Interests: Controlled drug release via nanoparticle carriers (supported by an NIH F30 Research Fellowship)
Arun Venkataraman - University of Rochester
Adviser: Jianhui Zhong, Ph.D. | Zhong Lab
PhD Degree Program: PAS - Year: Grad 3
Interests: Utilizing MRI techniques to elucidate neuropathological alterations in neurodegenerative disorders and traumatic brain injury
Jesse Wang - University of Connecticut
Adviser: Henry Kautz, Ph.D. | Kautz Lab
PhD Degree Program: TBS - Year: Grad 3
Interests: Utilizing statistical speech analysis and natural language processing to capture and understand a physician-patient conversation, then automatically update eRecord with the appropriate information
Emily Wu - University of Michigan
Adviser: Edward Schwarz, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: IMV - Year: Med 3
Interests: The Role of TNF-α in the Genesis of Inflammatory Interstitial Lung Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jimmy Zhang - Cornell University
Adviser: Paul Brookes, Ph.D. | Brookes Lab
PhD Degree Program: CMPP - Year: Med 4
Interests: Development of novel acute myocardial infarction therapeutics using metabolomics and high-throughput screening.