Current Students
2018 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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Andrew Allbee - Miami University
Adviser: Benoit Biteau, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: Genetics - Year: Med 4
Interests: Role of a LIM-homeobox transcription factor in the establishment and maintenance of adult stem cell-niche units
John Bennett - Hamilton College
PhD Degree Program: Chem - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Biochemistry, organic synthesis, drug discovery, cell signaling, cell metabolism
Udaysankar Chockanathan - University of Chicago
Adviser: Krishnan Padmanabhan, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: NSC - Year: Grad 4
Interests: Comparison of the efficacy of various correlation and causation algorithms for quantifying interactions in resting-state fMRI brain activity using graph theory approaches
Carol Deaton - University of New Mexico
Adviser: Gail Johnson, Ph.D
PhD Degree Program: PWD - Year: Grad 2
Interests: Studying the Role of Heat Shock Factor 1 in Neuronal Autophagy
Alan Finkelstein - CUNY Queens College
PhD Degree Program: BME - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Broadly I am interested in biochemistry, pharmacology and physiology. A bit more specifcally, I'm interested in the molecular basis of disease, and development of novel therapeutics.
Jonathan Gigas - University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Adviser: Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: BIO - Year: Grad 2
Interests: Studying human Sirtuin6 protein variant found in centenarian individuals.
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
Year: Grad 1
Interests: Pathology, musculoskeletal, neuroscience, disease mechanisms, human translational
Allison Li - Washington University
Adviser: Laura Calvi, M.D.
PhD Degree Program: PWD - Year: Med 3
Interests: Regulation of hematopoiesis in the bone marrow microenvironment
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
Briaunna Minor - Xavier University of Louisiana
Adviser: Stephen Hammes, M.D., Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: IMV - Year: Grad 2
Interests: I have a deep interest in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus; I also have interest in the cancer immunologyas well as the intersections of virology and cancer biosciences
Adwiteeya "Aditi" Misra - Dartmouth College
Adviser: Eric Small, Ph.D.
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 mechanisms of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Epilepsy, MS, Alzheimers, Learning disorders, ADHD & other neurological disease or disorders
Noah Salama - Washington & Jefferson College
Adviser: Deborah Fowell, Ph.D.
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
Andrew Smith - University of Rochester
Adviser: Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: IMV - Year: Med 3
Interests: Role of a polymerase defect in function of the live attenuated influenza A virus
Michael Sportiello - University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
PhD Degree Program: IMV - Year: Grad 1
Interests: Virology, influenza, HIV, basic research
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.
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.
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
Jimmy Zhang - Cornell University
Adviser: Paul Brookes, Ph.D.
PhD Degree Program: CMPP - Year: Med 4
Interests: Development of novel acute myocardial infarction therapeutics using metabolomics and high-throughput screening.