Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Hirak Sarkar
Current Position: Assistant Professor, College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt University
Eunmi Lee
Current Position: Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan City, South Korea
Hyein Cho
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Guohong Hu
Current Position: Professor and Associate Director, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai JiaoTong
Feng Li
Current Position: Staff Scientist (R&D), Corning Life Sciences
Rumela Chakrabarti
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Miami
Hanqiu Zheng
Current Position: Associate Professor, Tsinghua University School of Medicine
Toni Celià-Terrassa
Current Position: Group Leader of Cancer Stem Cells & Metastasis Lab , Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM)
Heath Smith
Current Position: Senior Scientist I in In vivo Immune Oncology, Department of Pharmacology, AbbVie, Inc.
Guangwen Ren
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center
Jia Peng
Current Position: Research Investigator II, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Nicole Aiello
Current Position: Research Scientist I, Takeda Oncology
Ramesh Gunaratna
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Merck

Graduate Students

Cao Fang ('25)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Westlake University
Zheng Sun ('23)
Current Position: Senior Medical Advisor, AstraZeneca
Wei Lu ('19)
Current position: Life Sciences Specialist at L.E.K. Consulting
Zhuo Li ('18)
Current position: Scientist, BeiGene, Inc, Beijing, China
Wenyang Li ('17)
Current position: Associate Research Professor, Peking University
Mark Esposito ('17)
Current Position: Founder & CSO at KayoThera
Maša Alečković ('16)
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Dr. Kornelia Polyak's laboratory at Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Bong Ihn Koh ('14)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine
Liling Wan ('14)
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Brian Ell ('13)
Current position: Director of Research at Edvotek, Inc
Yuling Hua ('11)
Current Position: Manager, American Express
Mario Andres Blanco ('11)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Xin Lu ('10)
Current Position: Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Benjamin Tiede ('10)
Current Position: Director of Public Policy & Issues Management at Johnson & Johnson
Manav Korpal ('10)
Current Position: Investigator, Target Discovery and Genomics, H3 Biomedicine

M.D. Ph.D Students

Salma Youssef ('26)
Current Position: Medical Student, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Nilay Sethi ('10)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

Undergraduate Students

Gabriel Samcam Vargas ('26)
Current Position: PhD student, Yale University
Ian Kim ('26)
Current Position: Medical Student, UT Southwestern
Gabriela Gandara-Gutierrez ('26)
Jennifer Shi ('25)
Kim Tran ('24)
Rachel Chen ('24)
Current Position: Medical Student, Harvard Medical School
Ruina Zhang ('17)
Current Position: Medical Student, New York University School of Medicine
Nicole Wang ('17)
Current Position: MD/PhD student, Baylor College of Medicine
Abrar Choudhury ('16)
Current Position: MD/PhD student, UCSF
Rebecca Tang ('16)
Current Position: Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Corey Heung ('15)
Current Position: Medical Student, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jooeun (Jay) Kang ('14)
Current Position: Technician, University of Pennsylvania
Christina Su ('14)
Current Position: MD., Ph.D. student, UCLA
Jiyoung (Julie) Hwang ('13)
Current Position: Medical Staff, Weil Cornell Medical College
Salina Yuan ('13)
Current Position: M.D./Ph.D Student, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Qiong Qiu ('12)
Current Position: Medical Student, St Louis University School of Medicine
Lenka Ilcisin ('12)
Current Position: Medical Student, Harvard University School of Medicine
Amanda Yamasaki ('11)
Current Position: MS Student, Roosevelt University
Kaitlyn Golden ('10)
Current Position: Teaching
Stephanie Kingman ('09)
Current Position: M.D. University of Michigan
Euphemia Mu ('09)
Current Position: M.D., Johns Hopkins University
Esther Lee ('08)
Current Position: M.D., Yale University
Tom Feng ('08)
Current Position: M.D., Johns Hopkins University
Carol Yan ('07)
Current Position: M.D., University of Pennsylvania
Robert Chong ('07)
Current Position: M.D./Ph.D. Student, Mount Sinai Medical School
Ayan Chatterjee ('06)
Current Position: M.D., University of Pennsylvania

Undergraduate Exchange Students from Oxford

Martin Lukačišin ('12)
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Harvard University
Debra Qiao Yun Quek ('10)
Current Position: M.D./Ph.D. Student, Duke/National University of Singapore Medical School
Dan Guo ('08)

Recent Publications

Targeting autocrine retinoic acid signaling by ALDH1A2 inhibition enhances antitumor dendritic cell vaccine efficacy.
Macrophages in the Mammary Gland Stem Cell Niche: A Double-Edged Sword in Tissue Regeneration and Tumor Initiation.
Unbiased niche labeling maps immune-excluded niche in bone metastasis.
Tumor Heterogeneity and Cooperating Cancer Hallmarks Driven by Divergent EMT Programs.
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