Former Lab Members


Individual                        Position                                                         Year                 Current position

Addisu Worku, M.S.      Master’s Student  (Biochemistry Program)             2015 - 2016 Associate Scientist at Sigma

Jacky Trujillo                  Undergraduate Student            2015 - 2016     M.D./Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University

Elissa Carney, Ph.D.      Post-Doctoral Fellow                                     2015 - 2016     Program Director, UC Berkeley Extension

Chao Yin, M.D.               Research Associate and M.D. Candidate  2013 - 2016     Hematology/Oncology Fellow Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Ali Baird                          Undergraduate Student             2016 - 2016     M.D. candidate at  Rush University

Hong Cao                        Research Associate                                       2016 - 2017     Research Assistant at the Smith's lab- Georgetown University

Johan Clarke, M.D.        Research Assistant                                        2015 - 2018      Residency at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles 

Ersilia Barin, M.S.     Master’s Student  (Biochemistry Program)   2017-2018 Ph.D. Candidate at Weill Cornell Medical College 

Aseel Al Yawar, M.S.     Master’s Student (Tumor Biology Program) 2017-2018 Product Manager at Roche

Diagnostics Middle East

Camile Fontelles, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow                                   2017 - 2019     Medical Advisor  at Amgen Biotechnology

Alex Krebs                       Research Assistant                                      2018-2019       Ph.D. Candidate at VCU

Kiarie Mumbi  Undergraduate Student 2018-2019  M.D. candidate at Georgetown

University

Volkan Tekmen Research Tutorial/ RISE student  2018- 2020 M.D. Candidate  at Thomas Jefferson University-Sidney Kimmel Medical College 

Megan Smith Research Tutorial/ RISE student 2019- 2021     Post-baccalaureate researcher at University of California, San Francisco

Jaedus Bates, M.S.     Master’s Student  (Biochemistry Program)   2019-2020

Shravanthy Suguru, M.S.    Master’s Student (Tumor Biology Program)   2020-2021 Research Assistant at the Agarwal lab- Georgetown University

Raquel Santana, Ph.D.    Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2022  Study Director, Biomarker, Scientific Research & Innovation at Crown Bioscience

Heloiza Nicolella Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-2022 University of Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Gabriela  Fernandes Visiting PhD Student 2021-2022 University of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Elaine Chen Undergrad/Research Assistant 2019-2023 Medical Student at Hoftra University Medical School

Aallya Nascimento Master's Student (Biochemistry Progam) 2022-2023 Research Associate at miRecule Inc.