Former Georgetown Lab Members*

Former MD, PhD and MD-PhD Students

Allison Fitzgerald, PhD Tumor Biology, MD Georgetown University 2023

Currently: PGY-1, Internal Medicine Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA

David Zahavi, MS- PhD Tumor Biology, Georgetown University 2022

Currently:  AAAS Fellow in the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program's Risk Factor Assessment Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD

Reham Ajina, MS- PhD Tumor Biology, Georgetown University 2020

Currently: Assistant Professor, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dalal AlDeghaither, MS- PhD Tumor Biology, Georgetown University 2018

Currently: Assistant Professor, College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Rishi Surana, PhD Tumor Biology, MD, Georgetown University 2016

Currently: Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA

Joseph Murray, PhD Tumor Biology, MD Georgetown University 2015

Currently: Co-Director, Lung Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence. Instructor of Oncology. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD

Casey Shuptrine, MS- PhD Tumor Biology, Georgetown University 2015

Currently:  Principal Scientist I, Shattuck Labs, Durham NC

Mark Leick, MD, Georgetown University 2014

Currently: Attending physician/Translational Basic Scientist- Hematopoietic Cell Transplant & Cell Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA

Rochelle (Nasto) Baca, PhD Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University 2013

Former Undergraduate and Summer Students

Lucia Wetherill, Princeton University student

Currently: Junior, Princeton University, Princeton NJ

Eric Li, BS Economics and Biology, Georgetown University 2022

Currently: Financial Analyst at Discovery Financial Services, Chicago IL

Maria Jensen, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2021

Currently: M1, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington DC

Ethan Missigman, BS Biology and German, Georgetown University 2021

Currently: Nursing Assistant, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL

Heather Huo, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2021

Currently: M1, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington DC

Jake Moscarelli, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2021

Currently: M1, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington DC

Danielle Zamalin, BS Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University 2018

Currently:  Pediatric Resident Physician at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai—Kravis Children’s Hospital, New York, NY

Deniz Naz Secin, BS Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 2018

Currently: MS student in Immunobiology, LIMES Institute, Bonn Germany

Noah Elkind, Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring MD 2014

Natalya Diaz, BS Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 2014

Currently: Junior Software Developer, Sytec Corporation, Somerville, MA

Jay Mottla, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2013

Currently: Fellow, Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

David W. Goldstein, BS Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2012

Currently:  Internist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, New Haven, CT.

Megan Oblaczynski, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2011

Currently: Dr. Megan Cohen (Oblaczynski) is an emergency medicine physician affiliated with Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Brian Gallagher, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2011

Currently:  Fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon, Fairfax VA

Gabby Nocerino, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2011

Currently: General Dentist, Fairfield CT

Angelica Nocerino, BS Biology, Georgetown University 2010

Currently: Gastroenterologist at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC