Our alumni

Our training philosophy is to prepare students with rigorous, interdisciplinary training in chemistry, biology, and bioinformatics needed to excel in modern chemical biology / synthetic biology and drug discovery fields. Our alumni have gone on to successful careers in academia and industry:

Mohan Halasyam, postdoc 2006: Scientist, Invitrogen

James Sims, PhD 2008: Fachexpert, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Jaeheon Lee, PhD 2008: FMC Corp

Olivier Peraud, postdoc 2009: Roche

Mohamed Donia, PhD 2010: Associate Professor, Princeton University

John McIntosh, PhD 2011: Scientist, Merck

Zhenjian Lin, postdoc 2012: Research Associate Professor, University of Utah

Jason Kwan, postdoc 2013: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison

Thomas Kakule, PhD 2014: Scientist, Gingko Bioworks

Elizabeth Pierce, postdoc 2015: Assistant Professor, Southern Utah University

Diarey Tianero, PhD 2015: Scientist, Lodo Therapeutics

Debosmita Sardar, PhD 2016: Postdoc, Deneen Lab, Baylor College of Medicine

Thomas Smith, PhD 2016: Postoc, Moran Lab, UT Austin

Maho Morita, postdoc 2019: Assistant Professor, Nagoya University

Joshua Torres, PhD 2020: Postdoc, Safavi-Hemami Lab, University of Copenhagen

Yixin Fang, postdoc 2020:

Noemi Paguigan, postdoc 2021: Scientist, KBI Biopharma

Changshan Niu, postdoc 2021: Postdoc, Winter Lab, University of Utah

Wenjia Gu, PhD 2021: Associate Scientist, Sutro Biopharma, Inc

Snigdha Sarkar, PhD 2021: Postdoc, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ying Cong, PhD 2023: Scientist I, Resolian