Alumni
Postdoctoral Basic and Clinical Research Trainees
Elah Pick, PhD:
Trainee type: Post-doctoral laboratory trainee
Period: 2006-2008
Subsequent position: Instructor, Haifa University
Current position: Associate Professor, Haifa University
Malini Harigopal, MD:
Trainee type: Post-doctoral laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2005-2006
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Current position: Professor, Yale University
Janice Mehnert, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2006-2008
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Current position: Professor, New York University
Aymen Elfiky, MD, MPH:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2007-2009
Subsequent position: Instructor, Harvard University
Current position: Division Director, The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Geoffrey Gibney, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2008-2010
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center
Current position: Associate Professor, Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center
Jaykumar Thumar, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2010-2012
Subsequent/current position: Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Cancer Center
Christopher Zito, PhD:
Trainee type: Laboratory trainee, basic science research
Period: 2007-2011
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, St Joseph’s University
Current position: Associate Professor, St Joseph’s University
Lucia Jilaveanu, MD, PhD:
Trainee type: Laboratory trainee, basic science research
Period: 2007-2013
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Current position: Associate Professor, Yale University
Jaclyn Flanigan, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, clinical research trainee
Period: 2010-2012
Subsequent/current position: Attending physician, private practice, Cape Cod, MA
Melinda Yushak, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2013-2015
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
Marina Baine, MD, PhD:
Trainee type: Post-doctoral laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2014-2015
Subsequent position: Pathology resident, Yale University
Current position: Clinical fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Justine Cohen, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, clinical research trainee
Period: 2014-2016
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
David Shahbazian, PhD:
Trainee type: Post-doctoral laboratory trainee, basic science research
Period: 2012-2015
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral fellow, Georgetown University
Current position: Project Director, Trans-Hit, Bio Inc
Kazuki Heishima, PhD:
Trainee type: Post-doctoral laboratory trainee, basic science research
Period: 2017-2018
Subsequent: Assistant Professor, Gifu Pharmaceutical University
Thuy Tran, MD, PhD
Trainee type: Physician-scientist fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2017-2020
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Matthew Austin, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, clinical research trainee
Period: 2019-2021
Subsequent position: Instructor, Brown University
Shlomit Jessel, MD:
Trainee type: Postdoctoral fellow, translational research trainee
Period: 2018-2022
Subsequent position: Resident, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Dijana Djureinovic, PhD:
Trainee type: Postdoctoral fellow, basic science trainee
Period: 2019-present
Jasmine Caulfield, PhD:
Trainee type: Postdoctoral fellow, basic science trainee
Period: 2020-present
David Schoenfeld, MD, PhD
Trainee type: Physician-scientist fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2021 – present
Jacqueline Mann, PhD
Trainee type: Postdoctoral fellow, basic science trainee
Period: 2020-present
Lilach Aizenbad, MD
Trainee type: Postdoctoral fellow, basic science trainee
Period: 2022-present
David Su, MD
Trainee type: surgery resident, translational research
Period: 2022-present
Junior Faculty Mentees
Herta Chao, MD, PhD:
Trainee type: Basic science research
Period: 2008-2010
Current position: Professor, Yale University
Lucia Jilaveanu, MD, PhD:
Trainee type: Junior Faculty, basic science research
Period: 2013-present
Current position: Associate Professor, Yale University
Sarah Goldberg, MD:
Trainee type: Junior Faculty, clinical research
Period: 2012-present
Current position: Associate Professor, Yale University
Brian Shuch, MD:
Trainee type: Junior Faculty, basic and translational research
Period: 2013-2018
Current position: Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah Weiss, MD:
Trainee type: Junior Faculty, clinical research
Period: 2016-present
Current position: Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Thuy Train, MD, PhD
Trainee type: Physician-scientist fellow, laboratory trainee, translational research
Period: 2020-present
Current position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Kelly Olino, MD:
Trainee type: Junior Faculty, basic science research
Period: 2018-present
Current position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Ross Merkin, MD:
Trainee type: Clinical fellow, clinical research trainee
Period: 2021-2023
Career Development Awards to Mentees
Current:
Award Type: National Cancer Institute, K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award
Mentee: Salil Garg, MD, PhD
Award Type: Career Development Award in Melanoma Biology for Junior Faculty, Melanoma Research Alliance
Mentee: Jeffrey Ishizuka, MD, PhD
Award Type: Career Development Award in kidney cancer biology for junior faculty, Department of Defense
Mentee: Sidi Chen, PhD
Award Type: T32 funded postdoctoral fellow award, Yale Cancer Center Advanced Training Program for Physician Scientists
Mentee: David Schoenfeld, MD, PhD
Award Type: T32 funded postdoctoral fellow award, Yale Cancer Center Advanced Training Program for Physician Scientists
Mentee: David Su, MD
Completed:
Award Type: National Cancer Institute, T32 funded Human Translational Immunology Program at Yale School of Medicine
Mentee: Jacqueline Mann, PhD
Award Type: Anna Fuller Award for Postdoctoral Associates in Basic Science
Mentee: Lucia Jilaveanu, MD, PhD
Award Type: KL2 Mentored Career Development Award through the Yale Cancer for Clinical Investigations, NIH funded
Mentee: Lucia Jilaveanu, MD, PhD
Award Type: Career Development Award in Melanoma Biology for Junior Faculty, Melanoma Research Alliance
Mentee: Lucia Jilaveanu, MD, PhD
Award Type: Young Investigator Award (advanced trainees, prior to obtaining first faculty appointment), American Society of Clinical Oncology
Mentee: Aymen Elfiky, MD, MPH
Award Type: Career Development Award (junior faculty within 3 years of initial appointment), American Association for Cancer Research
Mentee: Herta Chao, MD
Award Type: KL2 Mentored Career Development Award through the Yale Cancer for Clinical Investigations, NIH funded
Mentee: Brian Shuch, MD
Award Type: K08 Mentored Career Development Award, National Cancer Institute
Mentee: Brian Shuch, MD
Award Type: Department of Defense, Career Development Award (junior faculty investigators within 3 years of initial appointment), co-mentored with Roy Herbst, MD PhD
Mentee: Sarah Goldberg, MD
Award Type: T32 funded postdoctoral fellow award, Yale Cancer Center Advanced Training Program for Physician Scientists
Mentee: Thuy Tran, MD, PhD
Award Type: Astrazeneca Award for postdoctoral fellows with basic science training interested in conducting translational research (co-mentored with Ganesh Mugundu, PhD)
Mentee: Agnish Dey, PhD
Award Type: National Cancer Institute, supplement to K12 Calebresi Award for training in immuno-oncology
Mentee: Sarah Weiss, MD
Award Type: Career Development Program, Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer, funded by the National Cancer Institute (PI: Roy Herbst, MD, PhD)
Mentee: Sarah Weiss, MD
Award Type: Werner-Gren Foundation Award for postdoctoral trainees from Sweden conducting basic science research
Mentee: Dijana Djureinovic, PhD
Award Type: National Cancer Institute, T32 funded Cancer Biology Training Program at Yale Cancer Center
Mentee: Jasmine Caulfield, PhD
Award Type: National Cancer Institute, K12 funded Immuno-Oncology Training Program at Yale Cancer Center
Mentee: Thuy Tran, MD, PhD
Award Type: National Cancer Institute, K12 funded Immuno-Oncology Training Program at Yale Cancer Center (co-mentored with Marcus Bosenberg, MD, PhD)
Mentee: Kelly Olino, MD