Spring 2024 | Class Notes

Class Notes

• Zach Barsdale (BA 2022) is currently a research assistant at Harvard Medical School and is an incoming PhD student in the Harvard program in neuroscience.
 
• Elena Bekerman (PhD 2013, BA 2006) is a senior research scientist in Virology at Gilead Sciences.
• Justin De Leon (PhD 2017) is a scientist at BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.
 
• Phil Frankino (PhD 2022) is a scientist in regulatory compliance at Loyal/Cellular Longevity.
• Thomas Kouyate (BA 2023) is a research assistant in the precision vaccine program at the Boston Children’s Hospital. • Laura Toline Kovacs (MA 2021) is a senior research associate at 4D Molecular Therapeutics.
 
• Jackline Joy Lasola (BA 2010) recently completed her MD/PhD at the University of Maryland and will be returning to the Bay Area for an obstetrics and gynecology residency at UCSF.
 
 David Madden (PhD 2003) is the director of program management at Nkarta Therapeutics.
• Kathryn McElroy (PhD 2006) is a principal biotechnology consultant at BioKEM Solutions. • Kevin Mitchell (PhD 1997) is an associate professor of genetics and neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin and recently published a new book Free Agents –How Evolution Gave Us Free Will.
 
• Merve Ozdemir (BA 2023) is a research technician at the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute (Knoechel Lab) working on a project involving CAR-T cell therapy in hematologic malignancies.
 
• Erik Pierstorff (PhD 2003) is a program director for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs at the National Science Foundation.
• Amanda Su (PhD 2023) is currently a scientist at Arana Biosciences.
 
• Julie Ullman (PhD 2015) is the director of translational sciences at Maze Therapeutics.
• Martina Velichkovska (MA 2021) is the inside sales and academic sales manager at MaxCyte, Inc. • Kurtresha Worden (PhD 2021) is a medical student researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, and the 2024 Campagna Scholar in Neurological Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University.
• Joyce Yang (PhD 2015, BA 2008) is a senior scientist in advanced cellular technology at insitro.  

 


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