Past Trainee & Current Position

 

1992 – 1996 (PostDoc)         Fabrizio Mainiero, MD

Professor

Department of Experimental Medicine & Pathology Chief, Immunology and Immunopathology

Hospital Umberto I University La Sapienza Rome, Italy

 

1995 – 1998 (PostDoc)        Chiara Murgia, PhD

Lecturer, Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Monash university

Melbourne, Australia

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1996 – 1998 (PostDoc)        Maja Oktay, MD, PhD

Professor

Department of Pathology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center

New York, NY

 

1996 – 2000 (PostDoc)        Kishore Wary, PhD

Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology University of Illinois of Chicago Chicago, IL

 

1997 – 2000 (PostDoc)         Laurent Gagnoux-Palacios, PhD

Chercheur INSERM

Université Nice Sophia Antipolis Bâtiment de Biochimie

Parc Valrose Nice, France

 

1997 – 2000 (PostDoc)        Amel Mettouchi, PhD

Member Institut Pasteur

Département de Microbiologie Unité des Toxines Bactériennes Université Paris Descartes Paris, France

 

1998 – 1999 (PostDoc)        Paul Kedeshian, MD

Associate Clinical Professor Division of Head & Neck Surgery

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA

 

1999 – 2005 (GRA)               Wenjun Guo, PhD

Associate Professor Department of Cell Biology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY

 

2000 – 2004 (PostDoc)        Toshiaki Yoshioka, MD, PhD

Professor

Department of Pathology & Immunity Akita University

Akita, Japan

 

2001 (PostDoc)                     Jung-Weon Lee, PhD

Professor

Department of Pharmacology College of Pharmacy

Seoul National University Seoul, Korea

 

2001 – 2003 (PostDoc)        Santiago Parpal Tamburini, PhD

Project Leader Sprint Bioscience Stockholm, Sweden

 

2001 – 2005 (PostDoc)        Sotiris Nikolopoulos, PhD

President and CEO

Center for Molecular Analysis and Research SA Agrinio, Greece

 

2001 – 2008 (GRA)              Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD

Associate Professor Department of Genetics

University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill Chapel Hill, NC

 

2002 – 2004* (PostDoc)       Cara Yajnik Gottardi, PhD

Associate Professor

Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern University Chicago, IL

 

*co-mentored with Barry Gumbiner.

 

2004 – 2007 (PD)                  Michael Sturniolo, PhD

Executive Director

Worldwide Medical Affairs,

Multiple Myeloma at Bristol-Myers Squibb

New York, NY

 

2000 – 2011 (PostDoc)        Tomoyo Okada, MD, PhD

Senior Research Scientist Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service Department of Surgery

MSKCC

New York, NY

 

2004 – 2013 (PostDoc)        Hua Gao, PhD

Professor

Department of Life Science Tongji University

Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital Shanghai, China

 

2006 (Vis. Master Stud.)      Markus Decker, PhD

Global Head, Search & Evaluation Simcere Pharmaceutical Group San Francisco, CA

 

2007 – 2015 (PostDoc)        Wei Li, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Pediatrics

Penn State University Hershey, PA

 

2005 – 2016 (PostDoc)        Javier A. Otero, MD, PhD

Senior Clinical Program Leader Translational Clinical Oncology

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research East Hanover, NJ

 

2008 – 2010 (PostDoc)        Gaia Shiavon, MD, PhD

Global Clinical Lead

Late Oncology R&D AstraZeneca Cambridge, England, UK

 

2008 – 2016 (GRA)              Jonathan Cooper, PhD

Senior Scientist

Tumor Microenvironment Thematic Research Center Bristol-Myers Squibb

Redwood City, CA

 

2008 – 2016 (PostDoc)        Goutam Chakraborty, PhD

Assistant Attending Assistant Professor

Department of Urology

Mount Sinai Medical School

New York, NY

 

2012-2016 (PostDoc)            Wenjing Su

Senior Research Associate Laboratory of Neil Rosen Molecular Pharmacology Program

Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

 

 

2013 – 2016 (PostDoc)        Jonathan Hernandez, MD

Investigator

Surgical Oncology Program Head, Metastasis Biology Section Chief, Surgical Oncology Section Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD

 

2017 – 2019 (Assi.Professor) Dimple Chakravarty, PhD

Assistant Professor Department of Urology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY

 

2016 – 2018 (PostDoc)        Yi Du, PhD

Res. Assistant Professor

The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, TX

 

2017 – 2019 (Vis. Scholar)   Hao Zhou, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology College of Life Science

Nankai University Tianjin, China

 

 

2016-2020 (vis. GRA-PostDoc)   Hyun Ho Han, MD, PhD

Clinical Res. Assistant Professor Department of Urology

Yonsei University College of Medicine Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

2017 – 2019 (PostDoc)        Sara Laudato, PhD

Scientist - Cancer Biology TOLREMO Therapeutics AG Basel, Switzerland

 

2016 – 2019 (PostDoc)        Junfeng Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor Bioland Laboratory

Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH)

Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou, China