Career Paths
Wherever your ambitions lie, you will receive the support you need to follow a path well worn by BCM alumni who have built successful careers across diverse endeavors. The following list provides an update on where some of our graduate students went after completion of their Ph.D. program at ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú.
|
Name |
Position/Company |
Graduation Year |
|---|---|---|
|
Mary Brinkman, Ph.D. |
Infectious Disease Pharmacist |
2007 |
|
Kexin Huang, Ph.D. |
Senior Scientist |
2006 |
|
Megan Landsverk, Ph.D. |
Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory |
2007 |
|
Kristen Mittelman-Sykoudis, Ph.D. |
Scientific & Legal Advisor |
2007 |
|
Azza R.M. Al-tawashi, Ph.D. |
Faculty, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
2008 |
|
Hua Gao, Ph.D. |
Instructor, UT Southwester Medical Center |
2008 |
|
Mikyung Han, Ph.D. |
Consultant, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
2009 |
|
Yehua Li, Ph.D. |
Trader, DRW Holdings |
2009 |
|
Ma Wan, Ph.D. |
IRTA Fello, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
2009 |
|
Fei Zhang, Ph.D. |
Associate Director, HD Biosciences |
2009 |
|
Jinglan Zhang, Ph.D. |
Assistant Director, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
2009 |
|
Yanira Gonzalez-Barrios, Ph.D. |
Regulatory Scientist-Chemist, FDA |
2010 |
|
William Salerno, Ph.D. |
Senior Bioinformatics Director, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú |
2010 |
|
Zheng Wang, Ph.D., J.D. |
Intellectual Property Lawyer, Fangda Partners |
2010 |
|
Signe Carison, Ph.D. |
Senior Fellow, University of Washington |
2011 |
|
Ben He, Ph.D. |
Software Engineer, Glogou |
2011 |
|
Allison Kriel, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
2011 |
|
Dong Yang, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2011 |
|
Waleed Nasser, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Methodist Hospital System |
2012 |
|
Yi Zhang, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetech |
2012 |
|
Anjana Narayanan, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas Southwester Medical Center
Associate Editor, Science and Ink |
2013 |
|
Nur Yucer, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cedars-Sinai |
2013 |
|
Nimrat Chatterjee, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2014 |
|
Jesus Galaz-Montoya, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Associate, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú |
2014 |
|
Aditya Kulkarni, Ph.D. |
Program Scientists, Lantern Pharma |
2014 |
|
Yan Zhang, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California |
2014 |
|
Carolyn Adamski, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Associate, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú |
2015 |
|
Alex Brewer, Ph.D. |
Medical Science Liaison, RedHill Biopharma Ltd. |
2015 |
|
Michael Evangelista, Ph.D. |
QA/QC Scientist, GE ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú |
2015 |
|
Yun-Min Sung, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Chicago |
2015 |
|
Xiang Feng, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Van Andel Research Institute |
2016 |
|
Shrenik Metha, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech |
2016 |
|
Akash Kaushik, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Associate, UT Southwestern |
2017 |
|
Sam Regenbogen, Ph.D. |
Data Scientist, Mercury Data Science |
2017 |
|
Lin Tian, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Memorial Sloan Kettering |
2017 |
|
Xiqian Jiang, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú |
2018 |
| Stephen Wilson, Ph.D. | Data Engineering Fellow, Insight Data Science | 2018 |
| Cameron Brown, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Zachary Conley, Ph.D. | Research Associate, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Timothy Farinholt, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Nathanael Green, Ph.D. | Legal Clerk, Norton Rose Fulbright | 2019 |
| Teng-Kuei Hsu, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Researcher, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Sanjeev Khatiqada, Ph.D. | Consultant, Boston Consulting Group | 2019 |
| Boxue Ma, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University | 2019 |
| Phillip Minnick, Ph.D. | Research Associate, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Ilya Novikov, Ph.D. | Data Science Fellow, Mercury Data Science | 2019 |
| Alexander Saltzman, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Associate, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Melvin Young, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Associate, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Hanzhi Zhang, Ph.D. | Postdoc, Amgen | 2019 |
| Jing Zhang, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Scholar, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Matthew Valle Holt, Ph.D. | Postdoc, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2019 |
| Vena Kay Martinez, Ph.D. | Senior Scientific Writer, Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation | 2019 |
| Doris Mia Taylor, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Associate, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2020 |
| Franklin Gu, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Researcher, ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú | 2020 |
| Vidyalakshmi Sethunath, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute | 2020 |
| Diana Christine Cox, Ph.D. | Scientist, Eclipse Bioinnovations | 2020 |
Career Development Center
The center offers workshops, seminars and courses to help students explore many career paths open to individuals with a Ph.D. The center’s staff helps students find opportunities to gain experience and build connections that match their career interests. They also work one-on-one with students to help them define and reach their goals.
Alumni Succes Story
Koen Venken, Ph.D., ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú alum, is running a successful lab in genetic manipulation, genome engineering, synthetic biology and disease modeling in drosophila melanogaster in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
