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 lists provide an update on where some of our graduate students went after completion of their Ph.D. program at Baylor College of Medicine.
2017
Samirkumar B. Amin, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral Associate, Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, Connecticut
Victor Onuchic, Ph.D. - Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina, California
Quan Zhou, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral Associate, Rice University, Houston, Texas
2016
James Christopher Campbell, Ph.D. - Staff Scientist, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Regis Aaron James, PhD - Bioinformatics Application Specialist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, New York
Lukas Mikolaj Simon, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral Associate, Helmholtz Research Institute, Bonn, Germany
Li Zhao, Ph.D. - Computational Scientist, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas
2015
Benjamin Bachman, Ph.D. Software Engineer (Data) at Dataminr, New York City, New York
2014
Rossitza Irobalieva, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Cyrus Eierud, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Chuan Hong, Ph.D., Research Specialist, Janelia Farm Research Campus-HHMI, Ashburn, Virginia
Hye Jin Kang, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Rui Wang, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Yuan Yuan, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Deepti Karandur, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of California--Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Gao Wang, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Scholar at Matthew Stephens group, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2013
James Lu, Ph.D., Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Eric Venner, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Codified Genomics, Houston, Texas
2012
Xiaorui Chen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Caleb Davis, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Scientist, Gene By Gene, LTD, Houston, Texas
David Ortiz, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Ian Rees, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Ryan Rochat, M.D.,Ph.D., Medical Resident, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Ke Zhang, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
2011
Matthew Bainbridge, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Associate, Human Genome Sequencing Center-Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Amadeo Biter, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Bin (Randy) Lin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
Merry-Lynn McDonald, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Scientist, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Christopher Miller, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, The Genome Institute-Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
2010
Lei Chen, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, The Genome Institute-Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Peng Ge, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Associate, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Oliver Hampton, Ph.D., Instructor, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Char Hu, Ph.D., Founder and Director, Alzheimer's Care Companies, Austin, Texas
Elizabeth Jones, M.S., Adjunct Faculty-Mathematics, Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael Lopez, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Resident, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
Anup Parikh, Ph.D., Senior Project Manager, Ion Torrent
Rui Zhang, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Associate, University of California, Berkeley
2009
Mariah Baker, Ph.D., Research Associate, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas
Wei Dai, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Kwanghyuk Lee, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Bingshan Li, Ph.D. Assistant Professor-Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Graham Randall, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer, Normal Modes, Houston, Texas
Junjie Zhang, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, California
2008
Matthew Linnell, Ph.D., Senior Developer, Velocity Futures
Chaoping Qin, Ph.D., Software Engineer, Google
Tiffany Weksberg, Ph.D., Patent Agent, Fulbright
2008
Matthew Linnell, Ph.D., Senior Developer, Velocity Futures
Chaoping Qin, Ph.D., Software Engineer, Google
Tiffany Weksberg, Ph.D., Patent Agent, Fulbright
2007
Juan Chang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Mingzhi Chen, Ph.D., Portfolio Manager, Millenium Partners
Xu Cui, Ph.D., Founder of Peaya, Inc., Research Scientist, Stanford University, Standford, Calif.
David Kristensen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral IRTA Fellow, NCBI; NLM, NIH.
Michael Marsh, Ph.D., Imaging Expert, Visualization Sciences Group, Inc., Burlington, MA
David Mittelman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA
2006
Christopher Booth, Ph.D., Project Manager, Life Sciences, Gatan, Inc., Pleasanton, Calif.
Ezgi Okyay-Booth, Ph.D., Scientific Editor
Qikai Xu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Hui Yao, Ph.D., Principal Statistic Analyst, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Zhen Zhang, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.
2005
Kenneth Kalafus, Ph.D., Patent Clerk, Hunton & Williams, LLP.
Yifei Kong, Ph.D., Scientist, Monsanto
Srinivasan Madabushi, Ph.D., Country Head of Indonesia, Novartis Diagnostics
2004
James P. Carson, Ph.D. Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Anjelica Gonzalez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2003
Hariharan Jayaram, Ph.D., Scientist, Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
2002
Matthew Baker, Ph.D., Instructor-Biochemistry (Chiu Lab), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Mathew Sowa, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Warp Drive Biosynthetics, Cambridge, MA
2001
Jing He, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Wen Jiang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Yuxin Mao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2000
Chetlen Crossnoe, Ph.D., Family Practitioner, Grace Clinic of Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas
Guanghui Hu, Ph.D., Vice President/Global Business Leader, Translational Genomics
Daoyun Ji, Ph.D., Assistant Professor-Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
1998
Carlos Cantu, Ph.D., Clinical Project Manager, Quintiles
Vladimir Markov, Ph.D., Partner, IFXworks, L.L.C.
1996
Pamela Thuman-Commike, Ph.D., Publications Planning Manager, Affymax, Inc., New York, NY
Career Development
Workshops, seminars and courses offered through the Career Development Center help students explore the many career paths open to individuals with a Ph.D. The Center’s experienced 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.