Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Chemical, Physical & Structural Biology Alumni

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Career Paths

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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 Baylor College of Medicine.

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Program Alumni

Name

Position/Company

Graduation Year

Mary Brinkman, Ph.D.

Infectious Disease Pharmacist
Baylor Scott & White

2007

Kexin Huang, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist
LakePharma, Inc.

2006

Megan Landsverk, Ph.D.

Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory
Sanford Health

2007

Kristen Mittelman-Sykoudis, Ph.D.

Scientific & Legal Advisor
Virginia Tech

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, Baylor College of Medicine

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, Baylor College of Medicine

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, Baylor College of Medicine

2015

Alex Brewer, Ph.D.

Medical Science Liaison, RedHill Biopharma Ltd.

2015

Michael Evangelista, Ph.D.

QA/QC Scientist, GE Healthcare

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, Baylor College of Medicine

2018

Stephen Wilson, Ph.D. Data Engineering Fellow, Insight Data Science 2018
Cameron Brown, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Zachary Conley, Ph.D. Research Associate, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Timothy Farinholt, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Nathanael Green, Ph.D. Legal Clerk, Norton Rose Fulbright 2019
Teng-Kuei Hsu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher, Baylor College of Medicine 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, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Ilya Novikov, Ph.D. Data Science Fellow, Mercury Data Science 2019
Alexander Saltzman, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Melvin Young, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Hanzhi Zhang, Ph.D. Postdoc, Amgen 2019
Jing Zhang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Matthew Valle Holt, Ph.D. Postdoc, Baylor College of Medicine 2019
Vena Kay Martinez, Ph.D. Senior Scientific Writer, Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation 2019
Doris Mia Taylor, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine 2020
Franklin Gu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher, Baylor College of Medicine 2020
Vidyalakshmi Sethunath, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute 2020
Diana Christine Cox, Ph.D. Scientist, Eclipse Bioinnovations 2020
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Career Development Center

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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.

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Alumni Succes Story

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Koen Venken, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine 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.

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