PDD Alumni
PDD celebrates the achievements of its alumni. This program first admitted students in 2013 and had its first graduates in 2015.
Students have gone on to use their training in academia or the biotechnology industry or pursued additional advanced training.
Use the information below to learn more about PDD alumni and their careers.
2020 - Present
| Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
| Paulina Baca | 2020 | Research Associate I, Tufts Medical Center |
| Roberto Calitri | 2020 | Laboratory Manager, Northeastern U |
| Qianqian Dong | 2020 | Research Assistant, TUSM |
| Qingfa Hou | 2020 | PhD student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia |
| Lu Li | 2020 | Unknown |
| Peiwen Liu | 2020 | Research Associate, Tufts Medical Center |
| Yajing Luo | 2020 | Lab Technician, Callen Consulting |
| Sanjana Nair | 2020 | Senior Research Associate, Vertex |
| Anushree Pathak | 2020 | Senior Research Associate, Entrada Therapeutics |
| Shuang Tian | 2020 | Research Associate, Tessera Therapeutics |
| Dingqiang Zhang | 2020 | Research Tech, TUSM |
| Qingchen Zhang | 2020 | PhD Student, Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, University of Florida |
2015 - 2019
| Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
| Khulood Almehmadi | 2019 |
PhD Student, Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Pharmacology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine |
| Yehya Barakatalroudaini | 2019 | PhD Student, Neuro at JAX, GSBS, Tufts University |
| Aliya Butabayeva | 2019 | Pediatrician, Municipal Children's Hospital of Astana, Kazakhstan |
| Yuxi Chen | 2019 | Research Associate, Astellas Innovation Management |
| Victoria Margosian | 2019 | PhD Student, Chemistry, Tufts U |
| Zixu Wang | 2019 | Unknown |
| Zixuan Wei | 2019 | Research Associate II, Sanofi Genzyme |
| Rana Alabdali | 2018 | PhD Student, U Pittsburgh, School of Medicine |
| Dalal Alkhelb | 2018 | PhD Student, Pharmacology, Northeastern U |
| Mia Angeli | 2018 | Senior Scientific Associate, Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Bing Dai | 2018 | PhD Student, Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology, GSBS, Tufts U |
| Kerem Gurol | 2018 | PhD Student, U Texas - Austin |
| Shreeya Hegde | 2018 | Scientist, Novarits Institute for Biomedical Research |
| Nicholas Jackson | 2018 | PhD Student, Cell & Developmental Biology, UCLA |
| Kenneth Jahan | 2018 | Research Associate, TScan Therapeutics |
| Rulan Jiang | 2018 | Research Scientist, ABclonal Technology |
| Maima Kaiser | 2018 | Research Associate II, Takeda Vaccines |
| Aishwarya Kulkarni | 2018 | PhD Student, Pharmacology, U Florida College of Medicine |
| Kaiqi Li | 2018 | Research Associate II, Biocytogen Boston |
| Zhijun Ma | 2018 | PhD Student, Chemical Biology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine |
| Heather Tanner | 2018 | Research Associate, Cellares |
| Xiao (Shawn) Yu | 2018 | Senior Research Assistant, Brigham & Women's Hospital |
| Hamsa Zahrani | 2018 | Scientist, Takeda |
| Novera Alam | 2017 | PhD Student, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Northeastern U |
| Sara Algeelani | 2017 | Junior Manager, R&D, Jamjoon Pharma |
| Caroline Appel | 2017 | Medical Writer, EBSCO Industries |
| Victoria Frank | 2017 | Associate Scientist, Servier Pharmaceuticals |
| Li Lin | 2017 | Associate Scientist III, Biogen |
| Wendi Ni | 2017 | Scientist I, Novartis |
| Carolyn Okure | 2017 | QA Analyst, Gilead |
| Yunmi Park | 2017 | Senior Data Management Specialist, Stealth BioTherapeutics |
| Sam Saliba | 2017 | Research Technician, Brigham & Women's Hospital |
| Xuzhong Yang | 2017 | Unknown |
| Vaughn Youngblood | 2017 | Research Associate, NIH/NIAID |
| Michael Arciprete | 2016 | Biochemist I, Broad Institute |
| Tianmeng Chen | 2016 | PhD Student, Pathology, U Pittsburgh |
| Kyle Garnick | 2016 | Data Scientist, Skillsoft |
| Salwa Hafez | 2016 | PhD Student, Molecular Pharmacology, Brown U |
| MD Amin Hossain | 2016 | PhD Student, Pharmacology, Northeastern U |
| Maria Ibrahim | 2016 | PhD Student, U Maryland |
| Joshua Oppenheimer | 2016 | Quality Control Analyst, RepImmune |
| Timothy Tran | 2016 | Research Scientist, ReForm Biologics |
| Chang (Amber) Xue | 2016 | PhD Student, Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering, U Toronto |
| Naixin Zhang | 2016 | PhD Student, Physiology, U Minnesota |
| Maulana Empitu | 2015 | Lecturer, Pharmacology, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia |
| Bahar Matin | 2015 | Senior Manager, Clinical Pharmacology, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals |
| Yuli Qian | 2015 | PhD Student, Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, U Florida |
| Ahmad Sherbini | 2015 | Lecturer, King AbdulAziz University |
| Jiayi Wu Cox | 2015 | Data Scientist II, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research |