Immunology Alumni
The Immunology Program celebrates the achievements of its alumni. Over 170 students have completed the Immunology Program since it was founded.
Our alumni hold leadership positions in academic institutions and the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Other graduates have gone on to careers in law, communication, and medicine.
Learn more about the careers our alumni pursue below.
2020 - Present
| Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
| Abdo Abou-Slaybi | 2021 | Associate Scientist, Agenus |
| Giang Nguyen | 2020 | Senior Scientist I, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research |
| Njabulo Ngwenyama | 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, TUSM |
| Joseph Sarhan | 2020 | MD, PhD, Resident, Dermatology, Yale University |
| Rebecca Silver | 2020 | Scientist, Single-Cell Science, HiFiBiO Therapeutics |
2010 - 2019
| Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
| John Yoon | 2019 | Scientist, Avrobio |
| Nicole Castagnozzi | 2018 | MS, Unavailable |
| Caitlin Liu | 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, St Jude's Children's Research Hospital |
| Jacob Ludington | 2018 | MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston |
| Maria RePass | 2018 | Technology Specialist, Lando & Anastasi, LLP |
| Charles Torgbor | 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH/NIAID |
| Elizabeth DeRiso | 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Ragon Institute |
| Alexander Histed | 2017 | MS, Scientist, Cue Biopharma |
| Bridget Larkin | 2017 | Scientist, Pandion Therapeutics |
| Nick Macedo | 2017 | MS, Quality Engineer II, DePuy Synthes Companies |
| Michelle Paczosa | 2017 | Genomic Variant Scientist, Quest Diagnostics |
| Francisco Velazquez | 2017 | Scientist, Torque |
| Michael Fray | 2016 | Scientist II, Gritstone Oncology |
| Megan McPhillips | 2016 | MS, Senior Research Associate, Synlogic Therapeutics |
| Daniel Ram | 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
| Stephen Schworer | 2016 | MD, PhD, Fellow, Allergy & Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Guy Surpris | 2016 | Health Science Specialist, US Department of Veteran's Affairs |
| Daniel Aridgides | 2015 | MD, PhD, Instructor, Medicine & Critical Care, Dartmouth School of Medicine |
| Ryan Salvador | 2015 | Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH/NEI |
| James Sampson | 2015 | Senior Scientist, Rubius |
| Michael Ophir | 2014 | Research Investigator II, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Holly Ponichtera | 2014 | Director, In Vivo Pharmacology, Evelo Therapeutics |
| Jin Qiu | 2014 | Scientist, Merck KGaB |
| Benjamin Umiker | 2014 | Senior Scientist, Jounce Therapeutics |
| Juliana Lewis | 2013 | Flow Cytometry Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec |
| Annie Moseman | 2013 | Senior Research Associate, Duke U |
| Korynn Stoyanoff | 2013 | Academic Services Manager, Just-A-Start Corporation |
| Sean Tracy | 2013 | MD, PhD, Fellow, Hematology, Oncology & Transplantation, Mayo Clinic |
| Kristine Germar | 2012 | Scientist, Sanofi |
| David Merritt | 2012 | In transition |
| Jane Rosen | 2012 | MD, PhD, Hospitalist, Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, IA |
| Craig Weinkauf | 2012 | MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Vascular Surgery, U Arizona |
| Rosemary Brewka | 2011 | MS, Unavailable |
| James Conner | 2011 | MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathobiology & Laboratory Medicine, U Toronto |
| Jared Hawkins | 2011 | Director of Informatics, Children's Hospital, Boston; Instructor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School |
| Anastasia Kazimirova | 2011 | MS, Resident, Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine |
| Yi-Fen Lu | 2011 | Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School |
| Meghan Marré | 2011 | QC Process Manager, Research Square |
| Maryam Shansab | 2011 | B Cell Immunologist, Berkeley Lights, Inc |
| Patrick Smith | 2011 | Lab Head, Lung Diseases Pharmacology, Bayer Pharmaceuticals |
| Nicholas Sylvain | 2011 | Special Instructor, Biology, Dartmouth College |
| Jennifer Eccleston Magee | 2010 | Science Writer, JoVe |
| Berri Jacque | 2010 | Associate Professor, Medical Education, TUSM |
| Mara Shainheit | 2010 | Senior Scientist II, Genocea |
| Jie (Jackie) Yuan | 2010 | Director, Head, APAC Business Development & Marketing, WuXi Biologics |
2000 - 2009
| Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
| Todd Ashworth | 2009 | Principal Scientist, Pfizer |
| Barbara Balter | 2009 | Regulatory Affairs Associate, Vertex |
| Kacey Caradonna | 2009 | Director, Product Development, Hooke Laboratories |
| Katherine Cosmopoulos | 2009 | Associate Director, Epizyme |
| Jin Han | 2009 | Associate Principal Scientist, Immuno-Oncology, Merck |
| Ken Nguyen | 2009 |
Chief, Bacteriology Laboratory, Microbiology Section, Brooke Army Medical Center |
| Sarah Ok Shin | 2009 | Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Korea University |
| Kristin Stephan | 2009 | Director, Medical Writer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Chia Chi Sun | 2009 | Senior Scientist, EMD Serono |
| Milena de Melo Jorge | 2008 | VP, Science, InsideTracker |
| Vey Hadinoto | 2008 | Senior Scientist, Immunology, Nutricia Research |
| Bettina Iliopoulou | 2008 | Research Scientist, Stanford U |
| Caleb Lee | 2008 | MD, PhD, Senior Director, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc |
| Jill Roughan | 2008 | Principal and Founder, Sciencia Consulting |
| Patrick Zana Desgranges | 2007 | MD, PhD, Physician, Swedish Medical Center |
| Shweta Hakre | 2007 | Medical Affairs, Astrazeneca |
| Jyoti Mathur | 2007 | Product and IP Development, Nurithm Labs |
| Gang Chen | 2006 | Associate Director, TIP Immunology, EMD Serono |
| Srimoyee Ghosh | 2006 | Director, Translational Strategy Research, TESARO, Inc |
| Mirja Gunthart | 2006 | Account Manager, Meso Sale Discovery |
| Inka Pawlitzky | 2006 | Director, Oncology Drug Development, SMS Oncology |
| Tatyana Souza | 2006 | Owner, Coolidge Corner Yoga |
| Albert Tai | 2006 | Research Assistant Professor, Immunology, Tufts U School of Medicine |
| Helena Crowley | 2005 | MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery, U Maryland School of Medicine |
| Eduardo Finger | 2005 | Physician & Researcher, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil |
| Mireia Guerau | 2005 | Associate Professor, Health & Rehab Sciences, Ohio State U Medical Center |
| Erica Marchlik | 2005 | Senior Scientist, N-of-One Therapeutics |
| Michiel Pegtel | 2005 | Associate Professor, VU U, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Zohar Sachs | 2005 | MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, U Minnesota School of Medicine |
| Michelle Stanton | 2005 | At home |
| Linda Baughn | 2004 | Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Co-Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic |
| Pradeep Bista | 2004 | Senior Director, Head of Translational Biology, Catabasis Pharmaceuticals |
| Lauri Laichalk | 2004 | At home |
| Karen Rockwell | 2004 | Paralegal, Bookman & Al-Marayati |
| Theresa Willett | 2004 | MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics/Immunology, Stanford U School of Medicine |
| Andrew Heilpern | 2003 | General Manager, Educational Partnerships, Summit Educational Group |
| Donna Hochberg | 2003 | Partner, Health Advances |
| Jenia Jenab-Wolcott | 2003 | MD, PhD, Private Practice, Oncology, Drexel Hill, PA |
| Dennis Keefe | 2003 | Executive Director, Discovery, Stealth Bio Therapeutics |
| Henry Lee | 2003 | MD, PhD, Assoc Professor, Dermatology, Weill Cornell School of Medicine |
| Changchuin Mao | 2003 | Scientist, Antagen |
| Anuradha Raghavan | 2003 | At home |
| Mark Ryan | 2003 | Principal Research Scientist, AbbVie |
| Catarina Sacristan | 2003 | Editor-in-Chief, Cell Press, Trends in Immunology |
| Neal Golden | 2002 | Senior Risk Analyst, Food & Safety Service, FDA |
| Murali Chiravuri | 2001 | MD, PhD, Private Practice, Cardiology, Fairfield, CT |
| Maria Denis | 2001 | CEO, Biomedcode Hellas |
| Luis Fernandez | 2001 | Science Teacher, Drew School |
| Wenda Gao | 2001 | Owner & Founder, Antagen Institute for Biomedical Research |
| Bryan Hurley | 2001 | Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School |
| Alexandra Joseph | 2001 | Scientific Attache, DSAR Global Head, Immunology & Biomarkers, Sanofi |
| Britt Stockton Lee | 2001 | MD, PhD, MEDscience Volunteer Teacher |
| Celine Mainville | 2001 | Research & Development Manager, IDEXX Corp |
| Stephanie Nelson | 2001 | PhD Student, Psychology, U of Auckland |
| Robert Seward | 2001 | Senior Scientist, Pfizer |
| Gregory Babcock | 2000 | Vice President, Research, Visterra |
| Urmila Bajpai | 2000 | Private Practice, Rheumatology |
| Dawn Gross | 2000 | MD, PhD, Physician, Palliative Care, U California - San Francisco |
| Brian Haines | 2000 | Vice President, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Oncorus |
| Thomas Luby | 2000 | Director, TMC Innovation |
| Arash Radfar | 2000 | MD, PhD, Pathologist, Inform Diagnostics |
1990 - 1999
| Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
| Rahul Jasuja | 1999 | CEO, Pelican Therapeutics |
| Tracy Schmitz | 1999 | MD, PhD, Private Practice, Pediatrics |
| Hwei-Fang Tsai | 1999 | Visiting Scientist, Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital |
| Laura Baldwin | 1998 | IT Specialist, Cambridge Mobile Telematics |
| Paul Beresford | 1998 | Chief Business Officer, Biodesix |
| Scott Brodeur | 1998 | Director, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies |
| Lisa Decker | 1998 | Chief Business Officer, Atreca |
| Dan Liu | 1998 | Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Nathan Margolis | 1998 | Commercial Operations Manager, Lallemand |
| Carl Novina | 1998 | Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
| Linda Trimble Pestano | 1998 | Senior Director, Translational Sciences, miRagen Therapeutics |
| Robert Underwood | 1998 | Attorney & Partner, Hogan Lovells |
| Ping-Ning Hsu | 1997 | Professor & Chair, Graduate Institute of Immunology, National Taiwan U |
| Christopher Ianelli | 1997 | Founder & CEO, iSpecimen |
| Jean Michel LeCerf | 1997 | Director, Quantitative Bioanalytics, Moderna |
| Emily Miyashita-Lin | 1997 | Director, Analytical Development - Molecular Biology, Vir Biotechnology |
| Ellen Winchester | 1997 | MS, Retired |
| Dag Yasui | 1997 | Project Scientist, U California - Davis |
| Ami Desai-Mehta | 1996 | At home |
| Maria Sikorski | 1996 | Senior Principal Scientist, CisThera, Inc |
| Kelly Thome | 1996 | At home |
| Elizabeth Whitcomb | 1996 | Scientist III, HNRCA, Tufts U |
| Bo Xu | 1996 | Pathologist, Stamford Pathology Group |
| Christopher Barry | 1995 | MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Mahatma Gandhi U of Medical Sciences, Founder, CTB Transplant |
| Chenyeh Chang | 1995 | MS, Chief Urologist, Nanman Hospital, Taiwan |
| Christene Huang | 1995 | Professor, Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado - Denver |
| Lori Klaman | 1995 | Senior Medical Science Liaison, Medical Affairs, Lundbeck |
| Chandra Mohan | 1995 | Professor, Biomedical Engineering, U Houston |
| Elizabeth Scott | 1995 | Unknown |
| Dagmar Sigurdardottir | 1995 | Coordinator, Tübingen PhD Program, Max Planck Institutes |
| Ulrich Beutner | 1994 | Research Manager, Surgery, Cantonal Hospital, St Gallen, Switzerland |
| Yunn-Yi Chen | 1994 | Professor, Pathology, U California - San Francisco |
| Christine Rudy | 1994 | Administrator, Surgery, U Virginia School of Medicine |
| Li-chun Wang | 1994 | Student, Postbaccalaureate PreMed Program, Worcester State |
| Jeongwon Sohn | 1993 | Professor, Biochemistry, Korea U Medical School, Korea |
| Ken Ye | 1993 | Physician, Internal Medicine, Mercy Health Partners |
| Sharlene Adams | 1992 | Associate Director, bluebird bio |
| Silas Chikunguwo | 1992 | Surgeon, Private Practice |
| Hee-Yong Chung | 1992 | Lecturer, Immunology, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Korea |
| Marie Green | 1992 | Project Management Team Leader, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute |
| Ramkumar Moorthy | 1992 | Principal, ZS Associates |
| Theresa O'Keefe | 1992 | Managing Partner, Silladar Consulting |
| William Trepicchio | 1992 | Senior Director, Translational Sciences & Companion Diagnostics, Takeda |
| Richard Wyatt | 1992 | Professor, Immunology, Scripps Research Institute |
| John Iacomini | 1991 | Professor, Immunology, TUSM |
| Susan Kalled | 1991 | VP, Biology, Admirx |
| Michelle Kelliher | 1991 | Professor, Molecular Genetics, UMass Medical School |
| Martha Merrow | 1991 | Professor & Chair, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München |
| Robert Numerof | 1991 | Senior Director, Global Medical Affairs, Baxalta |
| Jennifer Payne | 1991 | At home |
| Sumati Rajagopalan | 1991 | Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIAID, NIH |
| Anne Sperling | 1991 | Professor, Medicine & Associate Vice Chair for Research, U Chicago School of Medicine |
| Robert Fisher | 1990 | Contract Staff, Cleveland Clinic |
| Elizabeth Hurley | 1990 | Attorney, Biogen Idec |
| Lalita Ramakrishnan | 1990 | Professor, Immunology, U Cambridge, UK |
| Kevin Sheehan | 1990 | Research Engineer/Project Manager, Stanford U School of Medicine |
1975 - 1989
| Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
| Gamal Osman | 1989 | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Badr University, Egypt |
| Dominic Picarella | 1989 | Director, Preclinical Pharmacology, Sana Biotechnology |
| Harout DerSimonian | 1988 | Scientific Advisor, NatCure Sciences; Independent Consultant |
| Karen Mann | 1988 | MD, PhD, Professor, Pathology, Emory U School of Medicine |
| Steven Swendeman | 1988 | Senior Research Scientist, Children's Hospital, Boston |
| Don Staunton | 1987 | Founder & CSO, Arbele; President CisThera |
| Linda Burkly | 1985 | Distinguished Investigator, BiogenIdec |
| Barbara Malynn | 1985 | Assistant Professor, Medicine, U California, San Francisco |
| Leslie Schiff | 1985 | Associate Dean, Undergraduate Curriculum, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, U Minnesota |
| Gloria Vachino | 1985 | MS, Instructor, Biochemistry, Boston U School of Medicine |
| Linnea Garcia | 1984 | MS, Pathologist, Private Practice |
| Peggy Vromen-Gracy | 1984 | MS, Retired, formerly, Grant & Contract Administration, U Texas - Arlington |
| Gerald Waneck | 1984 | Retired, formerly Professor, School of Medicine & Pharmacy, U Western Australia |
| Peter Carroll | 1983 | Attorney, Medlen & Carroll, LLP |
| Sean Carroll | 1983 | Professor, Biology, University of Maryland, VP Science Education, HHMI |
| Daniel Gold | 1983 | President & CEO, MEI Pharma |
| James McIver | 1983 | Unknown |
| Mindy Tai | 1983 | Unknown |
| Douglas Stafford | 1983 | President, Pantherics Inc |
| Thomas Lalor | 1982 | Deceased |
| Chester Andrzejewski | 1981 | Assistant Professor, Pathology, University of Massachusetts, School of Medicine |
| Chieh-Yuan Lawn Guo | 1981 | Unknown |
| Alison Finnegan | 1981 | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Rush U Medical Center |
| Pamela Nakajima | 1981 | Research Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center |
| Susan Bear | 1980 | Professor, Biology, Pine Manor College |
| Peter Brodeur | 1980 | Professor & Chair, Medical Education, TUSM |
| Suzanne Friedman | 1980 | At home |
| Richard Ciavarra | 1979 | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Eastern Virginia Medical School |
| Jessica Clarke | 1979 | Private practice physician |
| Philip Morrisey | 1979 | Manager, Biology Group, Amnis/EMD Millipore |
| Margot O'Toole | 1979 | Retired, formerly Translational Medicine Consultant & Senior Director, Genocea Biosciences |
| Diana DiPadua Yang | 1979 | Unavailable |
| Deidre Frey | 1978 | MS, Unavailable |
| Judith Pretell | 1978 | Pathologist, Private Practice |
| Miguel Stadecker | 1975 | MD, PhD, Professor, Immunology, TUSM |