Molecular Microbiology Alumni

The program has awarded the PhD degree to more than 200 doctoral students.
Graduates from the program have obtained positions at prestigious academic, governmental, and industrial institutions and include a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, a Pew Scholar, and a vice president of a biotechnology corporation.
Among the graduates are many faculty members, most of whom are tenured or on tenure-track. Many others hold senior-level positions at pharmaceutical or biotechnology firms. Others have gone on to obtain MD, DVM, DMD or JD degrees.
Learn more about where individual alumni are and what they are doing below.
2020 - Present
Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
Jonah Larkins-Ford | 2022 | Principal Scientist, Marvel Biome |
Mengyun Zhang | 2022 | Postdoctoral Scholar, TUSM |
Kelsey Barrasso | 2021 | Research Scientist I, Sanofi Pasteur |
Rob Blakemore | 2021 | Scientist, Molecular/Viral Vector Biology, ElevateBio |
Stacie Clark | 2021 | Scientist, Senda Biosciences |
Rachel Levene | 2021 | Scientist, Enanta Pharmaceuticals |
Andrea Wong Lim | 2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, U Singapore |
Allison Matthews | 2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Sanofi-Pasteur |
Miriam Ramliden | 2021 | Scientist I, DermBiont |
Lauren Shull | 2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, U Washington |
Mary Hahm | 2020 | MS, MS Student, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Angela Howard | 2020 | Scientist I, bluebird bio |
Laura Markey | 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT |
Michael Pereira | 2020 | Scientist II, Conagen |
Sara Roggensack | 2020 | Senior Scientist, Affinivax, Inc |
2010 - 2019
Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
Ila Anand | 2019 | Patent Agent, Foley Hoag |
Louis Cornacchione | 2019 | Scientist II, Vedanta |
Sanna Herwald | 2019 | MD, PhD, Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, Stanford U |
Andrea Koenigsberg | 2019 | Consulting Associate, Charles River Consulting |
Michelle Logsdon | 2019 | Scientist, Sanofi |
Antonia Pugliese | 2019 | Consultant, Safety Partners |
Lamyaa Shaban | 2019 | Fellow, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health |
Kristin Kotewicz | 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard/MGH |
Anne Weeks | 2018 | Law Student, Boston University |
Sarah Jung | 2017 | Scientific Director, Clinical Microbiology, Colorado Children's Hospital |
Laurice Flowers | 2017 | Medical & Public Health Microbiology Fellow, Indiana U School of Medicine |
Heidi Burke | 2017 | Scientist II, Affinivax |
Zachary Williams | 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College |
Minmin Yen | 2017 | Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, PhagePro |
Eleanor Fleming | 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard |
Erin Green | 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt |
Seblewongel Asrat | 2015 | Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals |
Neeru Bhardwaj | 2015 | Director, Biopharma, Foundation Medicine |
Neil Greene | 2015 | Clinical Assistant Professor, Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island |
Andrew Hempstead | 2015 | Team Lead, Scientific Support Addgene |
Jennifer Hogan | 2015 | At home |
Julia Keith | 2015 | Business Development Manager, Jounce Therapeutics |
Brian Klein | 2015 | Co-founder & CEO, BrickBuilt Therapeutics |
Stephanie Mitchell | 2015 | Director, Medical Affairs, Cepheid |
Rebecca Walsh | 2015 | Freelance Science Writer |
Evan Bradley | 2014 | MD/PhD, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Division of Medical Toxicology, U Massachusetts Medical School |
Dennise de Jesús-Diaz | 2014 | Chief Operations Officer, Remedy Plan Therapeutics |
EmilyKate McDonough | 2014 | Project Manager, TUSM |
Jared Pitts | 2014 | Senior Research Scientist, Respiratory & Emerging Viruses, Gilead |
Arpana Sood | 2014 | Senior Manager, Scientific Communications, Medical Affairs, Alkermes |
Faith Wallace-Gadsden | 2014 | Managing Director, Archimedes Project |
Tayla Davis | 2013 | Instructor, Gifted LearningLinks, Northwestern University |
Jessica Silverman | 2013 | Founder & Principal Consultant, Amplify STEM Consulting |
Whitney Amyot Viana | 2012 | Partner, Putnam Associates |
Dana Harmon | 2012 | Lecturer, California State U - Northridge |
Jessica Pierce | 2012 | Associate Director, Preclinical Pharmacology, Paratek Pharmaceuticals |
Pubali Banerjee | 2011 | Senior Associate Scientist, Biogen |
Debaditya Bhattacharya | 2011 | Director, Technical Operations, CRISPR Therapeutics |
Enrique Durand | 2011 | Biology Teacher, Snowdon International School |
Jamie Henzy | 2011 | Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University |
Monica Hui | 2011 | At home |
Brian Meehan | 2011 | Head, Microbiology, Pareto Bio |
Robbie Narang | 2011 | Chief Operating Officer, OccamzRazor |
Kieran Pechter | 2011 | Genomics Analyst Core Supervisor, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Katherine Price | 2011 | Instructor, Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Science Educator, Montshire Museum of Science |
Julia Halo | 2011 | Assistant Professor, Biology, Bowling Green State U |
Styliani (Stella) Antonara | 2010 | Medical Director, Microbiology, OhioHealth System Laboratory Services |
Hector Martinez-Wilson | 2010 | MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Duke U School of Medicine |
Sina Mohammedi | 2010 | Associate Principal Scientist, Merck Exploratory Science Center |
Eric Nelson | 2010 | MD, PhD, Asst Professor, Pediatrics, Member, Emerging Pathogens Institute, U Florida |
Paola Zucchi | 2010 | Research Associate, TUSM |
2000 - 2009
Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
Lori Bourassa | 2009 | Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine; Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology, U Washington |
Mingyu Liu | 2009 | Senior Scientist, Roche Molecular Systems |
Charlotte Majerczyk | 2009 | Medical Project Manager, Cello Health Communications |
Deborah McGhee Breiner | 2009 | MS, Lab Manager, Cambridge U, UK |
Timothy Montminy | 2009 | Senior Lecturer, Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire |
Jason Pratt | 2009 | General Manager & Site Head, Curia |
Michael Fisher | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Biology, Southern Connecticut State College |
Julianna Lemieux | 2008 | Senior Science Writer, Genetics Engineering & Biotechnology News |
Vicki Losick | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Biology, Boston College |
Melisa Medrano | 2008 | Associate Director, Talent Acquisition, Sonoma Biotherapeutics |
Meghna Mittal | 2008 | At home |
Diem Nguyen | 2008 | MS, Project Coordinator, U Uppsala, Sweden |
Jared Nordman | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt U |
Warangkhana Songsungthong | 2008 | Scientist, National Ctr for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Thailand |
Anuradha Villapakkam | 2008 | Director, Professional Development, SuccessFactors Institute |
Chae-ryun Yi | 2008 | General Dentist, FCI Dental Care |
Christopher Brigham | 2007 | Associate Professor, Wentworth Instittute of Technology |
Mara Gladstone Holinger | 2007 | Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Veristat |
Zhiru Li | 2007 | Research Scientist, New England Biolabs |
Joeli Marrero | 2007 | Freelance Science Writer |
Melissa McCoy | 2007 | Law Student, University of Denver |
Daniel Negusse | 2007 | Pharmacist, Walgreens |
Joan Miquel Balada-Llasat | 2006 | Associate Professor, Pathology, Ohio State U |
Lian-Ee Ch'ng | 2006 | Laboratory Manager, MIT |
Grace Leung | 2006 | Catalyst, MIT, Office of Strategic Alliances & Technology Transfer |
Lauren Logsdon | 2006 | Assistant Professor, Biology, U Tampa |
Miriam Quinones | 2006 | Science Support Section Head, NIAID |
Alisa Serio | 2006 | Senior Director, Clinical Microbiology, Paratek Pharmaceuticals |
Ka-Wing Wong | 2006 | Principal Investigator, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center |
Susan Butler-Wu | 2005 | Associate Professor, Clinical Microbiology, U Southern California |
Cromwell Cornillez-Ty | 2005 | Investment Advisor Representative, STEM Financial |
Robert Shivers | 2005 | Senior Director, Microbiology, T2 Systems |
Anna Tischler | 2005 | Associate Professor, Microbiology, U Minnesota |
Marcelo Vinces | 2005 | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biology, Northwestern University |
Anthony Baughn | 2004 | Associate Professor, Microbiology, U Minnesota |
John Beaber | 2004 | Protein Engineer, BigHat Biosciences |
Jeralyn Haraldson | 2004 | Director, Research Development, U Vermont |
Kathryn Huber | 2004 | MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Tufts U School of Medicine |
Rebecca Kamieniecki | 2004 | At home |
Brendan O'Malley | 2004 | Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Abeona Therapeutics |
Shuji Sato | 2004 | Associate Director, Antibody Discovery, Dragonfly Therapeutics |
Christopher Tipper | 2004 | Vice President, Discovery, Affinia Therapeutics |
Michael Angelichio | 2003 | Research Scientist II, IDEXX |
Gloria Conover | 2003 | Instructional Assistant Professor, Texas A&M U |
David Hava | 2003 | Chief Scientific Officer, Synlogic |
Robert Shanks | 2003 | Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, U Pittsburgh |
Yanfen Guan | 2002 | MS, Principal Scientist, Merck |
Benedict Kemp | 2002 | Instructor & Associate Diector of Retention, Marquette U |
Regina Park | 2002 | Unavailable |
Swee Kee Wong | 2002 | Unavailable |
Stefan Gross | 2001 | Senior Director, Biochemistry & Enzymology, Agios Pharmaceuticals |
Sang Ho Lee | 2001 | Director of Biology, Prokaryotics, |
Manoja Lecamwasam | 2001 | System Vice President, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences and Device Strategic Innovation, CommonSpirit Health |
D Scott Merrell | 2001 | Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Uniformed Services U of the Health Sciences |
Carl Reid | 2001 | High School Science Teacher, Boston Public Schools |
Michael Alrutz | 2000 | Senior VP & General Counsel, Chimerix, Inc |
Ashita Doshi | 2000 | IP Counsel Leader for IP Disputes, Thermo Fisher Scientific |
Nishita Doshi | 2000 | IP Counsel, Life Technologies |
Li Gong | 2000 | Senior Curator, PharmGKB |
Gideon Scott Gordon | 2000 | Senior Health Informatics Officer, FDA |
Elizabeth Joyce | 2000 | Associate Adjunct Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, U California - San Francisco |
Jonathan Schimmel | 2000 | VP, Global Support & Sales Operations, 10x Genomics |
Yixin Tang | 2000 | Co-Founder & Partner, Upadhye Tang, LLP |
David Warren | 2000 | At home |
Haobo Zhou | 2000 | Physician, Nephrology, Kaiser Permanente |
1990 - 1999
Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
Helene Andrews-Polymenis | 1999 | Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Texas A&M U |
Jonathan Aschoff | 1999 | Managing Director Biotechnology Equity Analyst, Roth Capital Partners |
Joanne Barnes Weidhaas | 1999 | MD, PhD, Professor & Director, Division of Molecular & Cellular Oncology, UCLA |
Rebecca Boumil | 1999 | Associate Study Director, The Jackson Laboratory |
John Strasswimmer | 1999 | MD, PhD, Private Practice, Dermatology, Delray Beach, FL |
Kerry Swift | 1999 | MS, Technology Licensing Officer, U Vermont |
Yihui Elina Tang | 1999 | MS, Assistant Professor, Marketing, Illinois State U |
Jean Jing Zhao | 1999 | Professor, Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School |
Douglas Brown | 1998 | Dean, Science & Math, Massasoit Community College |
Heather Cook | 1998 | Associate Professor, Biological Science, Wagner College |
Welkin Johnson | 1998 | Professor & Chair, Biology, Boston College |
Eric Krukonis | 1998 | Associate Professor, Biomedical & Diagnostic Sciences, U Detroit Mercy |
Ruchi Newman | 1998 | Principal Scientist II, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research |
Glen Raffel | 1998 | MD, PhD, Vice President, Clinical Research & Development, Vor BioPharma |
Carol Bascom-Slack | 1997 | Research Asst Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine |
Amy Youxu Yang | 1997 | Health Scientist/Scientific Program Officer, CDC |
Martha Grossel | 1996 | Professor, Biology, Connecticut College |
Swati Patankar | 1996 | Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology |
Igor Slobodkin | 1996 | Deceased |
Sorab Dalal | 1995 | Principal Investigator, ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre |
Simon Dillon | 1995 | Director, Proteomics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Ole Gjoerup | 1995 | Senior Writer, Scientific & Medical Publications, Foundation Medicine |
Veronica Godoy-Carter | 1995 | Associate Professor, Biology, Northeastern U |
Shenfang Jin | 1995 | Vice President, Head of Discovery Biology, Editas Medicine |
Susannah Rankin | 1995 | Principal Investigator, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation |
Lyle Ross | 1995 | VP, Information Technology, New Life Era Insurance |
Anne Skvorak Giersch | 1995 | Assistant Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School |
Karen Berger | 1994 | RN, Department of Care Coordination, San Francisco General Hospital |
Gerald Marsischky | 1994 | Independent Consultant |
Cynthia Murphy Grondin | 1994 | Biocurator, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, North Caroline State U |
Michele Shuster | 1994 | Professor, New Mexico State U |
Elizabeth Szechenyi Withers-Ward | 1994 | Writer & Editor, AlphaHelix |
Shilpi Banerjee | 1993 | Deputy General Counsel, Nationwide Children's Hospital |
Stuart Brown | 1993 | Unavailable |
Jie Chen | 1993 | Unavailable |
Leisa Pangier Heineman | 1993 | MS, Veterinary Surgeon |
Frank Slack | 1993 | Professor, Pathology Harvard Medical School |
Sung Ok Yoon | 1993 | Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State U |
Marina Dembinska | 1992 | MS, International Project Manager, Clinical Operations, Institut de Recherche Internationale Servier, France |
Cathy Wensley | 1992 | Elementary School Teacher |
Jenifer Coburn | 1991 | Professor, Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin |
Peggy Hopper | 1991 | Unavailable |
Solomon Langerman | 1991 | Chief Scientific Officer, NextCure |
Amanda Swain | 1991 | Team Leader, Institute for Cancer Research, Mill Hill |
Frederick Whipple | 1991 | Principal, New Biology Resources |
Elaine Buchert Sale | 1990 | Senior Corporate Counsel, Nuventra |
Alan Engelman | 1990 | Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
Steven Hecht | 1990 | Deceased |
Fariba Houman | 1990 | Research Compliance Officer, Children's Hospital, Boston |
Young Lee | 1990 | Lecturer, Yonsei U |
Eric Rubin | 1990 | MD, PhD, Professor, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health |
Peter Rahaim | 1990 | Independent Education Management Consultant |
1980 - 1989
Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
Dian Bohannon | 1989 | At home |
Subramony Mahadevan | 1989 | Professor, Molecular Reproduction, Development & Genetics, Indian Institute of Science |
Constantinos (Kostas) Mathiopoulos | 1989 | Professor, Molecular Biology U Thessaly, Greece |
Sing Rong | 1989 | Research Director, Zoetis |
Chu-Chih Shih | 1989 | Unavailable |
Robert Huebner | 1988 | Acting Chief Scientific Officer, Anti-Infectives, Sonnet BioTherapeutics |
Julie Bernstein | 1986 | Unavailable |
Steven Herman | 1986 | Consultant, Molecular Diagnostics, Steven Herman Consulting |
Charles Hoffman | 1986 | Professor, Biology, Boston College |
Jeffrey Miller | 1986 | Professor & Chair, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA |
Pamela Norton | 1986 | Assoc Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Drexel U College of Medicine |
Robert Braun | 1985 | Senior Scientific Advisor to the President, Professor of Human Genetics, The Jackson Laboratory |
Caroline Donnelly | 1985 | At home |
Michael O'Connor | 1985 | Professor & Chair, Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, U Minnesota |
Brion Mermer | 1984 | Senior Scientist, Alere |
Mark Rosenkrantz | 1984 | Senior Programmer & Analyst, Magellan Health |
Susan Voynow | 1984 | Senior Executive Coach, Terry Hildebrant, Inc |
Ann Reynolds | 1983 | Shared Resources Manager, Library, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |
Kathleen Conklin | 1982 | Assoc Professor, Genetics, U Minnesota |
Jeffrey Felton | 1981 | Professor emeritus, Microbiology, Western U of Health Sciences |
William Hendrickson | 1981 | Assoc Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, U Illinois-Chicago (retired) |
John Kilbane | 1981 | Professor, Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology |
Donald Oliver | 1980 | Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Wesleyan U |
Nancy Schaus | 1980 | Scientist, Eli Lily, Retired |
1965 - 1979
Trainee | Year | Current or Last Known Position |
Arthur Donohue-Rolfe | 1979 | Assoc Professor & Chair Emeritus, Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Veterinary School |
Susan Ely | 1978 | Asst Dean of Admissions, Student Affairs & Outreach, Cal State Northridge |
Susan Fisher | 1978 | Professor, Microbiology, Boston U School of Medicine |
Barbara Young Bram | 1977 | Retired |
Marcia Osburne | 1977 | Senior Research Associate, TUSM |
David Rothstein | 1977 | Biotechnology Consultant, Daniel Rothstein Consulting, LLC |
Suzy Torti | 1977 | Professor, Molecular Microbiology, U Connecticut Health Science Center |
Daphne Blumberg | 1976 | Assoc Professor, Biological Sciences, U Maryland - Baltimore County |
Michael McConnell | 1976 | Professor Emeritus, Biology, Point Loma Nazarene U |
Gail Willsky | 1976 | Assoc Professor, Biochemistry, State U NY - Buffalo |
Barbara Beck | 1975 | Principal, Gradient Corp |
Patricia McDaniels | 1975 | MS, Senior Counsel, BASF |
Lynn Silver | 1975 | Owner, LL Silver Consulting |
Judith Silverstein | 1975 | Life Coach, State of Mind Products & Clinical Psychologist |
Charles Van Beveren | 1974 | QA Regulatory Affairs Manager, Ajinomoto Althea |
Robert Bennett | 1972 | Unavailable |
Trudy Morrison | 1972 | Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, UMass Medical School |
Miriam Susskind | 1972 | Professor, Biological Sciences, U Southern California |
Elizabeth Green Sah | 1971 | American Representative, BiotechEast |
Maxine Linial | 1970 | Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |
Ramamirtha Jayaraman | 1970 | Professor, Molecular Biology, Madurai Kamaraj U, India, Retired |
Howard Singer | 1970 | Professor, Biology, NJ City U |
Allen Wais | 1970 | Senior Lecturer, Basic Medical Sciences, U West Indies |
Janet Thorndike | 1969 | Retired |
William Kelley | 1968 | Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Retired |
Teresa Wu | 1968 | Medical Office, Division of Antiviral Products, FDA, Retired |
David Trilling | 1967 | Unavailable |