Rice Institute for Biomedical Research
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Northwestern University
Undergraduate Students
Catherine Airey (NU 1995)
ctairey@yahoo.com
Sungeeta Agrawal (NU 2006), MD (Yale)
Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Keith Alperin (NU 1996)
Founder and App Developer at Helium Foot Software
Chicago, IL 60640
Tel: 773-293-4738
keith@alperin.org
Faysal Altahawi (NU 2007), MD (Case Western Reserve University)
Musculoskeletal Radiologist at Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Mitchell Bekritsky (NU 2008), PhD (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
Illumina
San Diego, California
mitchell.bekritsky@gmail.com
Timothy Bhattacharyya (NU 1994), MD (Washington University St. Louis)
Orthopaedic Surgeon and Researcher
Head, Orthopedics Research, Clinical and Investigative Orthopedics Surgery Unit
National Institutes of Health & Orthopaedic Surgeon
Bethesda, Maryland
Ken Cadwell (NU 2001), PhD (University of California at Berkeley)
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Professor, Department of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
430 East 29th Street, Room 409
New York, New York
Tel: 212-263-8891
Ken.Cadwell@nyulangone.org
Alejandro “Alex” Carrillo (NU 1989), PhD
Associate Director
Scientific Relations at Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories
Dept 058A, Bld AP8B
100 Abbott Park Road
Abbott Park, IL 60064-6014
Tel: 847- 937-3179
Alex.Carrillo@abbott.com
Alejandro (Alex) Chavez (NU 2004), MD/PhD (University of Pennsylvania – School of Medicine)
Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Columbia University
630 West 168th Street, Mailbox 23
New York, NY 10032
Email: ac4304@cumc.columbia.edu
https://www.pathology.columbia.edu/profile/alejandro-chavez-md
Huira C. (Chong) Kopera (NU 1999) Ph.D (University of Michigan)
Research Investigator
University of Michigan Vector Core
1150 West Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan
tel: 734- 647-1351
chongh@umich.edu
Ravi Chopra (NU 2011), MD/PhD (University of Michigan)
Resident
Department of Neurology
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
Christopher Chu (NU 2004) MD (University of Southern California – LAC/USC Medical Center)
Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine
Los Angelas, CA
c-chu1@md.northwestern.edu
Yu Shan Chuang (NU 1999), JD (Santa Clara University School of Law)
Senior Product Designer, Apple
Principal and Founder, Coral Design LLC
Sunnyvale, California
yushan_C@hotmail.com
Carrie Clendaniel (NU 2008), MSc (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Preserve Manager
The Jefferson Land Trust
1033 Lawrence Street
Port Townsend, Washington
Tyler Cornelius (NU 2007), MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Musculoskeletal and Body Imaging
Central Illinois Radiological Associates, LTD.
Kira Cozzolino (NU 2015), PhD Candidate (Univ. Colorado-Boulder)
Graduate Student
William Old Laboratory
Department of Molcular and Cellular Developmental Biology
University of Colorado-Boulder
Kira.Cozzolino@Colorado.edu
Wenli Dai (NU 2015), MD/PhD candidate (University of Chicago)
The Biophysical Sciences Department
PhD: Laboratories of Pancho Bezanilla and Christopher Weber
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
wenlid@uchicago.edu
Dina Dadabhoy (NU 1996), MD (Northwestern University)
Rheumatology Specialist
Advocate Health Care
Fox River Grove, Illinois
Dara Dowlatshahi (NU 2006), PhD (Stanford University)
Research Scientist (Raghu Kalluri Laboratory)
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
darapd@stanford.edu
Kelsie Eichel (NU 2010), PhD (UCSF)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mark von Zastrow’s laboratory
Stanford University
San Francisco, California
David Engman (NU 1983), MD, PhD
Chair Emeritus
Department of Pathology
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
dme953@gmail.com
Matt Fishman (NU 2008), MD (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)
Resident in Anesthesiology
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, New Jersey
Eirene Fithian (NU 2022)
Research Assistant
Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research (CFAAR)
Chicago, IL
Ashley Goodman (NU 2009)
Benjamin Harris (NU 2010)
Interim Manager, Accountable Care Collaborative
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing
Denver, Colorado
Trevor Hintz (NU 2023)
Chicago, IL
Kim Hung Ho Liss, MD (NU 2008), MD (Northwestern University)
Instructor, Pediatrics
Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Sean Jabbar (NU 2003), PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Senior Development Scientist
Anthony Karnezis (NU 1989), MD (Northwestern University), PhD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University)
Associate Professor
UC Davis Medical Center
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sacramento, California
ankarnezis@ucdavis.edu
Tiara L. A. Kawahara Schiell (NU 2005), PhD (Stanford University)
Engagement Manager
Biopharma and Life Sciences
L.E.K. Consulting
Los Angeles, California
Kyoko Kohno (NU 2021)
Medical Student
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Aaron Kollasch (NU 2017), PhD Candidate (Harvard University)
Department of Systems Biology
Debora S. Marks Laboratory
Boston, Massachusetts
kollasch@g.harvard.edu
Paul Kotzbauer (NU 1989), MD, PhD (Washington University in St. Louis)
Associate Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid
St. Louis, Missouri
Tel: 314-362-7165
Betty Lee-Hoang (NU 1994), MD (Northwestern University)
Anesthesiologist at Northern California Anesthesia Physicians
Stephen Lin (NU 1998), PhD (Washington University in St. Louis)
Senior Science Officer
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Oakland, California
Jason Liu (NU 2006), PhD (University of California-Berkeley)
Scientist at Metagenomi
Emeryville, California
Lily Liu (NU 2022)
Parul Matani (NU 1996), PhD (Yale)
Teacher
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
Cambridge, MA
parul.matani@gmail.com
Marissa Matsumoto (NU 2000), PhD (MIT)
Senior Scientist and Group Leader
Genentech, Structural Biology
San Mateo, California
Jason Merchant (NU 2001), MD (University of Hawaii)
Diagnostic Radiology Specialist
Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center
Oahu and Hawaii Island, Hawaii
jcm306@hotmail.com
Laura Mitic (NU 1995), PhD (Yale)
Chief Scientific Officer, Bluefield Project to Cure FTD
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Memory and Aging Center
San Francisco, California
Tel: 415 514-8043
Laura.Mitic@ucsf.edu
Claire Morton (NU 2022)
Research Assistant
Feinberg, Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Mujtaba Najeed (NU 2023)
Bennett Penn (NU 1997), MD, PhD (University of Washington-Seattle)
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases,
Department of Medicine at UC Davis
Tel: 503-754-6604
Davis, California
Grace Phelps (NU 2016), PhD Candidate (MIT)
Graduate student, Jacqueline Lees Laboratory
Department of Biology
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
500 Main Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lalith Polepeddi (NU 2010), MS (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Research Scientist
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia
Robert “Bobby” Porter (NU 2012), MD/PhD candidate (University of Michigan Medical School)
Genetics and Genomics
PhD: Shigeki Iwase Laboratory
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan
rsporter@umich.edu
Saravanan ”Saran” Raju (NU 2011), Md/PhD (Washington University-St. Louis)
Maraika Robinson (NU 2015), MD candidate (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Medical Student
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Graham Ruby (NU 2001),PhD (MIT)
Principal Investigator
Calico
San Francisco, California
grahamruby@yahoo.com
Smitha Sarma (NU 2013), MD (Northwestern University)
Michael Schieber (NU 2008) MD/PhD (Northwestern University)
Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
m-schieber@fsm.northwestern.edu
Sara Schwabenbauer DiGiorgi (NU 1997), MD, FACOG (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
OB/GYN located in Fort Myers & Lehigh Acres, Florida
Josh Segal (NU 1999), DDS, MD (State University of NY-Stony Brook)
Assistant Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, New York
Rena Shah (NU 2003), MD (Northwestern University)
Oncology, Hematolgy Specialist
North Memorial Health Hospital
Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Charles Stark (NU 2022)
MD/PhD Candidate
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
and McCormick School of Engineering
Chicago, IL
Stephanie Tang (NU 2005), MD (Northwestern University))
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
1300 York Avenue
New York, New York
stephaniejtang@gmail.com
Happy D. Thakkar (NU 2008), MD, FACC (Duke University)
Cardiologist
UCLA Health
Los Angeles, California
Brandon Toyama (NU 2003), PhD (UCSF)
Senior Scientist
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Oncogenesis
San Diego, California
Jennifer Tsau (NU 2008), PhD (University of California-San Diego)
Senior Scientist
Navigate BioPharma Services, Inc.
San Diego, California
Christopher Warren (NU 2002), PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Chief Biotechnology Officer and Co-Founder
Proteovista LLC
Madison, Wisconsin
Jill Weyers (NU 2002), PhD (Johns Hopkins)
Research Associate
Drs. Graham Wright and Nilesh Ghugre
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Roger Wu (NU 2007)
Nicholas Xiao (NU 2013), MD (Northwestern University)
Resident
Department of Radiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
n-xiao@northwestern.edu
Doug Yamada (NU 2004), PhD (UCLA)
Senior Scientist
Immuno-Oncology Discovery Group
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Spring House, Pennsylvania
d-yamada@northwestern.edu
Dina J. Zand (NU 1991), MD (Northwestern University)
Clinical Geneticist
Silver Spring, Maryland
Cindy Zhou (NU 2023)
Evanston, IL