Philip Abbosh, MD, PhD
Currently:
Assistant Professor, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Temple Health
Class of 2006
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Novel Approaches to Treat Undifferentiated Thyroid Cancers"
Nicholas Berry, PhD
Currently:
Senior Oncology Medical Science Liaison at Exelixis
Class of 2008
Mentors: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Regulation of Estrogen Receptor Alpha Ubiquitination and Proteasome-mediated Receptor Degradation"
Justin Budka, PhD
Currently:
Research Scientist at Kite Pharma
Class of 2018
Mentor: Pete Hollenhorst
Dissertation: "Elucidating Oncogenic and Tumor Suppressive Functions of ETS Transcription Factors in Prostate Cancer"
Susan Kline Chang, PhD
Currently:
CEO, Susan Chang Consulting, LLC
Class of 2004
Mentor: Claire Walczak
Dissertation: "MCAK Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics and Organization of the Interphase Array and Mitotic Spindle and Kinetochore Attachments in Cells"
Ning Ding, PhD
Currently: Senior Advisor and Technical Lead at Eli Lilly
Class of 2018
Mentors: Heather O'Hagan
Dissertation: "Linking JAK2 kinase and mismatch repair proteins to oxidative damage-induced epigenetic alterations"
Ben Greulich, PhD
Currently: Assistant Professor, Mercer University
Class of 2022
Mentor: Pete Hollenhorst
Dissertation: Regulatory mechanisms of oncogenic ERG in prostate cancer.
Kathleen Hertzer, PhD
Currently:
Surgeon, Placerville, CA
Class of 2008
Mentor: Claire Walczak
Dissertation: "Mechanistic Analysis of the Microtubule Depolymerizing Kinesin MCAK"
Ben Koch, PhD
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Sainsbury Lab, Norwich UK
Class of 2024
Mentor: Roger Innes
Dissertation: "Diversity, biogenesis, and immune function of extracellular vesicles secreted by plants."
Xinghua Long, PhD
Currently:
Associate Professor
School of Biotechnology
Wuhan University
Class of 2008
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Role of Estrogen Receptor-alpha-interacting Cytokeratins and Antiestrogenic Activity of Fulvestrant"
Nicole Nickerson, PhD
Currently:
Project Director, Lonza, Portsmouth, NH
Class of 2012
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Transforming Growth Factor Beta Signaling in Growth of Estrogten-Insensitive Metastic Bone Lesions"
Sruthi Sriramkumar, PhD
Currently, Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Class of 2021
Mentor: Heather O'Hagan
Dissertation: "The role of platinum-mediated chromatin and metabolic alterations in ovarian cancer chemoresistance"
Jessica Tang, PhD
Currently:
Senior Scientist at Natera, Inc. San Francisco, CA
Class of 2018
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Epigentic targeting of Adipocytes Inhibits High-grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion"
Yinu Wang, PhD
Currently: Post-doctoral researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Class of 2016
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Epigenetic targeting of Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells"
Hsin-Jung Wu, PhD
Currently:
Scientist, Xilio Therapeutics, Inc.
Class of 2015
Mentor: John Foley
Dissertation: "Estrogen receptor alpha-mediated control of growth factor production from nipple fibroblasts"
Xingyue Zong, PhD
Currently:
Senior Scientist, Fate Therapeutics, San Deigo, CA
Class of 2020
Mentor: Ken Nephew
Dissertation: "Targeting DAB2IP in ovarian cancer stem cells"