Alumni
Graduate Students - Ph.D.
Robert Bruckner
Ph.D. 1987
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Ph.D. 1987
Program Director, Allied Health Transfer, Manor College, Jenkintown, PA
Ph.D. 1987
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Ph.D. 1988
Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, East Lansing, MI 48824
Leslie Meyer-Leon
Ph.D. 1989
President, IP Legal Strategies Group P.C., Centerville, MA
Ph.D. 1989
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Scott Umlauf
Ph.D. 1990
Director Immunology and Analytical Testing, VaxInnate Corporation
Jongwon Lee
Ph.D. 1990
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, Republic of Korea
Wendy Bedale
Ph.D. 1992
Science Writer, Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Li-chun Huang
Ph.D. 1992
Experienced Group Leader, Project Director and Bioassay Scientist, Genentech, San Francisco Bay Area
Sarita Jain
Ph.D. 1994
Sr. Director, Business Development, XenoPort Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Ph.D. 1995
President, Certified GeneTool, Inc, Pleasanton CA
Ph.D. 1995
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA
Kerry MacFarland
Ph.D. 1996
Professor, Colorado State University, Department of Chemistry, Fort Collins, CO
Paul Marrione
Ph.D. 1996
Consultant, Development Quality Engineer, Exact Sciences Middleton, WI
Ph.D. 1996
Richard Q. Shan, Owner, Quintarabio, Albany, CA
Quintarabio.com
richard.shan@quintarabio.com
Richard.Shan@gmail.com
Ph.D. 1997
Executive Director, DiverseScholar, Founder and Editor of MinorityPostdoc.org
Leslie Waite
Ph.D. 1997
Senior Clinical Trainer, Genentech, USA, San Francisco Bay Area
Brian Webb
Ph.D. 1997
R&D Platform Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rockford, IL and
Adjunct Instructor, Molecular Biology, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Rockford, IL
Julie (Bork) Schultz
Ph.D. 1998
Research Professional, DHHS/NIH/NIDCD/DIR/LMG/SHG
Ph.D. 1998
Registered Patent Agent, Casimir Jones, S.C., Middleton, WI
Ph.D. 2000
Associate Professor, Colby College, Department of Chemistry, Waterville, ME
Ph.D. 2001
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Ph.D. 2002
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Program Villanova University , Villanova, PA
Mara-Eliza Robu
Ph.D. 2002
Instructor, Biological Sciences, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
Ph.D. 2006
President & CEO at Center for Genomic Interpretation, Salt Lake City, UT
Ph.D. 2006
Scientific Director of Chemistry, Kaiser Permanente, Regional Laboratory, San Francisco Bay Area
Michael Hobbs
Ph.D. 2006
Senior Operational Excellence Manager, Illumina, Madison, WI
Ph.D. 2007
Patent Agent, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Madison, WI
Ph.D. 2007
Associate Director, Content Strategy and Outcomes, The Endocrine Society, Washington, DC
Rachel Britt
Ph.D. 2010
Health Specialist, NIH, Washington, DC
Ph.D. 2010
Associate Director, Data Management Program, UC Davis Library, Davis, CA
Marielle Eichhorn-Gruenig
Ph.D. 2010
Study Director/Lab Head, Synlab Pharma Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Audrey Klingele
Ph.D. 2011
Senior Scientist, Proteovista, LLC, Madison, WI
Asher Page
Ph.D. 2012
Life Sciences Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting, Boston, MA
Khanh Ngo
Ph.D. 2012
Scientist, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Rose (Byrne) Nash
Ph.D. 2013
Scientist, InDevR, Inc., Boulder, CO
Ph.D. 2014
Scientist, PreventionGenetics, Marshfield, WI
TaeJin Kim
Ph.D. 2015
Scientist, Provivo, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Erin Ronayne
Ph.D. 2015
Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Carlsbad, CA
Postdoctoral Fellows
Sandra Neuendorf
1983-1985
Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Department of Chemistry, Oshkosh, WI 54901
Cynthia Gates
1986-1988
Regulatory Medical Writer, Biotechnology Greater, Boston Area
1987-1988
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, Eberly College of Science, University Park, PA
Jong-Il Kim
1985-1993
Professor, Seoul Woman's University, Department of Applied Microbiology, Seoul, Korea
Sergei Saveliev
1992-2004
R&D Project Leader, Promega Corporation, Madison, WI
1993-1994
Professor, Structural Chemistry lab, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Jong-Moon Kim
1999-2002
Nami Haruta
2002-2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Genome Dynamics Group, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Dmitry Baytin
2005-2007
Molecular Genetics Lab, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188300 Russia
Akiko Sakai
2007-2009
Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan
Cedric Norais
2008-2011
Business Development Manager, Enzo Life Sciences, Lyon, France
Stefanie Chen
2012-2016
Teaching Postdoctoral Associate Biotechnology Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Undergraduates
Michael J. Modica
Graduated 2002
Diagnostic Radiology Specialist, Boise, ID
April Jean Schumacher
Graduated 2003
Senior Quality Molecular Biologist at 3M, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jeffrey John Shaw
Graduated 2003
Senior Research Scientist, Promega Madison, WI
Hamza Guend
Graduated 2004
MD, Department of Surgery, St. Luke’s, Roosevelt Hospital Center
Lena Ho
Graduated 2004
Research Fellow, Bruno Reversade Lab, Institute of Medical Biology, A*Star, Singapore
Hyunji Ryu
Graduated 2004
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Simona Rosu
Graduated 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH
Michael Ross Goodman
Graduated 2006
Validating Specialist, Scientific Protein Laboratories (SPL), B.S., M.S.
Meng Kwang Marcus Tan
Graduated 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
Graduated 2007
M.D., Ph.D., Internal Medicine Resident, Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Michael William Ahn
Graduated 2007
DDS, Dentist, Woodbury, MN
Li Hao
Graduated 2008
Graduate Student, Matthew Bogyo lab, Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael Christopher Popelars
Graduated 2008
DMD, Dentist, MAC Dental, Green Bay, WI
Jae Eun Lee
Graduated 2009
Katie Lynn Scarpace Schroeder
Graduated 2009
UW-Madison School of Pharmacy Community Pharmacy Residency Program, Two Rivers, WI
Sarit Aimee Klugman
Graduated 2009
Project Manager, Pharma Services, NeoGenomics Laboratories, Aliso Viejo, CA
Lindsay L. Hamilton
Graduated 2009
Working on Masters in Nursing to be Nurse Practitioner Spring 2014. Wheaton Franciscan St. Joseph Hospital, Milwaukee, WI
Lukas Blackford Bane
Graduated 2010
Graduate Student, Rachelle Gaudet Lab, Harvard University
Joseph Piechura
Graduated 2011
Graduate Student, Erin O’Shea Lab, Harvard University
Ricardo Reyes
Graduated 2011
Senior Business Account Executive, Cox Communications, San Diego, CA
Sang Joon (Michael) Won
Graduated 2012
Graduate Student, Brent Martin lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Chemical Biology PhD Program (Started Fall 2013)
Lauren Buckley
Graduated 2012
Founder, LBWell, Milwaukee, WI
Allison Maytag
Graduated 2012
MPH Candidate in Community and Behavioral Health at Colorado School of Public Health
SungHyu Koo
Graduated 2012
Graduate Student, University of Utah at Salt Lake City
Eileen Molzberger
Graduated 2012
Grad Student, Dennis Theile’s lab, Duke University Fall 2013
Xue (Summer) Xia
Graduated 2013
Left Cox lab Fall 2012. As of 2014, Graduate Student, Fengyi Wan, Johns Hopkins University
Mengyuan (Mandy) Zhou
Graduated 2013
Left Cox lab Fall 2012. Graduate Student, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Paul Iglar
Graduated 2013
Pursuing Masters Public Health at UW-Madison. As of October 2013, Lab Assistant, Kendrick Labs, Madison, WI
Tayla Olsen
Graduated 2014
Research Scientist, Andrew Oberst Lab, University of Washington, Department of Immunology
Karina Herlambang
Graduated 2014
Graduate student, Brandeis University,
Biochemistry, Waltham, MA
Staci Baker
Graduated 2015
Student UW-Madison, School of Pharmacy (Transferred Fall 2013 from Biochemistry)
Rachel Dvorak
Graduated 2015
M.D. Ph.D. Student, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Nicole Romero
Graduated 2015
Working Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Americorps Member, City Year, Boston, then applying for Med School
Mary Menhart
Graduated 2016
Yui Chun (Serena) Wan
Graduated 2016
Quality Control Analyst/Research Associate 1, Illumina, Inc., Madison WI
Bowon Joung
Graduated 2016
Will work in Cox lab until Fall 2016
Matthew Ritger Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), University of Virginia
Graduated 2017
Laura Sowin Will take gap year in 2017 before applying for medical school in 2018
Graduated 2017
Hannah Robiolio
Graduated 2017
Will take 1-2 years off before applying to med school. Will take a year or two to work full-time, gain more outside of class experience through volunteering in clinics, job shadowing, and translating for Hispanic patients.
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