Current Doctoral Candidates and Post-Doctoral Fellows

Graduate Students

  • Tonya Aaron - MD/PhD Candidate
    BA (2013) Rollins College

  • Ranee Aflakpui - PhD Candidate
    MS (2017) University of Ghana

  • John Barbaro - MD/PhD Candidate
    BA (2016) Columbia University

  • Vanessa Chilunda - PhD Candidate
    BS (2017) St. Lawrence University

  • Samuel Dowling - PhD Candidate *
    BS (2013) Georgetown University

  • Zhixin Jing - PhD Candidate
    BS (2015), Sichuan University (China)

  • Huizhi (Elaine) Liang - PhD Candidate
    George Mason University (2015)

  • Aniella Murphy - PhD Candidate
    BS (2017) Florida Atlantic University

  • Khushbu Patel - PhD Candidate
    MS (2016) Long Island University

  • Sandra Pelka - MD/PhD Candidate
    BS Biomedical Engineering (2018), Rutgers University (New Brunswick)

  • Zuen Ren - PhD Candidate
    MD (2016) Capital University of Medical Sciences (China)

  • Cara Reynolds - PhD Candidate
    BA (2012) Rutgers University

  • Vanessa Ruiz - MD/PhD Candidate
    BS (2015), San Jose State University

  • Michelle Schumacher - PhD Candidate
    MS/BS (2018) Stevens Institute of Technology

  • Veronica Vecksler - PhD Candidate
    BS (2018), University of California Los Angeles

  • Justin Vercellino - PhD Candidate
    BS (2016) Montclair State University

  • Jessica Weiselberg - PhD Candidate
    BA Biology (2019), CUNY Hunter College

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

  • Pablo Martinez Aguado, PhD
    (2018) University of Seville (Spain)

  • Zachary Benet, PhD
    (2017) University of Michigan

  • Juwen Dubois, PhD
    (2015) University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

  • Aline Luciano Horta, PhD
    Parasitology and Immunology
    (2020) Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Brazil)

  • Samuel Martinez Meza, PhD
    (2019) University of Chile (Chile)

  • Nitisha Shrivastava, PhD
    (2017) University of Delhi & Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (India)