Graduate Program in the Biomedical Sciences

Einstein PREP Alumni

Congratulations to the Einstein PREP alums who have completed their advanced degrees! 

Tangeria Adams, Ph.D.

Undergraduate: CUNY- Brooklyn College
Einstein PREP: 2014-2015
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Shadi Nahvi, Division of Substance Abuse 
Advanced Degree Completed: Ph.D. from University of Rochester 

Schnaude Dorizan, Ph.D.

Undergraduate: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Einstein PREP: 2013-2015
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Kamran Khodakhah, Department of Neuroscience
Advanced Degree Completed: Ph.D. from Northwestern University

Larizabeth Francisco Ph.D.

Undergraduate: CUNY- Lehman College
Einstein PREP: 2013-2014
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Arturo Casadevall, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Advanced Degree Completed: Ph.D. from New York University

Idaliz Martinez-Traverso, Ph.D.

Undergraduate: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Einstein PREP: 2013-2014
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. John Chan, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Advanced Degree Completed: Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine

Lexi Rene, Ph.D.

Undergraduate: CUNY- Brooklyn College
Einstein PREP: 2013-2014
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Mimi Kim, Department of Epidemiology
Advanced Degree Completed: PhD from Florida State University

 

Currently enrolled in advanced degree program

Abneil Alicea

Undergraduate: University of Delaware
Einstein PREP: 2021-2022
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Rudolph, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Thomas Jefferson University

Marianny Alvarado

Undergraduate: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Einstein PREP: 2022-2023
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Masako Suzuki, Department of Genetics
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Texas A&M University

John Alvarado-Torres

Undergraduate: University of Puerto Rico, Ponce
Einstein PREP: 2013-2014
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Steven Walkley, Department of Neuroscience  
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Ponce Health Sciences University 

Ifeoma Azinge

Undergraduate: University of Maryland- Baltimore County
Einstein PREP: 2021-2022
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Kamran Khodakhah, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Brown University

Umaru Barrie

Undergraduate: SUNY- University at Albany
Einstein PREP: 2014-2015
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Mahalia Desruisseaux, Department of Pathology
Current Position: MSTP Student, University of Texas- Southwestern Medical School

Carmen Nicole Beliz

Undergraduate: University of Miami
Einstein PREP: 2021-2022
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. William Jacobs, Jr., Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Current Position: M.D. Student, University of Miami

Nicolas Buitrago

Undergraduate: University of Texas, El Paso
Einstein PREP: 2020-2021
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Jean Hebert, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: PhD Student, Rice University

Maryann Castillo

Undergraduate: New Mexico State University
Einstein PREP: 2015-2017
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Pablo Castillo, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Texas-Houston

Veronica DeJesus

Undergraduate: Mount Holyoke College
Einstein PREP: 2017-2018
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Kartik Chandran, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Current Position: PhD Student, University of Leeds (UK)

Leandrew Dailey

Undergraduate: Fort Lewis College
Einstein PREP: 2018-2019
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Lai, Department of Biochemistry
Current Position: PhD Student, University of California, San Francisco

Aida Davila

Undergraduate: CUNY-Hunter College
Einstein PREP: 2016-2017
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Sophie Molholm, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Isabel Delwel

Undergraduate: University of North Texas
Einstein PREP: 2018-2019
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Kartik Chandran, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Current Position: PhD Student, Stanford University

Elena Dominguez

Undergraduate: CUNY-Brooklyn College
Einstein PREP: 2015-2016
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Jose Pena, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of California, Irvine

Manegbe Eben

Undergraduate: CUNY-City College of New York
Einstein PREP: 2021-2022
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Teresa Bowman, Department: Developmental & Microbiology
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Maria Feliz

Undergraduate: CUNY-Lehman College
Einstein PREP: 2019-2020
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Teresa Bowman, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Current Position: PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Michael Fishman

Undergraduate: University of Southern California
Einstein PREP: 2014-2015
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Lloyd Fricker, Department of Molecular Pharmacology  
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Sayra Garcia

Undergraduate: University of New Mexico
Einstein PREP: 2016-2018
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Chaim Putterman, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Current Position: PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Sara Gebre

Undergraduate: Haverford College
Einstein PREP: 2016-2017
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Vern Schramm, Department of Biochemistry
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Emory University

Floralba Gjergjova

Undergraduate: CUNY-John Jay College
Einstein PREP: 2020-2021
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Matthew Gamble, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Current Position: PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Nicholas Gomez

Undergraduate: University of Florida
Einstein PREP: 2020-2021
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
Current Position: PhD Student, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Erik Guillen

Undergraduate: Pomona College
Einstein PREP: 2019-2020
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Gregoire Lauvau, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Current Position: MD-PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Nayem Haque

Undergraduate: SUNY- University at Buffalo
Einstein PREP: 2020-2021
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Robert Coleman, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
Current Position: PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Kiarah Leonard

Undergraduate: Susquehanna University
Einstein PREP: 2022-2023
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Anita Autry, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Rutgers University

Yessenia Lopez

Undergraduate: CUNY-John Jay College
Einstein PREP: 2015-2017
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Teresa DiLorenzo, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Jose Lora

Undergraduate: Rhode Island College
Einstein PREP: 2014-2015
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Louis Weiss, Department of Pathology 
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Marcel Malena

Undergraduate: CUNY-City College of New York City
Einstein PREP: 2018-2019
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Libusha Kelly, Department of Systems and Computational Biology
Current Position: PhD Student, New York University

Brianna Manning

Undergraduate: University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Einstein PREP: 2020-2021
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. William Jacobs, Jr., Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Current Position: PhD Student, Harvard University

Maya Mason

Undergraduate: Virginia Commonwealth University
Einstein PREP: 2022-2023
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Lai, Department of Biochemistry
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Iowa

James Mungin

Undergraduate: Tuskegee University
Einstein PREP: 2014-2015
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Duncan Wilson, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology 
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Meharry Medical College

Beronica Ocasio

Undergraduate: University of Florida
Einstein PREP: 2017-2018
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. John Greally, Department of Genetics
Current Position: PhD. Student, University of Miami

Ariel Parker

Undergraduate: Swarthmore College
Einstein PREP: 2015-2016
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Julie Secombe, Department of Genetics
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Johns Hopkins University

Yoselin Paucar

Undergraduate: CUNY-John Jay College
Einstein PREP: 2019-2020
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Fernando Macian-Juan, Department of Pathology
Current Position: PhD Student, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Jeydy Perez

Undergraduate: CUNY-Brooklyn College
Einstein PREP: 2021-2022
Einstein PREP Mentor: Matthew Gamble, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Current Position: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kristie Oluyemi

Undergraduate: Pace University
Einstein PREP: 2020-2021
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Anita Autry, Department: Neuroscience
Current Position: PhD Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Laura Rodriguez

Undergraduate: University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Einstein PREP: 2022-2023
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Gregoire Lauvau, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Columbia University

Stephen Ruiz

Undergraduate: SUNY- Binghamton University
Einstein PREP: 2019-2020
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Britta Will, Department of Cell Biology
Current Position: PhD Student, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Morgan Smith

Undergraduate: Georgia State University
Einstein PREP: 2018-2019
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. John Chan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Current Position: PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh

Marisol Soula

Undergraduate: Florida International University
Einstein PREP: 2016-2017
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Pablo Castillo, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: MSTP Student, New York University

Jeury Veloz

Undergraduate: CUNY-City College of New York City
Einstein PREP: 2018-2019
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Fernando Macian-Juan, Department of Pathology
Current Position: PhD Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

D'Shaunique Walters

Undergraduate: University of the Virgin Islands
Einstein PREP: 2021-2022
Einstein PREP Mentor: Bernice Morrow, Department of Genetics
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

 

Employed in science careers

Cesar Diaz

Undergraduate: Boston University
Einstein PREP: 2020-2021
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Tiago Goncalves, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position: Research Associate, NYU Langone Health

Leslieann Diaz

Undergraduate: CUNY-Lehman College
Einstein PREP: 2019-2020
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Renata Batista-Brito, Department of Neuroscience

Krysten Garcia

Undergraduate: John Hopkins University
Einstein Entry: 2019-2020
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Anita Autry, Department of Neuroscience
Current Position:Research Associate, REACH Health Services

Ashaki Nehisi

Undergraduate: University of Maryland, Baltimore County 
Einstein PREP: 2014-2015
Einstein PREP Mentor: Dr. Sophie Molholm, Department of Neuroscience  
Current Position: Senior Analyst, Tru Consulting