2015
Yunjie Huang
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Kentucky Department of Biochemistry, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD Mentor: Sidney Whiteheart
Sarah Martin
ASBMB Science Policy Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
PhD Mentor: Natasha Kyprianou
Liuqing Yang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Johns Hopkins Department of Neuroscience, Baltimore, Maryland
PhD Mentor: Haining Zhu
2014
Hou-Fu Guo
Post-doctoral Fellow with Jonathan M. Kurie, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
PhD Mentor: Craig Vander Kooi
Kara Larson
R & D Scientist, Streck Laboratories, Omaha, Nebraska
PhD Mentor: Sabire Özcan
David Meekins
Post-doctoral Fellow with Kristin Michel, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
PhD Mentor: Matt Gentry
Matt Parker
Post-doctoral Fellow with James Berger, Program in Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
PhD Mentor: Craig Vander Kooi
Megan Phillips
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
PhD Mentor: Sam Turco
Thomas Platt
Pharmacy Student, School of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD Mentor: Paul Murphy
2013
Victoria Dunlap
Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
PhD Mentor: Trevor Creamer
Deepa Jonnalagadda
Post-doctoral Fellow, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
PhD Mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Brent Hackett
Post-doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Sara Cherry, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PhD Mentor: Rebecca Dutch
Jason Meyer
Medical Residency, University of California, San Francisco, California
PhD Mentor: Deneys Van Der Westhuyzen
Amanda Sherwood
Associate Scientist, Intrexon, Blacksburg, Virginia
PhD Mentor: Matt Gentry
Robin Webb
Post-doctoral Position, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
PhD Mentor: Paul Murphy
2012
Rania Al Hawas
Post-doctoral Fellow, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Andres Chang
Medical Residency, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Michael V. Fiandalo
Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Urologic Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
PhD mentor: Steven Schwarze
Christopher John Holler
Post-doctoral Fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
PhD mentor: Paul Murphy
Xiaoyan Liu
Associate Science Editor, Asian Journal of Andrology, Shanghai, China
PhD mentor: Haining Zhu
Jonathan Mark Wagner
Post-doctoral Scholar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
PhD mentor: David Rodgers
2011
Weikang Cai
Post-doctoral Fellow, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
PhD mentor: Douglas A. Andres
Lance Michael Hellman
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry & Biology, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana
PhD mentor: Mike Fried
Andreea Ivanovici Popa
Clinical Molecular Genetics Fellow, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Scott Richard Silva
M.D.-Ph.D., University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Mark Evers
Everett Clinton Smith
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Vanderbilt University
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Shaojing Ye
Post-doctoral Fellow, Saha Cardiovascular Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
2010
Jamie Elizabeth Lorene Cantrell
Post-doctoral Fellow, Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
PhD mentor: Sabire Özcan
Chunxia Zhao
Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego, California
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
2009
Perry Adam Christian
PhD mentor: Steven Schwarze
Megan Leigh Sampley
National Institute of Child Health & Development, Bethesda, Maryland
PhD mentor: Sabire Özcan
Chiranthani Sumanasekera
PhD mentor: Stefan Stamm
Adam M Weidner
Patent Examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA
(2010-2011) Adjunct Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Harry LeVine III
2008
Mary Allyn Bosserman
Allylix, Lexington, Kentucky
Von Allman Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Isaac Wong
Wangsun Choi
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Robert Nathan Correll
Research Fellow, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
PhD mentor: Douglas A. Andres
Jennifer Lynn Rudolph Crawford
Faculty, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia
Science Writer for the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
PhD mentor: Douglas A. Andres
Kathleen Marie Gibson
Major, United States Army
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Nicholas Noinaj
Faculty, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland
PhD mentor: David Rodgers
Steven Joseph Smith
HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
PhD mentor: Dan Noonan
Qiansheng Ren
Scientist in Protein Chemistry, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Science and Technology Company, Beijing, China
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Rachel Marie Schowalter
Scientist, Illumina, Dedham, Massachusetts
Post-doctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Richard Hay Singiser
Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciences, Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia
PhD mentor: Dan Noonan
Nathan Lane Vanderford
Deputy Director for Research, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Sabire Özcan
Yuqian Zhang
Faculty Member, China Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
PhD mentor: Kevin Sarge
2007
Garland Lee Crawford
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Sowmya Sampath
Postdoctoral Scholar, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
PhD mentor: David Rodgers
Shannon Dawn Whitman York
City of Houston Health Department, Houston, Texas
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
2006
James Richard Carter
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Global Health and Infectious Disease, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Willie Warren Craft, Jr.
Assistant Director of Hospital Medicine, Troy, Ohio
Resident, Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Amanda Elizabeth Gardner
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Cancer and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Jason Bradly Garrison
Postdoctoral Scholar, Burnham Institute, Orlando, Florida
PhD mentor: Natasha Kyprianou
Hanjun Guan
Research Associate, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Lou Hersh
Eun Jeong Lim
Postdoctoral Scholar, Korea Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
PhD mentor: David Rodgers
Cara Pager
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, SUNY, Albany, New York
Damon Runyon Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, California
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Jerry Morrison Troutman
Faculty, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina
PhD mentor: Pete Spielmann
Mark Allen Wurth
Fellow in Pediatric Pulmonology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Chief Resident, Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
Resident, Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Becky Dutch
Robert Brian York
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
PhD mentor: Dan Noonan
2005
Brian William Chellgren
Patent Attorney, Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, Louisville, Kentucky
University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Trevor Creamer
Shuangli Guo
PhD mentor: Guo-Min Li
Melissa Ann Senetar
Adjunct Faculty, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
AHA Post-doctoral Fellow
PhD mentor: Rick McCann
Jia Yao
PhD mentor: Lou Hersh
2004
Yiying Cai
Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
PhD mentor: Sam Turco
Richard J. Isaacs
PhD mentor:
Brett Rogers Johnson
PhD mentor: Mike Mendenhall & Ed Harlow
Ray Kallol
Scientist, Merck & Co., Boston, Massachusetts
PhD mentor:
Amber Lee Mosley
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Indiana University Medical School, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Post-doctoral Fellow, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
PhD mentor: Sabire Ozcan
Todd Daniel Schraw
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, New York
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Sivappiragasam Pakkiri
PhD mentor:
2003
Deborah Roberts Davis
PhD mentor: Sam Turco
Christina S. Hines
PhD mentor:
Richard Isaacs
PhD mentor:
Franco Fortunato
PhD mentor: Louis Hersh
Chad Adrian Haynes
PhD mentor:
Tara Winslow Rutledge
Instructor, Vance-Granville Community College, Louisburg, North Carolina
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
2002
Anuradha Guha-Niyogi
PhD mentor:
Eric John Lubert
Study Director/Program Manager, Battelle Inc., Columbus, Ohio
PhD mentor: Kevin Sarge
Atish Mukherjee
PhD mentor: Louis Hersh
Michael Lane Spencer
Research Scientist, Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Douglas A. Andres
2001
Kareem Abdel-Hassan Chehade
PhD mentor: Pete Spielmann
Jun-Tao Guo
PhD mentor: Mark Kindy
William R. Howard
Lieutenant Commander, USN, Department Head, Environmental Toxicology Naval Medical Research Unit, Dayton, Ohio
PhD mentor: Dan Noonan
2000
Haipeng Shao
Pathologist, H. Lee Mofit Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital, Tampa, Florida
PhD mentor: Douglas A. Andres
Michael Thompson
PhD mentor: Louis Hersh
Jianming Yin
PhD mentor:
Xiao Jie Yuan
Senior Scientist, Fields Application Specialist, Pacific Biosciences Inc., Menlo Park, California
PhD mentor: Dan Noonan
1999
Mohammed Saud Alanazi
PhD mentor: Tom Vanaman & Isabel Mellon
Audrey Bernstein
Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, New York
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Ashley Elizabeth Bray
PhD mentor: Sam Turco
Dong Chen
Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine/Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
Brian Scott Finlin
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Barnstable Brown Obesity and Diabetes Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Douglas A. Andres
Michael Goodson
Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, California
PhD mentor: Kevin Sarge
Kenneth William Henry
Manager, Assay Development, Sequenom, Inc., San Diego, California
PhD mentor: Dan Noonan
Paula Preusz Lemons
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
PhD mentor: Wally Whiteheart
1997
Dequin Ma
PhD mentor:
Matthew Atkerson Nicholls
PhD mentor: Malcom Avison
Afshin Safavi
PhD mentor: Lou Hersh
1995
Cancan Huang
PhD mentor: Sam Turco
Donna Tallon Isbell
PhD mentor: Tom Vanaman
Titania Tjandrawati Nugroho
Professor, University of Riau, Indonesia
PhD mentor: Mike Mendenhall
Matthew Francis Taylor
PhD mentor: Delwood Collins
1993
David Wayne Frank
PhD mentor: Charles Waechter
Debra June Gunnersen
PhD mentor: Boyd Haley
Michael Comer Olcott
PhD mentor:
Banumathi Sankaran
PhD mentor: Boyd Haley
Michael Todd Shoemaker
PhD mentor: Boyd Haley
1992
Susan J. Jamison
PhD mentor: John Glenney Jr.
Peter David Reisner
PhD mentor: Tom Vanaman
Riqiang Yan
PhD mentor: Robert Rhoads
1991
Susan Renee Campbell
PhD mentor: Boyd Haley
Mary Alice Carver
PhD mentor: Sam Turco
Lori Dwyer-Neild
PhD mentor: Tom Vanaman
Swati Joshibarve
PhD mentor: Robert Rhoads
Kenneth Donald Greis
Associate Professor, Department of Cancer & Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
PhD mentor: Sam Turco
Jeffrey A. Medin
PhD mentor: Mary Sue Coleman
Jean Helen Overmeyer
Research Associate Professor, College of Medicine, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
PhD mentor: Charles Waechter
Jana Lee Patton
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
Carrie Winifred Rinker
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PhD mentor: Robert Rhoads
1990
Gregory Neal Barnes
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee (2005-present)
Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology / Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry / Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky (2001-2004)
Epilepsy Research Fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (1997 2000)
Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (1994-1997)
Intern & Resident in Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri (1992-1994)
Dean Scholar, MD/PhD Graduation with High Honors, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky (1985-1992)
PhD mentor: Thomas Vanaman
Yuan-Di Chang Halvorsen
PhD mentor: Robert Dickson
Michael Myron Witte
PhD mentor: Robert Dickson
1989
Paul Chris Brandt
Assistant Dean for Academic Technology, Texas A & M, Bryan, Texas
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Texas A & M, Bryan, Texas
Post-doctoral Fellow, Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, California
PhD mentor: Thomas Vanaman
Richard Ray Drake
Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
PhD mentor: Boyd Haley
Hyuntae Kim
PhD mentor:
1988
Xiaojiu Zhu
PhD mentor: Shung Kai Chan
1987
Palmer Orlandi, Jr.
PhD mentor: Sam Turco
Mary Jo Danton
PhD mentor: Mary Sue Coleman
1986
Anne Phillips
PhD mentor: Mary Sue Coleman
Thomas Webster
PhD mentor: Robert Dickson
1984
Kathleen Barr
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
Srirama Murty Bhairi
PhD mentor: Robert Dickson
David Mark Iovannisci
PhD mentor: Buddy Ullman
1981
Jeff Rush
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Roger Laine
1980
Lawrence Thomas Malek
PhD mentor: Robert Rhoads
1979
Thomas Cheng-Yueh Hseih
PhD mentor: Robert Lester & Roger Laine
Larry Wayne Hancock
PhD mentor: Roger Laine
Linda Hodges
PhD mentor: S. K. Chan
1978
Gerald Becker
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
John Patrick Faraci
PhD mentor: James Drummond
1975
Harry Enoch
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
Garson David Roodman
PhD mentor: Frederick Bollum
1974
Sharron Smith
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
John Koontz
Professor, Department of Cellular Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
PhD mentor: A. S. L. Hu
1973
James Wilbur Nelson
PhD mentor: A. S. L. Hu
Victor Rizza
PhD mentor: A. S. L. Hu
Diane Desante
PhD mentor: Frederick Bollum
Wallace Angus
Deceased
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
John Wesley Dorson
PhD mentor: Frederick Bollum
1972
Manuel Morman
Dermatologist, Rutherford Dermatology, Forest City, NC
PhD mentor: David White
Steven Short
Retired
PhD mentor: David White
1971
Porter Preston Layne
PhD mentor: A. S. L. Hu
Charles J. Waechter
Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (1985-present)
Visiting Professor, Institute for Microbiology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (2000)
Visiting Professor, NIH Fogarty Senior International Fellow, Ecole Normale Superieure, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Paris, France (1992-1993)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine (1981-1982)
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Maryland School of Medicine (1974-1985)
Instructor, Department of Physiological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (1974)
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Physiological Chemistry (w/W.J. Lennarz), The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (1971-1973)
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
1970
Howard Lee, Jr.
PhD mentor: A. D. Winer
Peter Guzy
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
Peter Sinclair
PhD mentor: David White
1969
Carole Jean Coffee
Retired Professor, Centre College, Danville, KY
PhD mentor: A. S. L. Hu
Ray Kenneth Hammond
PhD mentor: David White
1968
Marion Steiner
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky Medical School, Lexington, Kentucky
PhD mentor: Robert Lester
Frank Edward Frerman
PhD mentor: David White
1967
Clarence Colby Jr.
PhD mentor: A. S. L. Hu
Ronald Miller
PhD mentor: Richard Schweet
1965
Michael Wells
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona Deceased in 2006
PhD mentor: John Dittmer
1964
Athol Cline
PhD mentor: A. S. L. Hu