Below is a representation of IMP student cohorts organized by entering year, including their thesis lab, thesis project, undergraduate institution, and awards.
Name |
Undergraduate Institution |
Distinctions |
|---|---|---|
Noelia Boldizsar |
Duke University |
MD-PhD |
Ottavia Bourdain |
Hunter College |
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Isabelle Bursulaya |
University of California - Los Angeles |
|
Chimere Ezeiruaku |
University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
|
Qinyan Feng |
University of California - Los Angeles |
|
Joe Hochberg |
University of Pennsylvania |
|
Rachel Lorenc |
Johns Hopkins University |
MD-PhD |
George Payne |
University of Virginia |
|
Lisette Peres-Tintin |
Boston University |
|
Michelle Wallerius |
University of California - Los Angeles |
|
Elina Wells |
University of California - Berkeley |
|
Jenny Wang |
Cornell University |
MD-PhD |
Temima Yellin |
Yeshiva University |
|
Nuzat Zaman |
Cornell University |
Name |
Undergraduate Institution |
|---|---|
Kasra Askari |
University of California - Los Angeles |
Isabele Johnson |
Haverford College |
Qi Jun Andrew Lim |
Imperial College of London |
Riley Outen |
Haverford College |
Cristian Ovies |
DePaul University |
Catherine Somoza |
Cornell University |
Name |
Thesis Lab |
Undergraduate Institution |
|---|---|---|
Wiam (Weema) Abdalla Mo Madani |
Juan Cubillos-Ruiz |
St. Olaf College |
Emre Davud Cardakli |
Randy Longman |
Duke University |
Charles Carr |
Nick Collins |
University of Toronto |
Aiquan Chang |
Sallie Permar |
University of California - Berkeley |
Ana Campos Codo |
Justin Perry |
Sao Paulo State University |
Sofia Dimitriadoy |
Andrea Schietinger |
Princeton University |
Michael Downey |
Alexander Rudensky |
Cornell University |
Muxue (Snow) Du |
Steven Josefowicz |
Muhlenberg College |
Sherry Fan |
Joseph Sun |
University of Maryland - College Park |
Mergim Gjonbalaj |
Gabi Rizzuto |
Stony Brook University |
Gregory Gladkov |
Brad Jones |
University of California - Berkeley |
Aya Halawai |
Katharine Hsu |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Victoria Rose Lawless |
Steven Josefowicz |
University of Chicago |
Esther Lee |
Morgan Huse |
Bowdoin College |
Fitty Liu |
Tobias Hohl |
University of California - Berkeley |
Tomi McGuire |
Joseph Sun |
Northeastern University |
Itzayana Miller |
Brad Jones |
Davidson College |
Daniel Min |
Juan Cubillos-Ruiz |
University of Florida |
Connor Smith |
Brad Jones |
University of Virginia |
Eric Yiyang Wang |
Alexander Rudensky |
Yale University |
Claire Wingert |
Lionel Ivashkiv |
University of California - Berkeley |
Yulin Zhou |
Melody Zeng |
University of Toronto |
David Zurowski |
Rachel Niec |
Drexel University |
Name |
Thesis Lab |
Thesis Project |
Undergraduate Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
Allison Catalano |
Georgetown University |
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Yasmine Issah |
Sallie Permar |
University of Pennsylvania |
|
Suparna Kumar |
Theresa Lu |
University of Mumbai |
|
Day Li |
Craig Thompson |
Peking University |
|
Yun Lo |
Chrysothemis Brown |
Regulation of intestinal tolerance by Thetis cells |
National Yang-Ming University |
Ian McBain |
Andrea Schietinger |
The role of CD4 T cells in driving autoimmune CD8 T cell differentiation and function in type 1 diabetes |
New York University Abu Dhabi |
Joshua Griffin |
Alexander Gitlin |
Decoding the spatial nature of TNF-mediated cell death in intestinal pathology |
Princeton University |
Jonah Pierce |
Marcel Van den Brink |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
|
Purnima Ravisankar |
Melody Zeng |
Anna University |
|
Cristine (Nicole) Salinas |
Tobias Hohl |
Innate immunity during gastrointestinal colonization with Candida albicans |
University of Texas at Arlington |
Shane Vedova |
Richard Brad Jones |
of California, Berkeley |
|
Daniel Wong |
Melody Zeng |
University of British Columbia |
|
Sufia Bakshi |
Andrea Schietinger |
Name |
Thesis Lab |
Graduation Year |
Thesis Project |
Undergraduate Institution |
Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Giorgi Beroshvili |
Alexander Rudensky |
A nuanced requirement for Foxp3 for Treg cell function |
Ivane Javakhishvili State University |
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Hannah Carrow |
Melody Zeng |
Defining the role of bacterial sphingolipids in intestinal immune regulation |
Northeastern University |
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Elizabeth Emanuel |
David Artis |
Macalester College |
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Aazam Ghelani |
Alexander Rudensky |
Combinatorial role of Treg effector molecule in Treg cell function |
Savitribai Phule Pune University |
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Alberto Herrera |
Brad Jones |
Multimodal characterization of persistence profiles in HIV-expressing cells and authentic HIV-reservoir harboring clones |
Seton Hall University - South Orange |
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Jee Hye Kang |
Roberta Zappasodi |
Exploring the Effect of Anti-CTLA-4 Variants on Anti-Tumor Immune Response in Cancers with Different Glycolytic Capacity |
University of California-Berkeley |
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Cheryl Mai |
Alexander Rudensky |
Yale University |
|||
Dean Matthews |
Gretchen Diehl |
Regulation of Immune Development by Commensal-Specific IgG |
University of Pittsburgh |
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Nazia Sakila |
Kyu Rhee |
2025 |
Columbia University |
||
Sophia Qu |
Gregory Sonnenberg |
Cornell University |
NSF Award Recipient |
||
Baila Schochet |
Inez Rogatsky |
CUNY - Hunter College |
|||
Brittany Robaina-Caicedo |
Jayanta Chaudhuri |
University of Central Florida |
NSF Award Recipient |
Name |
Thesis Lab |
Graduation Year |
Thesis Project |
Undergraduate Institution |
Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mamadou Bah |
Jedd Wolchok |
Investigating dynamic IDO-Kyn-AhR Pathway Induced Tumor Immunosuppression |
New Jersey City University |
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Michael Bale |
Steven Josefowicz |
Chromatin dynamics throughout immune cell development and stimulation |
University of Kentucky |
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Ryann Callaghan |
Gretchen Diehl |
Defining how intestinal microbes promote colorectal cancer through modulation of macrophage function |
Drew University |
||
Amanda Chen |
Gretchen Diehl |
Investigating the role of the microbiome in mononuclear phagocyte differentiation and function |
University of California-Davis |
||
Logan Fisher |
Chrysothemis Brown |
Uncovering Heterogeneity of CCR7+ Dendritic Cells |
University of California-Santa Cruz |
||
Joseph Gladstone |
Gregory Sonnenberg |
Examining innate like lymphocytes in intestinal health, inflammation, and homeostasis |
Northeastern University |
||
Dasom Kim |
Gretchen Diehl |
2025 |
Microbiota-induced host regulatory networks to limit microbiota-specific T cell responses |
Brigham Young University |
|
Noemi Linden |
R. Brad Jones |
Characterization of T Cell-inherent and Virus-conferred Factors Interfering with Immune Clearance of HIV |
Jacobs University |
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Jez Marston |
Ethel Cesarman |
2024 |
Identifying Endogenous Retroviral Factors in Viral Lymphomagenesis |
Yale University |
|
Svetlana Miakicheva |
Andrea Schietinger |
Decoding and Reprogramming Autoimmune Stem-like T cells in Type 1 Diabetes |
University of California-Davis |
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Tanmana Mitra |
Santosha Vardhana |
Regulation of T cell metabolism by antigen avidity |
Indian Institute of Technology |
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Mark Owyong |
Joseph Sun |
Elucidating the role of SATB1 in NK cell development and antiviral host immunity |
University of California-Berkeley |
F31 Award Recipient |
|
Yoselin Paucar |
Chrysothemis Brown |
John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
HHMI Gilliam Award Recipient |
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Gayathri Shibu |
Chrysothemis Brown |
Role of peripheral AIRE in self tolerance |
Vit University |
IMP graduates have successfully embarked upon a variety of careers, including as academic faculty positions and researchers in industry. Below is a representation of some of our IMP alumni, their current positions, and the lab they trained in as a graduate student at WCGS from over the years:
Name |
Current Position |
Lab |
|---|---|---|
John MacMicking, PhD |
Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunobiology, HHMI Investigator |
Carl Nathan |
Xiaoyu Hu, PhD |
Professor, Tsinghua University (China) |
Lionel Ivashkiv |
Cynthia Leifer, PhD |
Professor, Cornell University |
Carl Nathan |
Utthara Nayar , PhD |
Professor, Johns Hopkins University |
Ethel Cesarman |
Alexander Ploss, PhD |
Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences, Princeton University |
Eric Pamer (Now at Univ. Of Chicago) |
Michael Shiloh, PhD |
Associate Professor, UT Southwestern |
Carl Nathan |
Aimee Beaulieu, PhD |
Assistant Professor & Chancelor Scholar, Rutgers Medical School |
Carl Nathan |
Minkyung Song, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan Univ (Korea) |
Juan Cubillos-Ruiz |
Katherine Hisert, M.D, PhD |
Assistant Professor at National Jewish Health |
Carl Nathan |
Robert Samstein, M.D., PhD |
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncologist, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
Alexander Rudensky |
Ruth Franklin, PhD |
Assistant Prof., Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University |
Ming Li |
Sungho Park, PhD |
Assistant Professor, UNIST (Korea) |
Lionel Ivashkiv |
Rachel Gottschalk, PhD |
Assistant Prof., Integrative Systems Biology, Dept. of Immunology, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
Jim Allison (now at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center) |
Kang Chen, PhD |
Professor, Wayne State University |
Andrea Cerutti (now at Mount Sinai) |
Joris van der Veeken, PhD |
Assistant Professor, IMP (Austria) |
Alexander Rudensky |
Clarissa Campbell, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Med (Austria) |
Alexander Rudensky |
Jen Oyler, PhD |
Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School |
Gregoire Altan-Bonnet(now at NIH) |
Kyuho Kang, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Chungbuk University (Korea) |
Lionel Ivashkiv |
Virginia Pedicord, PhD |
Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge (UK) |
Jim Allison (now at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center) |
Jennifer Small Saunders, M.D., PhD |
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University |
Sabine Ehrt |
Sheetal Gandotra, PhD |
Assistant Professor, CSIR-IGIB New Delhi (India) |
Sabine Ehrt |
Gregory St John, PhD |
Therapeutic Area Lead, Dermatology US Medical Affairs at AbbVie |
Carl Nathan |
Omar Vandal, PhD |
Principal Technologist, Accelerator, Gates Foundation |
Sabine Ehrt |
Jenny Tzeng |
Associate Director, Bioscience Immunology, AstraZeneca |
Theresa Lu |
Younghwa Kim, M.D., PhD |
Sr Director Clinical Science, Early Clinical Oncology, AstraZeneca |
Carl Nathan |
Jessica Schneider, PhD |
Chief Scientific Officer, Corundum Systems Biology |
Michael Glickman |
Shuangping Shi, PhD |
Associate Vice President, Head of Biologics Process Research & Development, Merck |
Sabine Ehrt |
Kan Lin, PhD |
Kan Lin, PhD Managing Director, Hankang Capital (China) |
Sabine Ehrt |
Joon Seok Park, PhD |
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
Alexander Tarakhovsky & Alexander Rudensky |
Rachel Niec, M.D. PhD |
Assistant Attending Physician, Assistant Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Weill Cornell Graduate School |
Alexander Rudensky |
Gabriel Loeb, M.D., PhD |
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF |
Alexander Rudensky |