Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dawn Carone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 

Ken Carter, Ph.D.
Global Head of Corporate Development & President of US Operations, Innoforce Pharmaceuticals, Rockville, MD
Executive Chairman, Neuralstem Inc., Germantown, MD

Christine Clemson Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Head Medical Affairs, Fulcrum Therapeutics, cambridge, MA

Kevin Creamer Ph.D.
Stealth Startup, Cambridge, MA 

Alvin Gomez, Ph.D.
Variant Scientist, Quest Diagnostics, Hopkinton, MA 

Jun Jiang, MD. Ph.D.
Principal Scientist, Tome Biosciences, Cambridge, MA

Phil Moen, Ph.D. 
Associate Director, Program Management for Genomics Diagnostics, Illumina, Freeport, ME

Lindsay Shopland, Ph.D. 
Freelance Medical Writer, Shoplandwriting.com, Billerica, MA 

Kelly Smith, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Writer, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA

Melvys Valledor, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Carbon Biosciences, Lexington, MA

Karen Wydner, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Saint Peter's University, Department of Applied Science & Technology, Jersey City, NJ  

Ph.D. Graduates

Jen-Chieh Chiang, Ph.D. (2017)
Software Engineer, Markforged, Inc.

Jan Czerminski, M.D., Ph.D. (2021)
Resident, Yale Unversity School of Medicine

Khushali Gupta, Ph.D. (2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA

Heather Kolpa, Ph.D. (2016)
Freelance Medical Writer, Kolpa Medical Writing, LLC 

Eric Swanson, Ph.D. (2014)
Field Application Manager, Nuclera, Billerica, MA

Gayle Pageau Pouliot, M.D., Ph.D. (2009)
Global Clinical Program Lead, Solid tumor Cell Therapy, AstraZeneca

Christine Clemson, M.S., Ph.D. 
Senior Vice President, Head Medical Affairs at Fulcrum Therapeutics

Y. Polly Xing, M.D., Ph.D. 
Anesthesiologist, Milford Regional Medical Center, Milford, MA

Research Engineers

John McNeil, M.S.
Owner and Operator, GATA Apiary, Topsham, VT

John T. Butler, M.D., Ph.D.
Resident, UC San Diego School of Medicine