The prominent and respected positions held by our graduates indicate the quality of our program. The following is a partial listing of those who have obtained doctorates from our program:
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
Name | Graduation Year | Employment |
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Dr. John Abelson | 1965 | California Institute of Technology (Chemistry) |
Dr. Lloyd Beidler | 1951 | Florida State University (Biology) |
Dr. Paul Greengard | 1953 | Rockefeller University (Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, joint 2000 Nobel Prize winner Physiology or Medicine) |
Dr. Wayne Hendrickson | 1968 | Columbia University (Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics) |
Dr. Thomas J. Kelly | 1968 | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Chair of Molec. Biol. & Genetics) |
Department Chairs and Directors
Name | Graduation Date | Employment |
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Dr. Floyd J. Brinley | 1961 | Director of Convulsive, Developmental & Neurological Disorders, NINDS, NIH |
Dr. Mark Dubin | 1969 | Chair of Molecular, Cellular & Dev. Biology, University of Colorado |
Dr. William Dobelle | 1967* | Founding Fellow of the Dobelle Institute, New York, NY |
Dr. P. Horowicz | 1955 (deceased) | Chair of Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center |
Dr. Eaton E. Lattman | 1969 | Chair of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University |
Dr. George Cloyd Murray | 1968 | Director of National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases, NIH |
Dr. G. Christian Overton | 1978 (deceased) | Founding Director of the Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania |
Dr. Judith Sandberg | 1965 | Director of Clinical Bacteriology, Laboratory Hospital, Madrid, Spain |
Faculty or Senior Staff Positions
Name | Graduation Year | Employment |
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Dr. Elizabeth R. Boskey | 1999 | SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Preventive Medicine and Community Health) |
Dr. Patrick L. Wintrode | 1997 | Case Western Reserve University (Physiology & Biophysics) |
Dr. Ian A. Twombly | 1996 | NASA-Ames (Center for Bioinformatics) |
Dr. John Desjarlais | 1993 | Pennsylvania State University (Chemistry) |
Dr. Donald T. Haynie | 1993 | Louisiana Tech University (Bioinformatics) |
Dr. Ning Qian | 1990 | Columbia University (Center for Neurobiology) |
Dr. Xufeng Wu | 1990 | National Institutes of Health (Lab. of Cell Biology, NHLBI) |
Dr. Paul Kienker | 1989 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Neuroscience) |
Dr. Zaven Kaprelian | 1988 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Neuroscience) |
Dr. Paul Blank | 1987 | National Institutes of Health (Lab. of Theoretical & Physical Biology, NICHD) |
Dr. Jay M. Baltz | 1986 | University of Ottawa (Loeb Research Institute) |
Dr. Richard Cardullo | 1985 | University of California at Riverside (Biology) |
Dr. Andrew Lees | 1984 | National Institutes of Health (Lab. of Immunology, NIAID) |
Dr. W.E. Royer Jr. | 1984 | University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Molecular Medicine) |
Dr. Madeline Shea | 1983 | University of Iowa College of Medicine (Biochemistry) |
Dr. Ben Szaro | 1982 | State University of New York at Albany (Biology) |
Dr. Kevin Conway | 1981 | American University (Biology) |
Dr. Christian Stoeckert | 1981 | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Anatomy) |
Dr. Soshana Hardt | 1980** | State University of New York at Buffalo (Computer Science) |
Dr. Martin Grumet | 1980 | New York University Medical Center (Pharmacology) |
Dr. Karen Magnus | 1980 | Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (Biochemistry) |
Dr. Marianne Bronner | 1979 | California Institute of Technology (Biology) |
Dr. Scott Fraser | 1979 | California Institute of Technology (Biology) |
Dr. Michael Cole | 1978 | Princeton University (Molecular Biology) |
Dr. Donal Luse | 1978 | University of Cincinnati (Biological Chemistry) |
Dr. Richard Marchase | 1977 | University of Alabama School of Medicine (Cell Biology) |
Dr. Carl Creutz | 1976 | University of Virginia School of Medicine (Pharmacology) |
Dr. Peter Devreotes | 1976 | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Biological Chemistry) |
Dr. William Grizzle | 1975 | University of Alabama School of Medicine (Pathology) |
Dr. Andy Hoffer | 1975 | University of Alberta, Canada (Physiology) |
Dr. Moo-Ming Poo | 1974** | University of CA at San Diego (Biology) |
Dr. Robert Gross | 1974 | Dartmouth College (Biology) |
Dr. Keith Ward | 1974 | Naval Research Laboratory (Lab. for Structure of Matter) |
Dr. Robert Bonner | 1973 | National Institutes of Health (NICHHD) |
Dr. David R. Burt | 1973 | University of Maryland School of Medicine (Pharmacology) |
Dr. Gordon Fain | 1973 | University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center (Ophthalmology) |
Dr. Wei-Kung Wang | 1973 | Polytechnic University (Electrical Engineering) |
Dr. Henry M. Krisch | 1972 | University of Geneva, Switzerland (Molecular Biology) |
Dr. Ralph Nelson | 1972 | National Institutes of Health (Lab. of Neurophysiology, NINDS) |
Dr. A. Gayler Harford | 1971 | State University of New York at Buffalo (Biology) |
Dr. Thomas J. Herbert | 1971 | University of Miami (Biology) |
Dr. Juan I. Korenbrot | 1971 | University of California at San Francisco (Physiology & Biochemistry) |
Dr. D.C. Wartzok | 1971 | Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene (Pathobiology) |
Dr. Peggy Zelenka | 1971 | National Institutes of Health (Lab. of Mol. & Developmental Biology, NEI) |
Dr. Richard Chappell | 1970 | Hunter College, CUNY (Biology) |
Dr. Allan Fraser | 1970 | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
Dr. Stephen A. George | 1970 | Amherst College (Neuroscience) |
Dr. Janice Jones | 1970 | Georgetown University (Physiology) |
Dr. Michael Kuhar | 1970 | National Institutes of Health (Neuroscience Branch, NIDA Addiction Res. Ctr.) |
Dr. Jay Mittenthal | 1970 | University of Illinois School of Medicine (Anatomy) |
Dr. Lester Partlow | 1969 | University of Utah College of Medicine (Pharmacology) |
Dr. Herbert M. Phillips | 1969 | University of Texas at Arlington (Biology) |
Dr. J.P. Raynauld | 1969 | University of Montreal (Physiology) |
Dr. Henry L. Chen | 1968* | Towson State University (Physics) |
Dr. Donald S. O’Hara | 1968 (deceased) | Massachusetts General Hospital (Physical Biochemistry) |
Dr. Frederick Blattner | 1968 | University of Wisconsin (Genetics) |
Dr. Harold Erickson | 1968 | Duke University Medical Center (Cell Biology) |
Dr. Eduardo Padlan | 1968 | National Institutes of Health (Lab. of Molecular Biology, NIDDK) |
Dr. Alvin Siger | 1968 | University of Southern California (Biology) |
Dr. Nigel Daw | 1967 | Yale University Medical School (Ophthalmology / Neurobiology) |
Dr. Stephen Easter | 1967 | University of Michigan (Biology) |
Dr. Jon R. Herriott | 1967 | University of Washington (Biochemistry) |
Dr. Max Fiskin | 1966 | University of Kansas Medical Center School of Medicine (Microbiology) |
Dr. E.N. Moudrianakis | 1964** | Johns Hopkins University (Biology) |
Dr. Peter Highton | 1964 | University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Molecular Biology) |
Dr. William B. Marks | 1963 | National Institute of Health (Lab. of Neural Control, NINDS) |
Dr. Floyd J. Brinley | 1961 | NINDS, NIH (Biophysics) |
Dr. P. Galen Lenhert | 1960 | Vanderbilt University (Physics) |
Dr. Robert M. Benolken | 1959 (deceased) | University of Texas (Cell Physiology) |
Dr. M.L. Wolbarsht | 1958** | Duke University (Psychology) |
Dr. William J. Stekiel | 1957 | Medical College of Wisconsin (Physiology) |
Dr. Paul Hurlburt | 1955 | Rockefeller University (Biophysics) |
Dr. Charles Edwards | 1953 | SUNY-Albany (Biophysics) |
Dr. Richard Fitzhugh | 1953 | NIH (Biophysics) |
Dr. E.F. MacNichol | 1952 | Boston University School of Medicine (Physiology) |
Corporate Positions
Name | Graduation Year | Employment |
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Dr. Patrick Ahl | 1981 | Liposome Research Co., Princeton, NJ |
Dr. John D. Brantley | 1988 | Pall Corp., East Hills, NY |
Dr. Paula Fitzgerald | 1977 | Merck Institute, Rahway, NJ |
Dr. Frithjof H. Kuntze | 1997 | Summit, Inc., Paris, France |
Dr. Erich Phillips | 1985 | Failure Analysis Co., Menlo Park, CA |
Dr. George Privalov | 1995 | Applied Thermodynamics, Baltimore, MD |
Dr. John Sack | 1981 | Squibb, Princeton, NJ |
Dr. Ete Szüts | 1975 | MediSense, Inc. / Abbott Labs |
Dr. Gregory Stock | 1977 | Transaction Technology, Inc., Los Angeles, CA and UCLA Program on Science, Technology and the Origin of Life |
Dr. Alexander Waldrop | 1977 | Gen-Probe, San Diego, CA |
Dr. Steven T. Whitten | Scientist, Redstorm Corp., Galveston, Texas |
Post-Doctoral & Research Associate Positions
Name | Graduation Year | Employment |
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Dr. Christina Bradley | 2003 | Lab of Molecular Biology, NIDDK, NIH |
Dr. Cuauh Garcia-Garcia | 2003 | Univ. of California-Berkeley (Chemistry) |
Dr. Joseph Walsh | 2002 | University of Kentucky (Chemistry) |
Dr. Kelly Lee | 2001 | The Scripps Research Institute (Molecular Biology) |
Dr. Elizabeth Boskey | 2000 | Johns Hopkins University (School of Public Health) |
Dr. Jose D’Aquino-Ruiz | 2000 | Brandeis University (Biochemistry) |
Dr. Stuart Olmsted | 2000 | Scientist, RAND Corp.-Pittsburgh |
Dr. Marina Kasimova | 1999 | University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chemistry) |
Dr. Ronald L. Koder | 1999 | Univ of Pennsylvania Medical School (Biochemistry & Biophysics) |
Dr. Yiider Tseng | 1999 | Johns Hopkins University (Chemical Engineering) |
Dr. Carrie K. Vance | 1999 | University of Florida (Pharmacology and Therapeutics) |
Dr. Boyoung Cha | 1998 | Johns Hopkins University (Gastroenterology) |
Dr. Carville G. Bevans | 1997 | Yale University (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry) |
Dr. Carla DeMaria | 1997 | Technology Licensing, Georgetown University |
Dr. John Dwyer | 1996 | University of Chicago (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) |
Dr. John T. Finn | 1996 | Systems Research Dept., Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA |
Dr. Davida Streett | 1996 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
Dr. Tung-Kung Wu | 1996 | Stanford University (Chemistry) |
Dr. Yihua Yu | 1996 | University of Utah (Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) |
Dr. Jining Bai | 1995 | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Pathology) |
Dr. Phillip Castle | 1995 | National Cancer Institute (Div. of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics) |
Dr. Jen-Zen Chuang | 1995 | Cornell University Medical School (Dyson Vision Research Institute) |
Dr. Yuanyi Feng | 1995 | Harvard University (Molecular Biology) |
Dr. Janet Padgett | 1995 | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
Dr. Annette Boman | 1993 | National Institutes of Health (Lab. of Biological Chemistry, NCI) |
Dr. Dong Xie | 1993 | National Cancer Institute (Structural Biology Program) |
Dr. Sumantra Chattarji | 1992 | National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India |
Dr. Zhican Qu | 1991 | Washington University Medical School (Pathology) |
Dr. Theodore Mullman | 1988 | Temple University (Biochemistry) |
Dr. Michael Ottlinger | 1988 | Children’s Hospital – Boston (Clinical Chemistry) |
Dr. Rufus Burlingame | 1987 | Scripps Research Institute (Molecular & Experimental Medicine) |
Dr. Roy Tishler | 1987 | Harvard University (Joint Center for Radiation Therapy) |
Dr. Jai-Hyon Rho | 1982 | The Salk Institute (Neural Systems Lab.) |
Dr. Marion Usselman | 1982 | Georgia Institute of Technology (CEISMC) |
* Master’s degree only from Department of Biophysics; doctorate received elsewhere.
** Thesis research in Department of Biophysics; degree granted by another department.