Former Lab Members

Graduate Students Directly Supervised

  • 1999 – 2003: Chengkai Dai, PhD, Investigator, NIH National Cancer Institute
  • 1999 – 2003: Meena Tanwar, PhD, Pediatrician, CHOC Children’s Hospital
  • 2000 – 2004: Xiaoyi Hu, PhD
  • 2001 – 2005: Alan Shih, MD, PhD, Assistant Attending, MSKCC
  • 2004 – 2010: Elena Fomchencko, PhD, Neurosurgery Resident, Yale
  • 2005 – 2010: Nikki Charles, PhD, Technical writer and consultant
  • 2006 – 2011: Amanda Katz, PhD, Biotechnology Consultant
  • 2007 – 2008: Daniel Halperin, MD, Assistant Professor, Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • 2008 – 2013: Bo Wee, PhD, Director, Business Planning & Internal Consulting
  • 2009 – 2013: John Halliday, PhD, Cancer Researcher, Investment Professional
  • 2009 – 2011: Karim Helmy, MD, PhD, Private Investments at Viking Global Investors
  • 2009 – 2013: Ken Pitter, MD, PhD, Radiation Oncology Resident at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • 2010 – 2011: Moritz Orstat, MD, PhD, Physician & Chairman, Department of Imaging, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • 2010 – 2012: Yu-Kang Chang, PhD

Postgraduates Directly Supervised

  • 1999: Daniel Fults, MD Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Utah
  • 2000 – 2003: V. K. Rajasekhar PhD, Senior Research Scientist, MSKCC
  • 2001 – 2003: Lene Uhrbom, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Brain Tumor Research at Uppsala University
  • 2001 – 2003: Martin Begemann, MD, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine
  • 2002 – 2005: Andrew Lassman, MD, Chief, Neuro-Oncology Division at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • 2004 – 2005: Pierre Francois Carton, PhD
  • 2004 – 2007: Hiroyuki Momota, MD, PhD, Senior Assistant Professor, IMSUT Hospital
  • 2004 – 2010: Oren Becher, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern
  • 2005 – 2009: Fabienne Bernet, PhD
  • 2005 – 2010: Dolores Hambardzumyan, PhD, Associate Professor of Oncological Sciences and Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System
  • 2006 – 2009: Anna-Marie Bleau, PhD, Clinical Operations Manager at Sylentis
  • 2006 – 2010: Jason Huse, MD PhD, Principal Investigator, MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • 2006 – 2012: Massimo Squartrito, PhD, Director of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation Brain Tumor group, CNIO
  • 2006 – 2016: Tatsuya Ozawa, MD, PhD, Senior Scientist, National Cancer Center Research Institute
  • 2007 – 2009: Nduka Amankolor, MD, Assistant Professor & Director, Adult Neurosurgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2008 – 2011: Rebecca Bish, PhD, Senior Scientific Director, The Mark Foundation
  • 2010 – 2011: Nikki Charles, PhD, Technical writer and consultant
  • 2010 – 2012: Elena Bazzoli, MD, Neurologist
  • 2011 – 2015: Nanna Lundberg, PhD
  • 2011 – 2014: Alexander Pietras, PhD, Research Team Manager at Brain Tumor Biology, Lund University
  • 2011 – 2013: Jillian Werbeck, PhD
  • 2011 – 2013: Quincey LaPlant, MD, PhD, Radiation Oncologist, MSKCC
  • 2012 – 2013: Teodoro Pulvarenti, PhD, Director of Editorial Development, RUP; and Executive Editor, JEM
  • 2013 – 2014: Daniel Silver, MD, PhD, The Cleveland Clinic
  • 2012 – 2017: Youngmi Kim, PhD, Senior Scientist, NanoString
  • 2013 – present: Siobhan Pattwell, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
  • 2015 – 2018: Jes Alexander, MD, PhD, Radiation Oncologist, University of Washington
  • 2015 – present: Frank Szulzewsky, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
  • 2016 – 2018: Chiba Ene, MD, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, Neurosurgery Resident, University of Washington
  • 2016 – 2018: Hans-Gerog Wirchug, MD, Senior Physician and Researcher bei Universitätsspital Zürich
  • 2016 – present: Patrick Cimino, MD, PhD, Neuropathology Faculty, University of Washington