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Shaza Gaballah (Heather Stapleton) 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Duke University
Anna Villalobos Santeli (P. Lee Ferguson) 2025
Marissa Guttenberg (Rob Tighe) 2024
Postdoctoral Researcher at Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM)
Taylor Hoxie (Heather Stapleton) 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Minnesota
Katherine Morton (Joel Meyer) 2024
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Joshua Prince (A-Andrew D. Jones III) 2024
Senior Data Scientist, ICF; Durham, NC
Zoie Diana (Daniel Rittschof) 2023
Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Dillon King (Joel Meyer) 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow, NIEHS
Chrissy Crute (nee Figan) (Susan Murphy & Liping Feng) 2022
Scientific Program Manager, Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI); Pittsburgh, PA
Samantha (Sam) Hall (Heather Stapleton) 2022
Lead Toxicologist, ICF; Durham, NC
Tess Leuthner (Joel Meyer) 2022
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Duke
Paige Varner (nee Bippus) (Claudia Gunsch) 2022
Healthy Communities Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund; Raleigh, NC
Kirsten Overdahl (Lee Ferguson; Heather Stapleton) 2021
Acting Trans-NIH Metabolomics Coordinator, NIEHS
Matthew Ruis (Heather Stapleton) 2021
Director of Toxicology at 3DC, Deerfield Management; Manhattan, NY
Rashmi Joglekar (Joel Meyer; Susan Murphy) 2019
Associate Director of Science & Policy at UCSF PRHE; San Francisco, CA
Casey Lindberg (Richard Di Giulio) 2019
Biologist, US EPA; Washington, DC
Allison Phillips (nee Flynn) (Heather Stapleton) 2019
Toxicologist at US EPA; Oregon
Latasha Smith (Joel Meyer) 2019
Biologist at US EPA, Washington DC
Savannah Volkoff (Claudia Gunsch) 2019
Environmental Engineer, Geosyntec Consultants
Jess Brandt (Richard Di Giulio, Emily Bernhardt) 2018
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
Xiaoxing (Shall-Shing) Cui Qi (Jim Zhang) 2018
Associate Director of Corporate Development, Merck
Jordan Kozal (Richard Di Giulio) 2018
Senior Consultant at Integral Consulting
Drew Day (Jim Zhang) 2017
Principal Data Scientist, Johnson & Johnson; NYC area
Claudia Gonzalez-Hunt (Joel Meyer) 2017
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tony Luz (Joel Meyer) 2017
Toxicologist, US EPA, Durham, NC
Lauren Wyatt (Joel Meyer & Bill Pan) 2017
Epidemiologist, US EPA, Durham, NC
Christopher Leonetti (Heather Stapleton) 2016
Senior Regulatory Specialist, ICF
Anthony Oliveri (Ed Levin) 2016
Manager, Environmental Epidemiology and Analytics Section, Michigan Dept. of Health and Human Services
Audrey Bone (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2015
Environmental Toxicologist/Risk Assessor at Bayer Crop Science; St. Louis, MO
Daniel Brown (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2015
Principal Investigator/Program Manager NIEHS/NTP, CSS
Laura Carlson (nee Macaulay) (Heather Stapleton) 2015
Toxicologist at the US EPA in the National Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, RTP
Laura Dishaw (Heather Stapleton) 2015 – Focused on the evaluation of developmental toxicity and metabolism of the flame retardant, Tris (1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) Phosphate (TDCPP).
Toxicologist at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Washington DC
Mingliang Fang (Heather Stapleton) 2015 – Research involved the qualification and quantification of novel organic pollutants and metabolism of those compounds in vitro and in vivo.
Professor, Fudan University, China
Meng He (Vann Bennett) 2015 – Researched mechanisms for Ankyrin-G targeting.
Senior Principal Scientist-Translational Medicine at Genentech – San Francisco, CA
John Rooney (Joel Meyer) 2015 – Research investigated the effects of developmental mitochondrial DNA damage on mitochondrial function and metabolism later in life, using the C. elegans model system.
Global Toxicogenomics Expert, Syngenta; Durham, NC
Links: ORCiD: orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-0867 Google Scholar: Google Scholar Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrooneyduke Aboutme: https://about.me/johnprooney
Katherine Stencel (Lee Ferguson, PhD) 2015 – Research focused on the identification of endocrine disrupting compounds in complex mixtures.
Analytical Development Scientist II, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Charlotte, NC
Edward Zhu (Rebecca Yang) 2015
Associate Vice President, Clinical Science at Loxo@Lilly; San Francisco, CA
Mariah Arnold (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2014
Manager, Aquatic Sciences, Elk Valley Resources; BC, Canada
Sonja Brun (Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD) 2014 – Studied the Role of Surviving in Medulloblastoma Tumorigenesis
Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer; San Diego, CA
Priyaanka Nanduri (Tso-Pang Yao, PhD) 2014 – ITEHP / Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
VP of Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Kailera Therapeutics; Boston, MA
Simon Roberts (Heather Stapleton) 2014 – Studied in vitro metabolism of brominated flame retardants.
Staff Application Scientist, SCIEX; Golden, CO
Wei Chou Tseng (Van Bennett) 2014 – Researched the significant role of the adaptor protein Ankyrin-G, which organizes and regulates ion channels and receptors in the nervous system.
Associate Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Cambridge, MA
Contact: vivianee0526@gmail.com
Shugun Yang (Christopher Counter) 2014
Senior Director at Simcere Zaiming; Shanghai, China
Xinyu-Candy Yang (Joel Meyer) 2014
Principal toxicologist, PepsiCo; Chicago, Il
Andrew Arrant (Cynthia Kuhn) 2013 – Research focused on the serotonergic contribution to adolescent risk taking.
Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Elizabeth Chan (Michael S. Krangle, PhD) 2013
Senior Science Advisor, US EPA; Durham, NC
Kyle Erwin (Margaret Kirby) 2013
Research Scientist, Powered Research, LLC
Emileigh Greuber (Ann Marie Pendergast) 2013
Executive Director, CMC at Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Chelsea Landon (Mark Dewhirst) 2013 – Thesis focused on the use of hyperthermia and copper chelation to overcome cisplatin resistance; currently attending veterinary school at North Carolina State University, studying laboratory animal medicine, in hopes of staying closely tied to research.
Assistant Professor/Clinical Veterinarian at Duke University Medical Center
Pamela Noyes (Heather Stapleton) 2013 – Research dietary exposure to the flame retardant Decabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-209) in several fish species.
Toxicologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Washington, DC
Ashley Parks (Lee Ferguson) 2013 Research focused on the fate, bioavailability and effects of single-walled carbon nanotubes in benthic estuarine systems.
Managing Scientist, Exponent; Pasadena, CA
Amanda Bess (Joel Meyer) 2012
Senior Analysis Program Manager at The Good Food Institute (GFI)
Maxwell Leung (Joel Meyer) 2012 – Later-life Effects of Mitochondrial DNA Damage During Development in the Whole Organism Model Caenorhabditis elegans.
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Kia Walcott 2012
Chief Operating Officer & Creative Director, McKinley Carter Enterprises, LLC; Columbus, OH
Jerry Yen (Linney) 2012
Analyst in Environmental Policy, Congressional Research Service; Washington, DC
Lindsey Van Tiem-Garner (Richard Di Giulio) 2011
Principal at Catalyst Environmental Solutions; Portland, OR
Bryan Clark (Richard Di Giulio) 2010
Principal Investigator; Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division, US EPA, Rhode Island
Autumn Bernal (Randy Jirtle) 2009
Founder/Principal ToxCreative, LLC
Deanna Howarth Tomanelli (David Hinton & Seth Kullman) 2009
Upper School Science Teacher, Flint Hill School
Daniel Radiloff – 2009
Director of Business Development, Pacific Biolabs, Inc; Hercules, CA
Lauren Wills (Rich Di Giulio) 2008
Associate Professor of Biology at Charleston Southern University
Yuxia Cui (Myrtle A. Davis) 2007
Health Scientist Administrator, NIEHS; Durham, NC
Dana Dolinoy (Randy Jirtle) 2007
NSF International Chair & Professor at University of Michigan School of Public Health
Alicia Timme-Laragy (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2007
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Brooke Tvermoes (Friedman) 2008
Director, Environmental, Energy, and Chemical Management Programs at IBM; Chapel Hill, NC
Lauren Wills (Richard Di Giulio) 2008
Assistant Professor at Charleston Southern University
Tom Augspurger (Richard Di Giulio) 2006
Adjunct Associate Professor, NC State; US Fish and Wildlife Service (retired)
Jennifer Gibbons-Kincaid (Shirish Shenolikar) 2006
Program Manager at ATCC, VA
Dave Volz (Hinton) 2006
Professor, UC Riverside
Mike Mattie (Jonathan Freedman) 2003
Head of Translational Sciences and External Collaborations at Kite Pharma; Santa Monica, CA
Joel Meyer (Richard Di Giulio) 2003
Professor, Duke
Melissa Rhodes (Ted Slotkin) 2003
COO, Avalyn Pharma Inc; Raleigh, NC
Kristina D. (nee Dam) Chadwick (Theodore Slotkin) 2000
Executive Director, Global Program Lead, Bristol Myers Squibb; NJ
Cort Anastasio (Bruce Faust) 1994
Professor of Tropospheric Chemistry and Tropospheric Chemistry, UC Davis
Michael Owens (Charles B. Nemeroff) 1990
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University