Where Are They now?
Positions that students in the Biomedical Sciences have taken since completing their graduate degrees are listed below (according to their year of graduation).
2023
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gbolahan Bamgbose | PhD | Tulin | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard |
| Oluwatobiloba “Tobi” Aminu | MS | Hur | Graduate program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University |
| Madison Jochim | MS | Murphy | Paraprofessional, Phoenix Elementary, Grand Forks, ND |
| Cody Boyle | PhD | Lei | Medical School, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences |
| Nathan Velaris | PhD | Bradley | Biomedical Sciences Department, Grand Forks, ND |
2022
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sayem Bhuiyan | PhD | Tulin | Field Application Scientist, Axion BioSystems, Seattle, WA |
| Zahra Afghah |
PhD |
Geiger | Grant Writer/Biomedical Scientist, Center for Innovation, Grand Forks, N.D |
| Betsy Young | MS | Nilles | Laboratory Technician, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
| Chris Brown | PhD | Foster | UND Medical School, Grand Forks, ND |
| Jason Power | MS | Doze | INMED Program, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND |
| Sema Oncel | PhD | Basson | Postdoctoral Fellow – USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks |
| Sattya Talukdar | PhD | Mehedi | Postdoc, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD |
2021
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashrifa Ali | PhD | Grove | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
| Sarmad Al-Marsoummi | PhD | Basson | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Pathology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| Malak Alzidaneen | MS | Watt | Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, NDSU, Fargo, ND |
| Leo Lakpa | PhD | Geiger | Medical student, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Regan Lawrence | MS | Murphy | Medical Student, UND SMHS, Grand Forks, ND |
| Nicole Miller | PhD | Geiger/Chen | Medical student at College of Osteopathic Medicine William Carey University |
| Temidayo Adeluwa | MS | Hur | Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, Program in Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology |
| Meghan Rodriquez | PhD | Henry | Assistant Teaching Professor of Anatomy and Histology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s (UMKC) new Medical School in Saint Joseph, MO. |
| Smruthi Rudraraju | PhD | Dhasarathy | Technology Specialist at Clark and Elbing, Intellectual Patent law firm in Boston, MA |
| Taylor Schmit | PhD | Khan | Teaching Faculty UMN, Crookston, MN |
2020
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mona Sohrabi | PhD | Combs | Certified Nurse Assistant |
| Sayantani Ghosh Dastidar | PhD | Wu/Nechaev | Post Doctoral Fellow, Oregan Health and Sciences |
| Moriah Hovde | PhD | Foster | Postdoctoral Fellow – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School |
| Derick Thompson | PhD | Brissette | Post Doctoral Fellow, UNDSMHS |
| Mitchell Klomp | MS | Khan | GT Molecular, Fort Collins, CO |
2019
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethan Snow | PhD | Ruit | Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska |
| Brett McGregor | PhD | Hur/Porter | Post Doctoral Fellow, UND SMHS |
| Kyle O’Donnell | PhD | Bradley | Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Andrea Marzi, Chief - Immunobiology and Molecular Virology Unit, NIH – Rocky Mountain Labs, Hamilton, MT |
| Emily Biggane | PhD | Dunlevy | Research Professor Faculty at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, ND |
| Peter Halcrow | PhD | Geiger | Post Doctoral Fellow, UND SMHS |
| Nii Koney Kwaku | PhD | Nechaev | Assistant Lecturer at the University of Ghana Medicine School |
| Atrayee Bhattacharya | PhD | Dhasarathy | Post Doctoral Fellow Dana Farber Cancer Inst (Harvard) |
| Joseph Biggane | PhD | Doze | Assistant Professor of Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND |
| Daniel Stanislowski | PhD | Foster | Postdoctoral Fellow – USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks |
2018
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Davis | Ph.D. | Garrett | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariz. |
| Peter Knopick | Ph.D. | Bradley | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biomedical Science Dept, University of North Dakota |
| Josh Kulas | Ph.D. | Combs | Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. |
| Anne Schaar | Ph.D. | Singh |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of |
| Jared Schommer | Ph.D. | Ghribi | Medical Student, University of North Dakota |
| Brandee Stone | Ph.D. | Brissette | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Okla. |
| Jessica Warns | Ph.D. | Ghribi | Instructor of Biochemistry, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo. |
2017
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Amber Chevalier | Ph.D. | Rosenberger | Postdoctoral Fellow, North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D. |
| Fredice Quenum Zangbede | Ph.D. | Mishra | Lab Assistant, Mishra Lab, University of North Dakota |
| Travis Alvine | Ph.D. | Bradley | Research Scientist, Aldevron Inc, Fargo, N.D. |
| Drew Seeger | Ph.D. | Murphy | Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota-Morris |
| Nick Cilz | Ph.D. | Lei | Postdoctoral Fellow, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Md. |
| Chris Walden | Ph.D. | Geiger | Medical Student, University of North Dakota |
| Christopher Jondle | Ph.D. | Sharma | Assistant Professor, Department of Investigative Medicine and the Center for Immunobiology, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Mich. |
| Ann Samarakkody | Ph.D. | Nechaev | Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. |
2016
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Nafisa Ferdous | M.S. | Carvelli | Red River Behavioral Health System, Grand Forks, N.D. |
| Katheryn (Behm) Erikson | M.S. | Watt | Research Associate, University of Colorado |
| Jamie Van Gieson | Ph.D. | Seema | Biology Instructor – Outreach, Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, Kan. |
| Danielle Krout | Ph.D. | Henry | "Research Molecular Biologist," USDA-ARS-PA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center |
| Robert Gaultney | Ph.D. | Brissette | Postdoctoral fellow at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| Shane Raza | Ph.D. | Ghribi | Medical Student, University of North Dakota |
| Les Kallestad | Ph.D. | Milavetz | Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio |
| Jielin Liu | Ph.D. | Xie | |
| Talus McCowan | M.S. | Carvelli | Medical Student, University of North Dakota |
2015
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Burnette, Lisa | Ph.D. | Flower | Postdoctoral position, UND Biomedical Sciences Department |
| Collette, Katie | Ph.D. | Doze | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan |
| Felts, Bruce | Ph.D. | Henry | Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon Health Science University |
| Kurada, Lalitha | Ph.D. | Lei | Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. |
| Osei-Owusu, Patrick | Ph.D. | Nilles | Postdoctoral position, University of Chicago |
| Rastedt, Dani | Ph.D. | Vaughan | |
| Sarkar, Sanghita | Ph.D. | Bradley | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical Center |
| Steichen, Anthony | Ph.D. | Sharma | Tech Specialist, BD Biosciences, Chicago |
| Ye, Yan | Ph.D. | Wu | Postdoctoral position, UND Biomedical Sciences Department |
2014
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Archarya, Rejwi | Ph.D. | Vaughan | Clinical Chemistry Fellow, UTHSB, Galveston, Texas |
| Armstrong, Vanessa | Ph.D. | Brown-Borg | Teaching Specialist, University of Minnesota, Crookston |
| Choudhury, Promisree | Ph.D. | Flower | Postdoctoral Fellow, Iowa State University |
| Fink, Ashley | Ph.D. | Bradley | Postdoctoral position, John Hopkins, Baltimore |
| Goldenstein, Brianna | Ph.D. | Doze | Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal |
| Sathya Challa Siva Kanaka | Ph.D. | Vaughan | Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicago |
| Syed, Haris Ali | Ph.D. | Ruit | PGY-1, UND Internal Medicine residency program |
| Haese, Nicole | Ph.D. | Bradley | Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon Health & Science University |
2013
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Bhatt, Dhaval | Ph.D. | Rosenberger | Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University Medical School |
| Condry, Danielle | Ph.D. | Nilles | Assistant Professor, Dept. Basic Sciences, UND SMHS |
| Gefroh, Amanda | M.S. | Milavetz | Marketing and Business Development Representative, Meridian Behavioral Health, Minn. |
| Puig, Kendra | Ph.D. | Combs | Postdoctoral Fellow, UND SMHS, Department of Basic Sciences |
2012
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Askvig, Jason | Ph.D. | Watt | Assistant Professor (Biology Department) Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. |
| Chakraborty, Amritendu | Ph.D. | Ohm | |
| Dasari, Bhanu | Ph.D. | Ghribi | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Boston |
| Hui, Liang | Ph.D. | Geiger | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Basic Sciences, UND SMHS |
| Larson, Jennifer | Ph.D. | Dunlevy | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Soliman, Mahmoud M.D. | Ph.D. | Rosenberger | Medical Resident, Dept. of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Boston University |
| Toosky, Melody | Ph.D. | Nilles | Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University |
| Yan, Chunguang | Ph.D. | Gao | Harvard Medical School |
2011
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Dhawan, Gunjan | Ph.D. | Combs | Postdoctoral Fellow, UND SMHS |
| Grisanti, Laurel | Ph.D. | Porter | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University |
| Karlstad, Jordan | M.S. | Singh | Research Lab Manager, Colorado |
| Lambert, Nathan | Ph.D. | Bradley | Senior Scientist, Pfizer |
| Marwarha, Gurdeep | Ph.D. | Ghribi | Postdoctoral Fellow, Cleveland Clinic |
| Moritz, Amy | Ph.D. | Vaughan | Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health |
| Sudeck, Adam | M.S. | Watt | Physician Assistant Program, Mass College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Boston, Mass. |
2010
| Student | Degree | Advisor | Position Taken After Graduation |
| Ystesund, Tracy | M.S. | Shabb | Law School, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minn. |
| Huang, Huang | M.S. | Wu | Research Scientist, Actavis Pharmaceutics Inc. |
| Lo, David | Ph.D. | Watt | Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute, La Jolla, Calif. |
| Sarmad Al-Marsoummi | M.S. | Carr | Physician, Baghdad, Iraq |