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Postdoctoral Alumni 2010-2021

2021

Dilyan Dryanovski  ddryanovski@gmail.com
Research Associate, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Brendan Tunstall  brendan.tunstall@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of Tennessee Health Sci Ctr

Marco Venniro  marco.venniro@som.umaryland.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. Neurobiology & Anatomy, Univ. of Maryland SOM

Jordi Bonaventura
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. of Barcelona Medical School

Jingfeng Zhou  jngfngzh@gmail.com
Investigator (tenure track), Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing

Ewa Galaj  egalaj@colgate.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. Psychological & Brain Science, Colgate University

Matt Gardner  matthew.gardner@concordia.ca
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. Psychology, Concordia University

Craig Werner  craig.werner@okstate.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. Pharmacology & Physiology, Okla. St. Univ. SOM

Justin Siemian  jsiemian@gmail.com
Scientist, Capsida Biotherapeutics, CA

Jorge Miranda Barrientos  jorge.mirandabarrientos@gmail.com
Staff Scientist, Lieber Institute, Baltimore

Yuting Lin  yutinglin76@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Taiwan

Lelia Chitsazi  rezvan.chitsazi@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego

Qinglei Meng  meng2@umbc.edu
Research Fellow, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University

Hudson Roth  hudsogroth@gmail.com
Chemistry Reviewer, Food and Drug Administration

Shao-Ming Wang  shaoming76721@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Biomedical Science, China Medical University, Taiwan

2020

Brooke Schmeichel  brooke.schmeichel@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Biomedical Science, East Tennessee State Medical School

Jeremiah Bertz  jeremiah.bertz@nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NIDA IRP

Eun-Kyung Hwang  eunkyung1211@gmail.com
Senior Research Associate, Oregon Health Sciences University

Leonardo Bontempi  leonardo.bontempi@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy

Lee Campbell  Lac89@georgetown.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Georgetown University

Smriti Mongia  smriti.mongia208@gmail.com
Research Scientist, Psychogenics, Inc.

Caroline Pantazis  caroline.pantazis@nih.gov
Program Manager, NIA IRP

Marco Pignatelli  marco.pignatelli@wustl.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychiatry, Washington University St. Louis

Stephanie Gantz  stephanie-gantz@uiowa.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Molec Physiol & Biophys, Univ. of Iowa Medical School

Therese Ku  chakul@umbc.edu
Chemistry Reviewer, Food and Drug Administration

Anver Basha Shaik  anverbasha1@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, University of Ohio

Yuko Yasui  yuko.yasui@nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NIDA IRP

Daryl Guthrie  daryl.a.guthrie@gmail.com
Interview at Broad Institute

Khaled Moussawi  moussawi@pitt.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychiatry, Washington University of Pittsburgh

2019

Landhing Moran  landhing.moran@gmail.com
Healh Science Administrator, NIDA extramural program

David Barker  david.barker@rutgers.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, Rutgers University

Tina Chang  tina.chang@nih.gov
Center for Scientific Review, NIH

Ramsey Hanna
Drug Regulatory Analyst, SRC, Inc.

Celine Nicolas  celine.nicolas19@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bordeaux

Akira Sumiyoshi
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan

Ara Abramyan  araabramyan@gmail.com
Senior Scientist, Schrödinger

Nirnath Sah  nirnathsah@gmaijl.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Mark Fakhoury
Teaching position, Lebanon

Martin Job  femijob@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Pharmacology, Rowan Univ. School of Medicine

Javier Rubio  franciscojavier.rubiogallego@nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NIDA IRP

Jacqueline Keighron  jkeighro@nyit.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Biol & Chemical Sciences, New York Inst of Technology

Lifeng Zhang  lfzhang916@hotmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Inst. Translational Molec Medicine, Peking University

Bo Liang  bo.liang2@nih.gov
Contractor, NIDA IRP

Ludovic Muller  ludovic.muller@rx.umaryland.edu
Research Scientist, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univ. of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Rosanna Marino  rosannamarino63@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Eric Bow  ericbow@gmail.com
Food and Drug Administration

Chloe Jordan  chloe.jordan@nih.gov
Program Manager, NIDA extramural program

Robin Keeley  robin.j.keeley@gmail.com
Data Analyst, Canadian Institute for Health Information

Vaughn Steele  vaughn.steele@yale.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine

Hideaki Yano  h.yano@northeastern.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Pharmaceutical Sci, Northeastern Univ. Pharmacy School

2018

Sam Golden  sagolden@uw.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Biological Structure, University of Washington

Eugene Gutman
Synthetic Chemist, Adesis, Inc.

Ernesto Solis  ern.solis@gmail.com

Claudio Zanettini  claudio.zanettini@gmail.com

Lindsay De Biase  ldebiase@mednet.ucla.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Physiology, UCLA Medical School

Pin-Tse Lee
Assistant Investigator, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

Ravi Verma
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Melissa Sharpe  melissa.j.sharpe@psych.ucla.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, UCLA

Yuzheng Hu  huyuzheng@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, Zheijang University, China

Susanne Bäck  susanne.m.back@gmail.com
Orion Pharmaceutical, Finland

Brandon Warren  brandon.warren@ufl.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Pharmacy, University of Florida

Stephanie Carmack  stephanie.carmack@gmail.com
Assistant Director, Center for Adaptive Systems for Brain-Body Interactions and
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, George Mason University

Hassiba Beldjoud  hassibabeljoud@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, UC-San Diego

Hugo Tejeda  hugo.tejeda@nih.gov
Stadtman Investigator (tenure track), NIMH IRP

Giovanni Barbera  giovanni.barbera@nih.gov
Contract Scientist, NIDA IRP

Amanda Dossat  amanda.dossat@gmail.com
Research faculty, Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Florida

Thomas Irvin  tom.irvin8@gmail.com
Chemist, Loxo Oncology, Boulder, CO

Andrew Wikenheiser  amwikenheiser@psych.ucla.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, UCLA

Huikun Wang  huikun.wang@nih.gov
Scientist, NIMH IRP

Sherry Ding  kattyding@gmail.com
Dept of Scientific Computing, HHMI Janelia Farms

Rachel Slack  rachel.d.slack@gmail.com
Synthetic chemist, FMC Corporation, Newark, DE

Michael Tennekoon  michael.tennekoon@nih.gov
Training and Workforce Development, NINDS extramural program

Christine Herdman
New Drug Evaluation, Drug Enforcement Administration

Li Jing
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology, Tianjin Medical University, China

Alexandre Kisner  kisner.alexandre169@gmail.com
Research Fellow, Dept. of Pharmacology & Physiology, George Washington University

Brian Sadacca  bfsadacca@gmail.com
IT data modeling, Accenture Consulting

Jen-Hui Tsou
Postdocotal fellow, University of Maryland

Yoki Nakamura  yo-ki0910@hotmail.co.jp
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Pharmacology, Hiroshima University, Japan

Felipe Schiffino  felipe_schiffino@hms.harvard.edu
Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

John Fedota  john.fedota@nih.gov
Contractor, Neuroimaging Branch, NIDA IRP

2017

Anna Li  annali@umd.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Psychology, University of Maryland

David Root  david.root@colorado.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Psychology, University of Colorado

Leslie Whitaker  leslie.ramsey@nih.gov
Manager, Electrophysiology Core, NIDA IRP

Graziella Madeo  graziella.madeo@ospedaledigravedona.it
Physician Scientist, Moriggia-Pelascini Hospital, Italy

Emily Lowery-Gionta  eglowery@gmail.com
Staff Scientist, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Sufang Li  lisufang@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Yi He  heyiemail@gmail.com
Research Associate, Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh

Dong Wang  dw657@drexel.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University

William Kowalczyk  kowalczykw@hartwick.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Psychology, Hartwick College

Meining Wang
Pharmaceutical Industry, Shanghai, China

Maria Secci
Research Associate, Germany

Elise Lesage  elise.r.d.lesage@gmail.com
Marie Curie Fellowship, University of Ghent

Jeremy Carlier
CIAN Diagnostics, Frederick, MD

Ross McDevitt  ross.mcdevitt@nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NIA IRP

2016

Hau-Jie Yau  haujie@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Neuroscience, National Taiwan University

Peter DeMatteo
The Chemistry Solution, CRO

Maria Andersson
Chromatopia, Sweden

Xia Liang  liangxia.liang@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Harbin Institute of Technology

Mayako Michino  mayako.mam2134@gmail.com
Manager, Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, Cornell University

Madeleine Swortwood  swortwoodm@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Forensic Science, Sam Houston State University

Xingxing Diao  d141592@hotmail.com
Xenobiotic Laboratories

Jiawei Xu  jiawei.xu@ncl.ac.uk
Research Associate, School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK

Nina Lopatina  ninalopatina@gmail.com
Postdoctoral fellow, UC-Berkeley

Brian Morgan
Family business

Daniele Caprioli  daniele.caprioli@uniroma1.it
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Pharmacology & Physiology, Univ. of Rome

Joshua Antoline
Interviewing with FDA

Jia Qi  qij2@mail.nih.gov
Contract scientist, NIMH

Haiying Zhang  zhanghaiying2016@gmail.com
Research Associate, Dept. of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

2015

Nathan Marchant  nathan.marchant@gmail.com
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Anatomy & Physiology, Free Univ., Amsterdam

Vivek Kumar
Research Scientist, Albany Molecular Research, Inc.

Aurelie Roux  aurelieroux@gmail.com
Lab Manager, All Children’s Hospital, FL

Yuji Takahashi  yuji.takahashi@nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NIDA IRP

Joshua Jones  jljones314@gmail.com
Science writing

Tzu-Yu Weng
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Oscar Torres  ovtorres@miners.utep.edu
Psychology Department, University of Texas, El Paso

Mark Henderson  mark.henderson2@nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NCATS

Helen Nasser
Postdoctoral fellow, Universiy of Maryland School of Medicine

Guillermo Esber  gesber@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, CUNY Brooklyn

Comfort Boateng  cbateng@highpoint.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Pharmacy, Highpoint University

Shiliang Zhang  zhangs5@nida.nih.gov
Manager, Electron Microscopy Core, NIDA IRP

Brenda Garcia Iglesias  brendabeatriz@yahoo.com
Glaxo, London

Ken Wakabayashi  wakabayashi.ken.t@gmail.com
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Buffalo

Ariane Wohlfarth  ariane.wohlfarth@gmail.com
National Board of Forensic Medicine, Sweden

Melody Furnari  melodyafurnari@gmail.com
Clinical Research Coodinator, New Jersy Medical School

Vani Pariyadath  vani.pariyadath@nih.gov
Project Officer, NIDA extramural

Meredith McHugh  meredith.mchugh@gmail.com
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Clinical M.A. program

Miriam Bocarsly  miriam.bocarsly@nih.gov
Postdoctoral Fellow, NIAAA

2014

Yu-Wei Chen  yuweichen01@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, NIEHS

Abasha Lewis  abasha.lewis@gmail.com
ORISE Fellow, FDA

Meriem Gaval Cruz  meriem.gaval@gmail.com
Cote Orphan Consulting

Brandon Selfridge  brandonselfridge216@gmail.com
Dart Neuroscience, San Diego

Federica Lucantonio  federica.lucantonio@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Rodrigo Molini Leao  rodrigomolini@yahoo.com.br
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sao Paulo State University

Oluyomi Okunola-Bakare  oluyomi.m.bakare@gmail.com
Chemist, FDA

Agnes Jasinska  agnesjasinska11@gmail.com
Dept. of Psychology, Bucknell University

Thomas Keck  keckt@rowan.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University

Michael McDannald  michael.mcdannald@bc.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, Boston College

Ashley Kennedy  ashleykennedy@yahoo.com
Clinical Protocol Coordinator, NIMH

Sebastien Anizan  anizan.sebastien@gmail.com
Nestlè, France

Alessia Auber
Aptuit Pharmaceutical, Italy

Mimi Belcher  Abelcher@psych.umaryland.edu
Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Xi Chen  xchen35@partners.org
Research Scientist, Dept. of Radiology, Dartmouth College

Derek Wilkinson
Technical Resources International

Xiao-fei Wang
Institute of Toxicology & Pharmacology, China

2013

Jonathan Britt  jonathan.britt@mcgill.ca
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, McGill University

Hui-Ling Wang  wanghu@intra.nida.nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NIDA IRP

Adarsh Gandhi  adarshgandhi@gmail.com
Bioanalysis and Physiology, Lundbeck Pharmaceutical

Carlos Mejias Aponte  mejiasca@nida.nih.gov
Manager, Histology Core, NIDA IRP

Ikue Kusumoto
Dept. of Physiology, Kagoshima University School of Medicine, Japan

Jonathan Slezak slezak@msmary.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, Mount St. Mary’s College

Beate Finger beate.finger@nih.gov
McLean Hospital, Harvard University

Takato Hiranita Takato.hiranita@fda.hhs.gov
Center for Tobacco Products, FDA

Ingrid Tulloch itulloch@stevenson.edu
Instructor, Stevenson University

Natasha Lugo-Escobar natasha.lugo-escobar@nih.gov
Fellowship Program Analyst, NIH Academy

Jennifer Stark jastark@gmail.com
Neuroimaging Center, University of Maryland

Marco Orru morru@partners.org
Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital

2012

Magalie Lenoir magalie.lenoir@parisdescartes.fr
Research Associate, Neuropsychopharmacologie des addictions, Paris

Chip Pickens cpickens@pickenslab.net
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, Kansas State University

Sanya Fanous sanya.fanous@gmail.com
Project Analyst, Emergent Biosolutions

Maddalena Mereu maddamereu@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Padova

Michelle Jobes jobesm@nida.nih.gov
Clinical Research Specialist, NIDA IRP

Stephan Steidl ssteidl@luc.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago

Matthew Sutherland masuther@fiu.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, Florida International University

Paola Mascia
Research Fellow, Univeristy of Massachusetts

Ashwini Banala
Research chemist, GVKBiosciences, India

Eisuke Koya  E.Koya@sussex.ac.uk
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Psychology, University of Essex, UK

Florence Theberge  bsms9gd3@sussex.ac.uk
Program Grant Manager, LGC, UK

Chang-Wei Wu  sleepbrain@tmu.edu.tw
Assistant Professor, Taiwan Central University

Sandeep Kumar
Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University

Malliga Iyer  malliga.iyer@nih.gov
Research Fellow, NIAAA

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Manager, Histology Core, NIDA IRP

2011

Xueping Li
Associate Professor, Xi’an Medical University, China

Maytal Shabat-Simon
Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Elena Schifirnet
Postdoctoral fellow, Wayne State University

Stephen Kohut  skohut@mclean.harvard.edu
Instructor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Janaina Zanoveli  janaina.zanoveli@ufpr.br
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, Federal University of Parana, Brazil

Damiya Whitaker
Human Services, University Research Co.

Annie Kleykamp akleykamp@gmail.com
Medical Writer and Analyst, Hayes, Inc.

2010

Xiao-Qing Peng
Residency in neurology

Xia Li  x9li@ucsd.edu
Resident Physician, Dept. of Psychiatry, UC-San Diego

Mingliang Tang  mltang2010@sinano.ac.cn
Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Thomas Jhou  jhou@musc.edu
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of Neuroscience, Medical University of SC

Cesar Quiroz-Molina  cesar.quiroz-molina@nih.gov
Staff Scientist, NIDA IRP

Wanyong Shin  wanyong.shin@gmail.com
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic

Xiujuan Geng
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, UNC-Chapel Hill

 

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