Since the School’s first graduating class in 2004, 118 students have been awarded doctoral degrees from the School. The overall retention rate is 95%. Of those earning a degree: 87% earned a Ph.D.; 13% graduated with a Master’s degree.
All students complete their degree within 6 years. The average time to degree is 5.1 years.
Students have published almost 500 papers, a demonstration of the rigorous and reproducible work they performed during their training. About a quarter of the students have successfully applied for external fellowships.
A third of our graduates are in faculty positions, most in tenure-track positions at major U.S or foreign research institutions, and almost a quarter in industry. Other graduates are in academic research, postdoctoral research, or other scientific careers, such as university administrators, CEOs of biotech companies, and consultants.
Ph.D. Student Progress & Time to Degree
Career Paths of Ph.D. Students
Graduates in Faculty or Independent Positions (in order of completion)
Name | Faculty Position |
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Ira Hall | Associate Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
Niraj Tolia | Chief, Host-Pathogen Interactions and Structural Vaccinology Section, National Institutes of Health |
Patrick Paddison | Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, WA |
Elizabeth Bartom (nee Thomas) | Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, IL |
Michelle Heck (nee Cilia) | Research Molecular Biologist, USDA-ARS and Adjunct Associate Professor, Cornell University |
Zachary Lippman | Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory & Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Ji-Joon Song | Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea |
Elena Ezhkova | Associate Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY |
Masafumi Muratani | Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan |
Claudia Feierstein | Research Associate, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Portugal |
Marco Mangone | Associate Professor, Arizona State University, AZ |
Elizabeth Murchison | Reader, Cambridge University, UK |
Hiroki Asari | Group leader, EMBL Monterotondo, Rome |
François Bolduc | Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada |
Wei Wei | Associate Professor, University of Chicago, IL |
Christopher Harvey | Associate Professor, Harvard University, MA |
Tomas Hromadka | Group Leader, Institute of Neuroimmunology, Slovak Academy of Sciences |
Monica Dus | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, MI |
Shu-Ling Chiu | Assistant Professor, Academia Sinica in Taiwan |
Daniel Chitwood | Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, MI |
Jeremy Wilsuz | Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, PA |
Oliver Fregoso | Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
Amy Leung | Assistant Research Professor, City of Hope’s Beckman Research Institute |
Hiroshi Makino | Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Katherine McJunkin | Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator, National Institutes of Health |
Yaniv Erlich | Associate Professor, Columbia University and Chief Science Officer, My Heritage, Israel |
Petr Znamenskiy | Assistant Professor, The Crick Institute, UK |
Michael Pautler | Research Scientist, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Canada |
Melanie Eckersley-Maslin | Assistant Professor, Peter Mac Cancer Centre at University of Melbourne |
Cinthya Zepeda Mendoza | Medical Director, Cytogenetics and Genomic Microarray, ARUP Laboratories. Assistant Professor, University of Utah |
Wee Siong Goh | Junior Principal Investigator/GIS Fellow, Genome Institute of Singapore |
Arkarup Bandyopadhyay | Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY |
Charles Underwood | Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne |
Justus Kebschull | Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins University (January 2021) |
Graduates in Industry Positions (in order of completion)
Student | Current Position |
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Amy Caudy | Principal, Scientific Operations, Maple Flavored Solutions, NY |
Emiliano Rial-Verde | Vice President, Food & Ingredients Strategy, Bunge Limited, NY |
Rebecca Ewald | International Business Leader, Ventana Medical Systems/Roche, AZ |
Catherine Seiler (nee Cormier) | Senior Manager Biosample Operations, Kaleido Biosciences, MA |
Beth Chen | Operations Manager at Homer Scientific Holdings Inc. |
Colin Malone | Co-Founder & Head of Biology at VNV NewCo, NY |
Amy Rappaport | Senior Scientist, Gristone Oncology, CA |
Frederick Rollins | Director, Competitive Intelligence, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, Washington DC |
Patrick Finigan | Senior Specialist, Regulatory Affairs CMC Biologics, Merck |
Kyle Honegger | Data Scientist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, IL |
Maria Pineda | Co-Founder, CEO, Envisagenics, NY |
Felix Schlesinger | Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina, Inc. San Diego, CA |
Paloma Guzzardo | Associate Manager, R&D Planning, Strategy and Operations, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, NY |
Saya Ebbesen | Associate Director, Medical + Scientific Strategy at BluPrint Oncology, London, UK |
Joshua Sanders | Founder and C.E.O., Sanworks, L.L.C., NY |
Zinaida Perova | Bioimaging Data Scientist, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), UK |
Katie Liberatore | Research Scientist, Calyxt, Minneapolis, MN |
Kaja Wasik | Co-Founder, Gencove & Variant Bio, NY |
Stephane Castel | Co-Founder at Variant Bio and Senior Research Fellow at New York Genome Center |
Mitchell Bekritsky | Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina, Inc. Cambridge, UK |
Sang-Geol Koh | Scientist and Entrepreneur, {Mind}, South Korea |
Ozlem Aksoy (nee Mert) | Senior Scientist, Pfizer, CA |
Susann Weissmueller | Strategic Partnering Associate, Roche, Switzerland |
Nilgun Tasdemir | Senior Scientist, Pfizer, NY |
Silvia Fenoglio | Senior Scientist, Tango Therapeutics, MA |
Jack Walleshauser | Research Scientist at Plexxikon Inc., Berkeley, CA |
Lisa Krug | Scientist, Kallyope, NY |
Robert Aboukhalil | Bioinformatics Software Engineer, Invitae, CA |
Tyler Garvin | Head of Operations, Stockwell AI Inc., CA |
Anja Hohmann | Senior Scientist, KSQ Therapeutics, Boston, MA |
Matt Koh | Natural Language Processing Research Scientist, Bloomberg LP, NY |
Annabel Romero Hernandez | Associate Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, NY |
Maria Nattestad | Scientific Visualization Lead, DNA Nexus and Founder, OMGenomics, CA |
Onyekachi Odoemene | Principal Data Scientist, Capital One, MD |
Daniel Kepple | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Samsung Artificial Intelligence Center, NY |
Emilis Bruzas | Medical Director, Biolumina, NY |
Kristina Grigaityte | Bioinformatics Data Scientist, Tempus Labs, Inc, NY |
Graduates in Postdoctoral or Academic Research Positions (in order of completion)
Student | Current Position |
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Charles Kopec | Associate Professional Specialist, Princeton University (Advisor, Dr. Carlos Brody) |
Gowan Tervo | Research Specialist, Janelia Farms Research Campus, VA |
Shraddha Pai | Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada (Advisor: Gary Bader) |
Oliver Tam | Computational Science Analyst, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY |
Galen Collins | Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School (Advisor: Dr. Alfred Goldberg) |
David Simpson | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (Advisor: Dr. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero) |
Claudio Scuoppo | Instructor, Columbia University (Advisor: Riccardo Dalla-Favera) |
Zhenxun Wang | Research Fellow, Genome Institute of Singapore with (Advisor: Wai Leong Tam) |
Eyal Gruntman | Research Scientist, Janelia Farm (Advisor: Michael Reiser) |
Megan Hogan (nee Bodnar) | Senior Research Scientist, NYU Langone Medical Center |
Yevgeniy Plavskin | Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University (Advisor: Mark Siegal) |
Hassana Oyibo | Postdoctoral Fellow, FMI, Basel (Advisor: Georg Keller) |
Marek Kudla | Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Nick Ingolia) |
Dario Bressan | Head of IMAXT laboratory, CRUK, Cambridge Institute, UK |
Philippe Batut | Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (Advisor: Michael Levine) |
Elvin Wagenblast | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (Advisor: John Dick) |
Kristen Delevich | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA (Advisor: Linda Wilbrecht) |
Joaquina Delas Vives | Postdoctoral Fellow, Francis Crick Institute, UK (Advisor: James Briscoe) |
Abram Handly-Santana | Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Advisor: Joan Brugge) |
Fred Marbach | Postdoctoral Fellow, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UK (Advisor: Marcus Stephenson-Jones) |
Yu-Jui (Ray) Ho | Computational Biologist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Advisor: Scott Lowe) |
Paul Masset | Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy and Naoshige Uchida) |
Talitha Forcier | Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Advisor: Molly Hammell) |
Laura Maiorino | Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute, MIT (Advisor: Darrell Irvine) |
Michael Gutbrod | Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (Advisor: Manolis Kellis) |
Giorgia Battistoni | Research Associate, Cancer Research UK (Advisor: Gregory Hannon) |
Sashank Pisupati | Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (Advisor: Yael Niv) |
Jacqueline Giovanniello | Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA (Advisor: Kate Wassum) |
Anqi Zhang | Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Advisor: Florian Engert) (February 2021) |
Graduates in non-Research Positions (in order of completion)
Name | Current Position |
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Ahmet Denli | Associate Editor, Genome Research, CSHL, NY |
Darren Burgess | Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Genetics, UK |
Rebecca Bish-Cornelissen | Scientific Director, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, NY |
Angelique Girard | Director of Finance and Administration, Amplitude Studios, Paris, France |
Allison Blum | Account Supervisor, LifeSci Public Relations, LLC, NY |
Keisha John | Director of Diversity Programs, University of Virginia, VA |
Elizabeth Nakasone | Heme-Onc Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Ian Peikon | Venture Partner, Lux Capital, NY |
Colleen Carlston | Medical student, University of California, San Francisco, CA |
Brittany Cazakoff | Law student, Stanford University, CA |
Lital Chartarifsky | Biotechnology and Business Development Coordinator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY |
Sanchari Ghosh | Content Specialist for BioRxiv, NY |
Georgi Yordanov | Equity Research Associate, Cowen and Company, NY |
Jue Xiang Wang | Consultant, Boston Consulting Group, NY |