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Kumar Group Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Dr. Xuechao Xing (1999 – 2001) | website | Scientist, Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair
  • Dr. Ramesh Babu (2002 – 2004)
  • Dr. V Kalasani | Scientist, PPG Industries
  • Dr. Luis Álvarez de Cienfuegos | e-mail | Profesor Titular at Universidad de Granada, Spain
  • Dr. Vittorio Montanari (2003 – 2005) | e-mail | website | Visting Scholar
  • Dr. Kalyani Patil (2009 – 2011) | e-mail |

Assistant Professors (Research)

  • Dr. Vijay Krishnamurthy (2011 – 2013)

Graduate Students

  • Emel Adaligil, Ph.D. (2010 – 2016) | e-mail | website | Executive Director, Eli Lilly
  • Gizem Akçay, Ph.D. (2008 – 2012) | e-mail | website | Vice President, Breakthru medicine
  • Haley Anchukaitis, Ph.D. (2020 – 2026) | e-mail | website | Siemens Healthineers
  • Basar Bilgiçer, Ph.D. (1999 – 2004) | e-mail | website | Professor, Univerisity of Notre Dame
  • Ginevra Clark, Ph.D. (2002 – 2009) | e-mail | website | Clinical Associate Professor, UIC LAS
  • Laila Dafik, Ph.D. (2003 – 2008)| e-mail | website | BioMarin, Inc.
  • Tristan Dinsmore, Ph. D. (2020 – 2025) | e-mail | website | Medicinal Chemistry Contractor, Parabilis Medicines
  • Alfio Fichera, Ph.D. (1998 – 2004) | e-mail | website | Senior Scientist, Pfizer, Inc.
  • Julia Fountain, Ph.D. (2017 – 2022) | e-mail | website | Patent Agent, ArentFox Schiff
  • Dane Granja (2018 – 2020) | e-mail | website |Senior Research Associate, Treeline
  • John Paul Issa, Ph.D. (2011 – 2017) | e-mail | website | Project lead, GoogleX
  • Yulia Ivanova, Ph.D. (2006 – 2011) | e-mail | website | Principle Scientist, Pfizer
  • Mark Jedrychowski, Ph.D. (1998 – 1999) | website | Senior Director, Matchpoint Therapeutics
  • Albert Kennedy (2008 – 2009)
  • Sophia (Wei-En) Lin (2009 – 2012) | National Taiwan U
  • Jamie Liu, Ph.D. (2017-2023) | website | R&D Scientist, Aralez Bio
  • Zhao Liu, Ph.D. (2006 – 2012) | e-mail | Postdoctoral Associate, Yale
  • He Meng, Ph.D. (2003 – 2008) | e-mail | website | Senior Scientist, Sanofi
  • Kathleen Myers (1998 – 2003) | M.S. Tufts U
  • Diren Pamuk, Ph.D. (2002 – 2010) | e-mail | website | Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Venkat Raman, Ph.D. (2009 – 2014) | e-mail | website | Vice President, Sami-Sabinsa Group Limited
  • Steffen Schuy, Ph.D. | e-mail | website | Visiting Scholar (2005), Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
  • Kathleen Sicinski, Ph.D. (2015 – 2021) | e-mail | website | Staff Scientist, Caltech
  • T K Subrahmanian, Ph.D. (2004 – 2012) | website | Principal Scientist, CRISPR Therapeutics
  • Damla Surmeli, Ph.D. (2018-2024) | website | Scientist, Parabilis Medicines
  • Özge Ünsal, Ph.D. (2017 – 2023) | e-mail | website | Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech
  • Tao Xu (2011 – 2013) | M.S. Tufts U
  • Nicholas Yoder, Ph.D. (2001 – 2007)| website | Vice President, Dyne Therapeutics
  • Deniz Yüksel, Ph.D. (2003 – 2009)| e-mail | website | Staff Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Cristina Zamora, Ph.D. (2008 – 2014) | e-mail | website |Product Line Owner, Sanofi
  • Richard Zhao (2024)| e-mail | website | MD/PhD student at Tufts MSTP

Undergraduate Students

  • Selin Bacaksız (2022 – 2024) | e-mail | Harvard University
  • Alexander Bush (2000 – 2001) | e-mail | Syros Pharmaceuticals
  • Bradley Crotty, M.D. (2001 – 2002) | e-mail | Harvard Medical School
  • Matthew Crawford (2016 – 2018) | e-mail |
  • Pascal Dabel, M.D. (2001 – 2002) | e-mail | Nephron 1
  • Benjamin Dellaripa (2019 – 2020) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Alexandra Dobbins (2023 – 2025) | Dana-Farber Cancer institute
  • Jasper Du (2015 – 2017) | e-mail | MD/PhD candidate, NYU Langone
  • Nahvid Etedali (2008) | e-mail | Cummings School of Vet Med
  • Zachary Fang (2008 – 2011) | e-mail |
  • Caitlin Gallagher (2006 – 2007) | e-mail | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Angela Gehrckens (2016 – 2017)  | e-mail | Visiting Undergraduate Student, Georg-August University, Germany
  • Judah Gruen (2010 – 2011) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Xinruo (Amy) Guo (2016 – 2018) | e-mail | Broad Institute, Harvard/MIT
  • E Ken Hamill (2003 – 2004) | e-mail | MIT
  • Gregg Keaney, Ph.D. (1999 – 2000) | e-mail | Ph.D. Yale University ’05, Infinity Pharmaceuticals
  • Muhammadaha Areeb Shaukat Khichi (2017) | e-mail | Summer Visiting Undergraduate, Mount Holyoke College
  • Esra Korkut (2009) | e-mail | Summer Visiting Undergraduate, Middle Eastern Tech U, Turkey
  • Javier Licardie (2016 – 2017) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Rebecca Lambe (2007 – 2008) | e-mail | Cummings School of Vet Med
  • Henry Lee, M.D. (2001 – 2002) | e-mail | Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • Minhee Lee (2019 – 2020) | e-mail | Colombia University
  • Tara Lowensohn (2018-2022)| Stanford University
  • Ethan Magno | e-mail | Harvard University
  • Wafa Malik (2018)| e-mail | Mount Holyoke College
  • Albert Mousad (2018 – 2019) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Amulya Mutnuri (2019 – 2020) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Satya Narisety, M.D. (1998 – 1999) | e-mail | UMDNJ
  • Dahlia Norry (2009 – 2010) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Brooke Nussbaum (2001 – 2002) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Marissa Rodenstein (2014 – 2016) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Edward Rodionov (2012 – 2013)
  • Matthew Ryan (2013 – 2015) | e-mail | MD/PhD candidate, UCSF
  • Suzanne Shapira (2011 – 2012) | e-mail | Graduate Student, U Penn
  • Dilyara Sharipova (2018 – 2020) | e-mail | Graduate Student, MIT
  • Eriene-Heidi Sidhom (2011 – 2013) | e-mail | HST M.D./Ph.D. Program, Harvard/MIT
  • Julia Silberman (2021-2023) | website | NIH Post Baccalaureate Research Fellow
  • Yi Chi Song (2016 – 2018) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Nicholas Spinelli, M.D. (1999 – 2000) | e-mail | Tufts U School of Medicine
  • Diana Strong | e-mail | website | MPH, Yale University
  • Kanupriya Tewari (2011) | e-mail | School of Dental Medicine, Tufts U
  • Akshay Vig (2012 – 2013) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Brett Waldman (2024 – 2026) | e-mail | Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University
  • Emily Wilson (2015) | e-mail | Tufts University
  • Aaron Yu (2014 – 2015) | e-mail | Tufts University

High School Students

  • Manaswini Garimella (2003) | Wellesley College
  • Alex Levy (2016 – 2017) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Varahunan Mathiyalakan (2017) | Johns Hopkins University
  • Julia Phillips (2016) | Oxford University
  • Andrea Robang (2019) | Dartmouth College
  • Arun Saigal (2007) | CEO, Thunkable
  • Anthony Xu (2019) | Harvard University