Pharmacology Program
Former Graduate Students

Year of Graduation Name Current Position
1950 Donald Clarke Professor of Chemistry, Fordham University
1953 Jay Roberts Professor and Editor, Allegheny University of Health Sciences, Hahnemann School of Medicine
1955 George Condouris Chairman and Professor of Pharmacology, New Jersey Medical School
1957 Albert Kuperman Associate Dean of Education Affairs, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1964 Vincent Cairoli Chief, Cancer Training Branch, National Cancer Institute
1964 Michiko Okamoto Professor of Pharmacology, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical School of Cornell University
1965 Arthur Raines Professor of Pharmacology, Georgetown University
1970 Stephen Margolis Asst. Director for Special Projects, Center for Public Health Practice, Rollins School of Public Health
1972 Herbert Lowndes Professor of Pharmacology, Rutgers University, College of Pharmacy
1972 Paul Okonkwo Chairman and Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital College of Medicine
1972 Karl Verebey Director of Toxicology/Environmental Chemistry Unit, Leadtech Corporation
1973 Donald Waters Rosemont Pharmaceutical
1975 Robert Kaiko Vice President, Clinical Research Purdue Frederick Company
1975 Howard C. Rosenberg Chairman and Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics, Medical College of Ohio
1976 Norman Boisse Assoc. Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, Northeastern University, Dept of Pharmaceutical Science
1976 Edward Hall Research Scientist, Upjohn Company
1976 Chi Ho Lee Research Scientist, Syntex
1977 Udom Chantharaksri Deputy Dean for Research and Head of MD - PhD Program, Lecturer of Pharmacology, University of Phyathai Bangkok. Thailand
1977 Dennis Grab Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Univ, School of Medicine
1977 Hazel H. Szeto Professor of Pharmacology, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical School of Cornell University
1980 Geoffrey Allan President and Chief Executive Officer, Whitby Research Inc.
1980 Julie L. Eiseman Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology and Oncology, University of Maryland Cancer Center
1982 Geoffrey Ling Vice Chair of Neurology & Director of Critical Care Medicine, Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, Bethesda, MD
1982 Jason G. Umans Director of Nephrology Fellowship Training Program and Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Georgetown University Medical Center
1983 James Burke Associate Professor and Associate Director, Invasive and International Cardiology,
Department of Physiological Sciences, Pennsylvania College of Podiatry Medical
1983 Jeffrey Sprouse Senior Research Investigator, Pfizer Central Research
1984 Andrea Powell Pharmacologist, Federal Drug Administration
1984 Katharyn Spiegel Staff Scientist, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Division
1984 Robert J. Storella Jr. Asst. Professor of Neuroscience, Alleghany University, Health Science Department of Anesthesiology
1985 Miranda Hughes Editorial Staff, Annals of Internal Medicine
1986 Fred Askari Assistant Professor, University of  Michigan, School of Medicine
1986 Steven Weisman Manager, Scientific Information, Sterling Drug
1988 Ughetta Del Balzo Head, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Alliance Pharmaceutical Corporation
1988 Donna Robertson-Chow Senior Patent Agent, Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ
1992 Adam Dicker Resident, Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1992 Mingxia Li Postdoctoral Research Associate, American Cyanamid-Lederle Labs Oncology
1992 Mary E. McNerney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1992 Jose Walewski Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1992 Yuan-Shan Zhu Associate Professor of  Department Medicine and Associate Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical School of Cornell Univ.
1993 Lisa E. Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester
1994 Scott R. Schlemmer Physician, Lineberger Cancer Center
1995 Emine Ercikan Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1995 Tan Ince Associate Pathologist, Havard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
1995 Yang Xu Executive, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.
1996 Marina Brodsky Medical Director, Pfizer, Inc.
1996 Judy Hom Patent Attorney, University of San Francisco
1996 Min Liu Postodoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
1996 Cindy Taylor Eli Lilly, Indianapolis
1996 Youshi Tong Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1996 Sheila Westman Scientist, Curagen Pharmaceuticals
1996 Xipu Wu Intern, Department of Medicine, Albany Medical School
1997 George P. Brown Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1997 David Egan Research Scientist, Pharmaceutical Industry
1997 Mary M. Hoffman Instructor, MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine Dept. of Pharmacology & Physiology
1997 Youzhi Tong Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1997 Lawrence Weber Medical Student, CUMC
1997 Sheila Westman  
1998 Ron Bose Medical Student, School of Medicine/Barnes/Jewish Hospital, Washington University
1998 Gerald Donovan Research Scientist, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
1998 Qing Liu Medical Student, WMC
1998 Andrea Loconti Pharmaceutical Rep, Bayer Corporation
1998 Jeffrey Weisburg Assistant Professor of Biology, Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University
1998 Hong Wu Senior Research Technician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute
1998 Marie Quartarolo  
1998 Michelle Safer  
1999 Subham Basu Head of Cell Survival Signaling Laboratory, Cancer Research UK Molecular Oncology Unit
1999 Eric Gibson Chemist, DuPont
1999 Shengkan Jin Professor, Cancer in Institute, NJ
1999 Cynthia Lee Consultant, KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP
1999 John G. Luz Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
1999 Jian Shen Medical Student, WMC
1999 Etienne Sibille Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Dept. of Psychiatry
1999 Meeghan L. Sinclair Science Writer, Pfizer Inc.
1999 Efsevia Vakiani Medical Student, Department of Medicine, Columbia University
2000 Alexander Birk Postdoctoral Fellow, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical School of Cornell University
2000 Tom McAvoy Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Greengard's Lab, Rockefeller University
2000 Anne Myrthue Wright Research Associate, Oregon Health & Science University, Hematology & Medical Oncology
2000 Michelle Arndt  
2001 Howard Berman President of Pharmacodiagnostics, Toronto, ON
2001 Lian Chen Charles River Contract Research Specialist, Section on Metabolic Regulation, Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
2001 Thomas McAvoy Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University
2001 Wendy Roberts Postdoctoral Associate, The Rockefeller University
2001 Jing Zhu Field Research Scientist, Ciphergen Biosystems
2002 Gina Capiaux Regulatory and Clinical Affairs Coordinator, Dow Pharmaceuticals
2002 Francesca Domenech Financial Associate, Symphony Capital LLC
2002 Frank Leu Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. O'Donnell's Lab, Rockefeller University
2002 Wendy Su Medical and Scientific Affairs Associate, Robert A. Becker Euro Rscg
2002 Paul Moench Bristol Myers Squibb Oncology Research
2003 Andrea D. Basso Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Schering-Plough Research Institute, Department of Tumor Biology
2003 Debbie Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow
2003 Pellegrino Magro Scientific Director, MedLearning, Inc.
2003 Barbara Franklin  
2004 Angelo Russo Associate Medical Director/Medical Writer, Lowe Healthcare Company, Integrated Communications
2004 Tatiana Litvin Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer institute of NJ, Dr. Joe Bertino's Lab
2004 Jack Liao Postdoctoral Fellow, The Donaldson-Atwood Cancer Clinic, The Animal Medical Center
2004 John Biggins Researcher, University of Delaware, Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
2004 Monica Kolinsky Technology Specialist, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP
2004 Gang Hao Postdoctoral Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Dr. Steven Gross' Lab
2004 Mona Lee Associate Medical Director, Helix Medical Communications LLC, San Mateo, CA
2004 Juliana Xu Biotechnology Researcher, Agria Corporation, Beijing, China
2004 Nancy Skacel Residence
2005 Tsion Bilillign  
2005 Stewart Bullock Postdoctoral Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Dr. Hugh Hemmings' Lab
2005 Jian Chen Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA Cancer Center
2005 Maya Elbert  
2005 Jacob Lesniak  
2005 Christy Mannino Senior Editor/Medical Writer, Fission Communications
2005 Roshni Bhakta  
2005 Stephen Pitt Staff Scientist, Formulation Development, Drug Development Operations, Johnson & Johnson
2005 Ardesheer Talati Staff Associate, Columbia University, Radiology - Neurological Institute
2005 Jonathan Zippin  
2005 Alla Zarifyan Associate Medical Writer, Acumed
2006 James Chaloupka Associate Medical Director, BGB New York
2006 Garrett DeYulia, Jr. Scientist, Regulatory Affairs, Genentech, Inc.
2006 David Huron Director, Medical Strategies, CCG Metamedia, New York, NY
2006 Jaspreet Jaggi Associate Director, Oncology Development, Pfizer
2006 Vineet Jindal  
2006 Margarita Kamenetsky Technical Advisor/Law Clerk, Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
2006 Barry Kappel Student, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
2006 Sagun Kc  
2006 Gianina Panaghie Postdoctoral Scientist, PTC Therapeutics
2006 Karen Wu Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University Medical Center
2006 Huichun Zhan  
2007 Earl Gordon Postdoctoral Fellow, GSK
2007 Simne Langton Scientific Writer, Medicus International, New York, NY
2007 Jimmy Rotolo Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2007 Dan Su Postdoctoral Fellow, Chapel Hill, NC
2007 Amy Wong  
2007 Cristina Fernandez Scientific Associate, Ogilvy Healthworld, New York, NY
2007 Jeanne Farrell Licensing Assistant, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2007 Sandra Bruening  
2008 Alexander Stessin  
2008 Weisi Yan Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY