Chemistry-Biology Interface Program
Quantitative and Chemical Biology
Earn a PhD in the best of both worlds.
Graduate training in chemical and physical biology.
Alumni
The QCB training program now boasts 31 successful alumni since inception (2011) who are engaged in careers in college or university teaching, postdoctoral research in top-flight academic and industrial laboratories, and in the software and pharmaceutical industries.
Dr. Abigail Garrett
Ph.D., Microbiology
2017-2024 (QCB support 2019-2021)
Current position: Postdoc in the Stallings lab at WashU School of Medicine
Dr. Ria Kidner
Ph.D., Chemistry
2019-2024 (QCB support 2020-2022)
Current position: Postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Brigham Pope
Ph.D., Chemistry
2019-2024 (QCB support 2020-2022)
Current position: Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratory
Dr. Yasmine Zubi
Ph.D., Chemistry
2018-2024 (QCB support 2019-2021)
Current position: Specialist Auditor at Scale AI
Dr. Jessie Gudorf
VanNieuwenhze group
Ph.D., Chemistry
2018-2023 (QCB support 2021)
Current position: Peptide Process Chemist at Eli Lilly
Dr. Rachel Fadler
Ph.D., Chemistry
2017-2022 (QCB support 2018-2020)
Current position: Law Student at Wayne State
Dr. Lily Klapper
VanNieuwenhze group
Ph.D., Chemistry
2017-2022 (QCB support 2018-2020)
Current position: Senior Scientist at Pfizer
Dr. Matthew Jordan
Ph.D., Biochemistry
2017-2022 (QCB support 2018-2020)
Current position: Postdoc in the Turchi lab at IU School Medicine
Dr. JB Holmes
Ph.D., Physics
2015-2022 (QCB support 2017-2018)
Current position: Senior Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Dr. Mallory Kern
Ph.D., Chemistry
2016-2022 (QCB support 2018-2019)
Current position: Lecturer at Purdue University
Dr. Francis Roushar
Schelbach group
Ph.D., Chemistry
2016-2021 (QCB support 2017-2019)
Current position: Research Scientist at Remedy Plan Therapeutics
Dr. Julie Button
Ph.D., Biochemistry
2015-2021 (QCB support 2016-2018)
Current position: Senior Scientist at Pfizer
Dr. Brooke Brown
Ph.D., Chemistry
2017-2021 (QCB support 2018-2020)
Current position: Principal Scientist at Novartis
Dr. Brady Strittmatter
Ph.D, Biochemistry
2015-2021 (QCB support 2016-2018)
Current position: Scientific Product Manager at VectorBuild
Dr. Ekaterina Selivanovitch
PhD, Chemistry
2016-2021 (QCB support 2018-2019)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Daniels Lab, Cornell University
Dr. Brenna Walsh
PhD, Chemistry
2016-2021 (QCB support 2017-2019)
Current Position: Senior Scientist, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Sashary Ramos
Ph.D., Chemistry
2015-2020 (QCB support 2017-2018)
Current position: Postdoc at the NIH/NHLBI
Dr. Chelsea Rintelmann
Ph.D., Chemistry
2015-2020 (QCB support 2016-2018)
Current position: Postdoctoral Scientist, Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Christopher Schlicksup
Ph.D., Biochemistry
2014-2020 (QCB support 2017-2018)
Current position: Postdoc in the Adams lab at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Amilcar Perez
Ph.D., Biology
2013-2019 (QCB support 2015-2016)
Current position: Postdoc in the Xiao lab at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Paul Marcyk
Ph.D., Chemistry
2014-2019 (QCB support 2015-2017)
Current position: Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca
Dr. Rachel Horness
Ph.D., Chemistry
2013-2018 (QCB support 2014-2015)
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Carleton College
Dr. Britta Rued
Ph.D., Microbiology
2013-2018 (QCB support 2014-2016)
Current position: Assistant Professor of Vet Microbiology & Preventive Medicine at Iowa State University
Dr. Lucy Sanchez
Yu group
Ph.D., Chemistry
2013-2018 (QCB support 2014-2016)
Current position: Chemist, SJ Johnson
Dr. Allison Vickman
Ph.D., Chemistry
2013-2018 (QCB support 2015-2016)
Current position: Lead Program Analyst at EviCore by Evernorth
Dr. Andrew Eliott
Ph.D., Biology
2012-2017 (QCB support 2014-2015)
Current position: Director of Clinical and Translational Medicine and Affairs at Caris Life Sciences
Dr. Ed Basom
Ph.D., Chemistry
2012-2017 (QCB support 2013-2014)
Current position: Integration Device Yield Engineer, Intel
Dr. Elizabeth Yuill
Ph.D., Chemistry
2012-2017 (QCB supoort 2013-2014)
Current position: Senior Principal Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dr. John Lisher
Ph.D., Biochemistry
2009-2016 (QCB support 2010-2011)
Current position: Senior Scientist at TRIANA Biomedicines
Dr. Zachary Harms
Ph.D., Chemistry
2009-2014 (QCB support 2011-2012)
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist at Eli Lilly & Co.
Dr. Andrey Malyutin
Ph.D., Chemistry
2009-2014 (QCB support 2011-2012)
Current position: Structural Biology Scientist at Takeda Pharmaceutical