Alumni

The QCB training program now boasts 29 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. Yasmine Zubi

Lewis group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2018-2024 (QCB support 2019-2021)

Current position: Applying to Law School


Dr. Jessie Gudorf

VanNieuwenhze group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2018-2023 (QCB support 2021)

Current position: Peptide Process Chemist at Eli Lilly


Dr. Rachel Fadler

Flood group

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: NIH/NCI Postdoctoral fellow


Dr. Matthew Jordan

Giedroc group

Ph.D., Biochemistry

2017-2022 (QCB support 2018-2020)

Current position: Postdoc in the Turchi lab at IU School of Medicine


Dr. JB Holmes

Dragnea group

Ph.D., Physics

2015-2022 (QCB support 2017-2018)

Current position: Interviewing for industry


Dr. Mallory Kern

Pohl group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2016-2022 (QCB support 2018-2019)

Current position: Lecturer at Purdue University


Dr. Francis Roushar

Schelbach group

Ph.D., Chemical Biology

2016-2021 (QCB support 2017-2019)

Current position: Postdoc at the National Institutes of Health


Dr. Julie Button

Mukhopadhyay lab

Ph.D., Biochemistry

2015-2021 (QCB support 2016-2018)

Current position: Senior Scientist at Pfizer


Dr. Brooke Brown

Clemmer group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2017-2021 (QCB support 2018-2020)

Current position: Principal Scientist at Novartis


Dr. Brady Strittmatter

Hollenhorst group

Ph.D, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2015-2021 (QCB support 2016-2018)

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Meeks Lab, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine


Dr. Ekaterina Selivanovitch

Douglas group

PhD, Chemistry

2016-2021 (QCB support 2018-2019)

Current Position:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Daniels Lab, Cornell University


Dr. Brenna Walsh

Giedroc group

PhD, Chemistry

2016-2021 (QCB support 2017-2019)

Current Position:  Postdoctoral Researcher, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory


Dr. Sashary Ramos

Thielges group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2015-2020 (QCB support 2017-2018)

Current position: RESOLV Postdoc, Havenith Lab, Ruhr University Bochum


Dr. Chelsea Rintelmann

Pohl group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2015-2020 (QCB support 2016-2018)

Current position: Postdoctoral Scientist, Food and Drug Administration


Dr. Christopher Schlicksup

Zlotnick Group

Ph.D., Biochemistry

2014-2020 (QCB support 2017-2018)

Current position: Postdoc, Chang Lab, University of California, San Francisco


Dr. Amilcar Perez

Winkler group

Ph.D., Biology

2013-2019 (QCB support 2015-2016)

Current position: Postdoc, Chang Lab, University of California, San Francisco


Dr. Paul Marcyk

Cook group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2014-2019 (QCB support 2015-2017)

Current position: Postdoc, Center for Molecular Discovery, Boston University


Dr. Rachel Horness

Thielges group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2013-2018 (QCB support 2014-2015)

Current position: Lecturer, Indiana University


Dr. Britta Rued

Giedroc and Winkler groups

Ph.D., Microbiology

2013-2018 (QCB support 2014-2016)

Current position: Postdoc, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois


Dr. Lucy Sanchez

Yu group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2013-2018 (QCB support 2014-2016)

Current position: Chemist, SJ Johnson


Dr. Allison Vickman

Pohl group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2013-2018 (QCB support 2015-2016)

Current position: Update coming


Dr. Andrew Eliott

Shaw group

Ph.D., Biology

2012-2017 (QCB support 2014-2015)

Current position: Postdoc, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah


Dr. Ed Basom

Thielges group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2012-2017 (QCB support 2013-2014)

Current position: Integration Device Yield Engineer, Intel


Dr. Elizabeth Yuill

Baker group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2012-2017 (QCB supoort 2013-2014)

Current position: Research Investigator, Bristol-Myers Squibb


Dr. John Lisher

Giedroc group

Ph.D., Biochemistry

2009-2016 (QCB support 2010-2011)

Current position: Postdoctoral Scientist, Novartis Global Discovery Chemistry, Cambridge


Dr. Zachary Harms

Jacobson group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2009-2014 (QCB support 2011-2012)

Current Position: Research Scientist, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis


Dr. Andrey Malyutin

Dragnea group

Ph.D., Chemistry

2009-2014 (QCB support 2011-2012)

Current position: Cryo-EM Facility Co-Director, Caltech