Alumni

The QCB training program now boasts 17 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. Ed Basom

Thielges group (supported 2013-14)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2017

Current position: Integration Device Yield Engineer, Intel


Dr. Andrew Eliott

Shaw group (supported 2014-15)

Ph.D., Biology, 2017

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


Dr. Zachary Harms

Jacobson group (supported 2011-12)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2014

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


Dr. Rachel Horness

Thielges group (supported 2014-15)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2018

Current position: Lecturer, Indiana University


Dr. John Lisher

Giedroc group (supported 2010-11)

Ph.D., Biochemistry, 2016

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


Dr. Andrey Malyutin

Dragnea group (supported 2011-12)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2014

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


Dr. Paul Marcyk

Cook group (supported 2015-17)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2019

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


Dr. Amilcar Perez

Winkler group (supported 2015-16)

Ph.D., Biology, 2019

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


Dr. Sashary Ramos

Thielges group (supported 2017-18)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2020

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


Dr. Chelsea Rintelmann

Pohl group (supported 2016-18)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2020

Current position: Postdoctoral Scientist, Food and Drug Administration


Dr. Britta Rued

Giedroc and Winkler groups (supported 2014-15)

Ph.D., Microbiology, 2018

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


Dr. Lucy Sanchez

Yu group (supported 2014-16)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2018

Current position: Chemist, SJ Johnson


Dr. Ekaterina Selivanovitch

Douglas group (Supported 2018 – 2019)

PhD, Chemistry, 2021

Current Position:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Daniels Lab, Cornell University


Dr. Brady Strittmatter

Hollenhorst group (supported 2016-2018)

Ph.D, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2021

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


Dr. Allison Vickman

Pohl group (supported 2015-16)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2018

Current position: Update coming


Dr. Brenna Walsh

Giedroc group (Supported 2017 – 2019)

PhD, Chemistry, 2021

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


Dr. Elizabeth Yuill

Baker group (supported 2013-14)

Ph.D., Chemistry, 2017

Current position: Research Investigator, Bristol-Myers Squibb


Dr. Rachel Fadler

Flood group

Ph.D., Chemistry

Current position: Law Student at Wayne State


Dr. Brooke Brown

Clemmer group

Ph.D., Chemistry

Current position: Principal Scientist at Novartis


Dr. Julie Button

Mukhopadhyay lab

Ph.D., Biochemistry

Current position: Senior Scientist at Pfizer


Dr. Francis Roushar

Schelbach group

Ph.D., Chemical Biology

Current position: Postdoc at the National Institutes of Health


Dr. Stephen Ratvasky

Zaleski group

Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry

Current position:


Dr. Mallory Kern

Pohl group

Ph.D., Chemistry

Current position: Lecturer at Purdue University


Dr. JB Holmes

Dragnea group

Ph.D., Physics

Current position: Interviewing for industry


Dr. Matthew Jordan

Geidroc group

Ph.D., Biochemistry

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


Dr. Lily Klapper

VanNieuwenhze group

Ph.D., Chemistry

Current position: NIH/NCI Postdoctoral fellow