IMP graduates have successfully embarked upon a variety of careers, including as academic faculty positions and researchers in industry. Below is a representation of some of our IMP alumni, their current positions, and the lab they trained in as a graduate student at WCGS from over the years:

Name | Current Position | Lab |
---|---|---|
John MacMicking, PhD | Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunobiology, HHMI Investigator | Carl Nathan |
Xiaoyu Hu, PhD | Professor, Tsinghua University (China) | Lionel Ivashkiv |
Cynthia Leifer, PhD | Professor, Cornell University | Carl Nathan |
Utthara Nayar , PhD | Professor, Johns Hopkins University | Ethel Cesarman |
Alexander Ploss, PhD | Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences, Princeton University | Eric Pamer (Now at Univ. Of Chicago) |
Michael Shiloh, PhD | Associate Professor, UT Southwestern | Carl Nathan |
Aimee Beaulieu, PhD | Assistant Professor & Chancelor Scholar, Rutgers Medical School | Carl Nathan |
Minkyung Song, PhD | Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan Univ (Korea) | Juan Cubillos-Ruiz |
Katherine Hisert, M.D, PhD | Assistant Professor at National Jewish Health | Carl Nathan |
Robert Samstein, M.D., PhD | Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncologist, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Alexander Rudensky |
Ruth Franklin, PhD | Assistant Prof., Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University | Ming Li |
Sungho Park, PhD | Assistant Professor, UNIST (Korea) | Lionel Ivashkiv |
Rachel Gottschalk, PhD | Assistant Prof., Integrative Systems Biology, Dept. of Immunology, Univ. of Pittsburgh | Jim Allison (now at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center) |
Kang Chen, PhD | Professor, Wayne State University | Andrea Cerutti (now at Mount Sinai) |
Joris van der Veeken, PhD | Assistant Professor, IMP (Austria) | Alexander Rudensky |
Clarissa Campbell, PhD | Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Med (Austria) | Alexander Rudensky |
Jen Oyler, PhD | Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School | Gregoire Altan-Bonnet(now at NIH) |
Kyuho Kang, PhD | Assistant Professor, Chungbuk University (Korea) | Lionel Ivashkiv |
Virginia Pedicord, PhD | Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge (UK) | Jim Allison (now at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center) |
Jennifer Small Saunders, M.D., PhD | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University | Sabine Ehrt |
Sheetal Gandotra, PhD | Assistant Professor, CSIR-IGIB New Delhi (India) | Sabine Ehrt |
Gregory St John, PhD | Therapeutic Area Lead, Dermatology US Medical Affairs at AbbVie | Carl Nathan |
Omar Vandal, PhD | Principal Technologist, Accelerator, Gates Foundation | Sabine Ehrt |
Jenny Tzeng | Associate Director, Bioscience Immunology, AstraZeneca | Theresa Lu |
Younghwa Kim, M.D., PhD | Sr Director Clinical Science, Early Clinical Oncology, AstraZeneca | Carl Nathan |
Jessica Schneider, PhD | Chief Scientific Officer, Corundum Systems Biology | Michael Glickman |
Shuangping Shi, PhD | Associate Vice President, Head of Biologics Process Research & Development, Merck | Sabine Ehrt |
Kan Lin, PhD | Managing Director, Hankang Capital (China) | Sabine Ehrt |
Joon Seok Park, PhD | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago | Alexander Tarakhovsky & Alexander Rudensky |
Rachel Niec, M.D. PhD | Assistant Attending Physician, Assistant Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Weill Cornell Graduate School | Alexander Rudensky |
Gabriel Loeb, M.D., PhD | Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF | Alexander Rudensky |