The vast majority of these students are currently completing their undergraduate degrees. 

Uchechi Asika - First nursing student accepted to the program. She plans to pursue a combined M.D. - Ph.D. degree

Andy Qiao - in medical school at New York University, in preparation to become an oncologist

Katie Impelman - GSBS student, starting 2024

Sydney Christensen - GSBS student, starting 2024

Ashley Suris - predoctoral student at Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology 

Vanessa Jones  - predoctoral student at Univestiy of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana 

Jenna Toohey - master's degree student at Liberty University

Connie Hou - laboratory technician, UMass Chan Medical School and a publication from her summer project with Han Xu, Ph.D.: Systematic decomposition of sequence determinants governing CRISPR/Cas9 specificity. Fu R, He W, Dou J, Villarreal OD, Bedford E, Wang H, Hou C, Zhang L, Wang Y, Ma D, Chen Y, Gao X, Depken M, Xu H. Nat Commun. 2022 Jan 25;13(1):474. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28028-x.PMID: 35078987

Esha Gupta - co-first author on publication based on her summer project with Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D.: Differential ETS1 binding to T:G mismatches within a CpG dinucleotide contributes to C-to-T somatic mutation rate of the IDH2 hotspot at codon Arg140. Yang J, Gupta E, Horton JR, Blumenthal RM, Zhang X, Cheng X. DNA Repair (Amst). 2022 May;113:103306. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2022.103306. PMID: 35255310

Avni Patel - authorship on Methyl-lysine readers PHF20 and PHF20L1 define two distinct gene expression-regulating NSL complexes. Van HT, Harkins PR, Patel A, Jain AK, Lu Y, Bedford MT, Santos MA. J Biol Chem. 2022 Mar;298(3):101588. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101588. Epub 2022 Jan 14.PMID: 35033534

Lance Babcock - M.D.., Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) and co-authored a paper based on his summer research in the laboratory of Taiping Chen, Ph.D.: The inactive Dnmt3b3 isoform preferentially enhances Dnmt3b-mediated DNA methylation. Zeng Y, Ren R, Kaur G, Hardikar S, Ying Z, Babcock L, Gupta E, Zhang X, Chen T, Cheng X.Genes Dev. 2020 Nov 1;34(21-22):1546-1558. 

Caymee Bigham - Medical Technologist, Texas Departmet of State Health Services

Kara Cirillo - Ph.D. student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine paper. Prior to starting graduate school, she worked as a technician in her SPCR lab and as a technician, contributed to three papers:  1)  Landscape of MicroRNA Regulatory Network Architecture and Functional Rerouting in Cancer. Hua X, Li Y, Pentaparthi SR, McGrail DJ, Zou R, Guo L, Shrawat A, Cirillo KM, Li Q, Bhat A, Xu M, Qi D, Singh A, McGrath F, Andrews S, Aung KL, Das J, Zhou Y, Lodi A, Mills GB, Eckhardt SG, Mendillo ML, Tiziani S, Wu E, Huang JH, Sahni N, Yi SS. Cancer Res. 2023 Jan 4;83(1):59-73; 2)  Biomolecular Condensation: A New Phase in Cancer Research. Chakravarty AK, McGrail DJ, Lozanoski TM, Dunn BS, Shih DJH, Cirillo KM, Cetinkaya SH, Zheng WJ, Mills GB, Yi SS, Jarosz DF, Sahni N. Cancer Discov. 2022 Sep 2;12(9):2031-2043; 3)  mi-IsoNet: systems-scale microRNA landscape reveals rampant isoform-mediated gain of target interaction diversity and signaling specificity. Guo L, Li Y, Cirillo KM, Marick RA, Su Z, Yin X, Hua X, Mills GB, Sahni N, Yi SS. Brief Bioinform. 2021 Sep 2;22(5):bbab091. 

Sierra Cole - Ph.D. student at University of North Carolina

Oishika Das - medical student at Johns Hopkins University

Alexandra Flegle - Ph.D. student at Emory University

McKenna Flynn - Ph.D. student at University of Texas, Austin

Apoorva Kakkilaya - Ph.D. student at University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

Ladan Navari -medical student at The Ohio State University paper

Anish Patel - medical student at UT Health San Antonio who co-authored a manuscript based on his SPCR project in the laboratory of Han Xu, Ph.D.: De novo identification of essential protein domains from CRISPR-Cas9 tiling-sgRNA knockout screens. He W, Zhang L, Villarreal OD, Fu R, Bedford E, Dou J, Patel AY, Bedford MT, Shi X, Chen T, Bartholomew B, Xu H. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 4;10(1):4541.

Venus Stanton - Ph.D. student at University of Texas San Antonio

Analine Aguayo - Ph.D. student University of California San Diego (UCSD), HHMI Gilliam and UCSD Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow

Madeline Alpar Corcoran - M.S. in Genetic Counseling from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The Univeristy of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, Certified Genetic Counselor (CGC) with Prenatal Genetic Counsellor, Pediatrix Medical Group

Sophia Alvarez - Ph.D. student, University of Texas-Dallas

Guy Bedford - Ph.D. student, Rice University

Honorine Destain - Ph.D. student, University of Chicago. Was co-author on a paper with the laboratory of Francesca Cole, Ph.D.: Genetic dissection of crossover mutants defines discrete intermediates in mouse meiosis. Premkumar T, Paniker L, Kang R, Biot M, Humphrey E, Destain H, Ferranti I, Okulate I, Nguyen H, Kilaru V, Frasca M, Chakraborty P, Cole F. Mol Cell. 2023 Aug 17;83(16):2941-2958.e7.

Roshni Jaffery - Ph.D. student, University of Houston. Has co-published two papers with faculty in the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis. Integrated multi-omics analyses identify anti-viral host factors and pathways controlling SARS-CoV-2 infection. Hou J, Wei Y, Zou J, Jaffery R, Sun L, Liang S, Zheng N, Guerrero AM, Egan NA, Bohat R, Chen S, Zheng C, Mao X, Yi SS, Chen K, McGrail DJ, Sahni N, Shi PY, Chen Y, Xie X, Peng W.Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 2;15(1):109.; MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitors enhance T cell-mediated antitumor activity in MTAP-loss tumors. Chen S, Hou J, Jaffery R, Guerrero A, Fu R, Shi L, Zheng N, Bohat R, Egan NA, Yu C, Sharif S, Lu Y, He W, Wang S, Gjuka D, Stone EM, Shah PA, Rodon Ahnert J, Chen T, Liu X, Bedford MT, Xu H, Peng W.

Kathleen Klinzing - M.D., Ph.D. student, Medical University of South Carolina

Bradon Oldham - M.D, Ph.D. student, Medical University of South Carolina

Chandana Ramamohan - M.D., Ph.D. student, Medical University of South Carolina

Justin Roach - medical student, Texas Tech Univestiy

Justine Shih - Ph.D. student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Allison Woods - Ph.D. student, University of North Carolina. Presented at Society of Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).

Melissa Frasca - Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Francesca Cole, Ph.D., the lab where she conducted her summer research project. Co-authored a paper: Genetic dissection of crossover mutants defines discrete intermediates in mouse meiosis. Premkumar T, Paniker L, Kang R, Biot M, Humphrey E, Destain H, Ferranti I, Okulate I, Nguyen H, Kilaru V, Frasca M, Chakraborty P, Cole F. Mol Cell. 2023 Aug 17;83(16):2941-2958.e7. 

Karla Guerra - Ph.D. student at Northwestern University. Published a paper in the laboratory of  Sharon Dent Ph.D.: Repression of GCN5 expression or activity attenuates c-MYC expression in non-small cell lung cancer. Mustachio LM, Roszik J, Farria AT, Guerra K, Dent SY. Am J Cancer Res. 2019 Aug 1;9(8):1830-1845.Zachary Heidrick - medical student at Northwestern University

Sarang Janakiraman - medical student at Loyola Univesity

Lindsay Kendall - earned an M.S. from University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) and is a Licensed, Certified Genetic Counselor on the faculty at UAB

Lorie Leyva - works as a biomedical research technician 

Cuyler Luck - Ph.D. student at University of California San Francisco

Phoebe Moh - is an Associate Software Engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She co-authored a paper based on her summer research in the laboratory of  Han Xu, Ph.D.: PRMT1 loss sensitizes cells to PRMT5 inhibition. Gao G, Zhang L, Villarreal OD, He W, Su D, Bedford E, Moh P, Shen J, Shi X, Bedford MT, Xu H.Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jun 4;47(10):5038-5048.

Justin Roach - medical student at Texas Tech University

Caroline Settle - Ph.D. student at University of North Carolina

David Aghado - medical student at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas

Suhani Bhakta - M.B.A. from Texas A&M Univeristy and is a Medical Technologist at the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs in Corpus Christi, Texas

Sebastian Bedford - senior engineer at Samsung Austin Semiconductor

Michael Chen - nursing student at The University of Texas Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation

Usman Hyder - Ph.D. from UT Southwestern Medical Center, and is currently an NIH/NCI K00 Fellow at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Shelby King - Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois

Gita Lakshminarayanan - medical student at University of Florida

Taylor Nesbit - M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate and Team Lead at Allen & Associates Therapy Group

Jennifer Nwosu - Pharm.D. from Texas A&M University, is a registered pharmacist (RPh), and post-doctoral fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at Genentech

David Bazaga - M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, from Imperial College, now Product Lead at Quibim, in Madrid, Spain

Tyler Fields - M.D. from Texas A&M and is a resident with HCA Healthcare

Mikalah Gribbel - M.D. from Michigen State and is currently a resident at University of Kentucky. She co-authored a paper based on her summer research in the laboratory of Francesca Cole, Ph.D.: Age-Dependent Alterations in Meiotic Recombination Cause Chromosome Segregation Errors in Spermatocytes. Zelazowski MJ, Sandoval M, Paniker L, Hamilton HM, Han J, Gribbell MA, Kang R, Cole F. Cell. 2017 Oct 19;171(3):601-614.e13. 

Jiaying Han -  Ph.D. from UCLA in Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and is currently Associate Director, Corporate Development, at Kriya Therapeutics. She co-authored a paper based on her summer research in the laboratory of Francesca Cole, Ph.D. Age-Dependent Alterations in Meiotic Recombination Cause Chromosome Segregation Errors in Spermatocytes. Zelazowski MJ, Sandoval M, Paniker L, Hamilton HM, Han J, Gribbell MA, Kang R, Cole F. Cell. 2017 Oct 19;171(3):601-614.e13. 

Yesha Shah - M.D. from Johns Hopkins University, where she is currently a resident.

Blake Smithson - M.S. from UT Health San Antonio in Personalized Molecular Medicine.  Works as a Senior Research Technician in the Institute of Surgical Research, U.S. Army.