Vakoc lab – PI, PhD students, Postdocs

Chris Vakoc

Principal Investigator

Professor

Larissa de Almeida

Technician

Patrick Cunniff

Ph.D. student

Santiago Espinosa

Ph.D. student

Connor Fitzpatrick

Ph.D. student

Dalia Hassan

Postdoc

Vahag Kechejian

Ph.D. student

Olaf Klingbeil

Postdoc

Joseph Milazzo

Lab Manager

Sujay Pal

Postdoc

Liam Shanley

Ph.D. student

Damianos Skopelitis

Research Investigator

Katie Tam

Ph.D. student

Kamil Taneja

Ph.D. student

Daniel Toobian

Ph.D. student

Yuanting Wang

Postdoc

Toyoki Yoshimoto

Postdoc

Vakoc lab alumni

Eric Wang (research technician from 2008-2015) -> PhD student at NYU -> Assistant Professor at the Jackson Laboratory

Jessica Minder (research technician from 2013-2015) -> PhD student at NYU -> postdoc at Berkeley

Anand Bhagwat (MD/PhD student from 2012-2016)- > Heme/Onc Fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Junwei Shi (PhD student from 2010-2016) -> Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania

Anja Hohmann (PhD student from 2012-2016) ->Senior Scientist at KSQ Therapeutics -> Director of Cell Therapies, Be Biopharma

Chen Shen (PhD student from 2012-2016) -> Senior Scientist at Pfizer

Yali Xu (PhD student from 2013-2018) -> Senior Scientist at Novartis

Shinpei Kawaoka (postdoc from 2012-2013) -> Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Japan

Jae-Seek Roe (postdoc from 2012-2018) -> Associate Professor at Yonsei University

Yusuke Tarumoto (postdoc from 2015-2019) -> Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Japan

Tim Somerville (postdoc 2015-2019) -> Investigator II at Novartis

Lukas Benjamin (research technician 2018-2019) -> technician at Regeneron

Bin Lu (postdoc 2015-2020) -> Research Associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Yiliang Wei (postdoc 2016-2020) -> Scientist II at Syros Pharmaceuticals

Stella Hur (postdoc 2017-2021) -> Senior Scientist at Loxo Oncology

Zhaolin Yang (postdoc 2016-2021) -> Research Scientist at Broad Institute

Sofya Polyanskaya (PhD student from 2016-2021) -> Consultant for Scitaris

Yuhan Huang (postdoc 2015-2021) -> Senior Scientist at Flare Therapeutics

Xiaoli Wu (PhD student 2016-2023) -> postdoc at Harvard

Martyna Sroka (PhD student 2017-2023) -> Scientist at Relay Therapeutics

Cristian Cleary (PhD student 2018-2023) -> Clinical rotations Stony Brook MD/PhD Program

Diogo Maia-Silva (PhD student 2018-2023) -> postdoc at MGH

Aktan Alpsoy (postdoc 2020-2023) -> senior postdoc at ICR, London

Benan Nalbant (research technician 2021-2023) -> Sr Research Technician at MSKCC

Jynelle Liverpool (research technician 2021-2023) -> PhD student at Baylor

Pramod Kumar (postdoc 2012-2023) -> Scientist III at UAB

Yuan Gao (postdoc 2018-2024) -> Assistant Professor at Case Western University