Vakoc lab – PI, PhD students, Postdocs
Larissa de Almeida
Technician
Patrick Cunniff
PhD student
Santiago Espinosa
PhD student
Connor Fitzpatrick
PhD student
Yuan Gao
Postdoc
Vahag Kechejian
PhD student
Olaf Klingbeil
Postdoc
Joseph Milazzo
Lab Manager
Sujay Pal
Postdoc
Liam Shanley
PhD student
Damianos Skopelitis
Research Investigator
Katie Tam
PhD student
Kamil Taneja
PhD student
Yuanting Wang
Postdoc
Toyoki Yoshimoto
Postdoc
Genetic Screening Core
Kenneth Chang
Research Associate Professor and
Head of the Functional Genomics Core
Osama El Demerdash
Functional Genomics Core
Bioinformatics
Kaarina Hanington
Functional Genomics Core
Research Technician
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
Anand Bhagwat (MD/PhD student from 2012-2016)- > Heme/Onc Fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Junwei Shi (PhD student from 2010-2016) -> Assistant 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) -> Investigator at Novartis
Shinpei Kawaoka (postdoc from 2012-2013) -> Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Japan
Jae-Seek Roe (postdoc from 2012-2018) -> Assistant 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) -> 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 UAB