Bill Chen
PhD Student
Mentor: Jessilyn Dunn
Department: BME
Yaqing Huang
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Sharon Gerecht
Department: BME
Andrea Jones
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Tatiana Segura
Department: BME
Rachel Strader
PhD Student
Mentor: Ashutosh Chilkoti
Department: BME
Nicholas Whitticar
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Christopher Newgard
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Beverly deSouza
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Matthew Hirschey
Department: Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health
Aigin Heydari
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Ravi Karra
Department: Cell and Molecular Biology
Sarah Little
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Daniel Schmitt
Department: Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Evolutionary Anthropology
Hailey Napier
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Craig Lowe
Department: Cell and Molecular Biology
Annelise Poss
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Deborah Muoio
Department: School of Medicine, Molecular Physiology Institute
Jia Wen
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: John Rawls
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Taylor Anglen
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Charles Gersbach
Department: Cell Biology
Ammara Aqeel
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Lawrence David
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Ilaria Merutka
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Nishad Jayasundara
Department: Nicholas School of the Environment, Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health
Srishti Sadhir
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Evolutionary Anthropology
Department: Herman Pontzer
Kevin Shores
PhD Candidate
Mentor: George Truskey
Department: Pratt School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Rohan Bhattacharya
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Samira Musah
Department: Pratt School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Apoorva Iyengar
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Timothy Reddy
Department: Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Ke Zoe Shan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Huanghe Yang
Department: Biochemistry
Parul Sirohi
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Ashutosh Chilkoti
Department: Pratt School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Xirui Song
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Bruce Sullenger
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Dilara Anbarci
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Blanche Capel
Department: Cell Biology
Emmanuela Bonglack
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Micah Luftig
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Tong Chen
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Karl-Dimiter Bissig
Department: Pediatrics
Marissa Guttenberg
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Robert Tighe
Department: Pulmonary & Critical Care/Environment
Madeline Hemmingsen
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Karl-Dimiter Bissig
Department: Genetics & Genomics
Wenxin Tong
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Mark A. Herman
Department: Endocrinology
Kaitlin Kiernan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Nancie MacIver
Department: Pediatrics
Diana Li
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Jatin Roper
Department: Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology Division
Yihan Liao
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Matthew J. Hilton
Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Matthew Ruis
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Heather Stapleton
Department: Nicholas School of the Environment
Fei Sun
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kenneth Poss
Department: Cell Biology
Alexis Waddail, PhD (Ceasrine)
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Staci Bilbo
Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Wei Duan
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Dennis Abraham
Department: Cardiology
Jason Long
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Matthew Hilton
Department: Orthopaedics
Nora Spencer Peterson
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Donald Fox
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Hongyuan (Hazel) Zhang
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Ben Alman
Department: Orthopaedics
In 2018, the Cardiovascular Disease, Nutrition & Metabolism, and the Endocrine & Bone Scholars Programs were joined to form the Duke Scholars in Endocrine and Cardiometabolic Disease Program. The track became Duke Scholars in Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Disease (DSEC).
Vaibhav Kakkad
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Gregg Trahey
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Taylor Orr
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Chris Kontos
Department: Pharmacology and Molecular Cancer Biology
Brandon Schickling
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Francis Miller
Department: Cardiology
Hasan Abbas
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Christopher Kontos
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Ruwan Gunaratne
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Bruce Sullenger
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology/MSTP
MengMeng Xu
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Chris Counter
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology/MSTP
Sarah E. Wetzel-Strong
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Douglas Marchuk
Department: MGM
Adejoke Ojewole
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Bruce Donald
Department: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Angelo C. Moreno
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Bruce Sullenger
Department: MGM
Akshay Bareja
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Victor Dzau
Department: Cardiology
Aaron Goldman
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kenneth Poss
Department: Cell Biology
Maryam Vejdani-Jahromi
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Patrick Wolfe
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Kathleen Hershberger
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Matthew Hirschey
Department: Pharmacology
Wen-Yee Choi
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Kenneth Poss
Department: Cell Biology
Erin Elizabeth Soule
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Bruce Sullenger
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Anna Luise Keyte
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Mary Hutson
Department: Pediatrics
David Gerard Ousterout, Jr.
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Charles A Gersbach
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Hikmat Nassralla Daghestani
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Virginia Kraus
Department: Medicine, Rheumatology & Immunology
Josh Doherty
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Gregg Trahey
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Brett Byram
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Gregg Trahey
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Hao Tang
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Doug Marchuk
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Chris Grigsby
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kam Leong
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Peter Hollender
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Gregg Trahey
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Dave McDonald
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Doug Marchuk
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Yazan Alwarawrah
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Nancie MacIver
Department: Pediatrics
Sarah Gray
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Dave D'Alessio
Department: Endocrinology & Metabolism
Jonathan Warren
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Nancie MacIver
Department: Pediatrics
Kelly Luginbuhl
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Ashutosh Chilkoti
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Lifeng Yuan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Xiao-Fan Wang
Department: Pharmacology
Jonathan Douros II
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: David D’Alessio, M.D.
Department: Endocrinology/DMPI
Angelical S. Martin
PhD Student
Mentor: Matt Hirschey
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Parisa Yousef
PhD Student
Mentor: Ashutosh Chilkoti
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Tiffani White
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Susan Gurley
Department: Nephrology
Lu Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Chris Newgard
Department: DMPI
Jonathan Halderman
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Chris Newgard
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Brett Peterson
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Chris Newgard
Department: Pharmacology
Gregg Wagner
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Chris Newgard
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Kelly Lindblom
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Sally Kornbluth
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Michael Davies
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Deborah Muoio
Department: Pharmacology
Frank Khan Huynh
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Matthew Hirschey
Department: Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center
Erica Seager Johnson
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Sally Kornbluth
Department: Molecular Cancer Biology
Valerie Tornini
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Ken Poss
Department: Cell Biology
Val Gerriets
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Jeff Rathmell
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Antonio Chavez
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Scott Summers
Department: Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center
Andrew Macintyre
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Jeff Rathmell
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Kristi Norris
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Tso-Pang Yao
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Kari Wong
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Deb Muoio
Department: Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center