During the first year of study, our students complete several courses along with participating in journal club and laboratory rotations. They begin their full-time dissertation research at the beginning of their second year.
First-Year Students

aminp2@sloankettering.edu
BS, Rutgers University; Cancer Engineering

arkinh@sloankettering.edu
BA, Wheaton College; Cancer Biology

bravop1@sloankettering.edu
BA, Carleton College; Cancer Biology

closet1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Oregon State University; Cancer Engineering

cuevasb1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Columbia University; Cancer Engineering
Mentor: Michael Overholtzer

daras1@sloankettering.edu
BS, California Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering

deepa2@sloankettering.edu
BS, Albany College of Pharmacy; Cancer Biology

ikemota1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Engineering

jiaoz2@sloankettering.edu
BS, McGill University; Cancer Biology

laflecb@sloankettering.edu
BA, Colgate University; Cancer Biology

lahmadl1@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Vermont; Cancer Biology

liuz7@sloankettering.edu
BS, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering

lur1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Biology

mcquilc2@sloankettering.edu
BS, UCLA; Cancer Biology

nelsonj6@sloankettering.edu
BA, UC Berkeley; Cancer Biology

nunezj7@sloankettering.edu
BS, Yale University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Charles M. Rudin

pratte2@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of New Hampshire; Cancer Biology

quraism1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Pennsylvania State University; Cancer Biology

rodrd11@sloankettering.edu
BS, Oregon State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Piro Lito

rosua@sloankettering.edu
BS, Johns Hopkins University; Cancer Engineering

sahnis1@sloankettering.edu
BS, McGill University; Cancer Biology

saldana1@sloankettering.edu
BA, Wellesley College; Cancer Biology

serrane2@sloankettering.edu
BS, Harvard University; Cancer Engineering

sharifn1@mskcc.org
BS, Northeastern University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alban Ordureau

sulliva@sloankettering.edu
BS, SUNY Binghamton; Cancer Engineering

sverdle1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Princeton University; Cancer Engineering

vasandm1@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Rochester; Cancer Biology

vegasi1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Johns Hopkins University; Cancer Biology

velaa2@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology

wangh8@sloankettering.edu
BA, Smith College; Cancer Biology

wangs22@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology

wenn1@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology

yeeg2@sloankettering.edu
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cancer Engineering

zhangn4@sloankettering.edu
BS, Case Western Reserve University; Cancer Engineering

zhangy14@sloankettering.edu
BS, UCLA; Cancer Engineering

zhuh2@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Toronto; Cancer Biology
Second-Year Students

langgoa@sloankettering.edu
BA, University of Pennsylvania; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alan M. Hanash

gutierj6@sloankettering.edu
BA, Lewis & Clark College / MS; Oregon Health Sciences University, MS; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Caleb Lareau

guzmang2@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Texas, Dallas; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

komzam@sloankettering.edu
BS, Fordham University / MS, Icahn School of Medicine, MS; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lydia Finley

lauj2@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Benjamin Greenbaum

parks14@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Virginia; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao

ryank4@sloankettering.edu
BS, Syracuse University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

salazaa1@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC Irvine; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Asmin Tulpule

turkaye@sloankettering.edu
BS, Boğaziçi University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: David B. Solit

zhaoy7@sloankettering.edu
BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Kayvan R. Keshari
Third-Year Students

acostam2@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC San Diego; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Gretchen Diehl

agbamut@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Minnesota; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jian Carrot-Zhang; Nikolaus Schultz

baniyas@sloankettering.edu
BA, Wellesley College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: David A. Scheinberg

Beniteze@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC Los Angeles; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

BrunoE@mskcc.org
BS, MS, Università degli studi di Milano; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran

hooshdn@sloankettering.edu
BS, UC Los Angeles; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alexander Rudensky

huj6@sloankettering.edu
BS, Tsinghua University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang

kuanv@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Minnesota; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri

leem17@sloankettering.edu
BS, Newberry College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

merlinst@sloankettering.edu
BA, CUNY Hunter College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

molinas@sloankettering.edu
BS, Texas State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Sarat Chandarlapaty

naira2@sloankettering.edu
BA, Columbia University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Justin Perry

PetersL1@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Michigan; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Christine Mayr

pierres3@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Georgia; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Schietinger

rexm@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Agnel Sfeir

rodrij18@sloankettering.edu
BA, MA, Rutgers University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Yu Chen; David B. Solit

thomsonc@sloankettering.edu
BS, MS, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire

topi@sloankettering.edu
BS, Yale University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Mary Baylies

wangy14@sloankettering.edu
BSc, MSc, McGill University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Dirk Remus

wangx10@sloankettering.edu
BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lorenz Studer

zengec@sloankettering.edu
BS, Cornell University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alban Ordureau

zhangs9@sloankettering.edu
BA, Swarthmore College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Vinod Balachandran
Fourth-Year Students

chhoyp@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Notre Dame; MS, Duke University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Xuejun Jiang

delprii@sloankettering.edu
BS, Tufts University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe

elbannay@sloankettering.edu
BA, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Morgan Huse

gelferr@sloankettering.edu
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MS, University of Pennsylvania; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

kannoy@sloankettering.edu
BPharm, Tokyo University of Science; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Alexander Gitlin

kimw3@sloankettering.edu
BS, California Institute of Technology; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Omar Abdel-Wahab

bastlk@sloankettering.edu
BSc, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems; MSc, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tuomas Tammela

luckettk@sloankettering.edu
BS, Ithaca College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

mcgaryl@sloankettering.edu
BA, UC Berkeley; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

nichola3@sloankettering.edu
BS, Chapman University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: John Maciejowski

romeropj@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Justin Perry

raghavm@sloankettering.edu
BTech, Vellore Institute of Technology; MS, Tufts University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Karuna Ganesh

xiea@sloankettering.edu
BS, Duke University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lydia Finley

yaom@sloankettering.edu
BS, SUNY Stony Brook; MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Ventura
Fifth-Year Students

AricescI@sloankettering.edu
BSc, University of Cambridge; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Rona Yaeger

cheny10@sloankettering.edu
BS, National Chiao Tung University; MS, National Taiwan University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Santosha Vardhana

DelgadJ2@sloankettering.edu
BS, American University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew Koff

GelashvZ@sloankettering.edu
BA, Clark University; MS, Clark University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Philipp Niethammer

JiaoZ@sloankettering.edu
BA, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Ventura

snyderj@sloankettering.edu
BS, Pennsylvania State University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Adrienne A. Boire

TangA1@sloankettering.edu
BA, Pomona College; MS, Harvard University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Thomas Norman
Sixth-Year Plus Students

aufierom@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Texas Austin; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Tobias M. Hohl

benitem2@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew Koff

cheny4@mskcc.org
BA, Columbia University; BS, City University of Hong Kong; Cancer Biology
Mentor: John Maciejowski

dangc1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

islamm2@sloankettering.edu
BA, Skidmore College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Thomas S. Vierbuchen

kennedm4@sloankettering.edu
BS, The College of New Jersey; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Scott W. Lowe

kimh7@sloankettering.edu
AB, Washington University in St. Louis; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Joseph Sun

liud5@sloankettering.edu
BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu

mcnamat1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Trinity College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrew M. Intlekofer

naizirb@mskcc.org
BS, The City College of New York; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Andrea Schietinger

Nguyene1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Pacific Union College; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Christopher D. Lima

RobinsT1@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of California, Santa Barbara; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Ross L. Levine

SancheA6@sloankettering.edu
BS, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Stewart Shuman

vandongd@sloankettering.edu
BA, Drew University; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Stephen B. Long

wakiroi@sloankettering.edu
BS, College of St. Scholastica; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Michael G. Kharas

xun@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Lorenz Studer

Yanj3@sloankettering.edu
BS, University of Chicago; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Danwei Huangfu

zhengz1@sloankettering.edu
BS, Southern University of Science and Technology; Cancer Biology
Mentor: Scott Keeney