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Previous Members

Previous Research Assistant Professor

Madalina Ciobanu, Technical advisor at Conley Rose, P.C.

Previous Postdoctoral Associates

Jeremy Beam, Scientist II, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Juan Tuberquia, Senior engineer, Dow Chemical, Freeport, TX

Leila Deravi, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Yibin Zhang, Principal Failure Analysis Engineer, Global Foundries, NY

Evgeni Kozlov, Retired, Currently residing in Russia

Xun Yan, Research Science, Alticor Inc., Grand Rapids, MI

Sven E. Eklund, Associate Professor, Institute for Micro-manufacturing, Louisiana Tech University

Danielle Kimmel, Market Specialist, Mettler-Toledo International, Inc, Columbus, OH

Jennifer McKenzie, Director of Compliance, MDx Partners, LLC, Franklin, TN

Previous Ph.D. Students

(2006) Aren Gerdon, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA

(2006) Rachel R. Greene, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

(2008) Chinmay Soman, Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

(2009) Brian Hixson, Headed to West Chester, PA to pursue career in academia

(2009) Brian Huffman, Principal Scientist, Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN

(2009) Rachel Snider, Upper School Chemistry Teacher, Hutchison School, Memphis, TN

(2009) Jeremy Wilburn, Contract Research Consultant at FlexEl, LLC

(2010) Peter Ciesielski, Research Scientist, National Renewable Energy Lab, Goldon, CO

(2010) Anh Hoang, Co-founder of Sofregen Medical, Boston, MA

(2010) Morgan Krim, Currently residing in Denver, Colorado

(2010) Carrie Simpson, Lecturer, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

(2011) Kellen Harkness, Marie Curie Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

(2011) Leslie Hiatt, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN

(2011) Jennifer McKenzie, Clinical Science Specialist, MDx Partners, LLC, Franklin, TN

Ka Leng Soh

(2011) Brian Turner, Technical Specialist, Mettler-Toledo International, Inc, Columbus, OH

(2012) Danielle Kimmel, Market Specialist, Mettler-Toledo International, Inc, Columbus, OH

(2013) Gongping Chen, Marketing Director, Zhejiang Lonsid Healthy Drinking Water Equipment Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, China

(2014) Gabriel Leblanc, Associate Professor, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

(2015) Matt Casey,  Commercialization Success Partner, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

(2016) David Crisostomo, Lecturer, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

(2016) Evan Gizzie, Senior Scientist, MESO SCALE Diagonistics LLC., Rockville, MD

(2017) Adam Ryan Travis, TN Department of Agriculture, Nashville, TN

(2018) Aaron Daniel, Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

(2020) Dilek Dervishogullari, Associate Consultant, Lantham Biopharm Group, Nashville, TN

(2021) Sara Winn, Business Intelligence Analyst, BioCentury Inc., Nashville, TN

(2021) Ethan S. McClain, Research and Development Scientist, Cairn Diagnostics, Brentwood, TN

(2021) Christopher Stachurski, Assistant Research Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

(2021) Kody Wolfe, Electrochemical Engineer, Prieto Battery, Fort Collins, CO

(2022) Margaret Calhoun, Research Manager, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

(2022) John M. Williams II, Field Assistance Science & Technology Director, U.S. Army, Fort Shafter, Honolulu, HI

(2022) Nicholas Hortance, Electrochemical Cell Engineer at Electric Hydrogen Co.

Previous Masters Students

(2004) Dale Taylor, Program Management Officer, Defense Threat Reduction Agency

(2008) Joe Chambers, Cell Culture Technician, Vanderbilt University

(2010) Andrzej Balinski, Lecturer, Vanderbilt University

(2012) Mandy Agrawal

(2014) Kevin Winter, Chemistry Teacher, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville, TN

(2016) Andrew Cognata

Previous Undergraduates

(2003) Chrissy Marasco, Director of SyBBURE, Deputy Director of VIIBRE (Education and Professional Development)

(2005) Rebecca Moorhouse Hollander, Assistant Regional Manager-South, Bruker BioSciences

(2007) Jason McGill, Technical Service Specialist – Field Intern at St. Jude Medical, Indianapolis, IN

(2008) Vivian Lo, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University

(2008) Brian Wile, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology

(2009-2011) Tracy Okoli, Pharm D from Belmon University

(2009) Tesniem Shinawi, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

(2011) Luke Bonewitz

(2011) Danna Sharp

(2012) Aimee Brenner

(2012) William Crosby

(2013) Darius Brown

(2013) Alyssa Jaffe

(2014-2015) Natalie Honkala, Teach for America followed by Ohio State University Medical School

(2014) Virginia Liau, Business Planning Analyst, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA

(2014) David Needell Boudoin

(2014) Brandon Foster, Undergraduate Student, United States Naval Academy

(2014) Nate McLauchlan, Undergraduate Student, United States Naval Academy

(2014) Jennifer Ruddock, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Brown University

(2014) Charisse Villareal, Undergraduate Student, United States Naval Academy

(2014) Louis Thal, Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University

(2015) Jen Lomaki, Undergraduate Student, State University of New York at Geneseo

(2015) U.C. Obiako, Undergraduate Student, Cleveland State

(2015) Eryn Stockdale, Undergraduate Student, United States Naval Academy

(2016) Adam Boyer, Undergraduate Student, University of Kansas

(2016) Amira Kessem, Undergraduate Student, Alfred University

(2016) Adam Perez, Undergraduate Student, San Diego State University

(2016) Chloe Wilks, Undergraduate Student, Vanderbilt University

(2016) Kaixuan Xu, Undergraduate Student, University of Missouri

(2017) Carson Bryant, Graduate Student, Yale University

(2017) Elizabeth Lee, Undegraduate Student, United States Naval Academy

(2017) Alexandra Quiñones Meléndez, Undergraduate Student, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

Tyler Armstrong, M.D. from Vanderbilt University, Resident at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Daniel Lasselle

Grey Tilden, M.D. from University of Alabama

Benjamin Hahn, PhD (Chemistry) from University of Texas at Austin

Benjamin Diop-Frimpong, PhD (Applied Physics/ Medical Engineering) from Harvard University

David Gilliam, Graduate Student, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Karl Richardson, M.D. from University of Pennsylvania, Cardiology Resident at Vanderbilt University

Amy Rue, PhD (Chemistry) from Virginia Commonwealth University

Chris Green, M.S. (Chemistry) From Unversity of Virigina, Pharm D. (Expected 2016) University of Washington

Stanton Elseroad, M.D. from University of Tennessee Memphis

Sarah Bryan, PhD (Law) from Washington University in St. Louis

Emily Darby, Graduate Student, Stanford University

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Chetna Khosla