Graduating Class of 2017

Mohamad Adada
BS, American University of Beirut, 2008
MD and PhD in Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2017
Dissertation title: The Role and Regulation of Sphingosine Kinases in cancer biology
Mentor: Lina Obeid, MD (Medicine)

Residency: Internal Medicine/CI Research, Mayo Clinic School of Grad Med Educ, MN

Saadat U. Aleem
BS, Univ. Of Calif-Berkeley , 2003
MD and PhD in Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2017
Dissertation title: Specificity in the Regulation and Inhibition of Src and Related Tyrosine Kinases
Mentor: W. Todd Miller, PhD, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics

Residency: Stony Brook Teach Hospital, ABIM Research Track Internal Medicine/Cardiology, NY


Zachariah H. Foda
BS, Dartmouth College , 2009

MD and PhD in Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2017
Dissertation title: Structural studies on allosteric regulation and drug binding
Mentor: Markus Seeliger
, PhD, Dept. of Pharmacology
Residency:
John Hopkins, Internal medicine

Kip E. Guja

BS, Johns Hopkins Unv. , 2006, MS, Johns Hopkins Unv. , 2007
MD and PhD in Biochemistry & Structural Biology, 2017
Dissertation title: Structural insights into mitochondrial gene expression and disease
Mentor: Miguel Garcia-Diaz
, PhD, Dept. of Pharmacology
Residency: Stony Brook Teach Hosps, NY
, Medicine-Preliminary


Brian E. McGillick
BS,  SBU, 2002; MS, US Naval Academy , 2009
MD and PhD in Biochemistry & Structural Biology, 2017
Dissertation title: Structure Determination, Enzymatic Characterization, and Inhibitor Discovery of Select Protein Targets of Bacterial Pathogens
Mentor: Swaminathan Subramanyam
, BNL
Post-graduate: U. Cincinnati Medical Center, Surg-Prelim/Urology

Achraf Shamseddine
BS, American U. of Beirut , 2008
MD and PhD in Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2017
Dissertation title: Role and regulation of neutral sphingomyelinase-2 in the DNA damage response
Mentor: Yusuf Hannun
, MD, (Medicine)
Post-graduate: Transitional, Memorial Sloan, Kettering, NY, Radiation Oncology Memorial Sloan, Kettering, NY

Jason M. Tuciarone
BS, Union College, 2005
MD and PhD in Neuroscience, 2017
Dissertation title: Genetic dissection of cortical circuits: A prefrontal chandelier cell module and beyond
Mentor: Josh Huang
, CSHL
Post-graduate: Stanford, Psychiatry/Research Track