Welcome to the MD/PhD Program website.

Welcome To Our 2013 Incoming First Year Students!

Matthew Decker	Lisa Grossman	Benjamin Hoffman
Adan Horta	Scott Kanner	Christine Kim
Radomir Kratchmarov	Brhama Kumar	Ori Lieberman
Katherine Luo	Daniel Paik	Eduardo Perez-Torres
Benjamin Schrank	Phyllis Thangaraj	David Thomas

Congratulations to our MD-PhD students who have successfully completed their PhD's!

Rebecca Levy: Exploring the Role of RAPGEF6 in Neuropsychiatric Disorders (November 27th, 2012)

Bethany Johnson-Kerner: Role of Gigaxonin in Regulating Intermediate Filament Levels in a Stem Cell Model of Giant Axonal Neuropathy (December 3rd, 2012)

Kimberly Point du Jour: The Role of Phospholipase D1 in Trafficking and Processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein (December 4th, 2012)

Matthew Merguerian: Building a Genetic System in Yeast to Search for High Affinity Proteins in Sequence Space (December 11th, 2012)

Elizabeth Crouch: Adult Neural Stem Cells and their Perivascular Niche (December 17th, 2012)

Joshua Levine: Regulating Distinct Cell Lineages in the Pancreatic Islet (December 17th, 2012)

Qing Wang: Neuronal Diversification Within the Retina: Generation of Crossed and Uncrossed Retinal Ganglion Cells (January 11th, 2013)

George Eng: Microtechnologies for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering (January 24th, 2013)

Darrick Li: Novel RNA Targets of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Protein (March 11th, 2013)


Congratulations to Assistant Director Dr. Patrice Spitalnik for her promotion to Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Cell Biology!

Nalini Colaco and Bethany Johnson-Kerner are the winners of the 2012 Dean's Day for Research Award!

The MD-PhD Class of 2013 Match List:

Jonathan Brent	Neurology at Northwestern, Chicago, IL
William Freed-Pastor	Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard University, Boston, MA
Roger Goldman	Radiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Neil Gray	Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Jose Ricky McFaline Figueroa	Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard University, Boston, MA
Derek Oakley	Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard University, Boston, MA
Priya Rajasesthupathy	Post-doctoral Fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Dan Rubin	Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard University, Boston, MA
Tanya Sippy	Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Laboratory of Sensory Processing at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lousanne, Switzerland

The MD-PhD Class of 2012 Match List:

Nalini Colaco	Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Artem Kaplan	Neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Alexander Kushnir	Internal Medicine, Sabbath Observed, at Einstein - Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Kathryn Lemberg	Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Amrom Obstfeld	Pathology at the Hospital of the University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Hasina (Outtz) Reed	Internal Medicine - ABIM Research Path at the Hospital of the University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Erin Savner	Neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Matthew Smith-Raska	Pediatrics at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Adam Wolpaw	Pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Yixing Xu	Ophthalmology at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Theodore Yanagihara	Radiation Oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Congratulations to Priya Rajasethupathy for receiving the 2012 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award!

Congratulations to Abdulrahman El-Sayed for being selected to receive the prestigious Soros Fellowship!

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Jessell for receiving the 2012 Gairdner Award!

Yixing Xu and William Freed-Pastor are the winners of the 2011 Dean's Day for Research Award!


***MD/PhD program alumnus Andrew Teich has been selected as a 2011 Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Scholar***