Lab Alumni

* Students from Underrepresented Minority (URM) Background
Senior Research Scientist / Postdoc
(August 2014) Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
(July 2021) Associate Professor with tenure at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
(May 2020) Catalent Cell and Gene Therapy, Baltimore, MD
(February 2023) ABL Inc., Rockville, MD
Dr. Prakash Parajuli
(December 2020) Staff Scientists II, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
(May 2022) Catalent, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Deepika Jaiswal
(January 2023) Research Scientist, NIDDK, MD
Dr. Sonam V. Jha
(February 2024) Postdoc, Northwestern University, IL
Graduate Students

Ph.D.

Miji Jeon
(B.S. Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea)
(November 2020) Ph.D. UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland
(January 2021) Postdoctoral Scholar at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (Prof. Soung-hun Roh)
(February 2023) Scientist, Baobab AiBIO, S. Korea
Danielle Schmitt
B.S. Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
(November 2017) Ph.D. UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland
(January 2018) Postdoctroal Scholar at UCSD (Prof. Jin Zhang)
(Fall 2022) Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), CA

M.S.

Chen Yan
B.S. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
(May 2022) M.S. UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland
Joseph Sparenberg
B.S. UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland
(May 2019) M.S. UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland
(Sept 2019) Instructor at Community Colleges, Baltimore Area, Maryland
Anand Sundaram
B.S. Bangalore University, India.
M.S. Vellore Institute of Technology, India
(August 2015) M.S. UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland
(July 2015) Trevigen, MD
(July 2018) Bio-Techne, Minneapolis-St Paul, MN
Casey Kohnhorst
B.A. Hood College, Frederick, MD
(May 2015) M.S. UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland
(April 2016) Research Specialist, IBBR, Rockville, MD
(February 2017) U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Visiting Scholars
Anna-Lena Keller (August 1, 2018 – October 1, 2018, from University of Tübingen, Germany)
Undergraduate/Postbac Students
Joshua M. Camacho (Oct 2023- May 2024): PhD Program at UMBC
Naafia Thangalvadi (Sept 2022 – May 2024; STEM BUILD Scholar): B.S. in BIOC
Songhyeon “Cassio” Chae (Sept 2021- May 2024): B.S. in BIOC, CHEM, and Phil
Elijah Mugabe* (Sept 2021-May 2023; Meyerhoff Scholar): PhD Program at Weill Cornell (August 2023)
Aaron Derby (Jan 2020-Dec 2020): Gelest Inc. (Spring 2021)
Saiprasad Ravi (Dec 2018-May 2020): MD Program at Virginia Commonwealth University (Fall 2021), Post-bac at NIH (Fall 2020)
Inayah Entzminger* (January 2019 – June 2019): PhD Program at CUNY (Fall 2019)
Mason A. Tebera (December 2018 – August 2019): Georgetown MBA Program (Fall 2020); PhamD Program at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (Fall 2019)
Bailey Nance* (January 2017 – May 2018: Meyerhoff and MARC U*STAR Scholar): NIH F31 pre-doctoral fellowship recipient at UPenn; PhD Program at UPenn (August 2018)
Andrew Le (September 2016 – May 2018: 2017-2018 URA Scholar): Bioinformatics major at UMBC (May 2018)
Lauren Harris* (September 2017 – January 2018; Meyerhoff Scholar): Chemistry major at UMBC (Feb 2018)
Syrena Bracey* (March 2014 – May 2017: Meyerhoff/HHMI Scholar, MARC U*STAR Scholar, 2015-2016 URA Scholar): MD/PhD Program at Case Western Reserve University (August 2017)
Farhan Augustine (January 2016 – December 2017): Lab technician at Johns Hopkins University (Dec 2018); Post-bac Researcher at UMBC (August 2017)
Gabriella Balaa (March 2014 – December 2016: 2015-2016 URA Scholar): Graduate Program at UMBC (August 2017)
Bao Tran “Rose” Luu (May 2015 – May 2016): PhamD Program at the Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy (August 2016)
Jasmine Chaudhary (June 2015 – December 2015): Psycology Major at UMBC (Dec 2015)
Quan “Sean” Dao (March 2014 – August 2015; 2015 Faith Award Recipient): Graduate Program at Texas Wesleyan University (Sept 2016); Pre-med Seinor at UMBC (Sept 2015)
Julio Ramirez* (January 2014 – May 2015; URAS-sponsored researcher): PhamD program at Howard University School of Pharmacy (Sept 2017)
Bobby Kwan (June 2013 – July 2014): PhD prorgam the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health (August 2017); M.S. program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health (August 2015); Lab Technician at the Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics, Univ of Maryland School of Medicine (July 2014)
Angela Koomson* (June 2012 – May 2013): MedImmune (May 2015); Undergrad Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (June 2013)
Songe Baek (June 2012 – May 2013): PhamD program at the Univ of Maryland, School of Pharmacy at Baltimore (August 2013)
Nopondo N. Esemoto* (Sept 2011 – May 2013): PhD program in UMBC (August 2013); Post-bac Researcher at UMBC (June 2012)
Sarah J. Russell (Dec 2011 – May 2013): PhD program in the Univ of Maryland School of Medicine (August 2013)
Elizabeth Tamene* (Jan 2012 – May 2012): Lab Tech at the Johns Hopkins University (May 2012)
Undergraduate Summer Interns
Eunice Nam (Summer 2017; University of Richmond, Virginia): The 2017 Spider Internship Award Recipient
Anna Blood (Summer 2018; New College of Florida, FL): The NSF REU Scholar
High-School Students
Jasmine Chaudhary (HCPSS; February 2014 – May 2015)
Chris Sindall (HCPSS; July 2014 – May 2015)
Afia Osei-Ntansah* (HCPSS, Sept 2015 – May 2016)
Angel Boardley* (BCPSS; Sept 2016 – Dec 2016)
Abihith Velumuri (HCPSS; Nov 2022 – April 2023)
Nicholas Cui (HCPSS; Summer, June 2024 – Aug 2024)
Raaga Katta (HCPSS; Summer, June 2024 – Aug 2024)