Alumni, Almunae, & Staff
Thesis Advisor, PhD Students
Ya-Yun Yang, University of Pittsburgh “Regulation of Human Metallothionein Gene Expression in Cisplatin Sensitive and Resistant Cells” 1994
James Michael Rusnak, University of Pittsburgh “Protein Kinase C Modulation of Higher Order Chromatin Cleavage in Apoptotic Androgen-Independent Human Prostatic Carcinoma Cells” 1995
Robert L. Rice, University of Pittsburgh “Identification and Characterization of Dual Specificity Phosphatases Inhibitors” 1998
Donald R. Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh “Bleomycin Hydrolase Knockout Mice: Creation and Phenotypic Evaluation” 1999
Alexander P . Ducruet, University of Pittsburgh “Regulation of Cdc25A in Human Tumor Cells by Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2” 2004
Susana Montoya, University of Pittsburgh “Evaluation of the Physiological Functions of the Cysteine Protease Bleomycin Hydrolase in Murine CNS” 2004
Pallavi Bansal, University of Pittsburgh “Induction of Cdc25B Following DNA Damage: Implications for Cell Cycle Resumption and Tumorigenesis” 2007
Robert J. Tomko, Jr., University of Pittsburgh “Cellular and Biochemical Regulation of Cdc25A by Nitrosative Insult” 2008. Current position: Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Peter R. McDonald, University of Pittsburgh “Identification of Novel Potential Cancer Therapies by Synthetic Lethal Screening” 2008
Pierre E. Queiroz de Oliviera, University of Pittsburgh “Elucidating the Role of Cdc25A in Hypoxia-mediated Cell Cycle Arrest” 2009
Yan Wang, University of Pittsburgh “Uncovering the Biological Functions of Phosphatase of Regenerating Liver-2” 2010
Carolyn Kitchens, University of Pittsburgh “Exploitation of siRNA Methodology to Identify Novel Anticancer Treatments” 2010. Current position: Assistant Professor, Bethany College
Mark W. Zimmerman, University of Pittsburgh “Targeted Deletions of PTP4A3 Inhibits Colon Carcinogenesis and Angiogenesis” 2013. Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Kelley McQueeney, University of Virginia, “The Role of PTP4A3 Phosphatase in Microvascular Endothelial and Tumor Cells” 2018. Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
Undergraduates
Jennifer Ahn, University of Virginia, 2012-2015
Alex Cheung, University of Virginia, 2014-2017
Paula Pekic, University of Virginia, 2015-2017
Bella Blanco, University of Virginia, 2015-2017
Jennifer Sachs, University of Virginia, 2017-2018
Heather Struckman, University of South Carolina, 2017-2018
Sruthi Jayaraman, University of Virginia, 2018-2020
Kaylee O’Donnell, University of Virginia, 2018-2020
Duncan Hart, University of Virginia. 2018-2020
Chris Letai, University of Virginia. 2018-present
Ben Walker, University of Virginia. 2018-present
Kelly Fisher, University of Virginia. 2019-present
Previous Laboratory Staff
Jennifer Bryant
Laboratory Specialist III – 2014-2015
Mehmet Murat Koseoglu, PhD
Research Associate – 2018-2020