Lab Alumni
Past Graduate Students
Matthew W. Kelley, Ph.D. – Chief, Laboratory of Cochlear Development
Chief, Section on Developmental Neuroscience, NIDCD, NIH, and President, Association for Research in Otolaryngology
Jason R. Meyers, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, Colgate University
Joseph Burns, Ph.D. – Senior Scientist, Decibel Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Benjamin Thiede, Ph.D. – Senior Business Development Officer, STEMCELL Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
Harley I. Kornblum, M.D. Ph.D. – Professor of Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics and Member of the Eli and Edith Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, U.C.L.A., School of Medicine
Kenneth J. Balak, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Jefferson College
Mark E. Warchol, Ph.D. – Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences, and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine
Jonathan E. Gale, Ph.D. – Reader in Auditory Cell Biology, The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College, London, U.K.
Linda Saffer, Ph.D. – Manager, Maryland Entrepreneurs Resource List (MERL) at Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), Columbia, MD
Mireille Montcouquiol, Ph.D. – Researcher and Team Leader Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France
Veena Vasandani, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, University of Delhi, India
Kambiz Karimi, Ph.D. – Curation Manager, Counsyl (Biotech Startup), South San Francisco, CA
Formerly: Director Content Strategy and Knowledge Management, enlightenbio and formerly Content Acquisition Manager, Ingenuity Systems, Inc.
David Lenzi, Ph.D. – Senior Scientist, Aratome, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Dawn Davies, Ph.D. – Teaching Fellow, School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol University, U.K.
M. Sol Collado, Ph.D. – Program Leader, Rare Diseases, HemoShear Therapeutics, Charlottesville, VA
Zhengqing Hu, M.D., Ph.D. – Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Daniel Landes, M.D. – Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Past Surgical Fellow Researchers
Brian McKinnon, M.D. – Assistant Professor, Neurotology, Georgia Health Sciences University
Eric R. Oliver, M.D. – Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Wake Forest Baptist Health
Jeffrey Yu, M.D. – Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Illinois School of Medicine
Mark Witte, M.D. – Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
Past Surgical Resident Researchers
Jared Christophel, M.D. – Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine
John Mason, M.D. – Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Neurotology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Eugenia Gray, M.D. – Otolaryngologist, affiliated with Union Hospital, Elkton, MD
Past Undergraduate Researchers
Sonia Sugg, M.D. – Holden Professorship in Breast Cancer Surgery
Medical Director, Breast Health Clinic, Program Director, Breast Interdisciplinary Fellowship, Clinical Professor of Surgery – Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, University of Iowa, School of Medicine
Bradley Goldstein, M.D., Ph. D. – Assistant Professor
Investigator, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI), University of Miami, School of Medicine
Matthew F. Rose, M.D., Ph.D. – Neuropathology Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Mark Ranck, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist, Radiation Oncology Associates, Fort Wayne, IN
Victoria Chiou, M.D. – Medical Oncology Fellow, National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Cancer Research (CCR)
Taylor Gilmore, Resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology, George Washington University School of Medicine
Ryan Susa – Senior Specialist Customer Education and Training Department, Qiagen, Germantown, MD
Lisa Igbani, M.D. (Class of 2016)- Matched for Anesthesiology at Hershey Med Ctr/Penn State
Doan On – Research Contractor at the US Environmental Protection Agency – US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Chapel Hill, NC
Jade On – Dental Student, Tufts University School of Dentistry, Boston, MA
Past Lab Techs
Catherine Cowan, Graduate Student in Parallel D.V.M., Ph.D. program at Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Michelle Igbani, M.D. – Emergency Medicine, Baltimore, MD