-- Department of Environmental Medicine --
Ph.D. Program in Toxicology
Career Options |
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Many exciting career opportunities are available to our PhD and postdoctoral students.
Some new PhD graduates initially move to a postdoctoral fellowship, while others
go directly into positions of responsibility with governmental agencies,
research institutes, and chemical and pharmaceutical companies.
Here are some examples. (See also a complete list of all our PhD graduates from 2000 to the present, with their current positions.) |
| Alumni in Academia | |
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Sara Saperstein ’09 Jamie (O’Brien) Bernard ’09 Na Li ’08 *Michael Laiosa ’08 *Angela Bush ’08 Rosemarie Marchan ’07 Julian Castaneda ’07 Zhihui (Gerald) Zhong ’07 Tara Arndt, MD/PhD ’06 Elizabeth Ryan ’06 Mary Williamson ’05 Russell W. Garrett ’05 Christine Hammond ’04 Amber Wyman ’04 Tenea Watson ’03 *Tracey Simmons-Willis ’03 Thomas K. Lee, MD/PhD ’02 Kyung Hong ’02 Huei-Ju Ting ’02 Ray Rancourt ’02 *Irene Perillo ’00 *Stephanos Krykanides ’99 *Alison Elder ’99 Andrew Wallace ’98 *Christopher Stodgell ’97 Matthew J. Mahon ’95 Teresa Liberati,’95 *Vincent Markowski ’95 Mark Plessinger ’95 Lisa Opanashuk ’94 *Robert McBride ’92 *Thomas Simmons ’91 Susan M. Robey-Bond ’90 Mark Hahn ’88 Bruce Holm ’87 *Michael Aschner ’86 Richard Gallo ’86 Chiu-Wing Lam ’84 *Lawrence H. Lash ’86 *Dale L. Phelps ’86 *M. Christopher Newland ’86 Ned Ballatori ’84 Ellen Henry ’84 *G. David Gentry ’82 *Deborah A. Cory-Slechta ’82 *Hiroshi Satoh, MD ’81 Chiharu Tohyama ’81 Marc A. Rozner ’80 John B. Morris ’80 Norman F. Angell ’79 *Atila Bozkurt ’78 *Kimiko Hirayama ’77 Thomas Gasiewicz ’77 *William H. Merigan ’77 *Sander Stern ’77 Paul Kostyniak ’76 *Tore Syverson ’75 *Hans-Rudolph Berthoud ’75 *Ronald W. Wood ’75 *M. George Cherian ’74 *Zahir A. Shaikh ’73 Gary M. Whitford, DMD, ’72 *Hugh L. Evans ’71 |
Postdoctoral Fellow / Vanderbilt University Postdoctoral Fellow / U. of California, San Diego Pharmacy Student / St. John Fisher College Research Assistant Professor / U. of Rochester School of Med. Assistant Professor / George Gwinnett College Postdoctoral Fellow / Leibniz Research Center, Germany Veterinary student / Cornell University Postdoctoral Fellow / U. of Rochester School of Med. Resident / Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia Research Assist. Professor / Colorado State University Director, Hospital Operations / U. Mass. Memorial Hospital Postdoctoral Fellow / U.of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Res. Assoc. / U. of Roch. Sch. of Med. Instructor / Finger Lakes Community College Assist. Dean for Graduate Education / Stanford U. Sch. of Med. Assistant Professor / Texas Southern U. Pathology Fellow / Stanford University Medical School Research Asst. Professor / Sungkyunkwan U. School of Medicine, Korea Postdoctoral Res. Associate / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Postdoctoral Fellow / Nat’l Jewish Medical Research Ctr Assistant Professor / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Professor / Stony Brook State University Assistant Professor / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Assistant Professor / North Carolina State U. Res. Associate Professor / U. of Rochester School of Med. Assistant Professor / Harvard Medical School Research Professor / Southern Illinois Sch. of Med. Associate Professor / U. of Southern Maine Assistant Professor / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Associate Professor / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Professor / LaRoche College Professor & Director / Indiana U. of Penn. Researcher/Analyst / U. of Vermont Senior Scientist / Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Professor & Sr Vice-Provost / U. at Buffalo Professor / Vanderbilt U. School of Medicine Professor / U. of California, San Diego Associate Professor / U.of Texas Medical School and NASA JSC Professor / Wayne State U. School of Med. Professor / U. of Rochester School of Med. Alumni Professor / Auburn University Professor / U. of Rochester School of Medicine Research Asst. Professor / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Professor / College of Charleston Professor / U. of Rochester School of Medicine Professor / Tohoku U. School of Medicine Professor / University of Tokyo, Japan Professor / U. of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Ctr Professor / U. of Connecticut Associate Professor / Albany Medical College Professor / Hacettepe U. Faculty of Medicine Professor / Kumamoto U. College of Medical Sch., Japan Professor / U. of Rochester School of Medicine Professor / U. of Rochester School of Medicine Research Asst. Professor / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Professor / SUNY Buffalo Professor / Norwegian U. of Science, Trondheim, Norway Professor / Louisiana State University Research Assoc. Professor / U. of Rochester Sch. of Med. Professor / U. of Western Ontario School of Med. Professor / U. of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy Regents Professor / Medical College of Georgia Professor / New York U. School of Medicine |
| Research Institutes and Governmental Agencies | |
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Zhengyu Yin ’09 *Indika Endirisinghe ’08 *Sylvia Notenboom ’08 Rosemarie Marchan ’07 Geniece Lehmann ’06 Yu (Agnes) Luo ’06 David G. Farrer ’06 Donna Wai Ling Lee ’05 Madhuri Singal ’05 *T. Scott Thurmond ’01 Patrick D. Sarmiere ’01 Dawn R. Clifton ’00 Gregory W. Mango ’00 Penelope A. Rice ’00 Sang-ki Park ’00 Edward G. Barrett ’99 John Breen ’95 Sandra Baird ’92 George Gray ’89 Steven Gavett ’89 *John Liccione ’88 Steven Gilbert ’86 *Michael A. Babich ’84 Chiu-Wing Lam ’83 Polly Sager ’82 David Thomas ’78 Kirk Kitchen ’77 Owen Moss ’77 Tina Levine ’75 Tor Norseth ’72 |
Postdoctoral Fellow / NIEHS Sr. Scientist & Res. Asst. Prof. / National Ctr. for Food Safety & Technology Scientist / Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences (Netherlands) Postdoctoral Fellow / Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment Toxicologist / U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Postdoctoral Fellow / National Inst. of Health Public Health Toxicologist / Oregon Office of Public Health Postdoctoral Fellow / Buck Inst. Age Res. Manager / Respiratory Sciences, Research Inst. for Fragrance Materials Regulatory Toxicologist / U.S. Food and Drug Admin. Research Scientist / Spinal Cord Society Res. Ctr. Postdoctoral Fellow / NIAID, Rocky Mt. Labs, MT Criminalist / Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Investigator / U.S. Food and Drug Admin. Toxicologist / U.S. Food and Drug Admin. Associate Scientist / Lovelace Respiratory Res. Inst. Health Scientist / Ctrs for Dis. Control&Prevention Toxicologist / MA, U. S. E. P. A. Asst. Administrator, Research / U. S. E. P. A. Research Biologist / U. S. E. P. A. Toxicologist/ U. S. E. P. A. Director / Inst. Neurotox. & Neurological Disorders Program Coordinator / U.S. Consumer Products Safety Senior Scientist, Toxicologist / Johnson Space Center Associate Director / NIAID,Inst.Research–Infect.Dis. Research Toxicologist / U. S. E. P. A. Research Toxicologist / U. S. E. P. A. Senior Scientist / CIIT Center for Health Research Director / Hlth Effects Div., Office of Pesticides, E.P.A. Research Director, Nat. Inst. of Occupat. Health, Norway |
| Industry: Chemical and Pharmaceutical Companies, etc. | |
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Brent Kobielush ’09 Heather Ferguson ’08 *David Aremu ’08 John Norman ’07 Erik K. Rushton ’07 Peter F. Vitiello ’07 Sean C. Gehen ’07 Carissa Filbrandt-Childs ’06 David M. Lehmann ’05 Pheona Radcliffe ’05 Jason Roper ’05 Gary Minsavage ’04 *Vanessa Silva ’04 Madhuri Singal ’04 Christine Palermo ’04 Junguo Zhou ’03 *Napoleon Alejandro ’03 Elizabeth Lipscomb ’01 Daniel Nazarenko ’01 Kevin French ’01 Stephen Dertinger ’00 *James Rebbeor ’98 Clarice Chen ’98 Amy Lavin ’98 Stephanie Powlin ’97 Carol Eisenmann ’94 Jonathan Obourn ’94 Mary Richardson ’94 Daniel Widzowski ’93 Ethan Burstein ’92 *Nina Patel ’91 Henry Sadowski ’91 Claire Gavin ’91 *Hiroyoshi Matsumoto ’90 Jay Fine ’89 Gary Chellman ’84 Ronald Gerson ’83 *Richard McKee ’81 Timothy Landry ’80 Douglas Kornbrust ’80 Arthur Levin ’80 Richard D. Irons ’75 |
Toxicologist / General Mills Toxicologist / Abbott Laboratories Toxicologist / Proctor & Gamble Toxicologist / ExxonMobil Toxicologist / Exxon Mobil Research Scientist / Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, SD. Senior Toxicologist / Dow Agro Sciences Patent Agent/ Nixon Peabody LLP Sr. Research Scientist / Bausch & Lomb Senior Research Scientist / Colgate Palmolive Co. Study Director / WIL Research Laboratories Senior Toxicologist / Exxon Mobil Biomed. Sciences Staff Toxicologist / Proctor & Gamble Respiratory Scientist / Research Institute for Fragrance Materials Sr. Toxicologist / ExxonMobil Sr. Toxicologist / Johnson & Johnson Senior Scientist / Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceut. Staff Toxicologist / ILS Inc. Associate Director / Fulcrum Pharma Developments Safety Assessment Scientist / GlaxoSmithKline Laboratory Director / Litron Laboratories Principal Scientist / Talecris Biotherapeutics Res. Investigator / Bristol-MyersSquibb Pharm.Res.Inst. Principal Scientist / Noblis Manager in Toxicol. / Bristol-Myers Squibb Senior Toxicologist / Cosmetic Toiletry & Frag. Ass. Senior Director / Pfizer Inc. Section Head Toxicologist / Proctor & Gamble Pharma. Principal Scientist / Astra Zeneca Director of Biosciences / Acadia Pharmaceut. Senior Biochemical Toxicologist / Eli Lilly Senior Scientist / ENZO Biochemical Senior Principal Scientist / Pfizer Deputy Senior Director / Banyu Pharmaceut. Co.,Japan Associate Director / Schering-Plough Res. Institute Senior Vice-President / CharlesRiver Preclinical Sci. Vice-President Development / Endo Pharmaceut. Scientific Associate / ExxonMobil Biomed. Sci. Research Associate / Dow Chemical Executive Consulting Vice Pres./ Acuity Pharmaceut. Senior Consultant / Levin Bioscience CEO / Cinpathogen Inc. |