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Career Options

 

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.

Asterisks indicate students who joined our program for postdoctoral training, which usually lasted two years, the last year being given here.

(See also a complete list of all our PhD graduates from 2000 to the present, with their current positions.)

Alumni in Academia
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
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.
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.


Revised October 9, 2009 (vgl & gbi)