Lab Alumni
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Yeong-ran (Lucie) Ahn
Research Technician
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2015
Hometown: Yangpyung, South Korea
Wood lab, 2016-2018
Current position: M.D./Ph.D. student, Case Western Reserve University
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Moiez Ali
M.D./Ph.D. student
Ph.D., Molecular Cancer Biology, Duke University, 2020
B.S., M.S., Biology, Emory University, 2012
Hometown: Suwanee, GA
Wood lab, 2016-20
Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine/ABIM Research Pathway, University of Pennsylvania
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Gray Anderson
Graduate student
Ph.D., Molecular Cancer Biology, Duke University, 2018
B.S., Biology, Biotechnology, UNC-Greensboro, 2013
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Wood lab, 2013-18
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Cell Engineering Team Lead, 64x Bio
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Hazel Ang
Graduate Student
B.S., Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, 2012
Hometown: Singapore
Wood lab, 2017-21
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Karolinska Institute
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Kayleigh Askin
Research Technician
B.A., Biophysics, Columbia University, 2017
Hometown: Warren, NJ
Wood lab, 2018-20
Current Position: M.D. student, University of Pittsburgh
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Merve Cakir
Graduate student
Ph.D., Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University, 2018
M.S., Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, 2013
B.S., Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, 2011
Hometown: Ankara, Turkey
Wood lab, 2013-18
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Krogan Lab, UCSF
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Lorin Crawford, Ph.D.
Graduate student (Statistical Science, with Sayan Mukherjee, Ph.D.)
Ph.D., Statistical Science, Duke University, 2017
B.S., Mathematics, Clark Atlanta University, 2013
Hometown: Chino Hills, CA Hometown: Cooper City, FL
Wood lab, 2014-2017
Current Position: Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor, Biostatistics, Brown University
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Christine Eyler, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Instructor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology
Instructor, Harvard Medical School, 2017-20
Residency, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, 2017
M.D., Duke University, 2012
Ph.D., Molecular Cancer Biology, Duke University, 2010
B.S., Chemistry, Duke University, 2004
Hometown: Denver, CO
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Duke Dept. of Radiation Oncology
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Ying Guo, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Analyst
Ph.D., Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan, 2015
M.D., Shenyang Medical School, Shenyang, China, 1996
Hometown: Shenyang, China
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Ava Heffernan
Research Technician
B.S., Biology, UNC-Greensboro, 2022
Hometown: Hillsborough, NC
Current position: Research Technician, Eyler Lab, Duke Dept. of Radiation Oncology
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Jacob Hoj
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Molecular Cancer Biology, Duke University, 2020
B.S., Exercise Science, Brigham Young University, 2014
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah
Current Position: Tavros Therapeutics
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Haley Hutchinson
Research Technician
A.B., Chemistry, Duke University, 2021
Hometown: Los Altos, CA
Current Position: M.D. student, Duke University
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Jacob Kaufman, M.D./Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, 2015
M.D., Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 2013
B.S., Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 2003
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Medicine, Ohio State University
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Holly Kim
Research Technician
A.B., Chemistry, Duke University, 2021
Hometown: Roslyn, NY
Current Position: D.D.S. student, NYU
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Kevin Lin
M.D./Ph.D. student
Ph.D., Pharmacology, Duke University, 2019
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas-Austin, 2011
Hometown: Austin, TX
Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Colin Martz
Medical Student
B.S., Neuroscience, Duke University, 2012
M.D., Duke University, 2018
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
Wood Lab, 2012-2017
Current Position: Fellow, Cardiology, Washington University
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Seth McKee
Research Technician
B.S., Chemistry, Elon University, 2021
Hometown: Hillsborough, NC
Current Position: M.D. student, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Niharika Mettu, M.D., Ph.D. (with Prof. David Hsu, Duke)
Fellow, Hematology-Oncology, Duke University Medical Center
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1999
M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, 2008
Ph.D., Duke University 2007
Internal Medicine Residency, Duke University Medical Center
Hometown: Bethesda, MD
Wood lab, 2012-14
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
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Victoria Del Gaizo Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Elon University (2018-19 sabbatical)
Ph.D., Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, 2004
Postdoctoral fellowship, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 2004-2009
Hometown: Manalapan, NJ
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Daniel Nussbaum, M.D.
Resident, General Surgery
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
M.D. University of Southern California, 2011
Hometown: Scarsdale, NY
Wood Lab, 2014-2017
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Duke University
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Ashley Peraza-Penton
Graduate Student
B.S., Biochemistry, University of Florida, 2012
M.S., Molecular Cancer Biology, Duke University, 2014
Hometown: Cooper City, FL
Wood lab, 2012-14
Current Position: Clinical scientist, Novartis, Cambridge, MA
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Justine Rutter
B.S., Biology, Duke University, 2019
Hometown: Mill Valley, CA
Wood lab, 2016-20
Current Position: M.D./Ph.D. Program, Harvard-MIT
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Katie Singleton, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, 2013
B.S., Biology, Calvin College, 2008
Wood Lab, 2013-2017
Current Position: Scientist, Land Lab, University of Rochester Medical Center
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Ryan Soderquist, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Cancer Biology, Dartmouth College, 2014
B.S., Biochemistry, University of New Hampshire, 2009
Wood lab, 2014-20
Current Position: Incyte Pharmaceuticals
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Elizabeth Stein
Research Technician
A.B., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 2012
M.S., Biotechnology, Georgetown University, 2013
Hometown: Alexandria, VA
Wood lab, 2015-2017
Current Position: M.D. student, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Amy Stewart, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Ph.D., Molecular Cancer Biology, Duke University, 2023
B.S., Neuroscience, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2016
Hometown: Madison, AL
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Natalia Sutiman
Medical Student, Duke-NUS
B.S., Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, 2012
Hometown: Singapore
Wood lab, 2018-19
Current position: M.D. student, Duke-NUS
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Jennifer Tingley, M.D.
Research Technician
M.D., New York Medical College
B.S., Biology, Duke University, 2013
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Wood lab, 2013-15
Current Position: Vitreo-Retinal Fellow, UC Davis
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Peter Winter
Graduate Student
Ph.D., Genetics and Genomics, Duke University, 2017
B.S., Biology, Butler University, 2012
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Wood lab, 2012-2017
Current position: Group leader, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
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Abigail Xie
Research Technician
B.S., Biology, Duke University, 2018
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Wood lab, 2015-2019
Current Position: Tri-Institutional M.D./Ph.D. Program, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering
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Catherine Yip
Research Technician
B.S., Biology, Duke University, 2017
Hometown: Cooper City, FL
Wood lab, 2015-2018
Current position: M.D. student, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Laura Youngblood
Staff Assistant
B.A., Dramatic Arts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020
Hometown: New Orleans, LA
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Ben Zolyomi
Medical Student
Sc.B., Neuroscience, Brown University, 2019
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
Current Position: Resident, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School