Lab Alumni

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hazel Ang

    Graduate Student

    B.S., Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, 2012

    Hometown: Singapore

    Wood lab, 2017-21

    Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Karolinska Institute

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ava Heffernan

    Research Technician

    B.S., Biology, UNC-Greensboro, 2022

    Hometown: Hillsborough, NC

    Current position: Research Technician, Eyler Lab, Duke Dept. of Radiation Oncology

  • 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

  • Haley Hutchinson

    Research Technician

    A.B., Chemistry, Duke University, 2021

    Hometown: Los Altos, CA

    Current Position: M.D. student, Duke University

  • 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

  • Holly Kim

    Research Technician

    A.B., Chemistry, Duke University, 2021

    Hometown: Roslyn, NY

    Current Position: D.D.S. student, NYU

  • 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

  • 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

  • Seth McKee

    Research Technician

    B.S., Chemistry, Elon University, 2021

    Hometown: Hillsborough, NC

    Current Position: M.D. student, UNC-Chapel Hill

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Laura Youngblood

    Staff Assistant

    B.A., Dramatic Arts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020

    Hometown: New Orleans, LA

  • Ben Zolyomi

    Medical Student

    Sc.B., Neuroscience, Brown University, 2019

    Hometown: Albuquerque, NM

    Current Position: Resident, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School