Hla Lab Alumni

Name (Instutition and duration with Dr. Hla)
Current Appointment
 

Past Postdoctoral Trainees

Ari Ristimaki, M.D., Ph.D.
GI Pathologist and Professor, Helsinki University, Finland
 
Menq-Jer Lee, Ph.D.
Retired
 
Pazit Ben-Av, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Weizmann Institute, Israel
 
Shobha Thangada, Ph.D.
Scientist, CT department of Health
 
David Bishop-Bailey, Ph.D.
retired
 
Nicolas Ancellin, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Oncodesign services, Les Ulis, Île-de-France, France
 
Ovidiu Trifan, M.D., Ph.D.
VP Clinical Development, Apexigen Inc.
 
Byeong Churl Jang, Ph.D.
Professor, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Korea
 
Krishnan Venkataraman, Ph.D.
Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
 
Teresa Sanchez, Ph.D. (UConn 2001-2006)
Associate Professor of Pathology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
 
Kirsi Narko, Ph.D. (UConn 2002-2005)
Research Scientist, Vanta, Finland
 
Mallika Ghosh, Ph.D. (UConn 2003-2009)
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center
 
Fernando Ferrer, M.D. (UConn 2004-2009)
Chief Pediatric Physician, RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey
 
Seiishi Kishomoto, Ph.D. (UConn 2004-2007)
 Professor, Showa Pharmaceutical University, Japan
 
Masataka Kohno, M.D, Ph.D. (UConn 2004-2006)
Associate Professor/ Rheumatologist, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan
 
Young Moon Lee, Ph.D. (UConn 2005-2007)
Vice Dean, Pharmacy school, Chungbuk University, Korea
 
Sabino Zani, M.D. (UConn 2005-2006)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Duke University SOM, Durham, NC
 
Myat Lin Oo, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (WCMed 2005-2010)
Research Associate, Neurology Dept., Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
 
Hideru Obinata, Ph.D. (WCMed 2008-2015)
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine
 
Victoria Blaho, Ph.D. (WCMed 2009-2016)
Assistant Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, United States
 
Kezhi Dai, Ph.D. (WCMed 2010-2014)
Professor, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China
 
Xi Li, Ph.D. (WCMed 2010-2013)
Assistant Professor, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China
 
Yi-Chien Lu, Ph.D. (WCMed 2010-2015)
Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
 
Karen Mendelson, Ph.D. (WCMed 2010-2016)
Senior Scientist, Sapience Therapeutics, New York, NY
 
Hyuek Jong Lee, Ph.D. (WCMed 2011-2014)
lost contact 
 
Marie Sanson, Ph.D. (WCMed 2011-2013)
Regional Marketing Manager, Clariant Inc.
 
Yuquan Xiong, Ph.D. (WCMed 2009-2017)
Research Scientist, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, NY
 
Chiara Testini, Ph.D. (BCH 2017-2018)
Postdoctoral Associate, Uppsala University, Sweden
 
Cecilia Frej, Ph.D. (BCH 2017-2018)
Postdoctoral Associate, Lund University, Sweden
 
Yu Hisano, Ph.D. (WCMed 2015-2017, BCH 2017-2018)
 
Keisuke Yanagida, M.D./ Ph.D. (WCMed 2013-2017, BCH 2017-2018)
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology,  Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
 
Yuichi Inagaki, Ph.D. (WCMed 2015-2017, BCH 2017-2019)
Scientist, Discovery Research Laboratories, Ono Pharmaceutical, Japan
 
Vivian Lee, Ph.D. (BCH 2018-2019)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
 
Sylvain Galvani, Ph.D. (WCMed 2010-2017, BCH 2017-2019)
Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
 
Takahiro Seno, M.D., Ph.D.
Staff Rheumatologist and Associate Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
 
Steve Swendemen, Ph.D. (WCMed 2012-2017, BCH 2017-2023)
Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
 
Hassan Nassour, Ph.D. (BCH 2022-2023)
lost contact
 
Colin Niaudet, Ph.D. (BCH 2019-2023)
Assistant Professor, CRCI2NA, INSERM, Nantes University, France
 
Anjali Gupta, Ph.D. (BCH 2020-2023)
Scientist, Oddity Labs Biotech, Cambridge, MA
 
Michel Levesque, Ph.D. (WCMed 2015-2017, BCH 2017-2024)
 
 
 
 

Past Predoctoral Trainees

 
Kirsi Narko, Ph.D. (University of Helsinki (jointly with Ari Ristimaki) 1999)
Research Scientist, Vanta, Finland
 
Michael Kluk, M.D., Ph.D. (UConn 2004)
Clinical Pathologist, Assisant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
 
Ji-Hye Paik, Ph.D. (UConn 2004)
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
 
Sung-Suk Chae, Ph.D. (UConn 2004)
Research Scientist, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
 
Sung-Hee Chang, Ph.D. (UConn 2004)
Assistant Professor (Research), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
 
Athanasia Skoura, Ph.D. (UConn 2008)
Senior Scientist, Pfizer
 
Cheryl Habrukowich, Ph.D. (UConn 2008)
Research Scientist I, Protein Purification, Beryllium Discovery, Boston
 
Jason Michaud, M.D., Ph.D. (UConn 2011)
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
 
Bongnam Jung, Ph.D. (WCMed 2013)
Senior Scientist, University of Nantes, France
 
Eric Engelbrecht (BCH 2021)
MD/PhD Program, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
 
Alex Thoms (BCH 2024)
Research Technologist, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
 
Gbenga Dairo (BCH 2024)
PhD Program, Rutgers University