Lab Alumni

Ben Zolyomi
Medical Student
Sc.B., Neuroscience, Brown University, 2019
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM

Jacob Hoj, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Molecular Cancer Biology, Duke University, 2020
B.S., Exercise Science, Brigham Young University, 2014
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT

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

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

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

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

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

Justine Rutter
Research Technician
B.S., Biology, Duke University, 2019
Hometown: Mill Valley, CA
Wood lab, 2016-20
Current Position: M.D./Ph.D. Program, Harvard-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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Postdoctoral fellow, Shalek and Manalis Labs, MIT

Colin Martz
Medical Student
B.S., Neuroscience, Duke University, 2012
M.D., Duke University, 2018
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
Wood Lab, 2012-2017
Current Position: Resident, Medicine/Pediatrics, Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital

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

Daniel Nussbaum, M.D.
Resident, General Surgery, Duke University, 2011-Present
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
M.D. University of Southern California, 2011
Hometown: Scarsdale, NY
Wood Lab, 2014-2017
Current Position: Fellow, Surgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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

Jennifer Tingley
Research Technician
B.S., Biology, Duke University, 2013
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Wood lab, 2013-15
Current Position: M.D. student, New York Medical College

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: Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Brown University

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