Over the years, we have trained and worked with a large number of people with expertise in bench research and bioinformatics. We are committed to helping those who are interested to move on to graduate programs or other positions, and supporting those who stay with us long-term. Here is what some past DRSC/TRiP-FGR members have gone on to do (organized into two groups, former wet-bench and former bioinformatics folks).

Past DRSC/TRiP 'wet-bench' researchers:

Gabriel Amador
Former visiting postgrad researcher
Entered a PhD program at Stanford University

Limmond Ayisi
Former visiting postgrad researcher
Went on to study dentistry

Gabriel Birchak
Former research staff
Entered a PhD program at the Univ of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Roderick (Ricky) Brathwaite, Jr.
Former visiting postgrad researcher
Entered a PhD program at the Univ of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Michael Buckner
Former research staff
Went on to earn an MD degree from U Mass Worcester and now works in healthcare

Cooper Cavers
Former research staff
Entered a PhD program at the University of Wisconsin Madison

Yuan Feng
Former research staff
Entered a PhD program at the University of Indiana at Bloomington

Quentin Gilly
Former research staff
Earned a master's degree from the Harvard Extension School while with the DRSC and now works for the Green Labs Program at Harvard University

Grace Kim
Former research staff
Took a senior research position at the California Academy of Sciences' Center for Comparative Genomics

Shannon Knight
Former research staff
Entered a PhD program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kirstin Rudd
Former research staff
Entered a nursing/nurse practitioner program at Yale and now works in healthcare

Kasia Sierzputowska
Former research staff
Entered a PhD program at the University of Exeter (UK) and is pursuing a career in teaching in the sciences

Eric Vogt
Former research staff
Entered a master's degree program at Harvard Extension School

Grace Zhang
Former research staff
Entered a PhD program at the University of Michigan

Past DRSC Bioinformatics interns, co-ops, and others:

Verena Chung
Former bioinformatics staff
Took a position as a research associate in computational oncology at Sage Bionetworks

Pierre Merckaert
Former visiting bioinformatics master's candidate
Earned a master's degree in bioinformatics from his home institution in France, then joined Excelya to work in the area of machine learning

Fnu Nipun
Former bioinformatics master's candidate co-op
Earned a master's degree in bioinformatics at Northeastern and went on to a position at Foundation Medicine

Charles Roesel
Former bioinformatics master's candidate co-op
Earned a master's degree in bioinformatics and then also completed a PhD at Northeastern

Bahar Yilmazel
Former bioinformatics master's candidate co-op
Earned a master's in bioinformatics from Northeastern and went on to a position at Foundation Medicine