#  Where are they now? 

 



 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](https://green.harvard.edu/bio/quentin-gilly)

 **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

 **Eric Qin** Former bioinformatics intern Earned a BS degree in computer science at Northeastern and went on to a position at Raytheon **Jonathan Rodiger** Former bioinformatics staff Took a position at LifeMine Therapeutics **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