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PhD in Neuroscience Alumni

PhD in Neuroscience alumni since 2015 and their first position upon graduation include:

2026

• William S. Doyle, PhD
  Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Jena’ N. Mazique, PhD
  Patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA
• Loc Pham, PhD
  Postdoctoral fellow at the Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD

2025

• Shelley Edwards, MD/PhD
  Residency in General Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
• Tanya Pareek, PhD
  Post Doc at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Jaren Reeves-Darby, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS

2024

• Elizabeth Gordineer, PhD
  Project Manager at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
• Ashley Griffin, PhD
  Post Doc at Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• Allie Smith, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
• Kendra Stansak, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
• Jake Valeri, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

2023

• Charles Barnes, PhD
• John Aaron Howell, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• Maria Muhammad, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

2022

• Siddharth Gaikwad, PhD
  Post Doc at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

2021

• C. Austin Zamarripa, PhD
  Post Doc at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Graham Casey, PhD
  Scientist I at Frequency Therapeutics, Lexington, MA

2020

• Danielle Porter, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Redin Spann, PhD
  Post Doc at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
• Sydney Vita, PhD
  Post Doc at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

2019

• Walker Wiggins, MD/PhD
  Residency in Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
• Xiao Zhang, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Washington, Seattle, WA