Lab Alumni

Graduate Students

  • Major Professor, Dissertation of Lillianne Harris, Ph.D.

Graduated December 2011

Thesis title: The role and mechanisms of Hedgehog signaling in promoting tumor vascularization and malignancy

Honors: AACR WICR (Women In Cancer Research) Scholar Award, awarded to Lillianne Harris at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2011, Orlando, FL.

Current position: Assistant Professor of Biology, Claflin University, South Carolina.

  • Major Professor, Dissertation of Kyle Adam Morrow, Ph.D.

Graduated May 2012

Thesis title: Elucidating the role of the tumor suppressor Merlin in breast cancer.

Current position: Assistant Professor, VCOM, University of Louisiana-Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana.

  • Major Professor, Dissertation of Andrew Vincent, M.D. with Research Honors

Graduated May 2012

Thesis title: Understanding the Diametric Role of NUPR1 in Human Breast Cancer

Current position: Radiologist, Acumen Medical Imaging, Florida.

  • Co-Major Professor, Dissertation of Christopher Graham, Ph.D.

Graduated April 2016

Thesis title: Examination of 4-Hydroxy Tamoxifen and BH3 mimetic-induced cell death pathways in glioblastoma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor cells.

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Surgery, UAB.

  • Major Professor, Dissertation of William Jackson, M.S. (Cancer Biology)

Graduated May 2016

Topic: Investigating the impact of Merlin on tumor cell metabolism in breast cancer.

Current position: Instructor, Jackson State University.

  • Major Professor, Dissertation of Ann Hanna, Ph. D.

Status: Graduated December 2018

Honors: AACR Scholar-in-Training Award, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2018, Chicago, IL and the Biennial Congress of the Metastasis Research Society, 2018, Princeton, NJ.

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Vanderbilt University.

  • Major Professor, Dissertation of Mateus Mota, Ph. D.

Status: Graduated December 2020

Honors: Nominated for the Carmichael Award, 2019

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan

  • Major Professor, Dissertation of Tshering (Tesh) Lama Sherpa, Ph. D.

Status: Graduated December 2020

Honors: Pritchett Award winner, 2018

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, U T Southwestern

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • K.H. Chandramouli, Ph. D. – Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Mysore, India
  • Shamik Das, Ph. D. – Current position: Research Associate, University Oklahoma.
  • Uttio Roy Chowdhury, Ph.D. – Current position: Research Scientist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
  • Suping Ren, M.D., Ph.D. – Current position: Scientist, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Beijing, China
  • S. Mruthyunjaya, Ph.D. – Current position: Assistant Professor, Modern College Ganeshkhind, Pune, India
  • Erhong Meng, Ph. D. – Current position: Scientist, Beijing DOING Biomedical Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing, China
  • Victor Lin, M. D., Ph. D. – Current Position: Instructor, Department Of Medicine (HemeOnc), UAB.