Meet the students of our Cancer Biology Training Program.
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AROOBA AHMED
[]Arooba is a first year MD-PhD student from Long Island, New York. She graduated from Columbia University with a major in Biochemistry. At Columbia University, she was in the lab of Jean Gautier where she led a project on the mechanisms of DNA repair in the context of cancer biology. Specifically,...
PRIYA BEGANI
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JERREL LEWIS CATLETT
[]Jerrel Catlett is a 5th year student in the MSTP from Washington D.C. He is completing his dissertation work in the Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics training area under medicinal chemist Dr. Jian Jin, PhD. Jerrel completed his undergraduate degree in Human Genetics at Dartmouth College in 2018...
YIYANG CHEN
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PAMELA DEL VALLE
[]Pamela Del Valle is a PhD student in the Neuroscience multidisciplinary training area at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Pamela is currently in the labs of Drs. Deanna Benson and George Huntley, where she focuses on the role of the peripheral...
Elena Grossi
[INSTRUCTOR (PENDING) | Oncological Sciences]
ADAM LOUIS KENET
[]Adam is a first-year MD-PhD student from New York City. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a major in Biomedical Engineering (Immunoengineering focus area) and a minor in Computational Medicine. At Johns Hopkins, Adam joined Dr. Anthony Leung’s lab in the Department of Biochemistry and...
AMIR KHAN
[POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW | Immunobiology]Dr. Khan has a PhD in cancer antigen discovery for epitope-based vaccine development from Gachon University in South Korea. His first postdoctoral position was at the Immunology Center of Georgia at Augusta, where he studied the autoimmune aspect of cardiovascular disease and was working on the design...
MANAN KRISHNAMURTHY
[]Manan Krishnamurthy joined the MD-PhD program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2023. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 2021, working in Dr. Mitch McVey’s lab to investigate regulators of DNA double strand break repair in Drosophila melanogaster. After graduating...
ATAR SINGH KUSHWAH
[]Atar Singh Kushwah is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Women's Biomedical Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai in New York. His research focused on the functional and mechanistic significance of microbiome-mediated pharmaco-epi-genetic changes in the cervix and associated...
MADISON ROSE LEONE
[]Madison is a first-year MD-PhD student from San Diego, California. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, double majoring in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. While at MIT, she studied the role of natural killer cells in cancer and viral infection in Wilfredo Garcia-Beltran’s lab...