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Rochester Ph.D.s in academe
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Doctoral Commencement
Rochester Biological Sciences Ph.D.s on the Faculties of Highly Ranked Schools and Programs*
| Faculty Appointment | Graduate | Ph.D. Program | Position Title |
| Harvard | Joseph B. Martin, M.D. | anatomy | Walker Professor of Neurobiology and Clinical Medicine |
| Harvard | Michael T. Chin, M.D. | biochemistry | Instructor in Medicine |
| Harvard | Tanya Mayadas-Norton | biochemistry | Associate Professor of Pathology |
| Harvard | Diane Mathis | biology | Professor of Medicine |
| Harvard | Akiko Shimamura, M.D. | biology | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics |
| Harvard | Bruce P. Bean | biophysics | Professor of Neurobiology |
| Harvard | Andrew H. Lichtman, M.D. | biophysics | Associate Professor of Pathology |
| Harvard | Edward V. Maytin, M.D. | biophysics | Lecturer on Dermatology |
| Harvard | Tucker Collins, M.D. | microbiology & immunology | S. Burt Wolbach Professor of Pathology |
| Harvard | Luc F. Joseph, M.D. | microbiology & immunology | Instructor in Pediatrics |
| Harvard | Alexander J. McAdam, M.D. | microbiology & immunology | Assistant Professor of Pathology |
| Harvard | Matthew J. Mahon | toxicology | Assistant Professor of Medicine |
| UC Berkeley | Carla Hudson Kam | brain and cognitive sciences | Assistant Professor of Psychology |
| UC Berkeley | Bernard Gifford | radiation biology & biophysics | Professor, Division of Education in Mathematics, Science & Technology |
| Yale | Michael Centrella | microbiology & immunology | Professor of Plastic Surgery |
| Yale | Thomas L. McCarthy | microbiology & immunology | Associate Professor, Department of Surgery |
| Stanford | Jane C. Tan, M.D.,Ph.D. | neurobiology and anatomy | Assistant Professor of Medicine |
| MIT | Peter Dedon | pharmacology | Associate Professor of Toxicology and Biological Engineering |
| Pennsylvania | Stuart B. Moss | biology | Research Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Pennsylvania | John C. Trueswell | brain & cognitive sciences | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Pennsylvania | Stephen R. Thom, M.D. | microbiology & immunology | Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Chief Hyperbaric Medicine |
| Columbia | David Figurski | microbiology & immunology | Professor of Microbiology |
| Michigan | Sun-Kee Kim | biology | Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Michigan | Christin Carter-Su | biophysics | Professor of Physiology |
| Michigan | Julie Boland | brain and cognitive sciences | Associate Professor of Psychology and of Linguistics |
| Michigan | Stephen Feinberg | pathology | Associate Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery |
| Michigan | Hylan C. Moises | physiology | Professor of Physiology |
| Michigan | Donald G. Puro, M.D. | physiology | Professor of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences and of Physiology |
| Wisconsin | Seth Pollak | brain&cognitive sc./clin.psych. | Distinguished Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry and Pediatrics |
| Wisconsin | Jenny Saffran | brain&cognitive sc./linguistics | |
| Wisconsin | David L. Watkins | microbiology & immunology | Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Wisconsin | Peter A. Mahler | radiation biology & biophysics | Clinical Assistant Professor of Human Oncology |
| UC San Diego | Mark C. Whitehead | anatomy | Professor of Anatomy |
| UC San Diego | Richard L. Gallo, M.D. | toxicology | Associate Professor of Medicine |
| Cornell | Michael Spivey | brain & cognitive sciences | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Cornell | Heather Taffet Gold | health services research | Assistant Professor of Public Health |
| Duke | Theodore Slotkin | pharmacology | Professor of Pharmacology |
| UCLA | Jerome Siegel | psychology | Professor of Psychiatry |
| Northwestern | Sookyong Koh | neuroscience and anatomy | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics |
| Brown | Jerome, N. Sanes | psychology | Research Associate Professor of Neuroscience |
| Washington University | Joseph L. Roti Roti | biophysics | Professor and Chief, Radiation and Cancer Biology Division |
| Washington University | John F. Dipersio, M.D. | microbiology & immunology | Apple Professor of Medicine/Chief, Medical Oncology Section |
| Washington University | Lawrence H. Snyder, M.D. | physiology | Associate Professor of Neurobiology |
| Johns Hopkins | Rajini Rao | biochemistry | Associate Professor of Physiology |
| Johns Hopkins | Ola A. Selnes | psychology | Associate Professor of Neurology/Director, Cognitive Neurology Clinic |
| Johns Hopkins | Katharine Whartenby | microbiology & immunology | Assistant Professor of Oncology |
| Johns Hopkins | Barry R. Zirkin | biology | Professor and Head of the Division of Reproductive Biology |
| Johns Hopkins | Lawrence P. Schramm | physiology | Professor of Biomedical Engineering & of Neuroscience |
| Johns Hopkins | William M. Baldwin, III M.D. | radiation biology & biophysics | Professor of Pathology |
| North Carolina | Lyndon F. Cooper | biochemistry | Stallings Professor of Prosthodontics |
| North Carolina | Corbin D. Jones | biology | Assistant Professor of Biology |
| North Carolina | Steven Matson | biochemistry | Professor and Chair of Biology |
| North Carolina | Yue Xiong | biology | Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| North Carolina | Rudy L. Juliano | biophysics | Professor of Pharmacology |
| University of Washington | Steven G. Gilbert | toxicology | Affiliated Associate Professor of Environmental Health |
| University of Washington | Thomas J. Montine, M.D. | pharmacology | Alvord Professor of Neuropathology |
| Illinois | Stephen Farrand | microbiology & immunology | Professor of Microbiology and Plant Pathology |
| Illinois | Susan Garnsey | psychology | Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics |
| Illinois | David M. Gooler | neuroscience | Professor of Speech and Hearing Science |
| Illinois | Thomas K. Graves | pharmacology | Assistant Professor of Veterinary Clinical Medicine |
| Virginia | Joel Hockensmith | biochemistry | Associate Professor of Biochemistry |
| Virginia | Eugene Barrett, M.D. | biophysics | Professor Internal Medicine & Pediatrics/Director, Diabetes Center |
| Virginia | Paula Q. Barrett | biophysics | Professor of Pharmacology |
| Virginia | James Garrison | biophysics | Professor and Chair of Pharmacology |
| Virginia | Richard N. Day | pharmacology | Associate Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology |
| Virginia | Deborah A. Lannigan | pharmacology | Assistant Professor of Microbiology |
| Virginia | Carl Lynch, III, M.D. | physiology | Robert M. Epstein Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology |
| Emory | John F. White | toxicology | Associate Professor of Physiology |
| Minnesota | Paul P. Cleary | biology | Professor of Microbiology |
| Vanderbilt | Robert J. Matusik | biochemistry | Professor of Urologic Surgery and of Cell Biology/Director of Urological Surgery Research |
| Penn State | John Ellis | neuroscience | Professor of Pharmacology and of Psychiatry |
| Ohio State | Bruce A. Biagi | physiology | Associate Professor of Renal Physiology |
| Ohio State | Jack A. Boulant | physiology | Professor of Physiology |
| Rice | Robert Raphael | biophysics | T. N. Law Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
| Case Western | Cheng-Ming Chiang | biochemistry | Associate Professor of Biochemistry |
| Case Western | Shwu-Yuan Wu | biochemistry | Assistant Professor of Biochemistry |
| Case Western | James W. Jacobberger | microbiology & immunology | Professor, Division of General Medical Sciences |
| Case Western | Angelo A. Licata, M.D. | pharmacology | Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine |
| Case Western | Theresa P. Pretlow | radiation biology & biophysics | Professor of Pathology |
| UC San Francisco | William C. Dewey | radiation biology & biophysics | Professor of Radiation Oncology/ Director, Radiation Oncology Research Laboratory |
| Pittsburgh | Kurt Ackerman, M.D. | anatomy | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry |
| Pittsburgh | SuJean Choi | psychology | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry |
| Pittsburgh | Susan D. Reynolds | biology | Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health |
| Texas SW Medical | George N. DeMartino | biochemistry | Lackley Professor in Physiology |
| Oregon Hlth Sci. Univ. | Thersa Madden, D.D.S. | microbiology & immunology | Associate Professor of Periodontology |
| Iowa | Kevin P. Campbell | biophysics | UI Foundation Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Biophysics |
| Arizona | Howard Ochman | biology | Professor of Biochemistry and of Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Alison A. Bertuch, M.D. | biology | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics |
| Mayo Clinic | Lloyd A. Wells, M.D. | anatomy | Associate Professor of Psychiatry |
| USC | Toben Mintz | brain&cognitive sc./linguistics | Associate Professor of Psychology and of Linguistics |
| Wesleyan | Harry Sinnamon | psychology | Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience and Behavior |
| Vassar | Nancy Jo Pokrywka | biology | Associate Professor of Biology |
* Schools and programs were included if they were among the top 25 as ranked by US News & World Report; if they were among the top 25 doctoral programs in a discipline as ranked by the National Research Council; if they were among the top 25 national universities in average National Research Council faculty quality rating (reported in the May/June 1996 issue of Change); or if they were among the top 25 universities in terms of the number of disciplines highly ranked. The list reflects up-to-date information as of the summer of 2007.
