A biotechnology predoctoral training grant from the NIH National Institute for General Medical Science pays stipend, tuition and fees for nine predoctoral fellows, with the Duke Graduate School contributing a tenth fellowship for a non-US citizen.
Fellows
Rohan Bhattacharya
Rohan earned a B.S. & M.S. (Dual Degree) in Biotechnology from Amity University, Noida, India in 2018. He is a PhD student in Dr. Samira Musah’s Lab.
Torie Broer
Torie earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering with Honors from Ohio State University in 2018. She is a PhD student in Dr. Nenad Bursac's lab.
Sheridan Carroll
Sheridan earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA in 2015. She is a PhD student in Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda's lab.
Benjamin Cosette
Benjamin earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2017. He is a PhD student in Dr. Joel Collier’s Lab.
Ellery Jones
Ellery received her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Miami in 2018. She is a PhD student studying cardiovascular disease in Dr. George Truskey's lab.
David Kinnamon
David earned his BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas. He spent two years working with a Texas-based start-up company before joining the Chilkoti Group as a PhD Student.
Evan Kurt
Evan graduated with his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Villanova University in 2017, followed by his M.S. in Biochemical Engineering in 2018 at Villanova. He is currently a PhD student in the Segura Lab, studying methods for gene therapy from hydrogel scaffolds.
Jessica LaLonde
Jessica earned a B.A. in Biology and B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2019. She is a PhD student in Dr. Jennifer West’s Lab.
Christopher Mansfield
Christopher earned a B.S. in Biology from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2016. He is a PhD student in Dr. Emily Derbyshire’s Lab.
Meghan Reynolds
Meghan earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a Double Concentration in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from Loyola University Maryland in 2019. She is a PhD student in Dr. Brenton Hoffman’s Lab.
Madeleine Sitton
Madeleine earned her BS in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. She is a PhD student in Charlie Gersbach’s lab working on developing CRISPR treatments for monogenic diseases.
Chi Wut Wong
Chi Wut earned a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences from The University of Hong Kong in 2017. He is a Pharmacology PhD student in Xiling Shen's lab.