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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

In training at graduate and medical schools, in practice as university faculty, physicians and physician scientists or in volunteering in science education programs, alumni/ae of Howard Hughes-supported undergraduate research programs at Duke are doing great things in the biological and biomedical sciences.  Meet some past Research Fellows below. 

Maria Garci Juenger (T '94), Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
University of Texas at Austin

Eva Littman (T '94), M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor
University of Nevada, School of Medicine
Fertility Specialist

Jennifer Mohr Hyde (T '94), M.D.
Practicing Physician

Heidi Steltzer (T '94), Ph.D., Research Scientist
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University

A. Elizabeth Arnold (T '95), Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona

Jamila Martin (T '95), M.D.
Practicing Physician

Elizabeth Rhoades (T '95), Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

Alison Stuebe (T '95), M.D., Assistant Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Rebekah Drezek (E '96), Ph.D., Professor 
Bioengineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Tonya Matthews (E '96), Ph.D., Vice President
Cincinnati Museum Center
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Audrey R. Odom (T '96), M.D., Ph.D., Instructor
Infectious Disease Specialist
Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis

Charles Toulson (T '96), M.D., Orthopedic Surgeon
Alpha Orthopedics

Sarah Driscoll Kieweg (E '97), Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas

Heidi Ledford (T '98), Ph.D., Science Journalist
Nature

Adela Ramos (T '98), Ph.D., Senior Advisor on Food Safety
USDA

Phuong Doan (T '98), M.D., Hematology-Oncology Fellow
Medicine, Duke University

Chris Keller (T '99), M.D., Nephrologist
Boise Kidney & Hypertension Institute

Jennifer Lau (T '99), Ph.D., Assistant Professor
W. K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Plant Biology
Michigan State University

Hao Zhu (T '99), M.D., Hematology Oncology Fellow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Nii Addy (T '00), Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate
Neuroscience, UNC-Chapel Hill

Ori Preis (T '00), M.D., Clinical Fellow
Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Matt Ogburn (T '01), Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Marine Science, Savannah State University

Megan Phifer-Rixey (T '01), Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Brian Skotko (T '01), M.D., Clinical Fellow in Genetics
Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital
and Brigham & Women's Hospital

K. Allison Smith ('01), Ph.D. Candidate
Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina

Louise Vaz (T '01), M.D.
Pacticing physician

Rebecca Ahrens (T '03), M.D./Ph.D. Candidate
Tri-Institutional Program in NYC

Gordon Smith (T '03), Ph.D. Candidate
Chemistry, MIT

Jeanine Audrey Abrams (T '04), Ph.D. Candidate 
Organismal and Evolutionary Biology
University of Texas at Austin

Angela Berg (T '04), Ph.D. Candidate
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Ken Chu (E '04), Ph.D. Candidate
Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

W. Tyler Gibson (T '04), Ph.D. Candidate
Biophysics, Harvard University

Christopher Martin (T '05), Ph.D. Candidate
Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis

Matt Mian (P '05), M.D. Candidate
Harvard University

Julie Rushmore (T '06), DVM/Ph.D. Candidate
University of Georgia

Rahul Satija (T '06), Ph.D. Candidate
Bioinformatics, University of California at Berkeley

Stephanie Weber (T '06), Ph.D. Candidate
Biochemistry, Stanford University

Valerie Vaughn (T '07), M.D./Ph.D. Candidate
University of Michigan

Felicia Walton (T '07), Ph.D. Candidate
The Wellcome Trust/CR UK Gurdon Institute
The University of Cambridge

Jianghai Ho (T '08), Ph.D. Candidate
Biology, Duke University

Arnav Mehta (T '08), M.D./Ph.D. Candidate
Bioengineering, Biophysics, Chemistry
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and California Institute of Technology 

Tonya Taylor (T '08), Ph.D. Candidate
Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Emory University

Kevin Ford (T '08), Ph.D. Candidate
Biology, University of Washington

Yushen Qian (T '09), M.D. Candidate
University of Michigan

Diana Norton (T '10), B.S. Candidate
Biology, Duke University

Jessica Shuen (T '10), B.S. Candidate
Neuroscience, Duke University

Elizabeth Kuhn (T '10), B.S. Candidate
Biology, Duke University

Arun Sharma (T '12), B.S. Candidate
Duke University

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Tiffany Chen, Howard Hughes Summer Scholar '06, Duke '07

A Duke Hughes Scholar, a Stanford Google Scholar

An Interview with Angie Berg and Tyler Gibson, 2001 Howard Hughes Research Fellows

Following different paths after their Research Fellows summer, Angie and Tyler are now both Ph.D. candidates at Harvard University.

A Conversation with Christine Eyler, 2001 Howard Hughes Research Fellow, and Dr. Marilyn Telen

“The research experience taught me everything,” says Christine Eyler, a 2001 Howard Hughes Research Fellow who graduated in 2004 and is currently in the MD/PhD program at Duke Medical School. As a Howard Hughes Research Fellow, Christie worked with Dr. Marilyn Telen, Wellcome Professor of Medicine, chief of the Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, and Director of the Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center.