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Dr. Jonathan Whittamore

Dr. Jonathan Whittamore

Dr. Whittamore began his scientific training with a Bachelor’s degree in zoology, followed by a Master’s in marine biology. Eager to pursue his enthusiasm for research, he was encouraged to embark upon a Ph.D. joining Dr. Rod Wilson’s comparative and integrative...
Dr. Abhishek Mangaonkar

Dr. Abhishek Mangaonkar

Dr. Mangaonkar is a Blood and Marrow Transplant Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at Grant Medical College and did his residency at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Early in his...
Dr. Kathryn Hixson

Dr. Kathryn Hixson

Dr. Hixson received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Brigham Young University. After graduating cum laude, she sought to understand mechanisms important to subsequent disease treatment by joining the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Boston University School of...
Dr. Cheng Cheng

Dr. Cheng Cheng

Dr. Cheng’s goal is to become an independent research investigator running a laboratory applying basic science to therapeutic discoveries in the field of neurodevelopmental and neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Cheng received her BA from Knox College where she double...
Dr. Joshua Brandstadter

Dr. Joshua Brandstadter

Dr. Brandstadter is a physician-scientist and third-year hematology/oncology fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a combined MD/Ph.D. at Duke University, MSc at the University of Oxford, and an internal medicine residency at the University of...