Intersect Fellowship – Past Awardees

2023 Intersect Fellowship Awardees

Mauro Di Pilato, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Postdoctoral Fellow: Fernanda Grande Kugeratski, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)

Co-PI: Ziyi Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

De'Broski R. Herbert, Ph.D. (AAI ’00)
Professor
University of Pennsylvania

Postdoctoral Fellow: Fungai Musaigwa, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)

Co-PI: Danielle R. Reed, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Monell Chemical Senses Center

Anna Huttenlocher, M.D. (AAI ’10)
Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Postdoctoral Fellow: Yiran Hou, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)

Co-PI: Huy Dinh, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Gislaine A. Martins, Ph.D. (AAI ’08)
Associate Professor
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Postdoctoral Fellow: Jessica C. Dos Santos, Ph.D. (AAI ’21)

Co-PI: Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Borna Mehrad, M.D. (AAI ’22)
Professor
University of Florida

Postdoctoral Fellow: Matthew G. Wheeler, Ph.D. (AAI ’23)

Co-PI: Reinhard C. Laubenbacher, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Florida

Debashis Sahoo, Ph.D. (AAI ’21)
Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego

Postdoctoral Fellow: Saptarshi Sinha, Ph.D. (AAI ’23)

Co-PI: Pradipta Ghosh, M.D.
Professor
University of California, San Diego

Chetan Seshadri, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’18)
Associate Professor
University of Washington

Postdoctoral Fellow: Deborah L. Cross, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)

Co-PI: Philip H. Bradley, Ph.D.
Professor
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ‘96)
Chair and Professor
Harvard Medical School

Postdoctoral Fellow: Samuel C. Markson, Ph.D. (AAI ’21)

Co-PI: David Liu, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Michael P. Snyder, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)
Professor and Chair
Stanford University

Postdoctoral Fellow: Linda (Yu-Ling) Lan, D.V.M., Ph.D. (AAI ’20)

Co-PI: William H. Robinson, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’14)
Professor
Stanford University

2022 Awardees

Angela M. Christiano, Ph.D.
Professor
Columbia University

Postdoctoral Fellow: Tatiana Sezin, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Tal Korem, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Columbia University

Yvonne Drechsler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Western University of Health Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow: Theros T. Ng, Ph.D.

Co-PI: R. David Hawkins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine

Margaret E. Feeney, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco

Postdoctoral Fellow: Justine Levan, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Gabriela Fragiadakis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco

Katrina K. Hoyer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of California, Merced

Postdoctoral Fellow: Lihong Zhao, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Suzanne Sindi, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Applied Mathematics
University of California, Merced

Maureen A. McGargill, Ph.D.
Associate Member
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Postdoctoral Fellow: David C. Brice, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Paul G. Thomas, Ph.D.
Member
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Justin J. Milner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Postdoctoral Fellow: William D. Green, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Yanguang Cao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brian D. Rudd, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cornell University

Postdoctoral Fellow: Zachary T. Hilt, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Andrew W. Grimson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cornell University

Bolaji N. Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Fellow: Mary A. Oboh, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Feng Cui, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

James W. Thomas, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Postdoctoral Fellow: Dudley H. McNitt, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Ivelin S. Georgiev, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

E. John Wherry, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor
University of Pennsylvania

Postdoctoral Fellow: Divij Mathew, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Nancy R. Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Pennsylvania

2021 Awardees

Michele K. Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Postdoctoral Fellow: Joanne Leung, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Kieran R. Campbell, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Chih-Hao Chang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Jackson Laboratory

Postdoctoral Fellow: Ann Wells, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Gregory W. Carter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Jackson Laboratory

George S. Deepe, M.D.
Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 

Postdoctoral Fellow: Hani Alrefai, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D.

Co-PI: Bruce J. Aronow, Ph.D.
Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Research

Wendy S. Garrett, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Postdoctoral Fellow: Geicho Nakatsu, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Curtis Huttenhower, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Pradipta Ghosh, M.D.
Professor
University of California, San Diego

Postdoctoral Fellow: Gajanan Katkar, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Debashis Sahoo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego

Elizabeth M. Jaffee, M.D.
Professor
Johns Hopkins Hospital

Postdoctoral Fellow: Janelle Montagne, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Elana J. Fertig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Shruti Naik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
New York University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow: Yue Xing, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Aristotelis Tsirigos, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
New York University School of Medicine

Dana J. Philpott, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Toronto

Postdoctoral Fellow: Tapas Mukherjee, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Gary D. Bader, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Toronto

Pandurangan Vijayanand, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Postdoctoral Fellow: Jermaine Khumalo, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Ferhat Ay, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Steven F. Ziegler, Ph.D.
Director, Academic Affairs
Benaroya Research Institute

Postdoctoral Fellow: Honyin Chiu, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Peter S. Linsley, Ph.D.(AAI ’93)
Associate Member
Benaroya Research Institute

2020 Awardees

Jacques Banchereau, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Immunological Sciences
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow: Silvina del Carmen, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Duygu Ucar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Harvey Cantor, M.D.
Baruj Benacerraf Professor of Immunology
Harvard Medical School; Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Postdoctoral Fellow: Andrew E. Wight, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Meromit Singer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Andrew R. DiNardo, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine 

Postdoctoral Fellow: Tomoki Nishiguchi, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Isaac Hilton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rice University

Todd A. Fehniger M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Washington University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow: Jennifer A. Foltz-Stringfellow, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Allegra A. Petti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Washington University

Steven Z. Josefowicz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow: Alexia Martinez de Paz, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Christina S. Leslie, Ph.D.
Member
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

John W. Kappler, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
National Jewish Health

Postdoctoral Fellow: Brendan K. Reed, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Kirk Hansen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Robin Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow: J. Agustin Cruz, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Rachel A. Gottschalk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Lawrence Prince, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California at San Diego

Postdoctoral Fellow: Dharanidhar Dang, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Debashis Sahoo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of California at San Diego

Martin Prlic, Ph.D.
Associate Member
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Postdoctoral Fellow: Florian Mair, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Evan W. Newell, Ph.D.
Associate Member
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Matthew D. Scharff, M.D.
Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow: GuoJun Yu, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Thomas MacCarthy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Stony Brook University

2019 Awardees

Karl M. Ansel, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California, San Francisco

Postdoctoral Fellow: Ni-Ting Chiou, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Hani Goodarzi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco

Daniel Bolnick, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Connecticut

Postdoctoral Fellow: Lauren E. Fuess, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Jill L. Wegrzyn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut

Jane H. Buckner, M.D.
President & Director
Translational Research Program, Benaroya Research Institute

Postdoctoral Fellow: Elisa Balmas, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Peter S. Linsley, Ph.D.
Associate Member
Benaroya Research Institute

Donna L. Farber, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgical Sciences
Columbia University Medical Center

Postdoctoral Fellow: Peter A. Szabo, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Peter A. Sims, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Columbia University Medical Center

Samuel Huber, M.D.
Professor
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Postdoctoral Fellow: Babett Steglich, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Stefan Bon, Ph.D.
Professor
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Denise Kirschner, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Michigan

Postdoctoral Fellow: Stephanie Evans, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Joshua T. Mattila, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Pavel Pevzner, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California at San Diego

Postdoctoral Fellow: Yana Safonova, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Corey T. Watson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Adam G. Schrum, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Missouri-Columbia

Postdoctoral Fellow: Kimberly G. Laffey, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Chi-Ren Shyu, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
University of Missouri-Columbia

Alessandro Sette, Ph.D.
Professor
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Postdoctoral Fellow: Yuan Tian, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Bjorn Peters, Ph.D.
Professor
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Ingunn M. Stromnes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School

Postdoctoral Fellow: Adam L. Burrack, Ph.D.

Co-PI: Steve Shen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
University of Minnesota

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