Katz Lab Members

Erin Boisvert, PhD

• Position and period of mentorship: Postdoctoral Associate; 2013-2018
• Research project: Neonatal hypoxic insult on human brain organoids
• Current position: Senior Associate Scientific Director, Lockwood

Marcos Carpio, PhD

• Position and period of mentorship: Postdoctoral Associate/Associate Research Scientist; 2013-2017
• Research project: Role of BOK in endoplasmic reticulum stress and calcium transfer
• Current position: Assistant Research Scientist, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina

Sounak Ghosh Roy, PhD

• Position and period of mentorship: Postdoctoral Associate; 2018-2019
• Research project: Non-canonical roles of BOK
• Current position: Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University

Jialing Zhang, MD, PhD

• Position and period of mentorship: Postdoctoral Associate; 2017-2021
• Research project: Acute Myeloid Leukemia cytotoxicity by NK cells
• Current position: Cell therapy technologist, Yale New Haven Hospital

Baohui Cheng, PhD

• Position and period of mentorship: Visiting Scientist; 2017-2018
• Research project: Chimeric antigen receptor T cells for SLE
• Current position: Assistant Professor, Longgang Central Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Seong-Ho Kang, MD, PhD

• Position and period of mentorship: Visiting Scientist; 2016-2017
• Research project: Role of BOK in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
• Current position: Professor, Chosun University, South Korea

Chuan Yang

• Position and period of mentorship: Visiting scientist; 2019-2020
• Research project: BOK in myeloma
• Current position: Postdoctoral in China

Rodolfo Valentini

• Position and period of mentorship: Post-graduate Volunteer; 2018-2019
• Research project: Non-canonical roles of BOK
• Current position: MD student, University of Connecticut

Archibald Enninful

• Position and period of mentorship: Undergraduate student; 2017-2019
• Research project: BOK in myeloma
• Current position: Undergraduate, Yale University

Maria Karkanitsa

• Position and period of mentorship: Undergraduate; Summer 2017
• Research project: mRNA derived CAR-T cells
• Current position: Biologist, NIH

Hannah J. Lee

• Position and period of mentorship: Undergraduate student; 2017-2019
• Research project: CAR-T cell killing assays
• Current position: Postgraduate associate, Immunobiology, Yale University

Oscar Perales Martinez

• Position and period of mentorship: Undergraduate student, 2017-2019
• Research project: Role of BOK in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
• Current position: Leukemia Research Assistant II, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jessica Su

• Position and period of mentorship: Undergraduate student, 2013-2015
• Research project: Role of BOK in ER stress
• Current position: PhD student, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC Irvine

Hannah Truong

• Position and period of mentorship: Undergraduate student, 2014-2017
• Research project: Non-canonical roles of BOK
• Current position: Medical Student, Washington University

Michael Michaud, MS

• Position and period of mentorship: Research Technician; 2012-2016
• Research project: Mouse colony
• Current position: Research Assistant III, The Jackson Laboratory

Kevin Chang

• Position and period of mentorship: High school volunteer; 2013-2016
• Research project: Use of CRISPRi/a in mantle cell lymphoma
• Current position: MSTP student, University of Chicago

Samuel Kerr, PhD

• Position and period of mentorship: Graduate student; 2018 - 2022
• Research project: Modulation of T cells to promote an anti-tumor response: activation and inhibition of T cells for efficacy in T-cell lymphomas and melanoma
• Current Position: Associate Clinical Project Manager, Miltenyi Biomedicine

Shalin Kothari, MD

• Position and period of mentorship: Assistant Professor; 2019 - 2021
• Research project: Development of novel anti-apoptotic inhibitors
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Medicine

Jialing Zhang, PhD, MD

• Position and period of mentorship: Postdoctoral fellow; 2018 - 2021
• Research project: NK cell therapy
• Current Position: Clinical Research Manager, Yale New Haven Hospital