Careers after Yale

Training in Cell Biology, as a graduate student, medical student, M.D.-Ph.D. student, or postdoctoral fellow has proved to be a popular and successful career choice.

We currently have 57 postdoctoral fellows, 39 BBS graduate students, and 2 MSTP students working in Cell Biology labs throughout Yale. Gaining a position in one of our laboratories Importantly, our department's graduates can be found in influential positions in academia, the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, law, publishing, and finance. Some examples include:

• Sandra Schmid, Chair, Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute (Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Sybil Lombillo, Associate Litigation Attorney, Morgan-Finnegan, NY (graduate student, 1994-98)
• Annette Thomas, Managing Director, Nature Publishing Group (graduate student)
• Gian-Carlo Ochoa, Associate, SAC Capital, NY (graduate student)
• MarK Velleca, VP of Research, Cellular Genomics, Inc., Branford, CT (NIH Postdoctoral fellow)
• Robert Doms, Professor, University of Pennsylvania (MD-PhD student)
• Stella Hurtley, Associate Editor, Science Magazine (postdoctoral fellow)
• Sebastian Amigorena, Professor, Curie Institute, Paris (postdoctoral fellow)
• David Lewin, Senior Scientist, Curagen Corp. (graduate student)
• Ellen LeMosy, Assistant Professor, Medical College of Georgia (NIH, AHA postdoctoral fellow)
• Jin-Hua Han, Research Scientist, Bayer Corporation (Postdoctoral Associate)
• Joachim Seemann: Presently Assistant Prof, UTSW
• Hemmo Meyer: Assistant Prof, ETH, Zurich
• James Shorter: Post-doc with Susan Lindquist, Whitehead.
• Laurence Pelletier: Post-doc with Tony Hyman, Dresden
• Nancy Walworth, Associate Professor, UMDNJ-RWJMS, (graduate student)
• Robert Bowser, Associate Professor, U. Pittsburg School of Medicine (graduate student)
• Fern Finger, Assistant Professor, Renselaer Polytechnic Institute (graduate student)
• Stephen Doxsey, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center (graduate student)
• Rebecca Burdine, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Princeton University (graduate student)
• Christopher Yoo, Alliance Program Manager, IBM Life Sciences, San Francisco (graduate student)