The Cech Laboratory Research Publications Members Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students

Name Year/Degree Subsequent or Current Postion Paula J. Grabowski 1983 Ph.D. in Chemistry Helen Hay Whitney Fellow with Phil Sharp, M.I.T. Assist. Prof., Brown University Assoc. Prof., HHMI, University of Pittsburgh, PA Daniel E. Gottschling 1984 Ph.D. in Chemistry ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Virginia Zakian, Hutchinson Cancer Center Assoc. Prof., University of Chicago Member, Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle Ted E. Palen 1984 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow at National Jewish Hospital Reasearch Center, Denver; M.D., Colorado Permanente Medical Group Brenda L. Bass 1985 Ph.D. in Chemistry Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Hal Weintraub, Hutchinson Cancer Center, Assoc. Prof., HHMI, University of Utah Francis X. Sullivan 1986 Ph.D. in Chemistry Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Chris Walsh, Harvard Medical School; Array BioPharma, Inc. N. Kyle Tanner 1986 Ph.D. in Chemistry NIH Postdoc. Fellow with John Abelson, Cal Tech and Claude Jacq. Paris James V. Price 1986 Ph.D. in MCDB ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Trudy Schupbach, Princeton; Biology Dept., Utah Valley State College Christopher J. Dunn 1988 M.S. in Chemistry Yavapai College, Chino Valley, AZ Gregg B. Morin 1988 Ph.D. in Chemistry ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Joan Steitz, Yale Assist. Prof., University of California, Davis Director, Geron Corp.; BC Cancer Agency., Vancouver, Canada Elisabeth T. Barfod 1988 Ph.D. in Chemistry NIH Postdoc. Fellow with Jeremy Thorner, UC Berkeley; Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; Lecturer, Univ. of Vermont Peter J. Flor 1989 M.A. in MCDB Grad. Student with H. Saedler, Max Planck Institute, Koln (Ph.D. 1992) M. K. Raghuraman 1990 Ph.D. in MCDB Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with W. Fangman, U. Washington; Research Scientist, University of Washington Benjamin Young 1990 Ph.D. in MCDB M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1993 Rose Medical Center Denver, Colorado Felicia L. Murphy 1992 Ph.D. in Chemistry Deceased John T. Gray 1992 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow at Smith Kline Beecham Animal Health, Lincoln, NE; Postdoc. Fellow with Richard Mulligan, Harvard Medical School; Director Vector Develop. & Production, St. Jude Children's research Hospital William D. Downs 1993 Ph.D. in MCDB Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Jim Preiss, Hutchinson Cancer Center; Instructor, Univ. of Puget Sound Jennifer A. Dávila-Aponte 1993 Ph.D. in MCDB Postdoc. Fellow at MSU-DOE Plant Res. Lab, Michigan State U., East Lansing, MI; Research Scientist, Divergence, St. Louis Brian J. Hicke 1993 Ph.D. in MCDB Postdoc. Fellow at NeXstar, Boulder, Colorado. Global Technologies (NZ) Dunedin, New Zealand Guowei Fang 1993 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Hal Weintraub, Hutchinson Cancer Center; Helen Hay Whitney Postdoc. Fellow with Marc Kischner, Harvard Medical School; Asst. Prof. Biology, Stanford Timothy S. McConnell 1994 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Joan Steitz, Yale; Scientist, Rib-X Pharm., New Haven, CT Christopher P. Rusconi 1996 Ph.D. in MCDB VP, Development and Founder, Regado Biosciences 2003-Present. Philip W. Hammond 1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry Senior Scientist at Mosaic, Boston, MA Phylos, Boston, MA; Group Leader, Molecular Biology, Xencor, Inc. UCHSC Lara B. Weinstein 1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Scott Strobel and Joan Steitz, Yale Michael A. Tanner 1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Norman Pace, University of California, Berkeley; Sr. Scientist, Kairos Scientific Inc., Santa Clara, CA. Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA. Moira Hagen 1999 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Thomas Campbell , University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Toru M. Nakamura 1999 Ph.D in Chemistry Damon Runyon Postdoc., Postdoc Fellow with Paul Russell at Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; Asst. Prof. U. Illionois at Chicago Kara Juneau 2000 Ph.D. in Chemistry Postdoc Fellow with Ronald Davis at Stanford University Jamie Sperger 2001 Ph.D.in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Jamie Thompson at University of Wisconsin April Livengood 2002 Ph.D.in MCDB Postdoc. Fellow with Dennis Carson, University of California, San Diego Anita Seto 2003 Ph.D.in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Robert Kingston, Massachusetts General Hospital Robert Gottlieb 2003 Ph.D.in Chemistry M.D.- Ph.D. program, CU Health Sciences, Denver Stefan Aigner 2003 Ph.D.in Chemistry Postdoc. Fellow with Fred Gage, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA