alumni

postdocs

Andre Toussaint

Current Title: Adjunct Instructor

Abdus-Saboor lab postdoc, 2022 – 2024
Simons Junior Fellow; Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP Fellow

Heather Rossi

Current Title: Senior Research Investigator, University of Pennsylvania

Abdus-Saboor lab postdoc, 2018 – 2021

graduate students

Justin Burdge

Current Title: Co-Founder and CEO, Tactorum Inc

Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2020 – 2024
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship

Ryan Schwark

Current Title: Curation Scientist, Fulgent Genetics

Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2020 – 2024

 

Leah Elias

Current Title: JCC Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2018 – 2022
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship

Melanie Schaffler

Current Title: Regulatory Affairs Associate, Teva Pharmaceuticals

Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2018 – 2022
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship

technicians

Alexis Knight

Current Title: Clinical research associate, Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2023 – 2024

Victoria Saltz

Current Title: PhD student, Tosches lab at Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2022 – 2023

Jared Boyce

Current Title: MD-PhD student, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2021 – 2022

Isabella Succi

Current Title: PhD student, Abdus-Saboor lab at Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2020 – 2022

William Foster

Current Title: PhD student, Abdus-Saboor lab at Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2018 – 2021

Jessica Jones

Current Title: Senior Scientist, Genentech

Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2018 – 2020
Next: PhD in Neuroscience at University of Washington, 2020 – 2025

undergraduate students

Simon Toney

Title: Research technician in IA-S lab

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2024 – 2025

Amanda Arnold

Title: Fulbright Scholar

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2025

Sofia Marin-Quiros

Title: tech startup

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2025

Leah Yadessa

Title: R&D Rotational Associate @ Pfizer

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2025

Simon Ogundare

Title: MD-PhD student, Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2024
Bridges and Sturtevant Prize

Olaedo Udensi

Title: Undergrad student, Barnard College

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024

Max Comfere

Title: Undergrad student, Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024

Aishat Bakare

Title: graduated, last position unknown

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024

Sarah Sørensen Ogata

Title: graduated, TBD

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2024

Abednego Delinois

Title: Tech, Yale University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2024

Sevilla Duran

Title: Master’s student, Stanford University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024

Melody Gomez

Title: Tech, Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2024

Alexis Imani Marshall

Title: Tech, Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2023

Jonathan Ettricks Jr.

Title: R & D intern at Iveric Bio

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2023

Phalaen Chang

Title: Post-bac, Memorial Sloan Kettering

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2023

Wadzanayi Mayiseni

Title: Post-bac, Yale University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2023

Alexis Knight

Title: Tech, Columbia University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2023

Justin Arnold

Title: MD student, Northwestern University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2019 – 2021

Lucie Pham

Title: MD student, Rutgers University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2019 – 2021

Justin Burdge

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2018 – 2019
Undergrad mentor of Ishmail in Luo lab, 2015 – 2018

Samuel Kaufmann

Title: Research Fellow, SilverLining

Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2019 – 2020

Summer Interns

Sheldon Garrick II, Fordham University, HHMI SURP Intern (2025)
Lesley Iyamu, Columbia University; BUMP Intern (2025)
Tyla Mcaffitty, Howard University, EE Just Scholar (2024)
Jonathan Bryson-Harvey, Columbia University, SURF Intern (2024)
Joshua Samuels, St. Paul’s School (2024)
Meley Haile, Columbia University; SPURS Intern (2024)
Marianna Liistro, University of Edinburgh (2024)
Zennetta Hinojosa, UT San Antonio, Leadership Alliance Intern (2023)
Noah Loran, USC, Leadership Alliance Intern (2023)
Misha Nair, Harvard University; SPURS Intern (2023)
Francesca Whitecross, Middlebury College (2023)
Alexa Cuvilly, high school student; BRAINYAC Scholar (2023)
James Reed, high school student; BRAINYAC Scholar (2023)
Teresa Osorio, Rutgers Camden University MARC Scholar (2022)
Adetokunboh Osineye, Morehouse College; EE Just Scholar (2022)
Ralph Anderson Jr., Morehouse College; EE Just Scholar (2022)
Ziad Eltabakh, LaGuardia High School; BRAINYAC Scholar (2022)
Kayla Dennis, Penn Lens program high school student (2020)
Camille Harrison, North Carolina A&T State University; SUIP intern (2020)
Meghan Wachira, Rutgers Camden University. (2020)
Isabella Succi, St. Joseph’s University (2019)
Syphane Gibbs, North Carolina A&T U, SUIP intern (2019)
Racquel Amadi, Xavier University in Louisiana; DAPPG intern (2019)
Mariatu Fayia, Penn Lens program high school student (2019)