People
Alumni
High School Student
Annie Feke, Hawken School, 2008
Current Position: Undergraduate student, Princeton University, Class of 2013
Undergraduate students
Nathan Klingensmith, Department of Biology, 2007 – 2008
Current Position: Medical Student, University of West Virginia Medical School
Nimit Kapoor, Department of Biology and Economics
Current Position: Analyst, PNC Bank
Annie Feke, Princeton University, 2010
Current Position: Undergraduate student, Princeton University, Class of 2013
Anne Hall, Department of Biology, 2009 -2010
Awarded 1st Prize in the Michelson-Morley Research Competition in the Biological Sciences for research performed in the McDermott laboratory
Current Position: Graduate Student, University of Akron
Neeraj Edward, Department of Bioengineering, 2008 – present
Current Position: Medical Student, Ohio State University
Joseph Kao, Department of Chemistry, 2009 – 2011
Current Position: Case Western Reserve University Dental School
Divya Indrakanti, Department of Biology, SPUR, 2010-2013
Current Position: Research scientist, OSU
Lusai (Lucy) Qiu, Department of Biology, 2011-2013
Current Position: Dental School, UNC School of Dentistry
Xi (Tracy) Chen, Department of Biology, 2011-2013. Awarded 3rd Prize in the Michelson-Morley Research Competition in the Biological Sciences for research performed in the McDermott laboratory, 2013.
Current Position: Ph.D. graduate student, Loyola University. Co-authored a paper that was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Alison Althans, Department of Biology, 2011-2015
Current Position: Medical student, CWRU
Jasmine Lau, Department of Biology, 2012-2015
Current Position: Medical student, Arizona State University
Jinjing Lee, Department of Biochemistry, 2013-2015
Current Position: Program leader, IIC communications Inc.
Rachael Loek Department of Biology, 2014-present
Current Position: Veterinary School, Ohio State University
Claire Holliday, Department of Biology, 2017-present
Karthik Mohanarangan, Department of Biology, 2014-2017
Claire Holliday
Current Position: Wildlife Biologist
M.A. graduate students
Shenyu (Sean) Sun, Department of Biology, 2015-present
Shengxuan (Kelsi) Wang, Department of Biology, 2015-present
Haimeng (Steven) Bai, Department of Biology, 2015-2017
Kayla Kindig, Department of Biology, 2016-present
Megan West, Department of Biology, 2007 – 2011
Harshita Gupta, Department of Biology, 2009 – 2011
PhD Graduate Students
Zongwei (Kevin) Chen, Department of Biology, 2011-present
Shaoyuan (Sara) Zhu, Department of Biology, 2013-present
Kayla Jeanne Kindig
Shengxuan (Kelsi) Wang
Medical students
Ryan Stevenson, CWRU Medical Student, 2007-2008
Current Position: Medical Resident, Stanford University, Department of Internal Medicine
Augustine Chung, B.A., CWRU Medical Student, 2007
Current Position: Medical Resident, Weil Cornell Medical College, Department of Internal Medicine
Gustavo Gomez, B.A., CWRU Medical Student, 2007 – 2010, 2011- 2012
Current Position: Medical Resident, CWRU, Department of Surgery
Medical residents
Geoffrey Deschenes, M.D., Medical resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology, 2007
Current Position: Medical Resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology
Nipun Chhabra, M.D., Medical resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology, 2009
Current Position: Medical Resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology
Jay Shah, M.D., Medical resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology, 2009
Awarded 1st Prize in the 2010 University of Pittsburg Department of Otolaryngology Medical Resident’s Research Competition for research performed in the McDermott laboratory
Current Position: Medical Resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology
Yi-Chun (Carol) Liu, M.D., Medical resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology, 2011
Awarded 2nd Prize in the 2010 University of Pittsburg Department of Otolaryngology Medical Resident’s Research Competition for research performed in the McDermott laboratory
Current Position: Medical Resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology
Catherine Weng, Medical resident, CWRU, Department of Otolaryngology, 2013
Current Position: Assistant Professor, The University of Rochester Medical Center
Frank Masters, Department of Otolaryngology, 2016
- Awarded 1st Prize in the 2016 University of Pittsburg Department of Otolaryngology Medical Resident’s Research Competition for research performed in the McDermott laboratory
Current Position: Medical resident, CWRU
*Co-mentored with Ruben Stepanyan
William Colby Brown, Department of Otolaryngology, 2017
Post Docs
Ahlam Salameh
Current Position: Clinical Research Scientist at the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Center
Postions
Postdoctoral applicants please send a CV directly, via email, to Brian McDermott (bmm30@case.edu).
Graduate students can join the McDermott Group through any one of the below departments or programs at Case Western Reserve University. Please send email inquiries to Brian McDermott (bmm30@case.edu).
Department of Biology
Department of Genetics nd Genome Sciences
Department of Neurosciences
Biomedical Sciences Training Program