Sigmund Lab Alumni
Former Visiting Faculty Hosted on Sabbatical:
Current Position of Former Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Scientists
Mark W. Thompson, M.D.(1993-1996)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Director, Neonatology Fellowship
Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI
Robin L. Davisson, Ph.D. (1994-1999)
Professor
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
David E. Stec, Ph.D. (1996-2000)
Associate Professor of Physiology
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Kristy Bruse, Ph.D. (1998-2001)
Director, CardioPulmonary Safety Pharmacology
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
Albuquerque, NM
Satoshi Morimoto, MD PhD (1999-2002)
Chief of Nephrology Division
Second Department of Internal Medicine
Kansai Medical University
Osaka, Japan
Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D. (1999-2004)
Associate Professor of Physiology
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Julie L. Lavoie, Ph.D. (2000-2004)
Researcher
Axis 1- Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
Montreal, Canada
Koji Sakai, M.D. Ph.D. (2002-2006)
Chief of Cardiovascular Center
Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital
Ehime, Japan
Robert Bianco, Ph.D. (2002-2006)
Kamal Rahmouni, Ph.D. (2004-2006)
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Willem (Toy) deLange (2004-2008)
Research Scientist
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Giulianna R. Borges, Ph.D. (2008-2009)
Invited Professor, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Areia, Brazil
Huiping Li, Ph.D. (2006-2010)
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Justin Grobe, Ph.D. (2006-2012)
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Sungmi Park, Ph.D. (2009-2012)
Leading-edge Research Center for Drug Discovery and Development for Diabetes and Metabolic Disease
Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, South Korea
Current Position of Former PhD and MSTP Students
Lihua Ying, Ph.D. (Graduated 1996)
Senior Research Associate, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Gongyu Yang, M.D. Ph.D. (Graduated 1997)
Radiology Resident, University of Illinois-Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Patrick Sinn, Ph.D. (Graduated 1999)
Previously: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Current, Research Scientist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Yueming Ding, Ph.D. (Graduated 2000)
Previously: Postdoctoral Fellow, Wadsworth Center for Genetics, Albany, NY
Currently: Biological Sequence Analyst, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, MA
Qi Shi, Ph.D. (Graduated 2000)
Previously: Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Currently: Research Associate, Neurosciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH
Branimir Cvetkovic, Ph.D. (Graduated 2001)
Research Business Development Officer, Pliva Pharmaceuticals, Zagreb, Croatia
Mikhiela Sherrod, Ph.D. (Graduated 2004)
Director, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc
Xiyou Zhou, Ph.D. (Graduated 2007)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
Andreas Beyer, Ph.D. (Graduated 2007)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Carmen Halabi, Ph.D. (Graduated 2008)
MSTP Clinical Clerkships, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Matthew E. Dickson, Ph.D. (Graduated 2008)
Duke University
Hana Itani, Ph.D. (Graduated 2008)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Di Xu, PhD (Graduated 2010)
Research Scientist, Shenzhen Beike Bio-Technology Co. Ltd. Shenzhen, PRC
Jinlu Cai, PhD (Graduated 2010)
Eric Weatherford (Graduated 2011)
Sanford Burnham Institute, Orlando, FL
Christopher Pelham (Graduated 2012)
University of Nebraska