Alumni Success

Where are they now?

Graduates of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at Marshall University have found employment in a variety of outstanding positions in academia, clinical research, pharmaceutical companies, businesses, and the public sector.

The following is a list of some of the many exciting places our alumni have been employed:

Recent Ph.D. Graduates

Jasjeet Bhullar, Ph.D.

Dr. Bhullar earned her Ph.D. in May 2011 under the mentorship of Dr. Vincent E. Sollars. She is caring for her new son and living in Bethesda, Maryland.

Yue Huang, Ph.D.

Yue Huang, Ph.D.Dr. Huang earned his Ph.D. in May 2011 under the mentorship of Dr. Guo-Zhang Zhu. He is working as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Oncological Sciences at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. His research project is to study epigenetic regulation in hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia.

Melinda Varney, Ph.D.

Melinda Varney, Ph.D.Dr. Varney earned her Ph.D. in December 2010 under the mentorship of Dr. Vincent E.  Sollars. She is working in the Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology at
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her research focuses on modifiers of TRAF6 and their contributions to Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS).

Jennifer Napper, Ph.D.

Jennifer Napper, Ph.D.Dr. Napper earned her Ph.D. in August 2010 under the mentorship of Dr. Vincent E. Sollars. She is working as Biology Instructor at Ashland Community and Technical
College, and teaches Anatomy and Physiology in Ashland, Kentucky.

Sandeep Joshi, Ph.D.

Sandeep Joshi, Ph.D.Dr. Joshi earned his Ph.D. in May 2010 under the mentorship of Dr. Richard M. Niles. He is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dermatology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. His research area is pigment cell biology and melanoma.

Lauren Richards-Waugh, Ph.D.

Lauren Richards-Waugh, Ph.D.Dr. Richards-Waugh earned her Ph.D. in May 2010 under the mentorship of Dr. Gary O. Rankin. She is working as Forensic Toxicologist at The West Virginia Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner in Charleston, and lectures for the Drug Enforcement Administration in their Pharmaceutical Overdose Death Investigation seminar series.