We are invested in preparing our students to pursue their aspirations, whether they are transitioning to a new career or pursuing an advanced degree. Our alumni have excelled in various career paths at research laboratories in government agencies, academic institutions, and biotechnology companies, or continued their education by pursuing Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.D.S, D.V.M., J.D. or MBA degrees, using the skills and training they received at Georgetown University to propel their future academic and research careers.
Where Do Our Alumni Work and Study?
Featured Biotechnology Industry Employers
Amgen
Mahdis Mohit – Associate Scientist
Amelia Technologies
Elijah Finn- Research and Devt Scientist
AstraZeneca
Zoe Malchiodi – Senior Scientist; Meshal Al-Muallimi – Diagnostic Manager
Arsalan Kamran – Research Scientist
Matthew Kefauver – Associate Scientist
Yijia Li – Scientist
Kathy Mather – Senior Scientist
Isabella Tilmont – Scientist – Cancer Biology
ATCC
Sydney McKnight – Biologist
Battelle
Samuel Ortega – Biologist I
Allyssia Boelk – Technician, Micro
Beckman Coulter Diagnostics
Demi Yap Shing – Development Scientist
Boehringer Ingelheim
Ahmed Dang – Scientist
Booz Allen Hamilton
Bralen Lamoureux – Lead Scientist
Bristol Myers Squibb
Dhara Gohil – Cell Culture Biologist
Cell Signaling Technology
Majd Ariss – Senior Scientist
Genentech
Maya Gorgas – Regulatory Analyst
Alexandra Polihrom – Global Clinical Trial Leader
Gene Dx
Dominique Burt – DNA Technician
GlaxoSmithKline
Kershina George – Biopharm Associate
Jansen Pharma (Johnson & Johnson)
Joanna Moulton – Associate Scientist II
Loxo Oncology at Eli Lilly
Fahima Zaman – Clinical Trial Associate
Merck
Janice Kim – Global Regulatory Director
Samantha Kistler – Senior Scientist
Albert Pireku – Senior Process Engineer
Meso Scale Diagnostics
Michael Krawczyk – Senior Res Assoc.; Monia Rashid – Senior Res Assoc.
Abeerah Younus – Senior Res Assoc.
Millipore Sigma
Javauni Garwood -Assoc. Scientist 3; Majd Ariss – Senior Scientist
Shuo-Chueh Cheng – Assoc. Scientist
Dishita Patel – QC scientist
Pfizer
Wilson Appiah – Associate Scientist
Mary Sullivan – Site Relations Partner
Novo Nordisk
Allison Morley – Clinical Research Associate
Qiagen
Brian Dugan – Senior Director, NGS
Pooja Khatkar – Scientist
Szu-Chi Su – Assay Development Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Janhavi Choudhari – Scientist III
James Potter – Manager
Virginia Aragon Sanabria – Scientist III
Sartorius
Veronica DeFelice – Corporate Engineer
Smithers Avanza
Sarah Faizy – Scientist
Featured Academic/Institutional Research Employers
Georgetown University Medical Center
Dhyana Yan – Research Specialist; Tyler Biermann – Research Specialist
Ding Dan – Research Specialist
Shraddha Divekar – Research Specialist
Anju Duttargi – Research Specialist
Dalila Ferrante – Research Specialist
Michaeline Hebron – Research Specialist
Nusrat Islam – Research Specialist
Vinona Muralidaran – Clinical Researcher
Tao Yin – Research Specialist
Ziyao Zhang – Research Specialist
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Merve Ozge Aktop – Research Tech
Sizhe Chen – Research Tech
Shraddha Divekar – Research Assistant
Zhinuo Zhang, Research Specialist
Anju Duttargi, Research Specialist
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Noah Smith – Research Technician
Cornell University
Hsuan-Pei Lin – Research Technician
Children’s National Medical Center
Adriana Valenzuela – Cell Therapy Assoc.; James Jackson – Clinical Research Tech
Harvard Medical School
Pendyala Rupa – Research Asst III; Fan Wu – Research Associate
ChenCheng Zhao – Research Associate
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Elise DeArment – Research Associate
Stephen Pupkin – Genetic Counselor
Cara Schafer – Staff Scientist
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
YiJun Su – Research Specialist
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Eslam Malash – Research Specialist
Weijie Zhao – Research Associate
Mayo Clinic
Wurok Wurok – Clinical Lab Tech
Louisiana Cancer Research Center
Onyinye Modika – Cancer Res.Assoc.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Laxmi Gusain – Senior Research Tech
Rahim Hirani – Research Specialist
MIT
Sean Waterton – Research Technician
Northwestern University
Nora Ghabra – Research Tech
Rutgers University
Raymond Chien – Research Tech
Stanford University
Merchant Miller – Research Coordinator
Emory University
Auriel Moseley – Lead Research Associate
Florida State University
Sixian Song – Research Associate
University of Chicago Medicine
Yogameenakshi Haribabu – Senior Research Tech
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Wangke Shi – Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
Mingjie Ying – Research Tech
Weill Cornell Medicine
Poonam Gole – Senior Data Analyst
Hsuan-Pei Lin – Research Tech
West Virginia University
Bryce Trotter – Lab technician
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Rasha Al-Ali – Scientist
Trevar Caldwell – Biochemist
Blondeen Fowler – Research Biochemist
Maria Burgos – Scientist, NIH Vaccine Center
Anita Ginigeme – Lead Clinical Research Associate, NIAID
Christian Gonzalez – Project Manager, NIAID
Selamawit Gossa – Researcher, NCI
Angel Huynh – Biologist, NIDCD
Chinelo Onyiah – Researcher, NCI
Michael Pratt – Associate Scientist II, NIAID
Kristin Ward – Biologist
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Sangwoo Han – Postdoctoral Researcher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Gloria Inyang – Scientist
Shari Jenkins – Senior Scientist
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Jackie Cullinan – Research Associate Nevien Ismail O’Keeffe – Research Biologist
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Wendy Kitta – IBC Coordinator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ana Terman – Toxicologist
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Redab Alnifaidy – Researcher
Emily Ayuso – Research Analyst
Jackie Cullinan – Research Assistant
Nevien Ismail O’Keeffe – Research Biologist
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Kevin Knowlan – Research Assistant
USA Patent and Trade Office (USPTO)
Rebecca Coobs – Patent Examiner
Featured Ph.D. Programs
Georgetown University
Biochemistry
Reem Aljuhani
Ohoud Al Malki
Nouran Abu Alsaud
Karishma Amin
Joshua Brown-Clay
Reem Gahtani
Charles Hinzman
Parnika Kadam
Yun Liu
Samiksha Mahapatra
Manish Moghe
Emma Rowland
Noah Smith; Shuo Wang
Kelly Zebrowski
Zhinuo Zhang
Shiya Zhu
Biology
Zeeba Manavi
Shu Yang
Microbiology
Armel Fosso Setubi
Neuroscience
Andrew Speidell
Charisse Winston
Tumor Biology
Maryam Abdussamad
Reham Ajina
Dajun Lu
Zoe Malchiodi
Baylor College of Medicine
Alexander Herman
Yu-Ju Lee
Boston University
Yudan Jade Li
Cornell University
Ahmad Cluntun
Najla Al-Sweel
Case Western Reserve University
My Nguyen
Linda Thomas
Dartmouth College
Lesle Jimenez
Duke University
Louis Ballard
Emory University Laney Graduate School
Bijan Mahboubi
Darius Mahboubi
George Mason University
Amal AlSufyani
Pooja Khatkar
Georgia State University
Yang Huang
Howard University
Norah Algarzae
Indiana University
Megan Noonan
Shruthi Sriramkumar
Johns Hopkins University
Eslam Malash
Sangwoo Han
Pranay Randad
Margaret Starostik; Weijie Zhao
Kansas State University
Congrui Zhu
Penn State College of Medicine
Miaolu Tang
Michigan State University
Ameera Bukhari
Northwestern University
Akanksha Mahajan
Pennsylvania State University
Hengye Chen
Virginia Aragon Sanabria
Rutgers University
Nuozhou Chen
Raymond Chien
Shraddha Divekar
Siyuan Sigrid Zhao
State University of New York Upstate
Jenson Gao
St. Louis University Missouri
Zhongyu Li
Syracuse University
Naiming Dong
Temple University
Samer Daher
Texas A & M University
Dakshnapriya Balasubbramanian
University of Alabama
Cara Schafer
University of Arizona
Mengyang Chang
Zekun Liu
University of Birmingham
Ghada Alnafesah
University of California Riverside
Runrui Dang
University of California Santa Barbara
Sarah Seagrave
University of California Merced
Eduardo Flores
University of Cincinnati
Kirandeep Gill; Toni Olkey
University of Colorado Anschutz
Li-Wei Kuo
Hengbou Zhou
University of Florida
Tianqi Li
Ye Zhou
University of Illinois
Sizhe Iota Chen; Majd Ariss
University of Kentucky
Sumati Hasani
University of Maryland College Park
Sahar Vakili
University of Missouri
Chunhui Miao
University of Massachussetts
Vikas Soni
University of Nebraska
Aiah Nour
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Samantha Kistler
University of Oklahoma
Pavitra Murali
University of Pittsburgh
Sanjana Thosar
Jihee Sohn
University of Rochester
Manisha Taya
University of Texas Austin
Melissa Miller
University of Texas San Antonio
Sonal Tonapi
University of Vermont
Zhaojin Li
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Changyan Zhou
Virginia Commonwealth University
Janice Kim
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Najla Al-Sweel
Ersilia Barin
Ahmad Cluntun
Richard Garner
Fanying Tang, Sylvia Zohrabian
University of New South Wales, Australia
Yuan-Yin Chen
McGill University, Canada
Sara Bermudez
Yonghong Chen
University of British Columbia, Canada
Khaled Almutairi
Sumaiya Islam
University of Ottowa, Canada
Dalal Alsowaida
University of Toronto, Canada
Wanida Nuwisait
Aarhus University, Denmark
Alex Harvey
Imperial College London, England
Alessandra Lochen
University College London, England
Thamir Eid
University of Oxford, England
Hung-Jen Wu
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Eric Brandon
Featured M.D., D.O., D.D.S, Vet Med Programs
Boston University Medical School (M.D.)
Rosemary Farahmand
Creighton University School of Medicine (M.D.)
James Williams
Georgetown University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Tina Banzon
Arthur Jurao
Takashi Kitani
Charlee McLean
Sean Mofidi
Kamil Stefanowski (M.D./Ph.D.)
Duke University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Samara Jinks
Eastern Virginia Medical School (M.D.)
Emilia Moscoso
Emily Batts
Claire Evans
Olusola Laja
Geissel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (M.D.)
Kristina Ali
George Washington University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Lamia Alamri
Howard University College of Medicine (M.D.)
Ifeoma Mba-Madubuike
Ifunanya Agbim
Kovosh Dastan
Victor Jolly
Rashida La Barriei
New York Medical College (M.D.)
Rahim Hirani (M.D./Ph.D)
Oklahoma State University Medical School (M.D.)
Angela Hairston
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (M.D.)
Daniela Gomez
Ross University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Kaydee Sharpe
St. George’s University School of Medicine (M.D.)
David Bowman
Joseph Brennan
Ilsen Hernandez
Anita Mazloom
St. Louis University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Jayden Obrochta
State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook Medal Center (M.D.)
Andre Plair
Tulane University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Tiffany Chang
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (M.D.)
Courtney Riddles
University of California at LA David Geffen School of Medicine (M.D.)
Soraya Tarrah
University of Florida College of Medicine (M.D.)
Stephen Suah
University of Maryland School of Medicine (M.D.)
Zachary Ewart
University of Nevada Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine (M.D.)
Kencie Ely
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (M.D.)
Isaiah Peoples
University of Tennessee School of Medicine (M.D.)
Leah Benton
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (M.D.)
Michelle Devine
University of Vermont College of Medicine (M.D.)
Francesca Boulos
University of Virginia School of Medicine (M.D.)
Imaan Nanji, Valentina Grajales
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Hasset Yishak, Bharat Balan
Tara Suntum
Hillary Prince
Wayne State University (M.D.)
Nevil Khurana (M.D./Ph.D)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (M.D.)
Eric Brandon
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Joon Suh
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Shawn Dziepak
Eden Haile
Sarasi Jayaratne
Oklahoma State University (D.O.)
Angela Hairston
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Callee Heywood
St Johns Med Center of Stockton (D.O.)
Chelsea Muennichow
Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Matthew Lightcap
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Zachary Weisner
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Ryan Dougherty
Nova Southeastern University (D.O.)
Joseph Al-Kirwi
Hemang Thakor
Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine University (D.O.)
Maheen Sayeed
Howard University Dental School (D.D.S.)
Sarat Muhammad
NYU Dental School (D.D.S.)
Milana Katz, James O’Brien
University of Florida College of Dentistry (D.D.S.)
Kayla Macri
University of Maryland School of Dentistry (D.D.S.)
Katelyn Malchester
Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M)
Laura Huggins
Career Advancement
Our students and alumni benefit from the services of the Biomedical Graduate Education career office, including one-on-one advising, skills workshops, leadership programs and more to help them take the next step in their professions.
Alumni Testimonials
Find out what our graduates have to say about the M.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program.
“Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was such an amazing experience from having supportive and expert faculty, to the connections made with the students in my cohort, and simply getting the opportunity to delve into exciting scientific research and topics that have real-world implications today – truly made this program so unique and beneficial within my personal and academic growth as a scientist, researcher, and now as an incoming first year medical student at Virginia Commonwealth University.”
Hasset Yishak (M.S. ’24); medical student, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
“The academic training and research experience I gained at Georgetown have provided me with a solid and versatile foundation as I transition into clinical education and training. I feel especially well-prepared to understand scientific principles of medicine and plan to remain actively involved in research throughout my training and career. I’m excited to expand on what I’ve learned at Georgetown as I pursue a career that combines patient care with scientific discovery and innovation.”
Imran Nanji (M.S. ’23); medical student, University of Virginia School of Medicine
“The program provided an intensive, yearlong curriculum that exceeded my expectations. It offered a solid foundation in molecular biology and biochemistry, with coursework in molecular medicine, gene editing, and medical toxicology. This foundation has been invaluable as I now study the Molecules and Cells unit in medical school, which builds directly on the knowledge gained from Georgetown’s Fundamentals of Biochemistry.”
Ifeoma Mba-Madubuike (M.S. ’24); medical student at Howard University School of Medicine
“It felt extremely rewarding for me to learn something new every day and immediately apply that knowledge to my lab work only a few steps away from the lecture hall. I also forged many rock-solid friendships with my classmates and professors that have lasted to this day.”
Hung-Jen Wu, Ph.D. (M.S. ’17) Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK
“The program establishes a high level of scientific proficiency while allowing students the flexibility to pursue research interests in line with their future career goals through the research internship.”
Nevil Khurana (’19); MD-PhD candidate, Wayne State University School of Medicine
“I wanted to enhance my research background to pursue a PhD and this program definitely put me on the right track. There are so many different courses that allowed me to explore what I was interested in while also providing me a deeper dive into research, biochemistry and lab techniques.”
Zoe Malchiodi, Ph.D (M.S.’19) Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca; PhD Graduate, Tumor Biology, Georgetown University
“My time at Georgetown University was fast-paced, demanding, and yet extremely rewarding. I was introduced to a plethora of health-related fields of science that piqued my interest: I resonated with the topic of carcinogenesis and therefore selected my elective courses to reflect my passion for the subject. The combination of comprehensive coursework with a wholesome internship experience gave me a solid foundation of laboratory techniques for a health-related application that indeed makes my synapses go.”
Sumati Hasani, Ph.D (M.S.’16) PhD Graduate, University of Kentucky
“I was impressed by the structure, duration, as well as diverse courses offered by this Program. The perfect amalgamation of classes, lab experience and internship makes this Program perfect for anyone who wants a career in the field of Biology. This Program helped me advance my understanding of Biochemistry, Cell culture, Bioinformatics as well as introducing me to the interesting fields of Structural Biology and Food Biotechnology. This Program not only enriched me with key concepts of molecular biology but also taught me time- and self-management. “
Parnika Kadam, Ph.D (M.S.’14); Postdoctoral fellow, UPenn School of Medicine; PhD Graduate, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University
“The best part about this program was the elaborate coursework and the cutting edge research it has to offer. Their intensive coursework helps one build advanced concepts in topics like Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cancer, etc. The course work at GU is flexible and gives students an opportunity to choose courses based on their preferences. This helps students carve out their perfect career paths to prepare themselves for an academic or industrial setting in the future. Overall, the Master’s program not only broadened my theoretical knowledge but also prepared me to independently work in a lab environment. “
Samiksha Mahaptra, Ph.D (M.S.’13); Postdoctoral fellow, UCSD; PhD Graduate, Cell Biology, Georgetown University
