2025-2026 Duke DSMM Scholars in Neurosciences
Odmaa Bayaraa
2nd Year PhD Candidate
Mentor: Simon Gregory
Department: Neurosurgery
Aaron Halvorsen
4th Year PhD Candidate
Mentor: Anne West
Department: Neurobiology
Jennifer Liu
5th Year PhD Candidate
Mentor: Laurie Sanders
Department: Pathology
Augustus Lowry
4th Year PhD Candidate
Mentor: Huanghe Yang
Department: Biochemistry
Dr. Hailey Napier
2nd Year PhD Candidate
Mentor: Craig Lowe
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Dr. Veronica Galvin
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Anita Disney
Department: Neurobiology
Dr. Boxun Li
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Charles Gersbach
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Elana Lockshin
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Nicole Calakos
Department: Neurobiology
Nhi Phan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Tatiana Segura
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Javier Huayta Ramirez
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Joel Meyer
Department: Environmental Health, Nicholas School of the Environment
Matthew Slayton
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Simon Davis
Department: Neurology
Nathaniel Hernandez
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Andrea Nackley
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Dr. Katherine Lambert
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Warren Grill
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Qichen Duan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Pelin Volkan
Department: Biology
Duc Huynh
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Michael Boyce
Department: Biochemistry
Bianca Lupan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Debra Silver
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Dr. Aubrey Mercer
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Richard Mooney
Department: Neurobiology
Dr. Jose de Jesus Munoz Estrada
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Sarah C. Goetz
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Ashleigh Rawls
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kafui Dzirasa
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Christabel Tan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Cagla Eroglu
Department: Cell Biology
Elise Adamson
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kafui Dzirasa
Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Nicole Bryant
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Andrew West
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Urann Chan
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Anne E. West
Department: Neurobiology
Thuy “Twee” Hua
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Fan Wang
Department: Neurobiology
Scott Scarneo
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Tim Haystead
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Emily Bowie
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Sarah Goetz
Department: Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Caley Burrus
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Cagla Eroglu
Department: Cell Biology
Pakawat Chongsathidkiet
Post Doc
Mentor: Peter Fecci
Department: Neurosurgery
Vivek Subramanian
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Miguel Nicolelis
Department: Neurobiology
Gwenaelle Thomas
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kafui Dzirasa
Department: Brain Stimulation & Neurophysiology
Martine Tremblay
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Yong-hui Jiang
Department: Pediatrics-Medical Genetics
Rahul Chandrasekhar
Post Doc
Mentor: Marc Caron
Department: Cell Biology
Nikolai Rakhilin PhD
Candidate Mentor: Xiling Shen
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stephen Siecinski
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Simon Gregory
Department: School of Medicine
Ashley Lennox
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Debra Silver
Department: MGM
Akiyoshi Uezu
Graduate Student
Mentor: Scott Soderling
Department: Cell Biology
Xiaoyang Serene Hu
Graduate Student
Mentor: Hiroaki Matsunami
Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
John McMahon
PostDoc
Mentor: Debra Silver
Department: MGM
Mai-Anh Vu
PhD Candidate
Mentors: Alison Adcock/Kafui Dzirasa
Department: Neurobiology
Thomas Pack
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Marc Caron
Department: Pharmacology
Zachary M. Abzug
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Marc Sommer
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Spencer McKinstry
Post-Doctoral Associate
Mentor: Cagla Eroglu
Department: Cell Biology
Mayssa Mokalled
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kenneth Poss
Department: Cell Biology
Xiaolin Zhu
PhD Candidate
Mentor: David B. Goldstein
Department: UPGG
Kathryn Dickerson
Post-Doctoral Associate
Mentor: Alison Adcock
Department: Center For Cognitive Neuroscience
Rocio Gomez-Pastor
Post-Doctoral Associate
Mentor: Dennis J. Thiele
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Alexander Jeager
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dennis J. Thiele
Department: Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Wei Chou Tseng
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Vann Bennett
Department: Pharmacology
Lomax Boyd
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Debra Silver
Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Christy Wilson
Post-Doctoral Associate
Mentor: Gerald Grant
Department: Neurosurgery
Steven Prince
Post-Doctoral Associate
Mentor: Kevin LaBar
Department: Neuroscience
Andrew Adler
PhD Candidate
Mentor: Kam Leong
Department: Engineering