Last Update: 4/2025
Next Generation Faculty Symposium Alumni
Since 2020, the Next Generation Faculty Symposium has featured 39 aspiring faculty talks in a short ten-minute format. Thirty of the featured speakers have gone on to obtain faculty positions, as well as many of the honorable mention participants in the program. Alumni of the symposia and updates on their career paths are featured below. Read more about the past symposia and the impact of the program in this Stanford Engineering Science and Technology article.
Last Update: 4/2025
2023 Alumni
14 Selected Speakers - 9 Faculty and 5 Postdocs
Kolade Adebowale
is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - San Diego.
Ismail Ahmed
is an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Utah.
Meli'sa Crawford
is an Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
Selasi Dankwa
is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
Lisa Eshun-Wilson
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Scripps Research Institute.
Shawna Follis
is an Instructor at Stanford University.
Eva González Diaz
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco.
Lauren Hagler
is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M.
Luis Hernandez-Nunez
is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University.
Antonio Tinoco Valencia
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University.
Louai Labanieh
is an Assistant Professor of Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mount Sinai.
Kekoa Taparra
is an Assistant Professor for the Fielding School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine.
Claudia Varela
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Juan Vazquez
is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University.
Last Update: 4/2025
2021 Alumni
13 Selected Speakers - 10 Faculty and 3 in additional career opportunities
Fayal Abderemane-Ali
is an Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of California - Los Angeles.
Basem Al-Shayeb
is a Co-Founder of Amber Bio.
Joel Babdor
is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology.
Mairin Balisi
is the Augustyn Family Curator at the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario
is an Assistant Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology at Duke University.
Valerie Darcey
is a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Maria Maldonado
is an Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of California - Davis.
Juliane Sempionatto Moreto
is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineer at Rice University.
Jaimie Marie Stewart
is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - Los Angeles.
Maxine Umeh Garcia
is an Instructor in the School of Medicine at Stanford University.
Natoya Peart
is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Waterloo.
Claudia Vasquez
is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington.
Yvon Woappi
is an Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University.
Last Update: 04/2025
2020 Alumni
12 Selected Speakers - 11 Faculty and 1 in an additional career opportunity
David Cox
is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.
Kyle Daniels
is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.
Chantell Evans
is an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University.
Mireille Kamariza
is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - Los Angeles.
Geoffrey Lovely
is a Staff Research Scientist at Pumpkinseed.
Nicole Martinez
is an Assistant Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology at Stanford University.
James Nuñez
is an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California - Berkeley.
Caroline Palavicino-Maggio
is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University.
Catherine Tcheandjieu
is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California - San Francisco and an Assistant Investigator at the Gladstone Institute.
Ottman Tertuliano
is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hawa Racine Thiam
is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University.
Last Update: 04/2025
Honorable Mentions (2020, 2021, 2023)
55 Honorable Mentions (Total) - 34 Faculty, 12 Postdocs and 9 in additional career opportunities
2020
17 Honorable Mentions - 11 Faculty, 2 Postdocs and 4 in additional career opportunities
Eman Akam
Instructor at Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General HospitalLindsey Backman
Valhalla Fellow at the White Head InstituteR. Konane Bay
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado - Boulder
Lab WebpageCheavar Blair
Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of KentuckyJohn F. Brooks II
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University
Lab WebpageDavid Castillo-Azofeifa
Principal Scientist at GenentechAhmed El Hady
Group Leader at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour - Universität Konstanz
Lab WebpageMariana Gomez-Schiavon
Principal Investigator at the International Laboratory for Human Genome Research - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Lab WebpageChristian Guerrero-Juarez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - IrvineColwyn Headley
Instructor at Stanford UniversityRogelio Hernandez-Lopez
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics at Stanford Unviersity
Lab WebpageManuel Razo-Mejia
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford UniversityFlorentine Rutaganira
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
Lab WebpageMelody Smith
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University
Lab WebpageChristina Termini
Assistant Professor of Human Biology and of Translational Science & Therapeutics at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Lab WebpageLinda T. Vo
Director of New Opportunities at Curie.BioAsher Williams
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University
Lab Webpage
2021
20 Honorable Mentions - 15 Faculty, 1 Postdoc and 4 in additional career opportunities
Hoda Abdel Magid
Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern CaliforniaJuan Angueyra
Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland
Lab WebpageDaniel Bayless
Assistant Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the Salk Institute
Lab WebpageFatima Enam
Consultant at Boston Consulting GroupDiego Fernandez
Assistant Professor of Opthalmology Science of Light Center at the University of Cincinnati
Lab WebpageLeah Guthrie
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - Berkeley
Lab WebpageShuo Han
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at Duke University
Lab WebpageColwyn Headley
Instructor at Stanford UniversityMaia Kinnebrew
Distinguished Fellow of Biochemistry at Stanford University
Lab WebpageHuong Kratochvil
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Lab WebpageShan Meltzer
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University
Lab WebpageRachel Niederer
Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan
Lab WebpageJasmine Nirody
Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago
Lab WebpageAgostina Palmigiano
Lecturer at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College LondonCandice Price
Program Director at the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lunch and Blood InstituteNuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University
Lab WebpageShelbi Russell
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at University of California - Santa Cruz
Lab WebpageTrevor Sorrells
Assistant Professor of Genetics at Yale University
Lab WebpageJacob Steenwyk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California - BerkeleyValerie Tornini
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of California - Los Angeles
Lab Webpage
2023
18 Honorable Mentions - 8 Faculty, 9 Postdocs and 1 in an additional career opportunity
Samira Abdulai-Saiku
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San FranciscoNeville Bethel
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California - San Diego
Lab WebpageRashmi Chandra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San FranciscoJustin Conner
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - BerkeleyMaria Fernanda Forni
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale UniversityMelanie Hannebelle
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swiss Tropical and Public Health InstituteColwyn Headley
Instructor at Stanford UniversitySergio Hidalgo Sotelo
Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University
Lab WebpageRose Hill
Assistant Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry at Oregon Health and Science UniversityChinyere Iweka
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University
Lab WebpageVineet Joag
Assistant Professor at the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at the University of Washington - Seattle Children’s HospitalAhmad Nabhan
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California - BerkeleyRenato Navarro
Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the University of FloridaJean Jacques Noubiap
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San FranciscoLenore Pipes
Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii - Manoa
Lab WebpagePiere Rodriguez-Aliaga
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford UniversityMarielena Sosa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford UniversityJacob Steenwyk
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California - Berkeley