A unique feature of the CBTP at Michigan is the requirement that all trainees complete a ≥ 3-month internship in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or medical device industry. Below is a list of trainees and their internship locations over the past 10+ years of the CBTP. We are extremely grateful to our industrial partners for supporting and hosting trainees and helping to prepare them for successful post-graduate careers.
| Trainee (Mentor) | Internship Location (Date) |
|---|---|
| Brooke Smiley (Lonnie Shea) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Julia Crowther (James Moon) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Jacqueline Morales (Diane Fingar) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Miya Paserba (Deepak Nagrath) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Drew Stark (Yatrik Shah/Costas Lyssiotis) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Deepika Tripu (Colin Greineder/Peter Tessier) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Josh Flint (Joerg Lahann) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Angeliz Soto-Acevedo (Wenjing Wang) | TBD (Summer 2025) |
| John-Paul Pham (Maria Coronel) | Sartorius TBD (Summer 2025) |
| Alexander Meyer (Wei Cheng) | Pfizer (Summer 2024) |
| Brian Valladares (Alison Narayan) | ONL Therapeutics (Summer 2024) |
| Juliana Zang (Morgan DeSantis) | Abbvie (Summer 2024) |
| Vivian Juang (A. Schwendeman) | Bristol Meyers Squibb (Summer 2024) |
| Donia Ahmed (Claudia Loebel) | United Therapeutics (Summer 2023) |
| Jordan Byrne (Anthony Vecchiarelli) | ONL Therapeutics (Summer 2023) |
| Katherine Lev (David Sherman) | Genentech (Summer 2023) |
| Belle Henry (Scott Soleimanpour) | Genentech (Summer 2023) |
| Irene Zhang (Andrew Putman) | 3D Systems (Summer 2023) |
| Tessa Epstein (Anna Mapp/Alison Narayan) | Pfizer |
| Juan Valentin-Goyco (Richard Auchus) | Pfizer (Summer 2022) |
| Sadie Gugel (Eric Martens) | Conagra Brands (Summer 2021) |
| Michael Rankin (Janet Smith) | Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Summer 2022) |
| Andrea Valenzuela (Sriram Chandrasekaran) | Pfizer (Summer 2022) |
| Dalia Soueid (Amanda Garner) | Trotana Therapeutics (Summer 2022) |
| Nna-Emeka Onukwugha (Sunitha Nagrath) | Nexus Pharmaceuticals, Inc (Summer 2022) |
| April Kim (James Moon) | Merck (Summer 2022) |
| Anna Anders (Brandon Ruotolo) | Amgen (Summer 2022) |
| Corrine Din (S. Schwendeman) | Merck (Summer 2021) |
| LaRue Felder (Eniola-Adefeso) | Amgen (Summer 2021) |
| Emily Freeburne (Heemskerk) | Cytokinetics (Summer 2021) |
| Lina Wu (Tessier) | Eli Lilly (Fall 2020) |
| Jill Coghlan (A. Schwendeman) | Takeda Pharmaceutical (Summer 2020) |
| Mario Gutierrez (Eniola-Adefeso) | Merck Sharp & Dohme (Summer 2020) |
| Emily Margolis (Putnam) | Lung Biotechnology (Summer 2020) |
| Meghan Capeling (Spence) | Altis Biosystems (Summer 2019) |
| Kaylee Smith (Nagrath) | Lycera (Summer 2019) |
| Aaron Tooley (Fingar) | Genentech (Summer 2019) |
| Bridget Waas (Allen) | Genentech (Summer 2019) |
| Lara Zetzsche (Narayan) | Codexis (Summer 2019) |
| Vivian Chu (Baker/Shea) | Penumbra, Inc. (Summer 2018) |
| Dylan Neale (Lahann) | Takeda Oncology (Summer 2018) |
| Steven Romanelli (MacDougald) | MedImmune (Summer 2018) |
| Ashley Velez (Pasca di Magliano) | Genentech (Summer 2018) |
| Danelle Weakland (Mobley) | Genentech (Summer 2018) |
| Katherine Wozniak (Simmons) | Varigen (Summer 2018) |
| Alison Banka (Eniola-Adefeso) | Takeda Oncology (Summer 2017) |
| Emily Holloway (Spence) | Celsee Diagnostics (Summer 2017) |
| Zachary Mendel (Swanson) | Essen Biosciences (Summer 2017) |
| Jennifer Walker (S. Schwendeman) | TSRL (Summer 2017) |
| Richard Youngblood (Shea) | Histogenics (Summer 2017) |
| Jonathan Bezenah (Putnam) | Cayman Chemical (Summer 2016) |
| Elizabeth Cameron (Walter) | Rubicon Genomics (Summer 2016) |
| Susana Chan (Markovitz) | TSRL (Summer 2016) |
| Grace Kroner (Freddolino) | Lycera (Summer 2016) |
| Cameron Louttit (Moon) | Cayman Chemical (Summer 2016) |
| Cameron Yamanishi (Takayama) | PHASIQ, Inc. (Summer 2016) |
| Jennifer Bohn (Goldstrohm) | Promega (Summer 2015) |
| Thomas Jurkiw (O’Brien) | New England Biolabs (Summer 2015) |
| Katherine Leng (Fierke) | Genentech (Summer 2015) |
| Emily Morin (A. Schwendemann) | MedImmune (Summer 2015) |
| Tom Schroeder (Mayer) | Sophion Biosciences (Summer 2015) |
| James Song (Garner) | Regulus Therapeutics (Summer 2015) |
| Matt DeMars (Sherman) | Inha Univ., Incheon, South Korea (Summer 2014) |
| Matthew Foley (Koropatkin) | Bayer Crop Science (Summer 2014) |
| Justin Randall (Simmons) | Enzo Life Sciences (Summer 2014) |
| Meredith Skiba (Smith) | DuPont Biosciences-Genencor (Summer 2014) |
| Daniel Sobczynski (Eniola-Adefeso) | Regulus Therapeutics (Summer 2014) |
| Steven Wang (Lin) | PHASIQ, Inc. (Summer 2014) |
| Jay Lubow (Collins) | Lycera (Fall 2013) |
| Nicole Motl (Banerjee) | Cayman Chemical (Fall 2013) |
| Matt Jenior (Schloss) | Janssen Pharmaceuticals (Summer 2013) |
| Taylor Johnson (Soellner) | Lycera (Summer 2013) |
| Natalie Maricic (Dawid) | Bayer Crop Science (Summer 2013) |
| Allison Matyas (Lee) | TSRL (Summer 2013) |
| Nathan Porter (Martens) | Alluvium Biosciences (Summer 2013) |
| Samuel Slocum (Sherman/Smith) | Alluvium Biosciences (Summer 2013) |
| Sara Bondi-Cassidy (O’Riordan) | Lycera (Fall 2012) |
| Jenna Hendershot (O’Brien) | Dow Agrosciences (Summer 2012) |
| Michael Nelson (Lin) | Alluvium Biosciences (Summer 2012) |
| Michael Marie Schillaci-Schofield (Sherman) | INBio (Summer 2012) |
| Lauren VanWassenhove (Merajver) | Enzo Life Sciences (Winter 2011) |
| Margery Evans (Chapman) | Sequoia (Fall 2011) |
| Zachary Abbott (M. Swanson) | Trius Pharmaceuticals (Summer 2011) |
| Anne Gilles (Gestwicki) | Enzo Life Sciences (Spring/Summer 2011) |
| Jacob Houghton (Garneau-Tsodikova) | Esperion Therapeutics (Summer 2011) |
| Alissa Kerner (Lin) | Refractored Materials (Spring 2011) |
| Sasha Cai Lesher-Perez (Takayama) | Johnson and Johnson (Spring 2011) |
| Jennifer Oliver (King) | Enzo Life Sciences (Spring 2011) |
| Irene Sinn (Kopelman) | Life Magnetics (Spring 2011) |