Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Deyin Xing, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Years: 2003-2007

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Department of Defense Training Award

American Association for Cancer Research Scholar in Training Award 2006

Massachusetts General Hospital Fund for Medical Discovery

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund

Marsha Rivkin Scientific Scholar (declined due to funding overlap)

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Xing and Orsulic, PNAS, 2005
Xing and Orsulic, Cell Cycle, 2005
Xing et al., Cancer Research, 2006
Wang et al., Differentiation, 2008
Ioffe et al., ESUN, 2009
Xing et al., Cancer Research, 2009
Ibrahim et al., Cancer Research, 2010
Goldberg et al., PNAS, 2010
Righi et al., Cancer Research, 2011

Jiangyong (John) Miao, MD, PhD

Associate Director CSSM, Merck Research Laboratories Boston, MA

Years: 2003-2007

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Department of Defense Training Award

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Miao et al., PNAS, 2007
Miao et al., International Journal of Cancer, 2008
Hall et al., Cancer Research, 2010

Recouvreux et al., Cancers, 2022

Sanja Sale, MD

Director, Central Laboratory, BICRO BIOCentre, Ltd., Biosciences Technology Commercialization and Incubation Centre, Zagreb, Croatia

Years: 2005-2007

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Sale and Orsulic, Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models, 2006

Lei He, PhD

Senior Scientist, AbbVie, Chicago, IL

Years: 2006-2008

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Massachusetts General Hospital Fund for Medical Discovery

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Ibrahim et al., Cancer Research, 2010
He et al., Oncogene 2013

Paul-Joseph Aspuria, PhD

Principal Scientist, Synthekine, Menlo Park, CA

Years: 2008-2016

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Foundation for Women’s Cancer

The Helene Harris Memorial Trust 13th International Forum on Ovarian Cancer Traveling Fellowship

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Xing et al., Cancer Research, 2009
Gozo et al., Cell Death and Differentiation, 2013
Taylor-Harding et al., Oncotarget, 2014
Aspuria et al., Cancer & Metabolism, 2014
Beach et al., Oncotarget, 2015
Liu et al., Gynecologic Oncology, 2015
Gozo et al., Oncotarget, 2016
Aspuria et al., Experimental Cell Research, 2020

Dong-Joo (Ellen) Cheon, PhD

Associate Professor (tenure track), Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

Years: 2009-2015

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Singavarapu et al., Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2010
Cheon and Orsulic, Annual Reviews of Pathology, 2011
Gozo et al., Cell Death and Differentiation, 2013
Cheon et al., Clinical Cancer Research, 2014
Cheon and Orsulic, Biomarkers in Medicine, 2014
Cheon et al., The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, 2014
Beach et al., Oncotarget, 2015
Cheon et al., Carcinogenesis, 2015
Gozo et al., Oncotarget, 2016
Jia et al., Cancer Letters, 2016

Dongyu Jia, PhD

Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology (tenure track), Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

Years: 2015-2017

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Liu et al., Gynecologic Oncology, 2015
Gozo et al., Oncotarget, 2016
Jia et al., Cancer Letters, 2016
Jia et al., Scientific Reports, 2018

Marcela Haro, PhD

Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Years: 2017-2020

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Haro et al., Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2018
Hu et al., Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Dinh et al., Nature Communications, 2021
Hu et al., npj Precision Oncology, 2024
Xu et al., Science Advances, 2024

Ye Hu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, CN

Years: 2016-2020

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Hu et al., Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Wu et al., Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Hu et al., npj Precision Oncology, 2024
Xu et al., Science Advances, 2024

Yael Raz Yana, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University

Years: 2018-2021

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

The Rivkin Center Scientific Scholar Award

Foundation for Women’s Cancer Laura Crandall Brown Foundation Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Hu et al., Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Wu et al., Frontiers in Oncology, 2022

Enes Taylan, MD

OB/GYN Fellow

Years: 2018-2000

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Taylan et al., Gynecologic Oncology, 2020
Hu et al., Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Hu et al., npj Precision Oncology, 2024

Barbie Taylor-Harding, PhD

Research Associate

Years: 2016-2022

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Jia et al., Cancer Letters, 2016
Lahiguera et al., EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2020
Hu et al., Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Hu et al., npj Precision Oncology, 2024

OB/GYN Fellows

Lejla Delic, MD

Gynecologic Oncologist, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Years: 2008-2009

Fellowships while in the Orsulic Lab:

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund

Yevgeniya Ioffe, MD

Gynecologic Oncologist, Loma Linda University Cancer Center, Loma Linda, CA

Years: 2008-2009

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Ioffe et al., ESUN, 2009
Xing et al., Cancer Research, 2009

Michael Richardson, MD

GYN/ONC Fellow, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Years: 2021-2022

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Richardson et al., Cells, 2022

Graduate Students

Jessica Beach, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia

Years: 2011-2015

Publications resulting from work in the Orsulic Lab:

Cheon et al., Clinical Cancer Research, 2014
Cheon et al., The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, 2014
Aspuria et al., Cancer & Metabolism, 2014
Beach et al., Oncotarget, 2015
Liu et al., Gynecologic Oncology, 2015
Cheon et al., Carcinogenesis, 2015