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Introduction and Overview

Duke CMB Alumni

The alumni of the Duke CMB Program have been very successful, earning postdoctoral fellowships in prestigious labs and often going on to prominent positions in science and education afterwards. Our recent alumni have published over 300 papers based on research conducted in their postdoctoral fellowships and subsequent independent positions. At the time of a recent survey (2004), over 97% of CMB alumni who completed their PhD within last 10 years were still involved in science, as shown in the Table below.

  • 31 Academic faculty
  • 21 Research scientists (industry or research institute)
  • 62 Postdoctoral fellows
  • 5 Science-related (science writing or administration)
  • 2 Further graduate training
  • 2 Have left science (at least temporarily)

Alumni Survey

Please complete and submit this survey form to initiate your alumni record with the CMB Program. If you still are in transition, please complete the form when your new location is known. We will request updates regularly, or you may obtain the alumni survey at our web site, when you have new information, and submit it to cmbtgp@biochem.duke.edu. Your career choices are important to us and we want to remain in contact with you. Hard copies of the form can be returned to the CMB Program, Box 3553, DUMC, Durham, NC 27710.

Download survey form Click for MS Word version of survey  Click for PDF version of survey

Links to some of the successful alumni of the Duke CMB Program

Craig Bassing
Craig Bassing

Marie Burns
Marie Burns

David Cortez
David Cortez

William DeBello
William DeBello

Brooke McCartney
Brooke McCartney

Craig Bassing (PhD, 1997)
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Kathleen Caron
Kathleen Caron

Michael Datto
Michael Datto

Catherine Freudenreich
Catherine Freudenreich

Rebecca Lamb
Rebecca Lamb

Mike Lorenz
Mike Lorenz

Willie June Brickey (PhD, 1995)
Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill
Marie Burns (PhD, 1996)
Associate Professor at UC Davis, Sloan Scholar

Dirk Bussiere (PhD, 1995)
Senior Scientist and Group Leader at Chiron Corporation

Kathleen Caron (PhD, 1997)
Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, Burroughs Welcome Career Award
David Cortez (PhD,1997)
Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, PEW Scholar
Daniel Cox (PhD, 1999)
Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Michael Datto (PhD, 1999)
Assistant Professor at Duke University

William DeBello (PhD, 1996)
Assistant Professor at UC Davis, awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Bush in 2004

Catherine Freudenreich (PhD, 1994)
Assistant Professor at Tufts University
Barbara Golden (PhD, 1993)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Purdue, PEW Scholar
Kathryn Hentges (PhD, 2000)
Lecturer, The University of Manchester, UK
Mike Kinch (PhD, 1993)
Director of Oncology, and Department Head for both Cancer and In Vivo Biology
MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD

Rebecca Lamb (PhD, 1998)
Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University

Mike Lorenz (PhD, 1997)
Assistant Professor at UT Medical School in Houston

John Matese (PhD, 1998)
Director of Princeton University MicroArray Database

Brooke McCartney (PhD, 1997)
Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon, Special Fellow of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

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