Center for Cardiometabolic Science

Meet the PhD students:

Brandon Capps
PhD student (Physiology)
Conklin Lab

Benjamin Doelling
PhD student (Biochemistry)
Baba Lab

Tyler Jobe
PhD student (Physiology)
Wysoczynski Lab

Peyton Kochert
MD/PhD student (TBD)
Gibb Lab

Lianay Gutierrez Luque
PhD student (Biochemistry)
Hill Lab

Yu "Nancy" Tian
PhD student (Pharmacology)
Gibb Lab

Jiapeng Chen
PhD student (Physiology)
Carll Lab

Ilaria Ferrari
MD/PhD student (Physiology)
Jones Lab

Ruchita Joshi
PhD student (Biochemistry)
Hill Lab

Madison Lind
PhD student (Physiology)
Jones Lab

Jamila Makhloufi
PhD student (Biochemistry)
Baba Lab

Caitlin Wilkerson
PhD student (Pharmacology)
Jones Lab

Alumni—where they landed:

Dr. Caitlin Howard (neé) Muscarnero
[PhD, 2026, with Dr. Jones]
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Dr. Jonah Stephan
[PhD, 2026, with Dr. Wysoczynski]
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Dr. Collin Wells
[PhD, 2025, with Dr. Hill]
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO

Dr. Kara Gouwens
[PhD, 2025, with Dr. Hill]
Finishing MD/PhD program
University of Louisville

Dr. Ernesto Pena Calderin
[PhD, 2024, with Dr. Hellmann]
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Dr. Timothy Audam
[PhD, 2021, with Dr. Jones]
Harvard/MIT (Broad Institute)
Cambridge, MA

Dr. Mamata Chaudhari
[PhD, 2026, with Dr. Baba]
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Dr. Brittany Reynolds
[PhD, 2026, with Dr. Carll]
Virginia Tech
Roanoke, VA

Dr. Daniel Nguyễn
[PhD, 2025, with Dr. Hill]
Finishing MD/PhD program
University of Louisville

Dr. Danielle Little
[PhD, 2025, with Dr. Jones]
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Dr. Kyle Fulghum
[PhD, 2023, with Dr. Hill]
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

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