Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program

  • Program Alumni

    Graduates of the Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation have gone on to careers in academia, industry, law, computer science and government.

    Many have achieved postdoctoral fellowships in some of the top research laboratories in the country and advanced to faculty positions at leading universities and undergraduate colleges.

    Program graduates also have reached leadership positions in business and the growing biomedical technology industry.

    NameTitle(s)Company / Institution Research Interests
    Tracy Reed, PhD Associate Professor of BiologyCollege of Mt. St. JosephThe role of phosphodesterase 1B in the Central Nervous System
    Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pulmonary BiologyCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterRoles and molecular mechanisms whereby Rb/p16, p53 and Dicer1 signaling control lung development and responses to lung injury with a focus towards understanding functions critical in the pathogenesis of lung disease
    Chester W. Brown, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics and PediatricsBaylor College of MedicineTGF-beta superfamily signaling: obesity, diabetes and metabolism, embryonic development and reproduction
    John Schimenti, PhD Professor of Genetics
    Director, Center for Vertebrate Genomics
    Cornell University College of Veterinary MedicineGenetics/genomics of mammalian genome maintenance, gametogenesis and development
    Stephen Small, PhD Professor of Biology
    Director of Graduate Studies
    New York UniversitySpatial control of gene transcription during early Drosophila development
    Thomas L. Brown, PhD Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Physiology
    Director, Laboratory of Cell Death, Differentiation and Development
    President and Chief Scientific Officer
    Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
    Apoptrol, LLC. 
    Apoptosis, Hypoxia, Placental Development, Stem Cell Differentiation, Gene Targeting and Therapeutics
    Timothy Weaver, PhDCo-Director, Division of Pulmonary Biology
    Co-Director, Molecular & Developmental Biology Graduate Program
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterThe structural basis for surfactant protein function and to identify the roles of these proteins in lung development and postnatal pulmonary physiology

    Contact Us

    For more information about the Molecular and Developmental Biology Program at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati, email mdbprog@cchmc.org or call 513-636-4545. You can also apply online at our application page.