PhD Student Alumni

Michael Apkon completed his Ph.D. thesis titled "Properties of Voltage-Activated Outward K⁺ Currents and their Modulation by Alpha-Adrenergic Agonists in Isolated Rat Ventricular Myocytes", in the Nerbonne lab in 1989, and was awarded the M.D.,Ph.D. in 1991.

Mike is currently the President of Sand Street Advisors, a healthcare management and strategy consultancy.  He also serves on the Board of Directors at Coverys.

Dianne Barry completed her Ph.D. thesis, titled "Molecular Structure of the Cardiac Transient Outward Potassium Channel", in the Nerbonne lab and was awarded a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1997.

Dianne is currently a freelance science writer in Worcester, MA.

Nicholas Foeger completed his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Molecular Mechanisms Controlling the Expression and Functioning of Kv4-Encoded Cardiac I_to,f Channels", in the Nerbonne lab in 2013, and was awarded the M.D.,Ph.D. in 2015.

Nick is currently a Fellowship Trained Hand Specialist at the Louisville Orthopaedic Clinic in Louisville, KY.

Rachel Locke completed her Ph.D. thesis, titled "Depolarization-Activated Potassium Channels in the Functioning of Callosal-Projecting Visual Cortical Neurons", in the Nerbonne lab and was awarded a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1996.

Following several years with the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Rachel founded and currently manages a biomedical research grant writing and coaching service in Philadelphia, PA.

 

Sacha Malin completed her Ph.D. thesis, titled "Molecular Basis of Functional Potassium Channel Diversity in the Mammalian Central Nervous System", in the Nerbonne lab and was awarded a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2001.

Following several years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cal Tech and  at the University of Pittsburgh, Sacha relocated permanently to the West Coast.

Aaron Norris completed his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Molecular Dissection of I_A Channels in Cortical Pyramidal Neurons", in the Nerbonne lab in 2012, and was awarded the M.D.,Ph.D. in 2014.

Aaron is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine.

Joel S. Solomon completed his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Hyperpolarization-Activated Currents in Identified Neurons from Rat Primary Visual Cortex", in the Nerbonne lab in 1993, and was awarded the M.D.,Ph.D. in 1995.

Joel is currently a Professor in the Department of Surgery, the Chief of Hand Surgery, and the Program Director of the Hand Fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, OR.

 

Kai-Chien (KC) Yang completed his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Electrical and Functional Remodeling in Physiological and Pathological Hypertrophy", in the Nerbonne lab and was awarded a Ph.D. in Genetics in 2012.

KC is currently a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, and an Attending Physician in Department of Internal Medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan