Trainees
Current Trainees
Pronouns: She/Her
Graduate Student in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Works in the Lab of Dr. Steve Caplan
![Devin Frisby poses for a headshot](https://www.unmc.edu/gradstudies/_images/_headshots-students/frisby-devin.jpg)
Graduate Student in IGPBS: Cancer Research
Works in the Lab of Dr. Joyce Solheim
![Ben Gephart poses for a headshot](https://www.unmc.edu/gradstudies/_images/_headshots-students/gephart-ben.jpg)
Graduate Student in Cancer Research Graduate Program
Works in the Lab of Dr. Kate Hyde
![Calvin Lam poses for a headshot](https://www.unmc.edu/gradstudies/_images/_headshots-students/lam-calvin.jpg)
Pronouns: He/His
Graduate Student in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Works in the Lab of Dr. Punita Dhawan
![Mark Primeaux poses for a headshot](https://www.unmc.edu/gradstudies/_images/_headshots-students/primeaux-mark.jpg)
Graduate Student in IGPBS: Cancer Research
Works in the Lab of Dr. Adam Karpf
![Makenzie Vorderbruggen poses for a headshot](https://www.unmc.edu/gradstudies/_images/_headshots-students/vorderbruggen-makenzie.jpg)
Pronouns: She/Her
Graduate Student in IGPBS: Cancer Research
Works in the Lab of Dr. Gloria Borgstahl
![Savanna Wallin poses for a headshot](https://www.unmc.edu/gradstudies/_images/_headshots-students/wallin-savanna.jpg)
Previous Trainees
More than 150 trainees have completed the program and transitioned to successful careers in industry and academia. In fact, more than 90% of our graduates continue in research-related positions or careers in biomedical sciences.
Over 70% of trainees go on to postdoctoral positions, many of which are at prestigious institutions such as the Mayo Clinic, Rice University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins, the NCI/NIH, MD Anderson, Vanderbilt, UCSD, UCSF, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Oregon Health & Science University.
Many currently hold positions in academia, as assistant professors, associate professors or full professors, and others are in industry, medical school/health related careers, licensing, science writing, bioinformatics and biobanking, and teaching.