Our Global Reach

Alumni Flight Paths

People train here for a few years, then take off. Here is where they landed.

86 Alumni since 2009
7 In faculty positions
29 In medicine & clinical training
8 At NIH & federal agencies
9 In industry & biotech
3 Continents reached
Lab Role
Career Path
Years in Lab: 2009 – 2026

Routes (Lab Role)

Graduate Students
Postdocs
Undergrads
Staff

Destinations (Career)

Academia
Medicine
Industry
Policy & Federal
Other / TBD

Highlights

Featured Alumni

A few of the scientists, clinicians, and leaders who trained here, and the roads they took into academia, medicine, industry, federal science, and their own companies.

Academia

Dr. Michael Wheeler

Assistant Professor

Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital

PhD, Neuroscience 2012 – 2016
Industry

Dr. Kanchana Gamage

Associate Director, Global Project Management

AstraZeneca

PhD, Biology 2011 – 2017
Academia

Dr. Austin Keeler

Assistant Professor

University of Delaware

Post-Doc 2016 – 2023
Medicine

Dr. Brandon Podyma

Endocrine Fellow

National Institutes of Health

MD/PhD, MSTP 2016 – 2020
Federal Science

Dr. Kelly Barford

Scientific Program Manager

National Institutes of Health

PhD, Neuroscience 2013 – 2018
Entrepreneurship

Dr. Sarah Hunter-Chang

Founder

Gasami Tx (biotech startup)

PhD, Neuroscience 2020 – 2025
Industry · Tech

Dr. Christopher Yang

Senior Human-Machine Teaming Engineer

Merlin (after a Johns Hopkins PhD and Lockheed Martin)

Undergrad Researcher 2012 – 2016

Where They've Landed

Notable Destinations

Institutions where Deppmann Lab alumni have trained and worked since leaving UVA.

Academic & Research

  • Harvard Medical School & Brigham & Women's
  • UCSF
  • Stanford School of Medicine
  • Duke University
  • MIT · Oxford University
  • Cornell University
  • Drexel University
  • University of Pennsylvania (Sehgal Lab)
  • University of Delaware
  • University of Mary Washington
  • Amity University (India)
  • Allen Cell Institute

Industry & Biotech

  • AstraZeneca
  • Roche (Global)
  • GSK
  • Novartis
  • Amgen
  • Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals
  • Gasami Tx (founder)

Federal Science, Law & Policy

  • NIH — National Institute on Aging
  • NIH — Office of Science Policy
  • NIH — Scientific Program Management
  • National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Medicine & MD/PhD Programs

  • UVA MSTP & School of Medicine
  • Tulane MSTP
  • Columbia (Vagelos) MSTP
  • University of Washington MSTP
  • Baylor College of Medicine (MD/PhD)
  • Hospital for Special Surgery (Cornell)
  • Yale, Cornell, Tulane, WashU, Penn State
  • Virginia Tech Carilion · VCU · Kaiser Permanente

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