The Fates of Scherer Laboratory Postdocs: where are they, where are they going?
Updated March 2025
Currently in the lab: Supported by:
Jan-Berndt Funcke DFG – German Research Foundation
Chao Li ADA
Past Postdocs: Supported by: Current Position:
Christy Gliniak F32 Fellowship, now Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Toshiharu Onodera Japan Research Foundation, now Assistant Professor, Osaka University
Qingzhang Zhu AHA Career Development Award, now Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Line Pedersen Fulbright Research Fellowship, now Researcher, University of Bergen
Leon Straub DFG – German Research Foundation
Shangang Zhao K99 and AHA Career Development Award,
now Assistant Professor, UTHSC San Antonio
Claire Crewe K99, now Assistant Professor, Washington University
Aaron Yu An K01, now Assistant Professor, UTHSC Houston
Kai Sun now Associate Professor, UTHSC Houston
Yi Zhu K99, now Assistant Professor, UTHSC Houston
Yingfeng Deng ADA Career Development Award,
now Assistant Professor at City of Hope
Jennifer Stern K99, now Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Annabel Qiong Wang K01, now Associate Professor at City of Hope
William Holland K99 now Associate Professor, University of Utah
Nam Pham Endo Fell. Progr., now Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern
Zhao Zhang K99 (co-mentored with Bruce Beutler)
now Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern
Zhuzhen Zhang now Assistant Professor, Wuhan University
Joseph Rutkowski American Heart Career Development Award now Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Zhao Wang American Heart Career Development Award
now Associate Professor at City of Hope
Ingrid Wernstedt VINNMER Marie Curie Int. Fellowship (K99 equilvalent)
now Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg
Jiyoung Park DoD, now Associate Professor, Ulsan NIST, South Korea
Christine Kusminski JDRF, now Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern
Nils Hallberg Univ. Copenhagen, now Associate Professor, Univ. of Bergen
Todd Schraw AHA, now Professor, Southeastern University
Kevin Williams K01 (co-mentored with Joel Elmquist),
now Associate Professor, UT Southwestern
Congcong He K99 (co-mentored with Beth Levine),
now Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Carrie Elks K01 (co-mentored with Jacky Stephens)
now Assistant Professor at the Pennington BRC
Anders Berg ADA, now Associate Professor, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles
Utpal Pajvani now Associate Professor, Columbia University
Puneeth Iyengar now Associate Professor, UT Southwestern
In Industry: Supported by: Current Position:
Nolwenn Joffin Lipedema Foundation, now at Eli Lilly
Andrea Nawrocki Swiss National Science Foundation
now Senior Director at Janssen Inc.
Maria Trujillo ADA, Senior Principal Scientist, Merck
Terry Combs Career Reentry Fellowship, NIH – NIDDK (declined) now Senior Scientist, Pfizer
Jeff Risheng Ye Columbia Berrie Diabetes Price Fellowship,
now practicing MD in the State of Texas