Seven of the eight original COBRE mentees have gone on to become independently funded investigators.
Charles Hemenway, MD, PhD: Ronald McDonald House Charities Endowed Professor in Pediatric Hematology oncology, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine (2 RO1s)
Jeremy Stark, PhD: assistant professor of radiation biology, City of Hope (1 RO1)
Andrew Hollenbach, PhD, assistant professor of genetics, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans (1 RO1)
Bo Xu, MD, PhD, head of the Molecular Radiation Biology Laboratory, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham (2 RO1s, 1 R21)
Carl Gregory, PhD, assistant professor of molecular and cellular medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center (1 DOD)
Astrid Engel, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health (1 RO1; currently oversees Pilot Project)
Tomoo Iwakuma, MD, PhD, assistant professor of genetics, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans (currently oversees Pilot Project)
Aline Betancourt, PhD, research assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine
