Alumni Updates
Ronald Klayton (’65, BA, Bio) earned his MD degree from the State University of New York and then went on to do his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He then did a pulmonary fellowship at UCSF, after which he served 20 years in the U.S. Navy. Following his Navy career, he spent 19 years as a pulmonologist at Kaiser Permanente in the mid-Atlantic region. Following three years of part-time consulting work, he is now fully retired and living in Oakton, Virgina.
Kenneth Verner (’70, BA, Bio) earned his M.S. in Marine Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico, followed by his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Miami.
George Hoskin (’72, Ph.D. Bio) retired in 2006 as a Captain of the U.S. Public Health Service, FDA. He was the Director of the Division of Science and Applied Technology, Office of Seafood. Fotinos Panagakos (’86, BA, Bio) was recently appointed dean of the West Virginia University School of Dentistry.
Glen Miske (’89, BS Mol Bio) (’94, BS Industrial Eng) graduated from PCOM in 1999, did his residency in Internal Medicine, a fellowship in Cardiology, and a postdoctoral fellowship in Pittsburgh. He is in private practice at Regional Cardiac Arrythmia in Pittsburgh, and the co-author of multiple articles related to cardiac electrophysiology. Dr. Miske would like to say, “Thank you to Profs. Bean, Abel, Ware, Storere, Clark, Schray and Sturm.”
Daniel Shelly (’91, BS, Bio) After graduating, Dan did his Masters in Biology at William and Mary, and his Ph.D. at the Florida State University. He went to the U. of Cincinnati as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the UC College of Medicine’s Molecular Physiology Department where he won both the APS Fellowship in Physiological Genomics (only 2 given annually) and a NIH NRSA. Currently, he is the Vice President of Business Development and Alliances at Prescient Therapeutics. At Prescient, he is responsible for advancing the development of a next generation Chimeric Antigen Receptor T and or NK Cell therapy technology along with small molecule targeted therapies. Prior to Prescient, he was Director of Global Business Development and Strategic Partnerships for the Global non-profit organization PATH where he was involved in the identification of new and innovative partnerships for vaccine and therapeutics development applicable to low and middle income countries. He has an additional 18 years of industry experience having worked for Novozymes Biopharma and Albumedix, Meridian Life Science and Kendle International. He has been responsible for asset in-licensing, alliances, and out-licensing of core drug delivery technologies, biologics manufacturing, proposal writing, contract negotiations, market assessments, and clinical development/outlicensing of several vaccines. Dan maintains his connection to academia through teaching as an adjunct professor in the University of Cincinnati’s Masters in Drug Development program since its inception in 2004. In 2019, Dr. Shelly won the University of Cincinnati-wide “Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award” for vital contributions to the University Teaching mission for 2018-2019. Dan is the proud father of triplet boys (14) and is an avid mountain biker and watersports (wakeboarding) enthusiast.
Brian Calabrese (’92, BA, BNS) is an Oncologist/Hematologist in Lancaster, PA, working for Penn State Health.
Matthew Girady (’92, BS, BNS) graduated in 1996 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
Brendan Brinkman (’97, BS, Mol Bio) spent seven years doing bench work on various kinds of stem cell research in San Diego, and four years as managing director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Shared Facility at UCSD. He then joined the Olympus Scientific Group, first in sales, then marketing, and then moved to Japan for 2.5 years as the assistant general manager for strategy. He returned to the U.S. three years ago and is now a manager for global strategy for Olympus Life Science Microscopy. He lives in Boston.
Gabriella Dee (’98, Ph.D., Bio) was an Environmental Science teacher at Moravian Academy for 14 years. This past fall she started a Master’s degree program in Environmental Studies in Kingston, Ontario.
Natasha Schuh-Nuhfer (’02, BS, Mol Bio) serves as a STEM Education Coordinator for Northern Virginia Community College’s STEM outreach program, NOVA SySTEMic. She leads the teacher professional development program by providing opportunities for teachers to strengthen their content knowledge in programming, cyber security, robotics and makerspace fabrication. She also supports the college’s STEM outreach efforts through local STEM days robotics competitions and summer STEM camps for grades 3-12. Carl Tischbein (’16, BS, Mol Bio) graduated with an MD degree in May 2020 from Drexel University College of Medicine. He is now in his residency in Anesthesiology at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethseda, MD.
Ken Brill (’17, BS, Mol Bio) is now in his residency in Internal Medicine at NYU. He is also helping with data collection for a group of studies on ICU patients with COVID-19.
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