Doctoral Students
The Worm Shack is proud to have been the training ground of outstanding doctoral students for over 20 years. These students have gone on to postdocs at MIT, Harvard, Duke, U. Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Baylor College of Medicine, Scripps, among other top universities or government institutions of their choice.
Corey Willicott
Nebraska
BS, Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Kearney
MS, Biology, University of Nebraska, Kearney (mentor: Dr. Paul Twigg)
Osagie A. Emokpae
Benin City, Nigeria
BPharm, Pharmacy, Igbinedion University, Okada
MS, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ibadan
Joy Iroegbu
Enugu, Nigeria
BSc. Human Anatomy, Federal University of Technology, Akure
MSc, Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, U.K.
Amber Marquette
Okeechobee, FL
BS, Costal Environmental Science, Flagler College
MS, Biotechnology, Florida Institute of Technology (mentor: Dr. Timothy Crombie)
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Master’s Students
The Worm Shack has also routinely been a launching point for students wishing to earn a M.S. degree prior to pursuing an M.D., M.D., M.D./Ph.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., etc., as well as the job market, directly. M.S. graduates of the Shack have successfully completed further training at Georgetown, Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, NIH, Maryland, Vanderbilt, Case Western Reserve, UAB, as well as stayed on in The Shack for their Ph.D., or taken jobs within biotech and pharma.