Maryland graduates go on to successful careers in academics, industry, government, and other fields. This page highlights the activities of current grad students and recent graduates.

• Emily Weinert, a graduate student with Steve Rokita, was awarded First Prize for the best oral presentation by a Young Investigator in the Chemical Toxicology Division at the 230th ACS National Meeting in Washington DC, August 2005. Her presentation, entitled "Kinetic and Trapping Studies of 2'-Deoxynucleoside Alkylation by a Quinone Methide" described her recent work to understand the molecular basis for the unusual profile of products formed by reaction between this reactive intermediate and DNA. Quinone methides have previously been implicated as key intermediates in the metabolic activation of a number of carcinogens and anti-cancer drugs.
  Sept. 2006 Update: Dr. Weinert will be joining Michael Marletta's lab at UC Berkeley for her post-doc.
   
• Dr. Faith Hays, a 2006 graduate from Dr. Fenselau's group, worked on mass spectrometric approaches to ribosome biogenesis. She has recently joined an ambitious new joint effort between NIST and NCI that aims to systematize proteomics techniques used in research and diagnostics.