George Lucian Moldovan, PhD

Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine

Meet the team

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alumni

Graduate Students:

 

Lindsey Jackson
Former PhD student, graduated in May 2024; Currently: Scientific Consultant, Fenix Group International

Recipient of NIH fellowship F31CA275340: Novel Mechanisms of MED12-TGFbeta-mediated resistance to PARP Inhibitors in BRCA-deficient Cancer Cells (2022-2026)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ashna Dhoonmoon
Former PhD student, graduated in 2023; Currently: Investigator, Genome Engineering Group, GlaxoSmithKline.

 

 

 

 


 

Emily Schleicher
Former PhD student and Postdoctoral Fellow, graduated in February 2022; Currently: Scientific Consultant, Fenix Group International

Recipient of NIH fellowship F31CA243301: Novel roles of PARP10-mediated Genomic Stability and Cellular Transformation (2019-2022)

 

 

 

 

Tanay Takar

Former PhD student, graduated in May 2022; Currently: postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, lab of Dr. Alberto Ciccia.

 

 

 

 

 

Michael O’Connor

Former PhD student, graduated in January 2021; Currently: scientist at Nanoprobes Inc, Yaphank, NY.

 

 

 

 

Kristen Clements

Former MD/PhD student, graduated in January 2021; Currently: resident in Internal Medicine at University of Rochester.

 

 

 

 

Katherine Choe

Former PhD student, graduated in October 2016; Currently: scientist at Kymera Therapeutics, Boston MA (previously: postdoctoral Fellow in the Chowdhury lab at Harvard Medical School)

 

 

 

 

Postdocs:

 

 

 

Claudia Nicolae, Ph.D.
Former Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate; Currently: Assistant Professor at Penn State

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visiting Scientists:

  • Maria Marugan Cardiel, PhD Student, University of Tenerife, Spain (2024)
  • Hejuan Hu, Instructor, Suzhou Health College, China (2014-2015)
  • Rocio Delgado-Diaz, PhD student, Tenerife University, Spain (2014)

Penn State MD/PhD Program Rotation Students:

  • Cameron Zielinski (2024)
  • Justyn DuSold (2024)
  • Anastasia Hale (2021)
  • Patricia Yee (2016)
  • Kristen Clements (2014)

Penn State Biomedical Sciences PhD Program Rotation Students:

  • Katie Culhane (2024)
  • Cynthia Lascarez-Espana (2024)
  • Louis Betz (2024)
  • Saiful Sazed (2024)
  • Sonal Garg (2023)
  • Alexandra Nusawardhana (2022)
  • Aurosman Pappus Sahu (2021)
  • Chris McCurry (2021)
  • Jude Khatib (2021)
  • Josh Straka (2020)
  • Kashif Ahmed Shaikh (2020)
  • Lindsey Jackson (2020)
  • Coryn Stump (2019)
  • Soo Yeon Kim (2019)
  • Ashna Dhoonmoon (2018)
  • Joseph Cirilo (2018)
  • Emily Schleicher (2017)
  • Jillian Weissenrieder (2016)
  • Max Yakovlev (2016)
  • Tanay Thakar (2016)
  • Cody Molnar (2015)
  • Michael O’Connor (2015)
  • Vishakha Vishakha (2014)
  • Liz Hernandez (2013)
  • Ryan Barnes (2013)

Medical Student Research Program (MRSP) Students:

  • Joseph Martin (2022)
  • Nate Tolman (2018)
  • Adri Galvan (2016)
  • Soraya Bascoy (2016)

Undergraduate Students:

 

  • Cara Schmitt (2024) – Schreyer’s Honors College, Penn State University
  • Jonathan Jean Charles (2023) – PROMISE, University of Miami
  • Paola Garcia Gonzalez (2021) – STEP-UP, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
  • Kady Dennis (2021) – Schreyer’s Honors College, Penn State University
  • Anastasia Hale (2017, 2018) – Schreyer’s Honors College, Penn State University
  • Sanziana Rotariu (2013) ­ Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Manchester, UK

Post-bac Trainees:

  • Daniel Constantin (2014-2015) – Currently Ph.D Student, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Erin Aho (2012-2014) – Currently Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Sciences Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • Alec Vlahos (2012-2013) ­ Currently M.D. Student, UMDNJ Newark, NJ

 

Awards to lab members:

2024    Anastasia Hale (MD/PhD Student) was awarded the Charles W. Hill Graduate Excellence Award from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State.

2024    Alexandra Nusawardhana (PhD Student) was awarded the Alumni Society Award from Penn State College of Medicine.

2024    Anastasia Hale (MD/PhD Student) was awarded the Alumni Society Award from Penn State College of Medicine.

2024    Jude Khatib (PhD Student) was awarded Best Poster Prize at the departmental retreat.

2024    Alexandra Nusawardhana (PhD Student) was awarded a Penn State Cancer Institute Travel Award to attend the 2024 Gordon Research Conference DNA Damage, Mutations and Cancer, Ventura, CA.

2023    Anastasia Hale (MD/PhD Student) was awarded the the Graduate Alumni Society Award from Penn State College of Medicine.

2023    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was awarded the Karl H. Beyer Scholarship from Penn State College of Medicine.

2023    Anastasia Hale (MD/PhD Student) was awarded Best Poster Prize at the departmental retreat.

2023    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was awarded the Charles W. Hill Graduate Excellence Award from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State.

2023    Ashna Dhoonmoon (PhD Student) received the Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement at the 2023 Commencement ceremony.

2023    Tanay Thakar (PhD Student) received the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Award at the 2023 Commencement ceremony.

2022    Ashna Dhoonmoon (PhD Student) was awarded the Karl H. Beyer Scholarship from Penn State College of Medicine.

2022    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was awarded the the Graduate Alumni Endowed Scholarship and the Graduate Alumni Society Award from Penn State College of Medicine.

2022    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was awarded an NIH F31 pre-doctoral fellowship from the NCI (2022-2026).

2022    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was awarded Best Poster Prize at the departmental retreat.

2022    Ashna Dhoonmoon (PhD Student) was awarded a Penn State Cancer Institute Travel Award to attend the 2022 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium Genome Stability and Integrity, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

2022    Emily Schleicher (PhD Student) received the Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement at the 2022 Commencement ceremony.

2022    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was selected as future Chair of the 2024 Gordon Research Seminar DNA damage, mutations, and cancer, Ventura, CA.

2022    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was awarded a Penn State Cancer Institute Travel Award to attend the 2022 Gordon Research Conference DNA Damage, Mutations and Cancer, Ventura, CA.

2022    Ashna Dhoonmoon (PhD Student) was awarded a Penn State College of Medicine Graduate Student Travel Award to attend the 2022 Gordon Research Conference DNA Damage, Mutations and Cancer, Ventura, CA.

2022    Lindsey Jackson (PhD Student) was awarded the Best Poster Award at the Penn State College of Medicine 2022 Graduate Student Research Forum.

2021    Emily Schleicher (PhD Student) was awarded the Charles W. Hill Graduate Excellence Award from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State.

2021    Ashna Dhoonmoon (PhD Student) was awarded the Graduate Alumni Endowed Scholarship and the Graduate Alumni Society Award from Penn State College of Medicine.

2021    Emily Schleicher (PhD Student) was awarded the the Graduate Alumni Society Award from Penn State College of Medicine.

2021    Tanay Thakar (PhD Student) was awarded the the Graduate Alumni Society Award from Penn State College of Medicine.

2021    Kristen Clements (MD/PhD Student) was awarded the Judith Bond MD/PhD Award for outstanding achievement in research and clinical training

2020    Tanay Thakar (PhD Student) was awarded the Charles W. Hill Graduate Excellence Award from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State.

2020    Tanay Thakar (PhD Student) was awarded the Karl H. Beyer Scholarship from Penn State College of Medicine.

2020    Tanay Thakar (PhD Student) was awarded a Keystone Scholarship to attend the Keystone eSymposia on Genomic Stability and DNA Repair

2020    Emily Schleicher (PhD Student) was selected as future Chair of the 2022 Gordon Research Seminar DNA damage, mutations, and cancer, Ventura, CA.

2019    Emily Schleicher (PhD Student) was awarded an NIH F31 pre-doctoral fellowship from the NCI (2019-2022).

2019    Emily Schleicher (PhD Student) was awarded the Graduate Alumni Endowed Scholarship and the Karl H. Beyer Scholarship from Penn State College of Medicine.

2019    Kristen Clements (MD/PhD Student) was awarded the Charles W. Hill Graduate Excellence Award from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State.

2019    Kristen Clements (MD/PhD Student) was awarded Best Poster Prize at the Penn State Ovarian Cancer Symposium.

2018    Michael O’Connor (PhD Student) was awarded Best Poster Prize at the departmental retreat.

2018    Tanay Thakar (PhD Student) was awarded a Travel Award by the BMS Graduate Program to participate at the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Mammalian DNA Repair, Ventura, CA.

2018    Nate Tolman (Medical Student) was awarded the Hill Family Cancer Research Award for medical student research projects (MSR) at Penn State.

2017    Katherine Choe (PhD Student) awarded the Moskowitz Family Endowment Award for Graduate Research Excellence, at the 2017 Dean’s Graduation Award Ceremony.

2017    Adri Galvan (Medical Student) was selected for the HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program.

2016    Dr. Claudia Nicolae (Research Associate) was awarded the Junior Faculty Development Award.

2016    Katherine Choe (PhD student) awarded the Charles W. Hill Graduate Excellence Award from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State.

2016    Soraya Bascoy (Medical Student) was awarded the Hill Family Cancer Research Award for medical student research projects (MSR) at Penn State.

2016    Katherine Choe (PhD Student) was selected as future Chair of the 2018 Gordon Research Seminar DNA damage, mutations, and cancer, Ventura, CA.

2015    Dr. Claudia Nicolae (Research Associate) was awarded the American Cancer Society IRG award.

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