Introducing Georgia CTSA’s Outstanding 2024-2025 MSCR and CPTS Students

students at orientation
New students attending in-person orientation. Top row - MSCR: Sarah Blaine, Michael Maril, Joshua Chan, Kecheng Lei, Nicole Mavingire, Kahsavyah Buckley, Zach Bernstein. Bottom row - CPTS: Christopher (Hayden) Herring, Maher Saadeh, Parisa Sarikhani, Samuel Opara, Jeffrey Lentz, Eleanor Thomas, Vanessa Van Doren, Sada Boyd.

Georgia CTSA proudly welcomes the incoming students for its 2024-2025 academic year, marking the beginning of an exciting journey in clinical and translational research and science. The Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) program provides innovative didactic and mentored research training to those pursuing a career in clinical and/or translational research. The Certificate Program in Translational Science (CPTS) program is for trainees who seek to conduct research at the interface between basic and translational science and clinical medicine.

Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) Students

  • Zachary Bernstein, Medical Student, Emory
  • Sarah Blaine, Medical Student, Emory
  • Kahsavyah Buckley, Medical Student, Emory
  • Joshua Chan, MD, Assistant Professor, Emory, Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Emily Evans, MD, Fellow, Emory, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Jadah Keith, Medical Student, Emory
  • Kecheng Lei, PhD, Instructor, Emory, Neurosurgery
  • Michael Marll, MD, Fellow, Emory, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine
  • Nicole Mavingire, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Morehouse School of Medicine, Surgery
  • Joshua Muniz, MD, Fellow, Emory, Pediatrics, Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplant
  • Divya Verma, MD, Fellow, Emory, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine

Certificate Program in Translational Science (CPTS) Students

  • Sada Boyd, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Emory, Biochemistry
  • Christopher (Hayden) Herring, RN, PhD Student, Emory, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
  • Jeffrey Lentz, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory, Medicine, Geriatrics and Gerontology
  • Samuel Opara, MD, MPH, Fellow, Emory, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • Javier Rosado-Franco, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology
  • Maher Saadeh, PhD Student, Emory/Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering
  • Parisa Sarikhani, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech, Electrical and Chemical Engineering
  • Eleanor Thomas, MD, Instructor, Emory, Neurology
  • Vanessa Van Doren, MD, Fellow, Emory, Medicine, Infectious Diseases