Group Members

Quinn Ostrom

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Population Health Sciences, started Jan 2021
email: quinn.ostrom at duke.edu

BS in Anthropology, Michigan State University
MPH, Case Western Reserve University
PhD in Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University with Jill Barnholtz-Sloan (now @ NCI)
Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Post-Graduate Training Program in Integrative Cancer Epidemiology @ Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology & Population Science with Melissa Bondy (now @ Stanford).

Staff

Christine Ballard

Research Analyst, started February 2024
Christine is an epidemiologist specializing in the intricate relationship between genetics and pharmaceutical therapies in the field of neuro-oncology.

BA, Archaeology, Technology, Historical Structures,University of Rochester
MPH, Biomedical Science and Emerging Infectious Diseases, SUNY University at Albany, School of Public Health
PhD Student in Pharmacoepidemiology and Genetic Epidemiology, Gilling School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Julia Benedetti

Biostatistician, started June 2024

BS, University of Tampa
MSB, Biostatistics, Duke University School of Medicine

Mackenzie Price

Research Analyst, April 2022-September 2023 (Now affiliated Research Analyst at CBTRUS)
Ms. Price has worked in the medical field for more than 10 years including having served five years in the United States Army as a field medic.

BA, Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at Berkeley

Students

Jack Shaw

Justin Zhao

Kaeden Koons-Perdikis

Alumni

Corey Neff

In the Ostrom Lab 2021 - 2024 as Biostatistician

Chuxuan Sun

In the Ostrom Lab 2021 - 2022 as BCTIP Intern and for thesis

MS in Biostatistics, Duke University School of Medicine

Zhen Liu

In the Ostrom Lab 2022 - 2023 as BCTIP Intern

MS in Biostatistics, Duke University School of Medicine

Rodrigo De La Vega Gomar

In the Ostrom Lab 2023 as visiting student researcher

BS from Duke Kunshan University

Keisha Bansal

Intern from North Carolina School for Science and Math from 2022-2023

BS Candidate at Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University

Jiah Lee

Intern from North Carolina School for Science and Math from 2024-2025

Hillary Hsu

In the Ostrom Lab 2023-2025 as student researcher

Nitin Nagarajan

Sangami Pugazenthi

We are always looking for new students and collaborators to join the team (see openings) !