Teaching and Training HBCU Vision Research Summer Internship Program Undergraduate Opportunities Visual Science Training Program Curriculum For Faculty How to Apply T32 Trainees & Alumni Training Faculty & Staff Meet Our Trainees & Alumni Home Education Teaching and Training Visual Science Training Program T32 Trainees & Alumni Current Trainees Jean Li, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2026-2027 Profile Department of Physiology and Biophysics Mentor: Rui Chen, PhD Research: Analysis of human retinal organoid and fetal retinal development using single-nuclei multiomics Doan An, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2026-2027 Doan An | LinkedIn Department of Biomedical Engineering Mentor: Fengyuan Ding, PhD Research: Spatially Resolved Quantification of Retinal Base Editing Lauren Faraone, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2026-2027 Lauren Faraone | LinkedIn Department of Biological Chemistry Mentor: Ivan Marazzi, PhD Research: Therapeutic potential of CDK9 inhibitors for bacterial keratitis Alumni Nolan Huck, MD, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2024-2026 Nolan Huck | LinkedIn Department of Pathology Mentor: Albert La Spada, PhD Research: Multiomic Investigation of SCA7 Retinal Degeneration - Linking Transcriptional and Epigenomic Dysregulation Yutong Yu, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2024-2026 Yutong Yu | LinkedIn Department of Biomedical Engineering Mentor: Chang Liu, PhD Research: OrthoRep-driven rapid evolution of antibody fragments Francis Aguas, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2025-2026 Francis Aguas | LinkedIn Department of Biomedical Engineering Mentor: Andrew W. Browne, MD, PhD Research: Two-photon excited fluorescence imaging of the retina Collin Sroge, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2024-2025 Collin Sroge | LinkedIn Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Mentor: Rachel Martin, PhD Research: The investigation into eye lens Samir Malhotra, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2022-2024 Samir Malhotra | LinkedIn Department of Biomedical Engineering Mentors: Andrew W. Browne, MD, PhD, Magdalene J. Seiler, PhD, William C. Tang, PhD Research: Automated System for Retinal Organoid Production and Maintenance Emily Tom, MD, PhD Candidate VSTP Trainee, 2022-2024 Emily Tom | LinkedIn Department of Physiology & Biophysics Mentor: Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, PhD Research: Age-related lipid metabolic changes in the retina