Previous Trainees/Scholars

Roland Posset, MD
Mentor: Stefan Kölker, MD
Training Institution: University of Heidelberg
Training Period: 2022-2023
Research Project: Evaluation of liver transplantation on the long-term health outcome in individuals with Urea Cycle Disorders
Current Position: Clinical Fellow, University of Heidelberg

Bridgett Stroup, PhD, RDN
Mentor: Lindsay C. Burrage, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2021-2022
Research Project: Role of Argininosuccinate Lyase Deficiency in Hepatic Energy Dysregulation
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine

Kevin Glinton, MD, PhD
Mentor: Lindsay C. Burrage, MD, PhD, and Sarah H. Elsea, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2020-2021
Research Project: Examining the Utility of Phenylbutyrate Metabolite Analysis in the Management of Urea Cycle Disorders 
Current Position: Fellow, Biochemical Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

Jordan Kho, PhD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2019-2020
Research Project: Role of Argininosuccinate Lyase in Blood-Brain Barrier Maintenance
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine

Mayowa Osundiji, MBBS, PhD
Mentor: Andreas Schulze
Training Institution: University of Toronto, Sick Kids Hospital
Training Period: 2019-2020
Research Project: Guanidino Compounds Toxicity in Urea Cycle Disorders
Current Position: Resident, Medical Genetics, University of Toronto

Matthias Zielonka, MD
Mentor: Georg F. Hoffmann
Training Institution: University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
Training Period: 2018-2019
Research Project: Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in Citrullinemia Type I and Argininosuccinate Lyase-Deficiency
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Resident in Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Kimihiko Oishi, MD
Mentor: George Diaz, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Training Period: 2017
Research Project: Clinical and molecular characterization of citrin deficiency in the US
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Yuan Yan (Angie)Sin, MBBS, PhD
Mentor: Colin Funk, PhD, and Andreas Schulze, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Training Institution: Queen's University, Sick Kids
Training Period: 2016-2017
Research Project: Gene correction strategies for Arginase-1 deficiency
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen's University

Omar Ayuub, PhD
Mentor: Marshall Summar, MD
Training Institution: Children's National Health System
Training Period: 2015-2016
Research Project: Development and Evaluation of a Handheld Blood Ammonia Meter
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Clinical Biomedical Genetics, Children's National Medical Center

Lindsay Burrage, MD, PhD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2014-2015
Research Project: Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Mouse Models of Arginase Deficiency
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Justine Natalie Gallant, MD
Mentor: Stephen Cederbaum, MD
Training Institution: David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles
Training Period: 2013-2014
Research Project: Health-related quality of life in UCD
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Genetics, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Founder and Director, Genetics and Metabolic Division, Miller Children’s Hospital, Long Beach, CA

Philippe Campeau, MD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2012-2013
Research Project: Characterization of signaling pathways activated by phenylbutyrate
Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, CHU St.

Renata Gallagher, MD, PhD
Mentors: Mark Batshaw, MD/ Ron Sokol, MD
Training Institution: University of Colorado
Training Period: 2009-2011
Research Project: Liver failure in OTC deficiency
Current Position: University of California San Francisco

J. Lawrence Merritt II, MD
Mentor: Mendel Tuchman, MD
Training Institution: Seattle Children’s Hospital
Training Period: 2009-2011
Research Project: Ethical issues in Newborn Screening of UCD
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital

Nicholas Ah Mew, MD
Mentor: Mendel Tuchman, MD
Training Institution: Children’s National Health System (formerly Children’s National Medical Center)
Training Period: 2008-2011
Research Project: N-carbamylglutamate treatment in UCD
Current Position: Director of the Inherited Metabolic Disorders Program, Children’s National Health System

Oleg Shchelochkov, MD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2008-2009
Research Project: Reducing ASA load in AL deficiency
Current Position: Staff Clinician, NIH/NHGRI, Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch

Sandesh Sreenath Naganmani, MD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2006-2009
Research Project: Hypertension in argininosuccinic aciduria
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Director, Clinic Research Division, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

Ayelet Erez, MD, PhD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2006-2008
Research Project: Arginine and nitric oxide dysregulation in disorders of urea synthesis
Current Position: Gil and Niel Omenn Endowed Chair, Senior Scientist, Department of Biological Regulation Weizmann Institute of Science

Uta Lichter-Konecki, MD, PhD
Mentor: Mark Batshaw, MD
Training Institution: Children’s National Medical Center
Training Period: 2006-2008
Research Project: Hypothermia in treating HA in UCD
Current Position: Director of the Metabolism Program, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children

Asad Mian, MD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2006-2008
Research Project: Longitudinal and Stable Isotope Studies
Current Position: Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine & Paediatrics/Child Health, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Brendan Lanpher, MD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2006-2007
Research Project: Stable isotope study of nitric oxide metab. in AL deficiency
Current Position: Attending Physician, Children's National Medical Center

Angela Eads
Mentor: Marshall Summar, MD
Training Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Medical Center
Research Project: RNA process defects in CPS gene
Training Period: 2006
Research Project: Faculty, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Medical Center

Eric Crombez, MD
Mentor: Stephen Cederbaum, MD
Training Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Training Period: 2005-2007
Research Project: Cytokines as markers of hyperammonemia in UCD
Current Position: Chief Medical Officer, Dimension Therapeutics

Andrea Gropman, MD
Mentor: Mark Batshaw, MD
Training Institution: Children’s National Medical Center
Training Period: 2005-2007
Research Project: Neuroimaging studies in UCD Current Position:
Associate Professor, Children's National Health System

Soledad Kleppe, MD
Mentor: Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Training Period: 2004-2005
Research Project: Effect of Buphenyl on hyperammonemia and liver damage
Current Position: Assistant Professor, CEMIC Division of Genetics (Buenos Aires)

Elizabeth Lim-Melia, MD
Mentor: George Diaz, MD, PhD
Training Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Training Period: 2004-2005
Training Period: 2004-2005
Research Project: Correlation of mutation with liver disease in AL deficiency
Current Position: Assistant. Professor, New York Medical College.