Meet Our Alumni
Our alumni have leveraged their Georgetown experience to achieve successful biomedical careers in academia, industry and government and policy work. Here, alumni share their stories and their advice for current and former BGE students.
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Gwen Coleman (G’21, G’23) earned her master’s in Physiology & Biophysics while rising through the ranks at Georgetown’s Office of Neighborhood Life (ONL). The Georgetown Faces series recognized Coleman’s contributions to the university community and her interests in medicine and higher ed: “At the core of both is that I like helping people.”
May 28, 2026
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Inaugural Vicini Dissertation Award Winner Michel Fallah Seeks to Answer the ‘Why’s of Brain Disease
Michel Fallah (G’25, M’27) credits recently retired professor Stefano Vicini with helping her to find a focus in biomedical research: Using electrophysiology, the measurement of neurons’ electrical activity, to try to unravel the mysteries underlying neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.
May 16, 2026
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Horizon Fellow Brian O’Neil (’25) Enters the Policy World
Brian O’Neil, a member of the latest graduating class of the Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases master’s program, will be working in the executive branch as a Horizon Fellow. O’Neil came to Georgetown for a policy-minded pivot after working at a succession of biotech startups.
June 2, 2025
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