Lab Alumni
Graduate/Medical Students
Aparna Aiyer – Senior Director, Franchise Development, Foundation Medicine
Peter Andersen - Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University
Romit Bhattacharya – Cardiology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Emily Berry – Legislative Director, California State Assembly
Paul Cheng - Instructor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Will Collins - Hospitalist, Cedars-Sinai
Garrett Gotway - Assistant Professor, UTSouthwestern
Amy Heidersbach - Senior Scientific Researcher, Genentech
Irfan S. Kathiriya - Associate Professor at UCSF
Molong Li – Quantitative Researcher, Grand Rounds Inc.
Bonnie Maven - Computational Biologist, Genentech
Elijah Martin - User Experience Research Associate, Google
Sarah Morton - Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Stephanie Pierce
Ethan Radzinsky - MD Candidate, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Josh Ransom - VP of Products and Customer Experience, BEKHealth
Renee Rivas - Obstetrician/Gynecologist at UC San Diego Health
Gabriel Rubio - Medical Student, Stanford University School of Medicine
Ankur Saxena - Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Neil Sheehy - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Guardant Health
Christina Theodoris - Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institutes; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF
Mark White – Associate Director, Biopharma Product Marketing, Bio-Rad
Sangho Yu - Assistant Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Postdoctoral Scholars
Michael Alexanian - Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institutes; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF
Yen-Sin Ang - Director of Cell Biology, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
Ildiko Bock-Marquette - Associate Professor, University of Pécs, Faculty of Medicine, Hungary
Yen Bui - Pediatric Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente
Cemre Celen - Scientist III, Genentech
Kimberly Cordes Metzler - Director of Business Operations at Just-Evotec Biologics
Aryé Elfenbein - Co-founder, Wild Type, Inc.
Jason Fish - Associate Professor, Toronto General Research Institute
Jidong Fu - Associate Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
Vidu Garg - Director of Cardiovascular Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
Casey Gifford - Assistant Professor, Stanford University
David Hassel – Medical Advisor - Cardiorenal, Bayer
Julie He - Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Angela Hu - Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs Strategy, Taiho Oncology Inc.
Masaki Ieda - Professor, Department of Cardiology, University of Tsukuba
Kathy Ivey – Cardiac Regeneration and Gene Therapy Research Director, Tenaya Therapeutics
Isabelle King - Palliative Care Physician
Chulan Kwon - Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Kihyun Lee - Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Jun Maeda - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Keio University, Tokyo
Tamer Mohamed - Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Osamu Nakagawa - Professor, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan
Aruna Natarajan - Medical Officer (Research), Division of Lung Diseases, NHLBI
Vishal Nigam - Associate Professor, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Chong Park - Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University School of Medicine
Li Qian – Associate Professor and Associate Director, McAllister Heart Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sanjeeve Ranade – Assistant Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA
Alexandre Ribeiro – Principal Analytical Scientist, Hovione
Eva Samal - Founder, ThNA BioSciences Inc.
Joseph Shieh - Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Medical Genetics, UCSF
Bárbara González Terán - Staff Scientist, Illumina, Foster City, California
Takatoshi Tsuchihashi - Chief, Department of Pediatrics, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Japan
Linda Van Laake - Associate Professor, University Medical Center, Utrecht
Benjamin van Soldt - Senior Scientist, Regeneron, Tarrytown, New York
Vasanth Vendantham - Associate Professor, UCSF
Chihiro Yamagishi - Assistant Director of pediatric clinic, Tokyo
Hiroyuki Yamagishi - Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Keio University, Tokyo
Palmer Yu - Director, WildType
Yong Zhao - Professor, Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital
Lili Zhu - Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
Research Associates
Josh Arnold – Senior Manager, Genentech
Marie Schluterman Burdine – Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Brandi Burger - Nurse at California Pacific Medical Center
Sabine den Hartogh - VP, Evotec
Melissa Evangelista - CRNA
Franco Felix - PhD Student, Stanford University School of Medicine
Amy Foley - Lab Manager, Oregon Health Sciences University
Giselle Galang - Research Associate, UCSF
Samantha Hastie Norris - Cardiology Nurse Practitioner, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Nilufar Kayhani - Stronach Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, UC Berkeley
Abhishek Kumar – Resident Physician, Duke University Health
Jean Liu – Infrastructure Engineer III, Credit Karma
Lei Liu - Senior Research Associate, Amgen
Alecia Muth – Project Manager, self-employed
Shanelle Nebre
Janell (Rivera) Barlow – Project Coordinator, Agilent Technologies
Desmond Richmond-Buccola - Harvard Virology PhD Candidate
Nandhini Sadagopan
Donaldo Salas - Software Engineer, Credit Karma
Hazel Salunga - Research and Development Associate, Absorption Systems
Ryan Samarakoon – Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University
Chris Saxby - Scientist, 2seventy bio
Amelia Schricker - PhD candidate, University of Göttingen
Morgan von Drehle Cameron - Research Nurse Specialist, BEKHealth
Valeria Yartseva – Associate Director, Translational Biology, Ryne Biotechnology
Han Yin - Medical Student, UCSF
Sarah Zambrano - Medical Student
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Last updated March 13, 2024
