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Previous Lab Members

Full Time Lab Members

  • Katlyn Marie Monte, M.S (2022-2024). 
  • Junmi Saikia, MD/Ph.D., Graduate Student, Current: Medical Student at University of California, San Diego 
  • Daniel Romaus-Sanjurjo, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (18-21). Current: Marie Sktodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Joe Sanchez, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (19-21). Current: Science and Health Research Project Manager
  • Noah Kim, BS Student 
  • Kristen Tsai, BS Student (18-20). MD, Saint Louis Univiersity. 
  • Krislyn Carolino, BS/MS Student (17 - 19). DDS, UCSF. Placement: Doctor of Physical Therapy Student, University of Southern California.
  • Aarti Narang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (17-18). Current: Application Scientist, BD Life Sciences.
  • Jessica Meves, Ph.D. Student (13-18). Current: Medical student, UCSD.
  • Meifan (Amy) Chen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (12-16). Current: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Kentucky.
  • Cédric Geoffroy, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (08-14) and Assistant Project Scientist (14-17). Current: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Texas A&M University.
  • Oliver Tress, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (12-16). Current: Systems Specialist, 3D Imaging at Carl Zeiss Microscopy.
  • Anders Smith, Ph.D. Student (08 - 14). Current: Investigator, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation. 
  • Jeffrey Kwan, Staff Research Associate (10 - 14). B.S./M.S., UCSD. Current: General Medical Officer, Naval Medical Center San Diego.
  • Sandra Hinckley, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (08 - 14). Current: Head of Biology, Principal Scientist at QurAlis.
  • Ariana Lorenzana, Ph.D. Student (07 - 13). Current: Senior Scientist, Pipeline Therapeutics.
  • Andrea Chan, Staff Research Associate (07 - 12). Current field: Medical Devices. 
  • Katherine Ruby, Ph.D. Student (05 - 11). Current: Medical Science Liaison, Neuroscience, Novartis. 
  • Jae K. Lee, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (05 - 10). Current: Associate Professor, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami.
  • Julia Herrmann, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (07 - 09). Current: Senior Medical Science Liaison, Avanir Pharmaceuticals.
  • Fang Xie, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (05 - 08). 
  • Renee Chow, BS/MS Student (05 - 07). DDS, UCSF. Current: dentist, South San Francisco. 
  • Yuhong Zhu, Staff Research Associate (05 - 06) . Current: Staff Research Associate, UCSD.

Undergraduate Students


  • Anurag Tarmaster
  • Andrea Moore. Dental Student, Midwestern Univ. Airzona 
  • Kayla Cerventes 
  • Daniel Lusk. Graduate Student, USC 
  • Haoyue Li. Graduate Student, UNC 
  • Eileen Ha. Dental Student, NYU 
  • Joseph Zhang. Medical Student 
  • Jordon Zhang. Graduate Student, UCI
  • Daniel Ho. Medical student, UCLA. 
  • Donya Fozoonmayeh. MS student, Neuroscience program at Kings College London. 
  • Xinyi Li. MS student in Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University. 
  • Jiayu (Gary) Wang. Exchange student from Shanghai Jiaotong University. MS student in Statistics, Washinginton University at St. Louis. 
  • Yumin Huang. Exchange student from University of Science and Technology of China. 
  • Aneesa Chowdhury. 
  • Nisha Parmeshwar. UCSD Medical Scholar. 
  • Amy Chang. Medical student, Wake Forest University. 
  • Casey Feltham. CIRM Bridge Intern. Master's student at University of Massachusetts. 
  • Karen Rodriguez. Research Associate at Vertex Pharmaceuticals 
  • Catherine Mair Hasco. Current: Program Manager at Human Care Systems, Inc. 
  • Bonnie Qin. MS, Computer Science, UCSD. Current: Apps Storage SWE-SRE, Google. 
  • Daniel Creger. 
  • Andrew Ma. Research Assistant at General Dynamics Information Technology. 
  • Omeed Ghassemi 
  • Jerry Nuo Xu 
  • Arturo Zapata. CIRM Bridge Intern. 
  • Kyle Lin. Student, UCLA School of Dentistry. 
  • Sherry Zhang. UCSD Medical Scholar. Current: Medical student, UCSD. 
  • Priscilla Ding. Medical student, Medical College of Wisconsin. 
  • Pearl Shih. Current: Doctor of Optometry Candidate at University of California, Berkeley. 
  • Lexie Wang. Current: Medical student, University of Virginia. 
  • Kristine Tolentino. Current: Medical student, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. 
  • Erin Yee. Curernt: Medical student, George Washington University. 
  • Marisa Leal. STARS student from San Francisco State. MS, Physician assistant. Current: Physician Assistant, Dallas. 
  • Brian Kang. Current: Senior Sales Director, Nerium International. 
  • Matt Mui. MD, University of Central Florida. 
  • Jalen Brick. International Sales Manager, Mizuho America, Inc. 
  • Emanuel Shapera. MD, UCSD. Current: Medical resident. 
  • Ravi Shah. MD, St. George's University. Current: Medical resident. 
  • Sharon Chow. MD, Medical College of Wisconsin. Current: Fellow, Stanford. 
  • Michael Crawford. DPM, California School of Podiatric Medicine. Current: Podiatrist, Kaiser Permanente. 
  • Dwayne Chang. DPM, California School of Podiatric Medicine. Current: Podiatrist, Kaiser Permanente. 
  • Ronnie Sokotoff. Current: UCSD 
  • Natalie Ramirez, STARS student from UT Austin. MD, University of Iowa. Current: Resident, UT Southwestern. 
  • Sen Luu (05 - 07). DrPH, Loma Linda University. Current: Preventative care specialist.