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Former Lab Members

Alumnus

Training

Period

Current Position

Aikawa, Jun-ichi

Postdoc

1996-1999

Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Physical & Chemical Research, Riken, JP

Anower-E-Khuda, Md. Ferdous

Postdoc

2014-2019

Scientist
NantKwest Inc.

Axelsson, Jakob

Postdoc

2009-2011

Research Manager, BioGaia AB

Bahr, Claudia

Visiting Scholar

2005

Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Bai, Xiaomei

Postdoc

1989-2001

Group Leader
Biologix, Inc. San Diego CA

Bame, Karen J.

Postdoc

1986-1989

Associate Professor
University of Missouri at Kansas City

Bantia, Shanta

Postdoc

1990-1992

Research Scientist
BioCryst, Inc., Birmingham AL

Barbosa, Guilherme

Visiting Scholar

2014-2015

Postdoc, Kronberg Lab, UC San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Belting, Mattias

Visiting Scholar

2000

Associate Professor
University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Bishop, J. Rusty

Postdoc
Proj Sci

2001-2008

President, FatStax Division
Bigtincan, San Diego CA

Brown, Jillian

Postdoc

1998-2006

Scientist
TEGA Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego CA

Burris, Ryan

Predoc
(MSc)

2009-2010

Medical Student
University of California Irvine

Clausen, Thomas

Postdoc

2018 - 2022

Medical Student

University of Hawaii

Crawford, Brett

Predoc

1999-2004

Staff Scientist
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. San Diego CA

Deng, Yiping

Visiting Scholar

2009-2011

Translational Marketing Manager at Affymetrix

Dwyer, Chrissa

Postdoc

2013-2017

Assistant Director Neuroscience Drug Discovery,
Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Eversen, Iris

Visiting Scholar

2009

Chemistry professor at Nature, Life and Technology,
The Netherlands

Foley, Erin

Predoc

2006-2012

Patent Associate at Cooley LLP

Fritz, Timothy A.

Predoc

1989-1995

Staff Scientist
Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD

Fukuta, Masakazu

Visiting Scholar

1997-1999

Department of Life Science
Aichi University of Education, Kariya Japan

Fuster, Mark

Pulmonary Fellowship

1998-2002

Associate Professor
University of California San Diego

Garner, Omai

Predoc

2002-2007

Associate Director of the Clinical Microbiology Lab
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California Los Angeles

Glass, Charles

Postdoc

2000-2004

President
TEGA Therapeutics, Inc. San Diego CA

Golden, Greg

Predoc (PhD)

2016-2020

Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Pennsylvania

Gonzales, Jon

Postdoc

2009-2013

Business Associate Consultant
ZS Associates, Thousand Oaks CA

Gordts, Philip

Postdoc

2010-2015

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Grobe, Kay

Postdoc

1999-2003

Associate Professor
University of Muenster, Germany

Grotzinger, Mary M.

Predoc (MSc)

1989-1989

Medical and Science Writer
Champaign IL

Ihse, Elisabet

Postdoc

2015-2016

Uppsala University, Sweden

Jantscher-Krenn, Evelyn

Visiting Scholar

2007

Project Leader, Medical University of Graz, Austria

Kamat, Pranitha

Postdoc

2013-2015

Postdoc, University of Zurich
Switzerland

Kiser, Cheryl S.

Predoc (MSc)

1989-1989

Lab Manager, Clinical Islet Isolation
University of Alabama, Birmingham AL

Lee, Tiffany

Student

2015-2016

Medical Student,

Lugemwa, Fulgentius

Postdoc

1988-1989

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Penn State York, Philadelphia PA

Lamanna, William Christopher

Postdoc

2008-2012

Global Scientific Affairs Manager, Sandoz, Austria

Lawrence, Roger

Proj Sci

2005-2013

Senior Scientist
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.

MacArthur, Jennifer

Predoc

2001-2005

Life Science Public Relations & Marketing Writer
Helicos BioSciences Corp. Cambridge MA

Markman, Sandra

Visiting Scholar

2012

Postdoc, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Montgomery, Rebecca

Predoc

1986-1992

Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI

Nieuwdorp, Max

Visiting Scholar

2007-2008

Academic Medical Center
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nock, Ryan

Visiting Scholar

2013-2014

Medical Intern, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
San Jose, CA

Olson, Sara

Predoc

2000-2007

Assistant Professor
Pomona College, Claremont CA

Parker, Glendon J.

Postdoc

1995-1996

Assistant Professor
Utah Valley University, Orem UT

Pinhal, Maria A.S.

Postdoc

1997-2000

Assistant Professor
Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Phan, Anne

Postdoc

2014-2020

Research Development Manager
International Children Assistance Network

Ribeiro, Solange

Postdoc

1989-1992

Licensed Professional Counselor
Birmingham AL

Riley, Raquel

Predoc (MS)

2019-2020 

Research Associate
University of Massachusetts Medical School 

Rostand, Katherine L.

Postdoc

1986-1989

Genetics Curriculum Design
University of Alabama, Birmingham AL

Rother, Sandra

Postdoc

2019 - 2021

Assistant Professor, Saarsland University

Germany

Sandoval, Daniel

Postdoc

2019 - 2021

Senior Scientist, Biophysics, Pfizer

San Diego, CA

Sarkar, Arun K.

Postdoc

1989-1996

Director of Chemistry
GlycoMimetics Rockville MD

Sarrazin, Stephane

Postdoc

2008-2011

Postdoctoral Fellow
Penin Lab, CNRS: Institute of Biology and Chemistry of the Protein, France

Schuksz, Manuela

Predoc (MD/PhD)

2004-2008

Vascular Surgery Residency
Worcester MA

Seamen, Emylie

Postdoc

2009-2014

Program Scientist, Customer Solutionst, Illumina
San Diego, CA

Selleck, Scott

Predoc

(MD/PhD)

2018 - 2019

Visiting Professor

Penn State, PA

Sinha, Anjana

Postdoc

1996-2000

Scientist
Seimens Corporation, Los Angeles CA

Spliid, Charlotte

Postdoc

2020 - 2022

Research Investigator, BioHaven Pharma

New Haven, CT

Stanford, Kristin

Predoc

2005-2009

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

Stewart, Tod E.

Predoc (MSc)

1985-1987

Teacher
Athens GA

Tanaka, Masakazu

Visiting Scholar

1999

Visiting Scholar, Seikagaku Corporation
Tokyo Institute, Japan

Taylor, William

Predoc (MSc)

1994-1996

Freelance Artist
Birmingham, AL

Thacker, Bryan

Predoc

2009-2014

Scientist I
TEGA Therapeutics, Inc. San Diego CA

Tijburg, Lillian

Visiting Scholar

1989

Owner
Quintess Consultancy, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Toledo Gomez, Alejandro

Postdoc

2017-2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Lund University

Tong, Wenyong

Postdoc

2012-2015

Research Scientist, Sorrento Therapeutics
San Diego, CA

van Wijk, Xander

Postdoc

2012-2015

Assistant Professor, Assistant Director
Clinical Chemistry Laboratories
The University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences

Videm, Vibeke

Visiting Scholar

2003-2004

Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Wang, Lianchun

Postdoc

2000-2006

Associate Professor
CCRC, University of Georgia, Athens GA

Wang, Raymond

Visiting Professor

2013-2015

Professor
Children's Hospital of Orange County

Wei, Ge

Predoc

1989-1999

Principal Scientist
QED Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA

Weiss, Ryan

Postdoc

2015-2020

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Georgia

Xu, Ding

Postdoc
Proj Sci

2007-2014

Assistant Professor
SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY

Yang, Feng

Postdoc

2005-2008

Director of Product Development
Broadpharm, San Diego CA

Young, Jeffrey

Predoc (MSc)

2011-2013

Medical Student
Western University of Health Sciences

Zak, Beverly

Predoc (MD/PhD)

1999-2006

Resident in Dermatology
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

Zhang, Lijuan

Predoc

1990-1995

Professor and Director
Systems Biology & Medical Center for Complex Diseases, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University

Bernice Hwang

Predoc (MSc)

 2022-2024

Biolegend - San Diego, CA

 

Technical Staff

Staff

Period

Current Position

Wendy Hanneman

1977-1978

MD, Family Medicine

Mary M. Wermuth

1978-1980

Unknown

Karen Matsuoka

1981-1983

Unknown

William H. Taylor

1983-1985

Independent Artist - Selma, Alabama

Julie L. Weinke (Stumpf)

1985-1992

Production, Safety, Quality, and Compliance Manager at PureVision Technology, Inc. - Fort Collins, CO

Evan McWhorter

1992-1992

Unknown

Jan Castagnola

1996-2006

Retired

Kris Wright

2000-2002

Unknown

Ruixia Li

2001-2004

Unknown

Melain Raguseo

2002-2006

Unknown

Megan Dwyer

2006-2008

Unknown

Danyin Song

2007-2011

Staff Research Associate, SUNY - Buffalo, NY

Chelsea Nora

2011-2018

Bioslice Therapeutics - San Diego, CA

Elizabeth Danielle

2018-2019

Unknown

Claire Morris

2020-2021

Graduate School, University of California Davis

Jessica Rodriguez

2022-2024

Graduate Student, Baylor University

 

Supervised Administrative Staff

Staff

Period

Patricia Whitney-Jones

1996-1998

Ron Van Asdlen

1998-2002

Barbara Thompson

2002-2008

Peili Hsu

2008-2014

Casey Gerdes

2014-2021

Tracy Gilstrap

2015-Current

Jennifer Lapek

2019-2021

Berty (Mimi) Khemmanivong

2022-2024