Alumni

Past Postdoctoral Trainees

Shailaja Kasibhatla 1988-1992 Senior Director, Translational Development at Celgene, San Diego, CA
Patricia McCaffrey 1989 – 1995 Freelance Science Writing/Editing, Boston, MA
Jugnu Jain 1989 – 1996 CSO, Sapien BioSciences and Saarum Sciences, Hyderabad, India
Chun Luo 1992-1996 President and CEO, Accelagen, San Diego
Heidi Okamura

 

1996-2004 Director, Biology, Agios Pharmaceuti-cals, Cambridge, MA
Fernando Macian

 

1996-2003 Professor, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
José Francisco Aramburu Beltrán 1995-2002 Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabreu, Barcelona, Spain
Cristina Lopez-Rodriguez

 

1997-2003 Professor, University Pompeu Fabreu, Madrid, Spain
Orly Avni 1998-2003 Bar-Ilan Faculty of Medicine, Safed, Israel
Stefan Feske

 

1998-2007 Professor, Dept of Pathology, New York University
John Katz 1999-2002 Director of Research Development (Texas), Scheme Lab
Silvia Monticelli

 

2000-2007 Group Leader, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Sin-Hyeog Im

 

2001-2004 Professor, Pohang University of Science and TechnologyPohang, Korea
Vigo Heissmeyer

 

2001-2006 Investigator, Institute of Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
K. Mark Ansel

 

2001-2007 Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
Hui Hu

 

2002-2008 Associate Professor, Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Julie Nardone

 

2003-2005 Principal Scientist at EMD Serono, Inc. Rockland, MA
Yousang Gwack

 

2003-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, UCLA
Masatsugu Oh-hora

 

2003-2009 Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Japan
Fernando Cruz-Guilloty

 

2004-2007 Team Lead Immunocor Inc., Atlanta, GA
Sonal Srikanth

 

2005-2007 Co-Principal Investigator Gwack lab and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Shalini Oberdoerffer

 

2005-2010 Investigator and Head, RNA Processing in Cellular Development Section, NIH/NCI- Frederick
Alina Iuga

 

2004-2007 Assistant Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY
Tiffany Horng

 

2007-2008 Associate Professor, Dept of Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Elizabeth Thompson

 

2008-2010 Research Strategy Manager, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
Mark Sundrud

 

2005-2009 Associate Professor, Biology, Scripps Research Institute, Florida Campus
Martin Mueller

 

2005-2009 Physician/ Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany
Micah Benson

 

2008-2010 Vice President, Head of Immuno-Oncology, KSQ Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Ed Lamperti

 

2006-2011 Senior Scientist, Immune Disease Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston
Srimoyee Ghosh

 

2007-2011 Director, Translational Research & Strategy, TESARO, Inc. (a GSK company), Lexington, MA
Kian Peng Koh

 

2007-2011 Associate Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Bianca Barboza

 

2010-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Utz Pape

 

2009-2011 Senior Economist at The World Bank
Sonia Sharma

 

2004-2011 Assistant Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Matthew Pipkin

 

2005-2011 Associate Professor, Cancer Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Florida
Hozefa Bandukwala 2007-2013 Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
Yun Huang 2009-2014 Associate Professor, Center for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center
Gustavo Martinez 2011-2013 Assistant Professor, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago
Suzette Farber-Katz 2012-2014 Senior Scientist, Merck, San Francisco
Renata De Meirelles Santos Pereira 2010-2015 Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gregory Seumois 2010-2014 Instructor and Director of Genomics facility, LJI
Lukas Chavez 2011-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, UCSD
Xue Wang

 

2011-2012 Scientist, Bioinformatics Core, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Ariel Quintana 2009-2011 Senior Research Scientist, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
Myunggon Ko 2009-2015 Investigator & Section Head, Center for Genomic Integrity, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
Jungeun An 2009-2015 Investigator, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
Sara Trifari 2010-2015 Research Supervisor, MolMed, Milan, Italy
Jinsuk Kang 2012-2015 Senior Researcher, Drug Discovery Lab, Choong-wae Pharmaceutical Company, South Korea
Anand Balasubramani 2011-2015 Associate Editor, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
Xing Chang 2011-2015 Investigator at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, China
Sahasransu Mahapatra 2010-2016 Principal Scientist, Loxo Oncology at Lilly, San Diego, CA
Victor Wong 2014-2016 Staff Physician, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA
Ageliki Tsagaratou 2010-2018 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
James Scott-Browne 2010-2018 Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
Giuliana Mognol 2012-2019 Scientist, ACEA Therapeutics, San Diego, CA
Benjamin Delatte 2014-2019 Senior Scientist -Epigenomics/epitranscriptomics Group Leader. Active Motif. San Diego, CA
Hiroshi Yuita 2017-2019 Scientist, Daiichi-Sankyo Co. Ltd, Japan
Chan-Wang Jerry Lio 2011-2020 Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Chao Yang 2019-2021 Scientist, Poseida Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
Romain Georges 2013-2021 Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb, San Diego, CA
Xiaojing Yue 2012-2022 Scientist, Vividion Therapeutics. Inc. San Diego, CA
Vipul Shukla 2016-2021 Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern, IL
Atsushi Onodera 2017-2022 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
Hyungseok Seo 2018-2021 Principal Scientist, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Timothy Baffi 2019-2022 Senior Scientist, Pfizer, San Diego, CA

 

Past Predoctoral Trainees

Viia Valge-Archer 1986-1991 Principal Scientist, Oncology, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
Justin Wong 1987-1992 Senior Scientist, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Seattle, WA
Eric Nalefski 1987-1992 Senior Scientist, Global Health Labs, Seattle, WA
Christine Loh 1989-1996 SVP of Biology, Nimbus Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Joao Viola 1994-1998 Senior Scientist, Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Suneet Agarwal 1995-1999 Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School & Children’s Hospital Boston (after MD/PhD and residency and fellowship)
Deborah Solymar

 

1997-2003 Medical writer/ Editor, Genentech
Dong U. Lee

 

2000-2004 Senior Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Alessandra Benedito

 

2000-2003 Patent law, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Madhuri Borde

 

2000-2005 Associate Director, Competitive Intelligience, Pharmacyclics, Sunnyvale, CA
Fernando Cruz-Guilloty 2003-2008 Global Diagnostics Lead, Amgen, Los Angeles, CA
Ivana Djuretic

 

2004-2008 Director, Cancer Immunology Discovery, Pfizer, San Francisco, CA
Mamta Tahiliani 2003-2010 Assistant Professor, New York University
William A Pastor 2006-2010 Assistant Professor, McGill University, Canada
Joyce Chen

MD/PhD student, UCSD Biomedical Sciences

2014-2019 Resident, Internal Medicine, NYP Hosp-Weill Cornell Med Center
Isaac Lopez Moyado

PhD student, UCSD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2014-2019 Postdoctoral trainee, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Edahi Avalos Gonzalez

PhD student, UCSD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2017-2022 Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health