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
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1996-2004 | Director, Biology, Agios Pharmaceuti-cals, Cambridge, MA | |
Fernando Macian
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1996-2003 | Professor, Albert Einstein School of Medicine | |
José Francisco Aramburu Beltrán | 1995-2002 | Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabreu, Barcelona, Spain | |
Cristina Lopez-Rodriguez
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1997-2003 | Professor, University Pompeu Fabreu, Madrid, Spain | |
Orly Avni | 1998-2003 | Bar-Ilan Faculty of Medicine, Safed, Israel | |
Stefan Feske
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1998-2007 | Professor, Dept of Pathology, New York University | |
John Katz | 1999-2002 | Director of Research Development (Texas), Scheme Lab | |
Silvia Monticelli
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2000-2007 | Group Leader, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland | |
Sin-Hyeog Im
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2001-2004 | Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea | |
Vigo Heissmeyer
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2001-2006 | Investigator, Institute of Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany | |
K. Mark Ansel
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2001-2007 | Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF | |
Hui Hu
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2002-2008 | Associate Professor, Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham | |
Julie Nardone
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2003-2005 | Principal Scientist at EMD Serono, Inc. Rockland, MA | |
Yousang Gwack
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2003-2007 | Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, UCLA | |
Masatsugu Oh-hora
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2003-2009 | Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Japan | |
Fernando Cruz-Guilloty
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2004-2007 | Team Lead Immunocor Inc., Atlanta, GA | |
Sonal Srikanth
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2005-2007 | Co-Principal Investigator Gwack lab and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles | |
Shalini Oberdoerffer
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2005-2010 | Investigator and Head, RNA Processing in Cellular Development Section, NIH/NCI- Frederick | |
Alina Iuga
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2004-2007 | Assistant Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY | |
Tiffany Horng
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2007-2008 | Associate Professor, Dept of Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health | |
Elizabeth Thompson
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2008-2010 | Research Strategy Manager, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford | |
Mark Sundrud
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2005-2009 | Associate Professor, Biology, Scripps Research Institute, Florida Campus | |
Martin Mueller
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2005-2009 | Physician/ Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany | |
Micah Benson
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2008-2010 | Vice President, Head of Immuno-Oncology, KSQ Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, MA | |
Ed Lamperti
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2006-2011 | Senior Scientist, Immune Disease Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston | |
Srimoyee Ghosh
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2007-2011 | Director, Translational Research & Strategy, TESARO, Inc. (a GSK company), Lexington, MA | |
Kian Peng Koh
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2007-2011 | Associate Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | |
Bianca Barboza
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2010-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
Utz Pape
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2009-2011 | Senior Economist at The World Bank | |
Sonia Sharma
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2004-2011 | Assistant Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology | |
Matthew Pipkin
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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
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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
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1997-2003 | Medical writer/ Editor, Genentech | |
Dong U. Lee
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2000-2004 | Senior Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA | |
Alessandra Benedito
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2000-2003 | Patent law, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
Madhuri Borde
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2000-2005 | Associate Director, Competitive Intelligience, Pharmacyclics, Sunnyvale, CA | |
Fernando Cruz-Guilloty | 2003-2008 | Global Diagnostics Lead, Amgen, Los Angeles, CA | |
Ivana Djuretic
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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 |