Our Team
Our Center brings together a team of talented individuals from clinical research, laboratory research, basic science and the community to propel our mission.
Our Team Members
Directors
Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
Director
Professor
Stanford Medical School and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics
Courtesy appointment, Department of Otolaryngology
Director
Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University
Naddisy Family Foundation Professor of Medicine
Director
FARE Center of Excellence at Stanford University
Faculty Fellow
Center for Innovation and Global Health
Chief Investigator
Food allergy studies at Stanford
Sharon Chinthrajah, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Clinical Translational Research Unit
Dr. Chinthrajah joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford in August 2013 and established herself as a translational researcher investigating immune mechanisms in food allergy and asthma under the mentorship of Dr. Kari Nadeau. She is the Director of the Clinical Translational Research Unit of the Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research where she leads the team to conduct novel and impactful Phase 1-3 studies in food allergy, asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis. Dr. Chinthrajah received her MD from Drexel University College of Medicine, completed her Internal Medicine training and a chief residency at California Pacific Medical Center, and subspecialized in Pulmonary/Critical Care and Allergy/Immunology at Boston Medical Center.
Physicians
Sharon Chinthrajah, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Clinical Translational Research Unit
Dr. Chinthrajah joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford in August 2013 and established herself as a translational researcher investigating immune mechanisms in food allergy and asthma under the mentorship of Dr. Kari Nadeau. She is the Director of the Clinical Translational Research Unit of the Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research where she leads the team to conduct novel and impactful Phase 1-3 studies in food allergy, asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis. Dr. Chinthrajah received her MD from Drexel University College of Medicine, completed her Internal Medicine training and a chief residency at California Pacific Medical Center, and subspecialized in Pulmonary/Critical Care and Allergy/Immunology at Boston Medical Center.
Sayantani (Tina) Sindher, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Sindher joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford University in January 2017. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Medicine, division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. She divides her time between clinical trials and outpatient clinical care of pediatric and adult allergy and immunology patients. Tina completed her Pediatric residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in Bronx, NY and her fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Philadelphia, PA. While at CHOP, she was a sub-investigator on multiple food allergy trials and participated in laboratory research focused on characterizing the peripheral and epithelial immune regulatory responses in children and adults with eosinophilic esophagitis.
Meng Chen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Chen joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford University in September 2019. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Medicine, division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Chen received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, Los Angeles and her fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the University of California, San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital. During her fellowship, she developed an interest in and participated in clinical research in food allergy with a focus on milk and egg allergy. She gained further experience practicing Allergy and Immunology in New York City for a year before returning to California.
Yu Wong, PhD, MD
Clinical Instructor and Research Fellow
Dr. Wong joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2016. He divides his time between the lab and sees patients in the clinic. His laboratory-based research currently focuses on understanding the changes that occur with oral desensitization to food allergens as well as the role of CD8+ T cells in food allergy. Dr. Wong is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hematology. He completed his residency and previous fellowships at Stanford University. He received a PhD in Immunology from Rockefeller University and his medical training from from Weill Cornell Medical College.
William J Collins, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow
Dr. Collins has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine since 2018 and joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2019. He works as a hospitalist at the Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, CA and works on clinical research at the Sean N. Parker Center. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and completed his residency at UC San Diego. He received his medical training from UCSF.
Nurse Practitioners
Zachary S. Teixeira, RN, MS, CPNP-PC
Research Nurse Practitioner
Zach joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford in January 2019. He has 13 years of experience as an Inpatient Pediatric RN. Zach is a board certified primary care pediatric nurse practitioner. He completed his Masters of Science in Nursing at UCSF and his Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy at UCSC.
Jamie Saxena RN, MS, FNP-C
Research Nurse Practitioner
Jamie joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford in April 2019. She has 10 years of experience working with adult and pediatric populations. Jamie is a board certified family nurse practitioner. She completed her Masters of Science in Nursing at Georgetown University and her Bachelors of Science in Nursing at San Jose State University.
Lisa M. Lee, BSN, RN, MSN, CPNP
Research Nurse Practitioner
Lisa joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford in January 2019. She has five years of primary care experience with a specialty in adolescent health. She is a board certified primary care pediatric nurse practitioner, and completed her nursing and advanced degree education at Johns Hopkins University. In her spare time, she enjoys competing in endurance events, such as ultra-marathons and triathlons.
Study Coordinators & Assistant Study Coordinators
Divya Kumar, PhD
Clinical Life Science Research Scientist
Divya joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research in January 2015. She completed her PhD in chemistry from Columbia University in 2006 and then conducted post-doctoral work at UC Davis from 2006-2008. She is a parent of a child with multiple food allergies and is active in food allergy safety and fundraising events. She is currently a study coordinator for a multi-allergen immunotherapy trial at the Center.
Melanie Shojinaga
Clinical Research Coordinator
Melanie joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University as an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator in Summer 2018, but is not new to the Center! She is a former participant of a peanut OIT study in 2014 and former intern during the summer of 2017. Melanie graduated with a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Neurology at the University of California, Davis in 2018. She believes that working at the Clinic is the perfect way to synthesize her passion for helping people, further her immunology education, give back to the clinic credited to her success with OIT, and work toward her goal of becoming a physician’s assistant.
Debjani Ghoshal
Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator
Debjani joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University as an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator in 2018. She has previous experience working for Stanford Helathcare since 2016. She received her Bachlors from San Jose State University majoing in Microbiology.
Laurie Kost
Clinical Research Coordinator
Laurie joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University as a clinical research coordinator in May 2016. Laurie has previous research experience in comparative physiology at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station. Additionally, she has participated in public health research projects in India and Thailand. She completed her MS in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health, and MS and BS with Honors in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.
MacKenzie Cox
Clinical Research Coordinator
MacKenzie joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Asthma and Allergy Research as a Lead Clinical Research Coordinator in April 2019. She has worked in clinical research her entire career, with previous research experience in Multiple Sclerosis, Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy, and Organ Transplantation. MacKenzie received a BA in International Affairs and a BS in Biology with Honors from the University of Georgia. She nurtures a passion for traveling, the outdoors, and furthering the greater good.
Regulatory Affairs
Olivia Lecomte Raeber, PhD
Medical Writer & Regulatory Document Manager
Olivia joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in April 2015. She received her PhD in immunology from the University Paris VI, France. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, she held various drug development positions in the biotech Industry, focusing on the discovery of fully human monoclonal antibodies and small molecule drugs against oncology and inflammation targets.
Andres Alvarez Pinzon, MD, PhD, MHA
Director, Regulatory Affairs and Translational Medicine
Dr. Alvarez-Pinzon joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2018. He has diverse experience of working in the clinical studies and translational medicine arena and has worked in Academic and global pharmaceutical firms in management and direction roles.
He contributed to the direction, establishment, and growth of the Neurosurgery Oncology and Neurosciences Clinical research Department for Miami Neurosciences Center, South Miami, Fl. During this time, Dr. Alvarez-Pinzon served as a Clinical Research Fellow for Neuro-Oncology and Neuroimmunology translational medicine studies for Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neuro-oncology and Internal Medicine program at Miami Neurosciences Center and Cleveland Clinic Florida.
He participated as a Faculty member of the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences at South University and he spent a two-year working as a Lead for Clinical Research for the Comprehensive Stroke Center and Palm Beach neuroscience Institute in Tenet Florida Region. Dr. Alvarez served as a Director for Clinical Research, Clinical Studies and IRB officer for the Parkinsons Institute and Clinical Center, Sunnyvale, California in the period of 2017-2018. While there, he contributed to many clinical studies for translational medicine and biotechnology as well, IRB regulations, FDA guidelines execution. He has provided consultation or authored publications for many peer review journals. He is a recipient of an American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons 2016 (AANOS) award. The President of Colombia recognized Dr. Alvarez-Pinzon in 2016 for his resolute efforts to provide the best quality of care for patients and be an exemplary scientific and translational medicine lead representing for Colombia worldwide.
Dr. Alvarez-Pinzon is a summa cum laude graduate of University El Bosque, Colombia, where he also obtained his MD and MS degrees. He completed his Internship and Medical visitor training program in Neurology at Universita Biomedico Di Roma, Rome, Italy and is an International Ph.D. candidate in Neurosciences/Neuroplasticity at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He accomplished a Clinical Research fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Florida and Neurological Surgery Research Fellowship at Miami Neurosciences Center. In addition, he completed the Executive Master Program in Health Care Administration with an emphasis in Clinical operations and Six Sigma methodology from Florida Atlantic University, and a Master in Public Health from UNESCO Spain.
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Shifaa Alkotob, MD
Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow
Shifaa joined the Sean N. Parker Allergy and Asthma Research Center at Stanford in September of 2018. She is interested in pursuing a specialty in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. In 2014, she finished her undergraduate studies in Biology at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She received her M.D from the American University of Beirut in June of 2018.
Database Manager
Dana Tupa
Database Manager & Data Analyst
Dana joined the Nadeau laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford in September 2014. She supports the various asthma and food allergy projects within the lab, specifically the gastrointestinal (GI) sub-set study, which aims to understand the immune tolerance within the digestive tract in patients undergoing the peanut oral immunotherapy. Dana received her BS in Biochemistry from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and an MS in Toxicology from the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Pharmacist
Brent Anderson, Pharm.D
Investigational Drug Pharmacist
Brent joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in August 2019, assisting with clinical trials and the management of investigational drug products. He received his BS in Biology and Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Therapist
Marté Matthews, MA, MFT
Consulting Family Therapist
Marté joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2015. In her role as a consultant to the research team and supporting the families of clinical trial participants, she addresses emotional and behavioral issues that may arise in children during their participation in the study. She has previously worked as a supervisor for master’s level graduate students in practicum and as a clinician with children’s behavioral health care providers throughout Santa Clara County. Before becoming a therapist, she was a health educator for 13 years on topics such as reproductive health, oncology, and nutrition. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Applied Behavioral Sciences at U.C. Davis and her Master of Arts at John F. Kennedy University. Marté currently has a private practice at the Child & Family Counseling Group in San Jose.
GMP Facilities (Good Manufacturing Practices)
Margie Woch, RDN
Dietitian
Margie, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, first began working with Dr. Nadeau in 2010 in the initial stages of research in OIT for food allergy at Stanford University. She rejoined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research in 2015. She has also previously worked at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hopsital at Stanford and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center as a pediatric clinical nutritionist in Allergy-Pulmonary Medicine and Neurology. Her degree in Nutrition & Food Science is from San Jose State University and she did her training at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston.
Jenny Johansson, PhD
Research Assistant
Dr. Johansson joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in November 2018. She obtained her MS in Molecular Biology from Stockholm University and her PhD from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden in Neuroscience and regulation of neurotransmission in synaptic development. After that a model she worked on during her PhD turned out to have neurodegeneration, she turned her focus to translational research on immune responses in Alzheimer’s disease. Her postdoctoral research was done with Professor Katrin Andreasson in Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford, where she developed and characterized different models to better understand innate immune responses to amyloid-beta peptide in Alzheimer’s disease. Her main focus was on the cyclooxygenase pathway and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and using gene expression studies, immunoassays and imaging. She later joined the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Rogers at SRI International, where she was involved in various projects but mainly a functional genetic study using clinical blood samples on an immune gene that is linked to increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in genome-wide association studies. She also developed cell-based immunoassays for screening of lipoxygenase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease. From her years in Alzheimer’s disease research she has developed a passion for immune profiling and biomarkers and wants to apply bioinformatics to understand immune responses in food allergies.
Tiffany Tan
GMP QA Analyst
Tiffany joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in November 2015. She assists in the GMP to prepare doses for study participants, as well as some responsibilities in the clinic and the Center lab. She received her BS in Nutritional Science with a minor in business from San Jose State University.
Elizabeth Chen
GMP Lab Assistant
Elizabeth joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in April 2019. In the GMP facility, she verifies food manufacturing processes by preparing doses of allergen for study participants and assists with programs regulatory audits. She obtained her BS in Nutrition and Dietetics with a minor in Food Science from California State University, Long Beach.
Managers
Shu Chen Lyu, MSc
Laboratory Unit Manager
Shu-Chen joined the Sean N. Parker Laboratory for Allergy and Asthma Research in 2011. Her research involves understanding induction of immune tolerance by capturing allergen specific T cells from allergy patients pre- and post-OIT using Tetramer/Dextramer technology. She also uses CyTOF mass cytometry technology to obtain high-content phenotyping data on relevant cell subsets. She has more than 20 years of experience in laboratory work in human immunology. In addition, she has worked with Mt. Sinai to conduct the AADCRC-MSSM-01 study.
Senior Scientists
Rosemarie H. DeKruyff, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Cellular Biology
Rosemarie joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2016. Her decades of research have illuminated key discoveries of the mechanisms underlying the development of allergy and asthma. Her research currently focuses on the role of TIM molecules and the RGMb pathway in development of oral tolerance to food allergens, and in the development of food allergy. Increased understanding of the molecules that modulate function of Treg cells, conventional CD4 T cells and iNKT cells in the development of asthma, respiratory tolerance and oral tolerance could lead to therapies for treatment of allergic disease. Rosemarie has an extensive history of publications, patents, NIH grants, and teaching. She received her PhD in Biology/Immunology from NYU and completed her post-doctoral training at Cornell Medical College and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. She has previously held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and Stanford School of Medicine.
Instructors
Mary Prunicki, PhD, MD
Instructor
Dr. Prunicki joined the Nadeau laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford in July 2014. Her research investigates the impact of air pollution, including wildfires, on the immune system in both healthy and asthmatic individuals. Mary received her PhD from Northwestern University and her MD from Southern Illinois University. After taking time off to raise her small children, Dr. Prunicki resumed her career by becoming an NIH re-entry scientist.
Yu Wong, PhD, MD
Clinical Instructor and Research Fellow
Dr. Wong joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2016. He divides his time between the lab and sees patients in the clinic. His laboratory-based research currently focuses on understanding the changes that occur with oral desensitization to food allergens as well as the role of CD8+ T cells in food allergy. Dr. Wong is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hematology. He completed his residency and previous fellowships at Stanford University. He received a PhD in Immunology from Rockefeller University and his medical training from from Weill Cornell Medical College.
Life Science Research Professionals
Monali Manohar, PhD
Research Associate
Dr. Manohar joined the Nadeau laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford in November 2013. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanism of tolerance in food allergic children undergoing oral immunotherapy. She specifically examines the functional attributes of allergen-specific T cells and their cross talk with the antigen presenting cells over the course of therapy. Monali graduated from the Indian Institute of Science with a PhD in Immunology.
Wenming Zhang, PhD
Life Science Research Professional II
Dr. Zhang joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in September 2015. Her current role as a research assistant supports various projects in the lab. She received her PhD at the University of Southern California and her dissertation titled, “Lung Mesenchyme Cell Biology” was completed at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles in 2014.
Diane Dunham
Life Science Research Professional II
Diane Dunham joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma at Stanford in May 2017. Her current role as a research assistant supports various projects in the lab that utilize Cytof and flow cytometry to study changes in immune markers from clinical participants. She received her MS degree in Biology from the University of Illinois. The focus of her research was understanding hormone components on immune function. Her last position at the Boyce Thomson Institute for plant biology lab was as a lab manager. In this position and others over the years, she gained skills in molecular biology, immunology, virology and protein chemistry.
Andrea Fernandes
Life Science Research Professional II
Andrea joined the Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in April 2019. Andrea graduated from Northeastern University with a Masters in Biotechnology. During her there, she participated in cancer research at a Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Lab. Her work focused on looking at drug induced resistance in Multiple Myeloma.
Swati Acharya, PhD
Research Associate
Dr. Acharya joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2017. At the Center, she applies her knowledge of Immunology, Genetics and mechanistic pathways of immune modulation in T cell development, in relation to immune diseases, to identifying molecular mechanisms and biomarkers of impaired Regulatory T cells and Th2 cells in Asthma and Allergy. She investigates clinical samples from Twin cohorts using cutting-edge Omics, CyTOF based proteomics together with targeted cellular and plasma Mass Spectrometry and other novel methods.
Swati completed her MS thesis in Bacterial Genetics at Arizona State University and obtained her PhD from Tufts University School of Medicine in Cancer Genetics and Immunology. At Tufts, she trained with Professor Philip Tsichlis, studying signaling pathways involving Akt, Gfi1/1b, p21 etc and hematopoietic cell development using mouse models. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowships at Stanford University School of Medicine in Immunology-Rheumatology. During her fellowships, she worked with Professor Garry Fathman to understand the role of Grail, anAkt interactor and other markers in Treg development using mouse models and with Professor David B. Lewis where she investigated the mechanistic role of a pseudokinase, PTK7, in primary human thymocytes, neonatal and adult T cell development and cancer using clinical samples.
Iris Chang
Data Aide II
Iris joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in February 2016. She assists the research coordinators in data entry process for clinic trails. She also helps with processing research samples in the Nadeau Laboratory. She graduated from Seattle University with a BS degree in Biology.
Xiaoying Zhou, MD, PhD
Life Science Research Professional II
Dr. Zhou joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma at Stanford in June 2015. Her research involves understanding the regulatory mechanisms through which environmental air pollution exposure impacts immune cell function in asthmatic children. Specifically, she analyzes of the composition of the T cell subpopulations using CyTOF mass cytometry technology. Her studies also involve the induction of type 1 regulatory cells in food allergy patients. She received her PhD in hematology at Central South University, China. She completed her postdoctoral training in stem cell biology and hematopoiesis at University of Southern California.
Evan Do
Research Assistant
Evan joined the Nadeau laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford in April 2019. She helps with processing research samples in the lab. Shereceived her BS in Psychology with a Biology emphasis from UC Davis as well as a minor in sociology.
Post-Doctoral Scholars
Xiaorui Han, PhD
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Dr. Han joined the Nadeau laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in January 2018. She currently focus on mechanistic research on antigen-specific T cells and how they are involved with the tolerance in allergic patients during immunotherapy. She uses molecular biology techniques to study the effects of immune cells and their molecular signatures on tolerance in models of human allergy and immunological diseases. She received her PhD in biotechnology from Peking University.
Hesam Movassagh
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Movassagh is a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University and joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research in April 2019. His research focuses on understanding the immune mechanisms underlying the impact of air pollution on asthmatic individuals. Hesam obtained his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He investigated the expression and function of a guidance cue, Semaphorin 3E, as a novel biomarker and treatment option in allergic asthmatic patients and mouse models.
Bibek Paudel
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Dr. Paudel is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford and joined the Nadeau laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research in 2019. As a computer scientist, his research focuses on developing machine learning and statistical models to solve problems that are inter-disciplinary in nature, including those from the socio-political, ecological, and biomedical sciences. He completed his PhD from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, developing new algorithms to improve recommendation diversity and algorithmic fairness. Dr. Paudel is keen on developing AI methods to investigate and mitigate the impacts of environmental and lifestyle changes on human health, particularly asthma and other inflammatory conditions that now pose significant health challenges all over the world.
Directors
Sandra Andorf, PhD
Kim and Ping Li Director of Computational Biology
Instructor, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Andorf joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in April 2015. Her research focuses on computational approaches and the integration of results from different assays to study immunological and clinical data sets in the context of allergies and asthma. Before joining the Nadeau Laboratory, she worked as a post-doctoral scholar in Atul Butte’s laboratory at Stanford on different systems immunology projects. She completed her PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Potsdam in Germany in 2011.
Bioinformatics & Computational Team
Abhinav Kaushik, PhD
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Dr. Kaushik joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in July 2018. He received his PhD in Bioinformatics from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India in 2017. Before joining the Nadeau Laboratory, he worked as a Visiting Researcher in the Pathogen Genomics laboratory at Kings Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Kaushik’s core area of research includes applications of systems biology and algorithm development for big-data analysis. He has developed and published a number of Bioinformatics Software and databases targeting high-throughput genomic data analysis. His current research focuses on the understanding of the expression of blood based immune markers of individuals undergoing oral immune therapy using CyTOF data analysis.
Zheng Yan
Bioinformatics Student Assistant
Zheng joined the Nadeau Lab at the Sean N. Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in April 2017. His research is focused on applying machine learning and statistical modeling techniques to answer pertinent questions in immunology, particularly in food allergy and immune variation. Outside of the lab, Zheng is a current Stanford student studying the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence. He is mentored by Sandra Andorf.
Ziyuan He, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. He joined the Nadeau laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in August 2019. His research focuses on using computational methods to analyze immunological data. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences (microbiology and immunology track) from Tulane University at New Orleans. Previous to joining to the Nadeau lab, he worked on the kinetics of neutrophils and monocytes during aging in rhesus macaques at UC Davis and Tulane Primate Center.
Gopal Krishna Ramadas Dhondalay, PhD
Research Engineer, Bioinformatician
Dr. Dhondalay joined the Nadeau Lab at the Sean N. Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in March 2017. His research focuses on application of next generation sequencing and machine learning methods to understand allergies and asthma with systems immunology approaches. Before joining the Nadeau Lab, he was a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Steve Jackson Lab at University of Cambridge and in the Michael Schneider lab at NHLI in Imperial College London. He completed his PhD in Bioinformatics from Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom in 2013.
Shu Cao
Biostatistician
Shu joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford in February 2019. As a biostatistician, she implements statistical analysis in the allergy and asthma research to explore the potential clinical and molecular risk factors that associated with severe symptoms. Before joining the Sean N. Parker Center, she worked as a biostatistician in the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Southern California. She obtained dual bachelor’s degree in Biological Engineering and International Economics and Business at Shandong University of Science and Technology and an MS in Statistics from West Virginia University.
Finance & Operations
Maribel Gonzalez Ruiz
Director of Finance and Operations
Maribel initially joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research in 2015 as the Grants Manager. She was initially involved in several NIH grant applications and administration, as well as managing the Center’s Seed Grant program. Today, she spearheads the operations and finances for the Center. Bringing over 20 years of experience in finance and management to her role, she provides the leadership needed for strategic planning, human resources, grant and contract administration, facilities, space, compliance and safety. Maribel graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in Psychology and Linguistics and a minor in Business Administration
Angela Hy
Administrative Associate to Dr. Sharon Chinthrajah
Angela joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2018. She directly supports Director Dr. Sharon Chinthrajah. She graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Graphic Design.
Kelsey Wallace
Clinic Administrator
Kelsey joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in March 2019. She directly supports Dr. Andres Alvarez Pinzon, the Clinical Research Manager. She also assists the clinical research team by maintaining office services via organizing office operations and procedures and supporting initial potential participant correspondence. She graduated with a Physical Therapist Assistant Degree June 2018.
Sophie Yufei Jie, CPA
Grants Manager
Sophie joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in April 2018. She manages budgeting, financial reporting, and fiscal compliance for the center’s government grants, industry contracts, clinical trials, gifts and endowments, and income from other sources. She is a Certified Public Accountant, who has work experience extends to support executives’ decision making, project management, system implementation, government grant compliance and non-for-profit accounting. She received her Bachelor of Accountancy with Distinction from Concordia University, Montreal Canada and Master of Accounting from College of William and Mary.
Tina Nguyen
Executive Administrator
Tina joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in 2018. She directly supports the center director. She graduated from San Jose State University with her bachelor of science degree double majoring in Accounting and Marketing.
Ziniu Chen
Marketing and Graphic Design Coordinator
Ziniu joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in April 2019. He develops and implements marketing programs to meet Sean N. Parker Center’s business goals. Ziniu graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Syracuse University with a Master of Science in Photography.
Our Basic Research Team is a cross-disciplinary world-renowned Stanford group that focuses on cutting-edge innovation to discover immune mechanisms of how therapy works and examines the causes of allergies and asthma to improve diagnostics, prognostics, and therapies.
Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
Professor
Stanford Medical School and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics
Courtesy appointment, Department of Otolaryngology
Director
Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University
Naddisy Family Foundation Professor of Medicine
Director
FARE Center of Excellence at Stanford University
Faculty Fellow
Center for Innovation and Global Health
Chief Investigator
Food allergy studies at Stanford
Steve Galli, MD
Professor, Pathology
Member, Bio-X
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Michael Snyder, PhD
Professor and Chair of Genetics
Director, Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Member, Bio-X
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Mark Davis, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Member, Bio-X
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Andy Fire, PhD
A biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) — research conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.
Mark Nicolls, MD
Division Chair, Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Associate Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Joint Appointment, Immunology & Rheumatology
Member, Cardiovascular Institute
Member and Faculty, CVI/Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Member, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection
Director, Lung Immunology
Vanitha Sampath
Content Development
Vanitha joined the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in 2015. She completed her PhD in Nutrition at UC Davis, where she conducted clinical research on the effects of dietary calcium on fat metabolism. After working in industry and academia for a few years as a research scientist, she eventually combined her scientific background with her passion for writing and communications to become a medical and scientific writer. At the Center, she enjoys being in the midst of ground-breaking research in asthma and allergy and is committed to communicating the scientific advances of the Center and spreading awareness of its mission and vision.
Lindsey Hincks
Development Officer
As the Associate Director of the Children's Fund at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Lindsey serves as the development officer for pediatric allergy and asthma at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research Center at Stanford University. She is dedicated to raising funds to advance the groundbreaking research and clinical trials being conducted at the Center and serving as an advocate nationwide to further our mission and vision. Contact Lindsey about major gifts and other opportunities for support.
Community Council Advisers
Justine Stamen Arrillaga Shirley Orsak
Caroline Chen Michelle Sandberg
Diane Eiger Chris Suroweic
Diana Hewitt Melanie Thernstrom
Melissa Kepner Stephanie Winston-Wolkoff
Marnie Marcin
Managers
Our Basic Research Team is a cross-disciplinary world-renowned Stanford group that focuses on cutting-edge innovation to discover immune mechanisms of how therapy works and examines the causes of allergies and asthma to improve diagnostics, prognostics, and therapies.
Our Scientific Advisory Board brings together a cross-disciplinary team of world-renowned scientists to improve diagnostics, prognostics and therapies.
Sean N. Parker
Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
Cezmi Akids, MD, PhD
Mübeccel Akdis, MD
Katrina Allen, MBBS, PhD
Scott Boyd, MD, PhD
Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD, DrPH
Howard Y. Chang, M, PhD
Yueh-Hsiu Chien, PhD
R. Sharon Chinthrajah, MD
Mark Davis, PhD
Manisha Desai, PhD
Andrew Fire, PhD
Stephen Galli, MD
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Jacob Glanville
Rohit Gupta
Ruchi Gupta, MD
Theodore Jardetsky, PhD
Purvesh Khatri, PhD
Chaitin Khosla, PhD
Gideon Lack, MD
Donald Leung, MD, PhD
Dave Lewis, MD
Holden Maecker, PhD
Lloyd Minor, MD
Cathryn R. Nagler, PhD
Mark Nicolls, MD
Garry Nolan, PhD
Julie Parsonnet, MD
Bali Pulendran, PhD
Stephen Quake, PhD
Maria Grazia Roncarolo, MD
Michael Snyder, PhD
Justin Sonnenburg, PhD
Steve F. Ziegler, PhD