Alumni
Adam Adler, PhD
P.I.: Howard Chang
2004-2008
Current Position: Chief Scientific Officer, GigaGen, Inc.
Niroshana Anandasabapathy, MD, PhD
P.I.: Garrison Fathman
2001-2005
Current Position: Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine
Michelle Atallah, PhD
P.I.: Edgar Engleman and Parag Mallick
2014-2021
Current Position: Director, Business Development, FHI Clinical
Alexis Bailey, PhD
P.I.: Margaret Fuller
2007-2015
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Laboratory of Dr. Margaret Fuller
Shelly (Beer) Bamberger, PhD
P.I.: Dean Felsher
2001-2007
Current Position: Senior Medical Science Liaison, Oncology, Seattle Genetics
Brook Barajas, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2009-2016
Current Position: Scientist II, Juno Celgene, Seattle, Washington
Veronica (Beaudry) Zimmerman, PhD
P.I.: Laura Attardi
2004-2010
Current Position: Principal Medical Science Director, Genentech
Blair Benham-Pyle, PhD
P.I.: W. James Nelson
2011-2016
Current Position: Crossroads Commitee, Postdoctoral Chair, Stowers Institute
Alicia (Berger) Levey, PhD
P.I.: Matthew Bogyo
2003-2008
Current Position: Chief Business Officer, Pionyr Immunotherapeutics
Henrietta Bennett, PhD
P.I.: Peter Jackson
2013-219
Current Position: Consultant, Biology Department, Goldfinch Bio
Marina Bershteyn, PhD
P.I.: Anthony Oro
2002-2009
Current Position: Principal Scientist, Group Leader, Neurona Therapeutics
Aparna Bhaduri, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2010-2016
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Melanie Bocanegra, PhD
P.I.: Jon Pollack
2003-2009
Current Position: Associate Dean, Santa Monica College
Michael Bocek, PhD
P.I.: Karlene Cimprich
2013-2019
Current Position: R&D Bioinformatics Scientist, NGS, San Francisco, CA
Colleen Brady, PhD
P.I.: Laura Attardi
2005-2011
Current Position: Associate Principal Medical Writer, bluebird bio
Nicole Breaux, PhD
P.I.: James Ferrell
2003-2010
Current Position: Therapy Area Director, Oncology Resource Group
Deborah Burkhart, PhD
P.I.: Julien Sage
2003-2009
Current Position: Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Tyler Burns, PhD
P.I.: Garry Nolan
2011-2017
Current Position: Founder and CEO, Burns Life Sciences Consulting, GmbH
Daniel Calnan, MD, PhD
P.I.: Anne Brunet
2004-2010
Current Position: Chief Resident, Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center,
Deborah Caswell, PhD
P.I.: Monte Winslow
2011-2016
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Francis Crick Institute, London
Andrea Chaikovsky, PhD
P.I.: Julien Sage
2015-2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Sloan Kettering Institute
Mark Chao, MD, PhD
P.I.: Irving Weissman
2008-2011
Current Position: Vice President, Oncology Clinical Research, Gilead Sciences and Co-Founder Forty Seven, Inc.
Yonglu Che, MD, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2015-2020
Current Position: Resident Physician, Dermatology, Stanford
Ronald Chen, PhD
P.I.: Alejandro Sweet-Cordero
2007-2014
Current Position: Scientist II, Maze Therapeutics
Luis Chia, PhD
P.I.: Calvin Kuo
2007-2012
Current Position: Global Brand Associate Director, Datopotamab-Deruxtecan/DS-106, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
Elizabeth Choe, MD, PhD
P.I.: James Spudich
2010-2014
Current Position: Cardiologist, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Ci Chu, PhD
P.I.: Howard Chang
2007-2014
Current Position: Associat Director, Head of Functional Genomics, insitro
Yakov Chudnovsky, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2001-2006
Current Position: Senior Scientist II, Translational Oncology, Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nicole Clarke, PhD
P.I.: Jon Pollack
2009-2014
Current Position: Senior Clinical Biomarker Lead, Oncology, Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach, Germany
Ryan Corces, PhD
P.I.: Ravindra Majeti
2009-2015
Current Position: Principal Investigator, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF
Sandra Cristea, PhD
P.I.: Julien Sage
2012-2018
Current Position: Senior Life Sciences Specialist, LEK Consulting, San Francisco, CA
Catherine Del Vecchio Fitz, MS, PhD
P.I.: Albert Wong
2006-2012
Current Position: Co-Founder and CSO, Reboot Rx, Portland, Maine
Renu Dhanasekaran, MD, PhD
P.I.: Dean Felsher
2018-2022
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University
Anh Diep, VMD, PhD, DACVP
P.I.: Amato Giaccia
2011-2020
Current Position: Director of Toxicology and Pathology at Bristol Myers Squibb
Kathryn Drago, PhD
P.I.: Robert Negrin
2002-2006
Current Position: Coordinator, Blackburn Alumni Programs, Blackburn Institute, University of Alabama
Michael Dubreuil, PhD
P.I.: Michael Bassik
2013-2019
Current Position: Scientist, PACT Pharma, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Joshua Eggold, PhD
P.I.: Erinn Rankin
2015-2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Investigator, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Laura Edgington-Mitchell, PhD
P.I.: Matthew Bogyo
2007-2012
Current Position: Grimwade Senior Research Fellow, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne
Ivette Estay, PhD
P.I.: Anthony Oro
2004-2010
Current Position: Biomarker Operations Program Leader, Genentech
Natasha Flores, PhD
P.I.: Julien Sage
2010-2016
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ryan Flynn, MD, PhD
P.I.: Howard Chang
2012-2015
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital and the Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department at Harvard University
Deshka Foster, PhD
P.I.: Michael Longaker
2017-2020
Current Position: General Surgery Resident, Stanford University
Rachel Freiberg, PhD
P.I.: Amato Giaccia
1999-2005
Current Position: Clinical Trial Manager, Stanford University
Daniel Fuentes, PhD
P.I.: Joanna Wysocka
2012-2018
Current Position: Molecular Biologist, Gordian Biotechnology, San Francisco
Katherine Fuh, MD, PhD
P.I.: Amato Giaccia
2009-2013
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington Univeristy School of Medicine
Yuchen (Tony) Gao, PhD
P.I.: Lei Stanley Qi
2014-2020
Current Position: Scientist, Genome Editing Mammoth Biosciences
Megan Garland, MD, PhD
P.I.: Matthew Bogyo
2015-2021
Current Position: Resident Physician, Stanford Medicine
Charles Gawad, MD, PhD
P.I.: Patrick Brown
2011-2015
Current Position: Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology, Stanford University
Benson George, MD, PhD
P.I.: Irv Weissman
2015-2020
Current Position: Internal Medicine Intern at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Craig Giacomini, MD, PhD
P.I.: Jon Pollack
2010-2013
Current Position: UCSF, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
Fiorella Grandi, PhD
P.I.: Nidhi Bhutani
2014-2020
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF
Eric Greer, PhD
P.I.: Anne Brunet
2004-2010
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Emily Hamilton, PhD
P.I.: Ash Alizadeh and Max Diehn
2016-2023
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Cancer Center
Calvin Hang, PhD
P.I.: Ching-Pin Chang
2005-2011
Current Position: Residency, UC San Diego
Michelle Marques Howarth, PhD
P.I.: Alejandro Sweet-Cordero
2005-2013
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Celgene Mountain View
Sean Hunter, PhD
P.I.: Jennifer Cochran
2014-2020
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
Rebecca Ihrie, PhD
P.I.: Laura Attardi
2000-2006
Current Position: Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University - Cancer Biology and (by courtesy) Neurological Surgery
Zintis Inde, PhD
P.I.: Scott Dixon
2014-2020
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Katherine Jameson, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2005-2011
Current Position: Associate Director, Clinical Development, Nanobiotix
Janet Jin, PhD
P.I.: Anthony Oro
2000-2008
Current Position: Director, Clinical Biomarkers and Companion Diagnostic Lead, AbbVie
Jessica Kao, PhD
P.I.: Jon Pollack
2001-2008
Current Position: Director, Client Services, Digital Pi
Cigall Kadoch, PhD
P.I.: Gerald Crabtree
2009-2012
Current Position: Associate Professor, Pediatric Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
Alyssa Kaiser, PhD
P.I.: Laura Attardi
2015-2022
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Marcus Kelly, PhD
P.I.: Peter Jackson
2016-2020
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
Melissa Ko, PhD
P.I.: Garry Nolan and Sylvia Plevritis
2012-2018
Current Position: Science and Engineering Education Fellow, Stanford University
Joanna Kovalski, PhD
P.I.: Paul Kavari
2010-2017
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Francisco
Amanda Koehne, DVM, PhD, DACVP
P.I.: Alejandro Sweet-Cordero
2010-2017
Current Position: Director of Translational Pathology, Fred Hutch
Luke Lee, PhD
P.I.: Ash Alizadeh and Max Diehn
2012-2018
Current Position: Advisor, Asset Management Ventures (AMV)
Dena Leeman, PhD
P.I.: Anne Brunet
2008-2016
Current Position: Senior Scientific Researcher, Genentech
Albert Li, PhD
P.I.: Jiangbin Ye
2016-2022
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Chieh-Yu Lin, PhD
P.I.: Jeff Axelrod
2009-2014
Chien-Jung Lin, MD, PhD
P.I.: Matthew Scott
2010-2014
Molly Lowndes, PhD
P.I.: James Nelson
2008-2013
Current Position: Postdoc, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dali Ma, PhD
P.I.: Jeffrey Axelrod
2000-2006
Current Position: Senior Research Biologist, Molsid S.A.S.
Cesar Marquez, PhD
P.I.: Amato Giaccia and Alejandro Sweet-Cordero
2016-2020
Claire Mazumdar, MBA, PhD
P.I.: Ravi Majeti
2010-2015
Current Position: Business Development & Corporate Srategy, Rheos Medicines
Katherine (Pogrebniak) McNamara, PhD
P.I.: Christina Curtis
2016-2020
Current Position: MD Trainee, Stanford University
Elaine Middleman, PhD
P.I.: Steven Artandi
2000-2006
Current Position: Biology Teacher, Castilleja School
Lance Middleton, MD, PhD
P.I.: Jon Pollack
2013-2018
Current Position: Resident Physician, University of California San Francisco
Amanda Mikels, PhD
P.I.: Roeland Nusse
2009-2007
Current Position: Director Stromal Biology, Bristol Myers Squibb
Stefanie Morgan, PhD
P.I.: Kevin Wang
2013-2018
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Alisa Mueller, MD, PhD
P.I.: Tom Rando
2009-2014
Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Christopher Murray, PhD
P.I.: Monte Winslow
2015-2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Zach O'Brown, PhD
P.I. : Stuart Kim
2010-2015
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Dr. Eric Greer
Joe Ouadah, PhD
P.I.: Mark Krasnow
2011-2018
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cal Tech (Anderson Lab)
Elizabeth Pollina, PhD
P.I.: Anne Brunet
2009-2015
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Dr. Michael Greenberg
Gabriel Quinones, PhD
P.I.: Anthony Oro
2004-2010
Current Position: Protocol Development Scientist, Counsyl
Jehnna Ronan, PhD
P.I.: Gerald Crabtree
2007-2015
Current Position: Instructor, Stanford University - Thinking Matters Program
Bethany Schaffer, PhD
P.I.: Anne Brunet
2009-2015
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Weill College of Medicine, Laboratory of Dr. John Blenis
Johanna Schaub, PhD
P.I.: Timothy Stearns
2006-2012
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF School of Medicine Regeneration Medicine
Stan Schor, PhD
P.I.: Shirit Einav
2016-2020
Hunter Shain, PhD
P.I.: Jon Pollack
2006-2012
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF - Boris Bastian Lab
Yan Ting Shue, PhD
P.I.: Julien Sage
2015-2022
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Singapore, SGP
Paula Soneral, PhD
P.I.: Julie Theriot
1998 - 2003
Current Position: Professor of Biological Sciences, Bethel University
Luis Soto, PhD
P.I.: Edward Graves
2014-2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Andrew Spencley, PhD
P.I.: Joanna Wysocka
2015-2022
Current Position: Scientist, Gene Edting , 2seventy bio
Tatiana Spicakova, PhD
P.I.: Martin J. Brown
2001-2006
Current Position: Senior Research Associate, Genentech
Timothy Stowe, PhD
P.I.: Tim Stearns
2004-2011
Current Position: Scientist, in Vivo Pharmacology, UNITY Biotechnology
Patrick Sutphin, MD, PhD
P.I.: Amato Giaccia
2001-2007
Current Position: Resident, Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Alfred Sun, PhD
P.I.: Gerald Crabtree
2006-2012
Amy Tarangelo, PhD
P.I.: Scott Dixon
2014-2020
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CRI, UT Southwestern
Benjamin Topacio, PhD
P.I.: Jan Skotheim
2014-2021
Rose Tran, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2010-2018
Current Position: Postdoctorall Fellow, Stanford University, Khavari Lab
Feng-Chiao Tsai, PhD
P.I.: Tobias Meyer
2006-2012
Current Position: Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University
Erin Turk, PhD
P.I.: Timothy Stearns
2010-2015
Current Position: Associate Bioinformatician, NanoString Technologies
Jeanine Van Nostrand, PhD
P.I.: Laura Attardi
2007-2013
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine-Molecular and Cellular Biology
Humsa Venkatesh, PhD
P.I.: Michelle Monje
2012-2018
Current Position: Postdoctorall Fellow, Stanford University, Monje Lab
Thomas Vierbuchen, PhD
P.I. : Marius Wernig
2008-2012
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Kartik Viswanathan, MD, PhD
P.I.: Seung Kim
2006-2011
Current Position: Physician-in-training, Weill Cornell Medical College
Jordan Wang, PhD
P.I.: Howard Chang
2004-2009
Current Position: Director, Molecular Engineering, LakePharma, Inc.
Daniel Webster, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2007-2013
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute
Orly Wapinski, PhD
P.I.: Howard Chang
2009-2015
Kipp Weiskopf, MD, PhD
P.I.: Irv Weissman
2011-2015
Jasmaine Williams, PhD
P.I.: Brian Feldman
2010-2015
Current Position: Senior Analyst, The Advisory Board Company
Tiffany Williams, PhD
P.I.: Amato Giaccia
2007-2015
Current Position: Software Engineer, Aclima, Inc.
Stacey Wirt Taylor, PhD
P.I.: Julien Sage
2004-2010
Current Position: Training Program Manager, NanoString Technologies, Inc.
Lauren Woodard, PhD
P.I.: Michele Calos
2004-2009
Current Position: Reserach Instructor - Vanderbilt and Research Health Scientist at VA
Xiao Xu, PhD
P.I.: Stuart Kim
2006-2012
Current Position: Research Associate, Rockefeller University
Dian Yang, PhD
P.I.: Julien Sage and Monte Winslow
2011-2017
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF, Laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Weissman
Yul Yang, MD, PhD
P.I.: Howard Chang
2008-2012
Current Position: Resident, Dermatology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ
Catherine Yao, MD, PhD
P.I.: Anthony Oro
2015-2021
Current Position: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Resident, Stanford
Kathryn Yost, PhD
P.I.: Howard Chang
2016-2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead, MIT
Ashley Zehnder, PhD
P.I.: Paul Khavari
2009-2016
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Laborary of Dr. Paul Khavari
Michelle Zeman, PhD
P.I.: Karlene Cimprich
2007-2013
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Laborary of Dr. Dan Jarosz
