MSTP MD-PhD Alumni
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Friday evening, April 21: MSTP alumni from across the years will gather for an evening of cocktails, catching up and connecting at the home of current MSTP Co-Director Katrin Chua, together with other current and previous program directors, faculty, and students.
Saturday afternoon, April 22: Please join us from 2:00-4:00 pm for a special MSTP alumni program, including a Directors’ welcome, fellow alumni addresses, and time for mingling and networking with fellow alums and current students.
Alumni, please contact us to update your information.
2022
Elizabeth (Ellie) Beam |
Thesis title: A data-driven ontology of brain function: Engineered, interrogated, and clinically applied |
Winston Becker |
Advisor: William Greenleaf, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Andrew Beel |
Thesis title: Principles of chromosome condensation Advisor: Roger Kornberg, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate: Early Independence Fellow, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Leighton Daigh |
Thesis title: Putting the brakes on the cell cycle - CDK4/6 inhibition in cellular aging and cancer therapy Advisor: Tobias Meyer, PhD Dept/Program: Chemical and Systems Biology Post-graduate: Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Payton Marshall |
Advisor: Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD |
| Katherine McNamara | Thesis title: Quantifying tumor evolutionary dynamics and predictors of response in HER2-positive breast cancer treated with targeted therapy Advisor: Christina Curtis, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Interventional Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
César Márquez |
Thesis title: Leveraging protein evolution to elucidate novel oncogenic signaling axes in the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma |
Suhas Rao |
Thesis title: Building a wiring diagram of the human genome Advisor: Roger Kornberg, PhD and Erez Lieberman Aiden, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
| Akshay Sanghi | Thesis title: A Chromatin Basis for Protein Expression in Cancer |
Stanford Schor |
Thesis title: BIKE regulates dengue virus infection via CLINT1 phosphorylation and is a host target for broad-spectrum antivirals |
Ericka von Kaeppler |
Thesis title: IL-4 to the Rescue: How a Type 2 cytokine protects against post-traumatic osteoarthritis |
Nielson Weng |
Thesis title: Identification of Chemically Defined Dietary Gluten Peptides from Patients with Celiac Disease |
Bonnie Wong |
Advisor: Aihwa Ong, PhD Dept/Program: Medical Anthropology (UC Berkeley/ UCSF) Post-graduate: Surgery-General, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
2021
Amin Aalipour |
Advisor: Sanjiv Gambhir, MD, PhD |
Amira Barkal |
Advisor: Irving Weissman, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Daniel Berenson |
Advisor: Jan Skotheim, PhD Dept/Program: Biology Post-graduate: Pediatrics/Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Laura Bloomfield |
Advisor: James Jones, PhD Dept/Program: Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Resources Post-graduate: Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Vermont (labs of Chris Danforth, PhD and Taylor Ricketts, PhD. |
Binbin Chen |
Thesis title: Deep learning for predicting antigen presentation Advisor: Russ Altman, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Genetics Post-graduate: VCreate (Co-Founder and CEO), Palo Alto, CA |
Thomas Chew |
Thesis title: Structure and mechanism of the cation-chloride cotransporter NKCC1 Advisor: Liang Feng, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate: Boxer Capital, San Diego, CA |
Megan Garland |
Advisor: Matt Bogyo, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine/Anesthesiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Gunsagar Gulati |
Thesis title: Cytometric and genomic dissection of stem cell hierarchies |
| Brian Hsueh | Thesis title: Tools for dissecting neural circuits of interoception and autonomic regulation Advisor: Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Neurological Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
Daniel Kim |
Thesis title: An integrative deep learning framework reveals a dynamic, combinatorial Cis-regulatory lexicon in epidermal differentiation |
Arek Melkonian |
Thesis title: The allostery of transglutaminase 2 and its role in coeliac disease Advisor: Chaitan Khosla, PhD Dept/Program: Chemical Engineering Post-graduate: Clinical Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Amar Mirza | Thesis title: Nuclear tuning in basal cell carcinoma |
John Pluvinage |
Thesis title: Developing rational combination therapeutic approaches for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma |
Caitlin Roake |
Thesis title: Biogenesis of Telomerase RNA in homeostasis and disease |
Holly (Elser) Stewart |
Thesis title: Anomalously warm weather and acute care visits in patients with multiple sclerosis: A retrospective study of privately insured individuals in the U.S. Advisor: Jennifer Ahern, PhD, MPH Dept/Program: Epidemiology (UC Berkeley) Post-graduate: Neurology, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA |
Yong Tang |
Thesis title: KRAS regulation by small non-coding RNAs and SNARE proteins Advisor: Paul Khavari, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Clinical Pathology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Gerald Tiu |
Thesis title: Lost in translation: How broken ribosomes lead to tissue specific phenotypes in developmental diseases Advisor: Maria Barna, PhD Dept/Program: Genetics Post-graduate: Pathology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Catherine Yao |
Thesis title: Non-canonical Hedgehog signaling mechanisms of resistance in basal cell carcinoma Advisor: Anthony Oro, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Pediatrics/Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
2020
Liana Nicole Bonanno |
Thesis title: Examining the role of microliga in Niemann-Pick type C |
Jamie Brett |
Thesis title: Skeletal muscle stem cell activation: Aging and rejuvenation Advisor: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
Yonglu Che |
Thesis title: Regulation of KRAS by SNAREs and noncoding RNAs with therapeutic approaches to treatment Advisor: Paul Khavari, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Medicine-Preliminary, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, CA; Dermatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Cordelia Davis-Erickson |
MD: 2020 |
| Christopher George Dove | Thesis title: Myeloid reprogramming B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia Advisor: Ravi Majeti, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Medicine-Preliminary, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, CA; Physical Medicine & Rehab, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Benjamin William Dulken |
Thesis title: A characterization of the neural stem cell niche and lineage at single cell resolution during aging |
Benson George |
Thesis title: Antibody approaches to enable hematopoietic stem cell and organ transplant Advisor: Irving Weissman, MD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Lichy Han | Thesis title: Network-based methods for the elucidation of disease and drug mechanism |
Grant Libing Lin |
Thesis title: Developing rational combination therapeutic approaches for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma |
Cesar Joel Lopez Angel |
MD: 2020 |
Christopher William Mount |
Thesis title: Targeting the disialoganglioside GD2 with chimeric antigen receptor T cells for immunotherapy in diffuse midline gliomas, and exploration of neuron-OPC synaptic connectivity in the context of adaptive myelination Advisor: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Pathology-Anatomy/Clinical/Anatomy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
Surya Deepak Nagaraja |
Thesis title: Transcriptional dysregulation in diffuse intrinsic potine glioma Advisor: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Pathology-Clinical, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
Zahra Sayyid |
Thesis title: Regeneration and functional recovery of the adult mouse utricle Advisor: Albert Cheng, MD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD |
2019
Nathan Lo |
Thesis title: Modeling global strategies for control and elimination of helminth infections Advisors: Jason Andrews, MD and Eran Bendavid, MD Dept/Program: Epidemiology Current: Faculty Fellow in Infectious Diseases, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA The Lo Lab at UCSF |
Elizabeth Yi Qin |
Thesis title: The role of pleiotrophin in glioma invasion of the subventricular zone Advisor: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Current : Psychiatry, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
Felicia Reinitz |
Thesis title: Investigating neural stem cell function in an Alzheimer's disease model |
Tyler Prestwood |
Thesis title: Myeloid cells in cancer progression and cancer treatment |
Shyam Sathyamoorthi |
Advisors: Richard Zare, PhD Dept/Program: Chemistry Current: Assistant Professor in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS |
Baris Ungun |
Advisor: Lei Xing, PhD |
Ludan "Dani" Zhao |
Thesis title: Axin2-positive hepatocytes in adult mouse liver homeostasis and local injury repair |
2018
Mariko Lynn Howe Bennett |
Thesis title: What do microglia do? New tools for studying the brain's resident macrophages in mouse and human |
James Yuhtyng Chen |
Thesis title: Hoxb5 marks the long-term hematopoietic stem cell and reveals a near homogenous perivascular niche and prospective isolation and differentiation of the mouse skeletal stem cell Advisor: Irving Weissman, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, MA |
Will Rowan Fletcher |
Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; Radiology-Diagnostic, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
| Ryosuke Kita | Thesis title: Evolution of gene expression in humans and yeast Advisor: Hunter Fraser, PhD Dept/Program: Biology Current: Industry, Product Scientist at 23andMe |
Andrew Stephen Lee |
Thesis title: Uses of Adult and Pluripotent Stem Cells for Treatment of Heart Disease |
Amrapali Maitra |
Thesis title: The work of love : domestic violence and bodily experience in Kolkata, India Advisor: Tanya Luhrmann, PhD Dept/Program: Anthropology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Lance Middleton |
Thesis title: Genomic analysis of benign prostatic hyperplasia implicates cellular re-landscaping in disease pathogenesis |
Steven Sloan |
Thesis title: A Cellular Dissection and Reconstruction of the Human Cortex |
Eric Teasley |
MD: 2018 |
Jonathan Michael Tsai |
Thesis title: Studies on regeneration and fibrosis Advisor: Irving Weissman, MD Dept/Program: Developmental Biology Post-graduate: Pathology-Anatomic & Clinical, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Graham Walmsley |
Thesis title: A scar is born Advisor: Irving Weissman, MD & Michael Longaker, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Heatlhcare Venture Capital |
2017
| Amanda Ramsay Brosius Lutz | Thesis title: Understanding Schwann cell mechanisms of myelin debris clearance after peripheral nerve injury Advisor: Ben Barres, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Developmental Biology Post-graduate: University Hospital Bern, Dept Biomedical Research Prenatal Medicine, Switzerland |
| Kyle Eagen | Thesis title: Architecture of interphase chromosomes Advisor: Roger Kornberg, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Current: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL The Eagen Lab at Northwestern |
| Ryan Flynn | Thesis title: Molecular studies of regulatory RNA structure and function Advisor: Howard Chang, MD, PhD & Paul Khavari, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Postdoctoral research in the Bertozzi Lab, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
| Jonathan Leong | Thesis title: Spatiotemporal receptive field of the elementary motion detector in Drosophila Advisor: Tom Clandinin, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Diagnostic Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Sunny Lou | Thesis title: Molecular and mechanical exploration of large-scale cell motility coordination in zebrafish embryonic keratocytes Advisor: Julie Theriot, PhD Dept/Program: Chemical & Systems Biology Post-graduate: Anesthesiology, Barnes - Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO |
| Phillip Pauerstein | Thesis title: Dissecting genes and signals controlling pancreatic islet morphogenesis and differentiation Advisor: SK Kim, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Developmental Biology Post-graduate: Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
| David Purger | Thesis title: Adaptive myelination in the mammalian brain Advisor: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Neurological Surgery, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA |
2016
| AbdulRasheed Alabi | Thesis title: Molecular tuning of synaptic vesicle fusion mode probed using novel pHdot optical nanosensor Advisor: Richard Tsien, PhD Dept/Program: Molecular & Cellular Physiology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Ronald Alfa | Thesis title: Suppression of insulin production and secretion by decretin hormones Advisor: Seung K Kim, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Industry, VP Discovery & Product Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Salt Lake City, UT |
| Roxana Daneshjou | Thesis title: Towards personalized medicine in understudied populations: coagulation and anti-coagulation in African Americans Advisor: Russ Altman, MD PhD Dept/Program: Genetics Post-graduate: Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, CA, Medicine-Preliminary Current: Dermatology Resident, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA |
| Lorenzo Deveza | Thesis title: Harnessing stem cells as drug delivery vehicles for therapeutic angiogenesis: a biomaterials-mediated approach Advisor: Fan Yang, PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering Post-graduate: Orthopaedic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center, Houston, TX |
| Lief Fenno | Thesis title: Development of novel optogenetic and molecular tools and their application to understanding the neurological basis of behavior Advisor: Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience Post-graduate: Psychiatry Resident, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA Current: Assistant Professor, Neuroscience & Psychiatry, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Tessa Johung | Thesis title: The role of neuronal activity in glioma growth and progression Advisor: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Neurology Resident, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
| Christin Marie Lepus | Thesis title: Innate immune mechanisms of osteoarthritis Advisor: Bill Robinson, MD Dept/Program: Immunology Post-graduate: Pathology Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Aashish Manglik | Thesis title: Structural dynamics of G protein-coupled receptor activation Advisor: Brian Kobilka, MD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate: Distinguished Fellow Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA Current: Assistant Professor at UCSF Departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Anesthesia The Manglik Lab at UCSF |
| Alisa Anne Mueller | Thesis title: Molecular regulation of muscle-resident mesenchymal stem cells Advisor: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Current: Clinical Fellow Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Edward Pham | Thesis title: Membrane-associated RNA-dependent RNA replication of viruses Advisor: Jeffrey S. Glenn, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Microbiology & Immunology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine (Physician-Scientist track), Case Western, Cleveland, OH |
| Michelle Rengarajan | Thesis title: Influence of host cell biology on bacterial infection: Listeria monocytogenes and the vascular endothelium Advisor: Julie Theriot, PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Current: Clinical Fellow Medicine, Brisham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Aaron Ring | Thesis title: Structure-based engineering of immunomodulatory agents for the treatment of cancer Advisor: K Chris Garcia, PhD Dept/Program: Structural Biology Post-graduate: Assistant Professor of Immunobiology, Yale, New Haven, CT The Ring lab at Yale |
| Jacob Rosenberg | Thesis title: The landscape and function of anti-cytokine autoantibodies in health and immunodeficiency Advisor: PJ Utz, MD Dept/Program: Immunology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Benjamin Seligman | Thesis title: Inequality in health and death Advisor: Shripad Tuljapurkar, PhD Dept/Program: Biology Post-graduate: Medicine-Primary, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Current: Internal Medicine Resident, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| Kipp Weiskopf | Thesis title: Targeting the CD47-SIRP alpha interaction to stimulate macrophage destruction of cancer Advisor: Irving Weissman, MD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Kevin Yackle | Thesis title: Cellular and molecular dissection of the breathing pacemaker Advisor: Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry Post-graduate: Sandler Fellow Physiology, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Current: Assistant Researcher Sandler Fellow Physiology, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA The Yackle lab at UCSF |
| Gloria Yiu | Thesis title: Interferon signaling in lupus-prone mice and systemic lupus erythematous Advisor: PJ Utz, MD Dept/Program: Immunology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine - Science track, Yale University - New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT |
2015
| Sergio Arroyo | Thesis title: Mechanisms underlying state-dependent modulation of cortical activity Advisor: Shaul Hestrin, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Medicine-Preliminary, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Current: Neurology Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Gregory Charville | Thesis title: Studies of skeletal muscle satellite cell death and renewal Advisor: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Developmental Biology Post-graduate: Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA Current: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA |
| Patricia Foo | Thesis title: Essays on the economics of health care in the United States Advisor: Liran Einav, PhD Dept/Program: Economics Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Current: Senior Resident Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Ryan Jackson | Thesis title: Rotational axes and lever arms for the middle-ear ossicles of several land mammals Advisors: Sunil Puria, PhD & Charles Steele, PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering Post-graduate: Pathology, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA Current: Resident, Pathology Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA |
| Christine Lee | Thesis title: Metabotropic receptors shape oscillations in the thalamocortical circuit Advisor: John Huguenard, PhD Dept/Program: Neuroscience Post-graduate: Neurological Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Current: Neurosurgery Resident, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Joanna Mattis | Thesis title: Optogenetic tool development and interrogation of frequency-dependent signaling in the hippocamposeptal pathway Advisor: Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Current: Neurosurgery Resident, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| James Torchia | Thesis title: Targeting lymphoma with precision using semi-synthetic anti-idiotype peptibodies Advisor: Ronald Levy, MD Dept/Program: Immunology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| Jessica Tsai | Thesis title: Transcriptional feedback links lipid synthesis to synaptic vesicle pools in Drosophila photoreceptors Advisor: Tom Clandinin, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA Current: Pediatrics Resident, Childern's Hospital, Boston, MA |