MSTP MD-PhD Alumni

Please join us in celebrating 50+ years of the Stanford MSTP!

Register today and join the MSTP program reunion during the weekend of the Stanford Medicine Alumni Day, on Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22, 2023. We hope you will join us in catching up with your fellow MD-PhD alums during the reunion this year!

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.

2024

Shannon Choi	Thesis title: We Be-Lung Together: Development of a novel system human distal lung organoids Advisor: Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate:
Lori Dershowitz	Thesis title: Development and patterning of the enteric nervous system Advisor: Julia Kaltschmidt, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate:
Sofia Essayan-Perez	Thesis title: Investigating gamma-secretase in human neurons reveals connections between cholesterol metabolism and synaptic function Advisor: Thomas Südhof, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate:
Maria Filsinger Interrante	Thesis title: Towards an HIV Vaccine Targeting the gp41 Prehairpin Intermediate Advisor: Peter Kim, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate:
Fancisco Galdos	Thesis title: Stem cell and machine learning approaches for understanding heart field development Advisor: Sean Wu, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate:
R. Lorenzo Labitigan	Thesis title: Mapping variation in the morphological landscape of human cells with optical pooled CRISPRi screening Advisor: Julie Theriot, PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry Post-graduate:
Sasi Madugula	Thesis title: Retinal Ganglion Cell Responses to Extracellular Stimulation for High-Fidelity Vision Restoration Advisor: EJ Chichilnisky, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate:
F. Kei Masuda	Thesis title: Ketamine Disrupts and Restructures Entorhinal and Hippocampal Spatial Coding Advisor: Lisa Giocomo, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate:
Paras Minhas	Thesis title: Immunometabolic Regulation of Inflammation in Aging and Disease Advisor: Katrin Andreasson, MD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate:
Ragini Phansalkar	Thesis title: Convergence of Blood Vessel Lineages During Mouse and Human Heart Development Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse, PhD Dept/Program: Genetics Post-graduate:
Mollie Qian (Friedlander)	Thesis title: Discovering new functions of the diabetes gene HNF1A in human pancreatic islets Advisor: Seung Kim, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Developmental Biology Post-graduate:
Ved Topkar	Thesis title: Determinants of mRNA Localization in Oligodendrocytes Advisor: Rhiju Das, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate:
Vipul Vachharajani	Thesis title: Epithelial biophysics at molecular and sub-tissue scales Advisor: Alex Dunn, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate:
Aaron Wilk	Thesis title: Immune polyphony: Dissecting coordinated multicellular networks of antiviral immunity Advisor: Catherine Blish, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Immunology Post-graduate:
Angela Zhang	Thesis title: From Development to Deployment: Opportunities for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Deep Learning Advisor: Joseph Wu, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Genetics Post-graduate:

2023

Anthony Cordova	Thesis title: Defining the role of extracellular cGAMP signaling in health and disease Advisor: Lingyin Li, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate:
Joshua Guild	Thesis title: Advisor: Tushar Desai, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate:
Margaret Guo	Thesis title: Decoding Transcription Regulatory Patterns in Health and Disease Advisor: Paul Khavari MD, PhD & Russ Altman, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Biomedical Informatics Post-graduate:
Joy He	Thesis title: Identification and Characterization of Human Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells Advisor: Irv Weissman, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate:
Akshay Maheshwari	Thesis title: Colloidal Physics Modeling of Biomolecular Behavior to Enable Cell Building Advisor: Drew Endy, PhD & Roseanna Zia, PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering Post-graduate:
Shamik Mascharak	Thesis title: Mechanisms of Postnatal Mammalian Skin Regeneration Advisor: Michael Longaker, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate:
Daniel Moktari	Thesis title: Developing and Applying Quantitative High-Throughput Microfluidics to Elucidate Enzyme Functional Architecture Advisor: Daniel Herschlag, PhD & Polly Fordyce, PhD Dept/Program: Biochemistry Post-graduate:
Benjamin Ober-Reynolds	Thesis title: Advisor: William Greenleaf, PhD Dept/Program: Genetics Post-graduate:
Madeleine Scott	Thesis title: Mano a Mono: Monocytes Across Disease and Vaccination Advisor: Purvesh Khatri, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate:
Benjamin Smith	Thesis title: Siglecs: Identifying Glycan Markers of Self Advisor: Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD Dept/Program: Chemical & Systems Biology Post-graduate:
Avin Veerakumar	Thesis title: Advisor: Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Bioengineering Post-graduate:
Jessica Verhein	Thesis title: Sensory and pharmacologic perturbations to explore cognitively relevant motor cortical dynamics Advisor: Krishna Shenoy, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate:
Jeffrey Wang	Thesis title: Advisor: Raag Airan, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Biophysics Post-graduate:

2022

Elizabeth (Ellie) Beam	Thesis title: A data-driven ontology of brain function: Engineered, interrogated, and clinically applied Advisor: Amit Etkin, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Psychiatry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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 Dept/Program: Immunology Post-graduate: Anesthesiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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 Advisor: Alejandro Sweet-Cordero MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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 Advisor: Michael Snyder, PhD Dept/Program: Genetics Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Stanford Schor	Thesis title: BIKE regulates dengue virus infection via CLINT1 phosphorylation and is a host target for broad-spectrum antivirals Advisor: Shirit Einav, MD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Ericka von Kaeppler	Thesis title: IL-4 to the Rescue: How a Type 2 cytokine protects against post-traumatic osteoarthritis Advisor: Bill Robinson, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Nielson Weng	Thesis title: Identification of Chemically Defined Dietary Gluten Peptides from Patients with Celiac Disease Advisor: Chaitan Khosla, PhD Dept/Program: Chemistry Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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 Dept/Program: Bioengineering Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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 Advisor: Irving Weissman, MD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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 Advisor: Paul Khavari MD, PhD, & Anshul Kundaje, PhD Dept/Program: Biomedical Informatics Post-graduate: Internal Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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 Advisor: Anthony Oro, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Pathology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
John Pluvinage	Thesis title: Developing rational combination therapeutic approaches for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma Advisor: Tony Wyss-Coray Lab, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Neurology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Caitlin Roake	Thesis title: Biogenesis of Telomerase RNA in homeostasis and disease Advisor: Steven Artandi, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Fresno, CA
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 Advisor: Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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 Advisor: Anne Brunet, PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Post-graduate: Pathology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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 Advisor: Russ Altman, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Biomedical Informatics Post-graduate: Anesthesiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Grant Libing Lin	Thesis title: Developing rational combination therapeutic approaches for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma Advisor: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Child Neurology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Cesar Joel Lopez Angel	MD: 2020 Post-Graduate: Pediatrics/Research Scholars, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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: Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) , Stanford , Palo Alto, CA The Lo Lab at Stanford
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 Advisor: Michael Clarke, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Current : Child Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Tyler Prestwood	Thesis title: Myeloid cells in cancer progression and cancer treatment Advisor: Edgar Engleman, MD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Current : Psychiatry, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA
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 Dept/Program: Bioengineering Current : Postdoctoral research
Ludan "Dani" Zhao	Thesis title: Axin2-positive hepatocytes in adult mouse liver homeostasis and local injury repair Advisor: Roeland Nusse PhD Dept/Program: Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Current : Internal Medicine, Alameda Health System, Oakland, CA; UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA

2018

Mariko Lynn Howe Bennett	Thesis title: What do microglia do? New tools for studying the brain's resident macrophages in mouse and human Advisor: Ben Barres, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Child Neurology, Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Current: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA The Bennett Lab at CHOP
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 Advisor: Joseph Wu, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Chemical & Systems Biology Post-graduate: Pathology-Anatomic & Clinical, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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 Advisor: Jonathan Pollack, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Cancer Biology Post-graduate: Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Steven Sloan	Thesis title: A Cellular Dissection and Reconstruction of the Human Cortex Advisor: Ben Barres, MD, PhD Dept/Program: Neurosciences Post-graduate: Postdoctoral research in the Pasca Lab, Stanford University Current: Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics in Emory University, Atlanta, GA The Sloan Lab at Emory
Eric Teasley	MD; MS: 2018 Current: Technical Program Manager, Google Health
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: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA The Daneshjou Lab at Stanford
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

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