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People (Current Members)


Xinnan Wang

Principal Investigator:

Xinnan Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Ph.D.: University of Cambridge (2007)

Postdoctoral: Harvard Medical School (2011)

 

Sujyoti

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Sujyoti Chandra, Ph.D.

sujyotic@stanford.edu

Ph.D: Rush University, Chicago (2019)

FARA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024-2025

2023 FARA Fellow Award

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Postdoctoral Fellow:

Chulhwan Kwak, Ph.D.

ckwak27@stanford.edu

Ph.D: Ulsan National Institute Science and Technology (2021)

Postdoctoral:Seoul National University (2022)

Janelia Spatial Multi-Omics Conference Travel Scholarship 2026

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Furkan

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Furkan Oflaz, Ph.D.

oflazf@stanford.edu

Ph.D: Medical University of Graz, Austria (2024)

2024-2025 Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Alva Sainz

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Alva Sainz, Ph.D.

asainz@stanford.edu

Ph.D:Yale University (2023)

NIH postdoctoral award (Supplement) 2025

Stanford Bio-X Symposium Best Poster Award

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Jocelyn R

Postdoctoral Fellow:

Jocelyn Rodriguez, PhD.

jrodr01@stanford.edu

PhD: UCLA (2026)

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Alva Sainz

MD Graduate Student:

Tumi Akeke, MPH

oakeke@stanford.edu

BSc: University of Edinburgh (2022)

MPH: UNC-Chapel Hill (2024)

MedScholar Award

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Phoebe Pan

Undergraduate Student:

Phoebe Pan

ppan@stanford.edu

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Phoebe Pan

Undergraduate Student:

Lukas Wiggers

wiggers@wisc.edu

University of Wisconsin at Madison 

Sajal

Research Assistant/Lab Manager:
Sejal Sripadanna

sejalsri@stanford.edu

UC Davis (2024)

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Zoe Zizzo

Research Assistant:
Zoe Zizzo
zoezizzo@stanford.edu

Colorado College (2025)

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Cat

Research Assistant:

Catherine Horkay
chorkay@stanford.edu

Stanford CS ’23

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Nichole Zito

Lab Administrator:
Nichole Schick

nicholez@stanford.edu
B.A.: San Jose State University

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Alumni

Otufa Noor

Former Research Assistant:
Otufa Noor

Current Position: MD candidate at Alabama College of Medicine

Florida State University (2025)

Peter S

Former Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar:

Peter Samir Henry Arsanyous  

 

Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery "M.B.,B.Ch" (M. D.) 

Misr University for Science & Technology, 2022  

Aarooran D.

Former Research Assistant/Lab Manager:
Aarooran Sivakumaran Durairaj

 

Cornell University (2019)

 


Zehui Du

Former Undergraduate Student:

Zehui Du

Current Position: Ph.D candidate at the Neurobiology Program at Cornell University

Undergraduate student, Peking University

 

Menghan Li

Former Undergraduate Student:

Menghan Li

Current Position: Ph.D candidate at the Biology Program at MIT

Undergraduate student, Fudan University

Katja

Former Graduate Student:

Katja Schach

Current Position: Ph.D candidate at Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Visiting Master's Student,

University of Tbingen, Germany

Katarzyna Dzik

Former Visiting Professor:

Katarzyna Dzik

University of Gdask, Poland

Li Li

Former Postdoctoral Fellow:
Li Li, M.D., Ph.D.

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Switch Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA

Ph.D: University College London (2017)

2019 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship  

Vinita B

Former Postdoctoral Fellow:
Vinita Bharat, Ph.D.

Current Position: Research Development Strategist, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University  

Ph.D: Georg August Universitt Gottingen, Germany (2016)    

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS for Neurosciences)  

David N

Former Research Assistant:
David Nguyen
Current Position: MD student at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans  

B.A.: UC Berkeley (2007)

M.S.: Tulane University School of Medicine (2019)
 

Devon

Former Research Assistant:
Devon Conradson

Current Position: PhD student in Cell, Stem Cell, and Developmental Biology Program at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Lewis & Clark College (2019)  

Ashley Gonzalez

Former Ph.D Student:
Ashley Gonzalez

Current Position: Director of Business Development, Tasus Pharmaceuticals

B.A.: California State University, San Bernardino
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2015-2018)
Minority Access to Research Careers Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (2012-2014)  

Amanda Papakyrikos

Former Ph.D Student:
Amanda Papakyrikos

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Prologue Medicine

B.A.: Wellesley College
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2015-2018)
Genentech Fellowship (2014-2015)  

Chung-Han Hsieh

Former Postdoctoral Fellow:
Chung-Han Hsieh, Ph.D.

Current Position: Senior Scientist, CuraX Therapeutic Corporation, San Carlos, CA
Ph.D.: Chang Gung University (2010)

Roland

Former Postdoctoral Fellow:
Roeland Vanhauwaert, Ph.D.

Current Position: Scientist at Argenx, Ghent, Belgium

Ph.D: KU Leuven University, Belgium (2017)

FENS Thesis Prize 2018Finalist

The Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship (2018)

 

Min Joo Kim

Former Research Assistant:
Min Joo Kim

Current Position: Ph.D student in Biomedical Sciences at UCSF 

M.S.: Stanford University B.A.: Pomona College

Jay

Former Master's Student:
Jay Panji

Current Position: Ph.D student at Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Bachelor's and Master's Dual Degree in Biological Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) (2013-2018)

NeuroBIM Masters in Neuroscience, Universit de Bordeaux (August 2018- August 2020)  

Atossa Shaltouki

Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Atossa Shaltouki, Ph.D.

Current Position: Senior Scientist, NeuCyte, Inc., San Carlos, CA

Ph.D.: Cleveland State University (2009)

Jennifer Codding-Bui

Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennifer Codding-Bui, Ph.D.

Current Position: Field Application Scientist at Pall ForteBio, Northern California / Pacific Northwest.

Meredith Course

Former Ph.D Student:
Meredith Course

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.

B.A.:Pomona CollegeGlenn/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging (2016-2017)Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2013-2016)

Nick

Former Research Assistant
Nick Lawson

Current Position: Community Outreach and Events Coordinator at Puzzah!, Denver

Pei

Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Pei-I Tsai

Current Position: Research Specialist, UCSF

Ph.D: National Taiwan University (2010)

Award:

Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Medicine, Stanford University (2013)

Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2016)  

Natalie

Former High School Student
Natalie Westermann

Current: Boston College  

Noreen Wacford

Former SIMR Student
Noreen Wauford

Current Position: PhD Student in Bioengineering at MIT