Alumni
Graduate Students who have left the lab and their current position
(most recent listed last)
| John Alexander, M.D., Ph.D. | Tetrad, AHA Fellowship | Pulmonologist, Kaiser, San Francisco |
| Jeremy Reiter, M.D., Ph.D. | Tetrad, ARCS Fellowship | Professor and Chair, UCSF Biochem & Biophysics, San Francisco |
| Emily Walsh, Ph.D. | Tetrad, HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship | Program Manager, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals |
| Sally Horne, Ph.D. | Tetrad, AHA Predoctoral Fellowship | Associate Professor, University of Chicago School of Medicine |
| Holly Field, Ph.D. | Tetrad | Medical Writer, Cambridge, MA |
| Le Trinh, Ph.D. | BMS, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, AHA Predoctoral Fellowship | Assistant Professor, USC |
| Nick Osborne, Ph.D. | BMS, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship | Clinical Strategy Scientist, Cato Research, Springfield, MA |
| Kevin Vogeli, Ph.D. | Tetrad, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship | Orthopedic Surgeon, Los Angeles |
| Chantilly Munson, Ph.D. | Tetrad, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship | Assistant Professor, City College of San Francisco |
| Won-Suk Chung, Ph.D. | BMS, Genentech Fellowship, CIRM Fellowship | Assistant Professor, KAIST, South Korea |
| Isla Cheung, Ph.D. | Tetrad, ARCS Fellowship | Scientist at Genentech, CA |
| David Staudt | BMS, MSTP, AHA, NIH Fellowships | Resident in Pediatrics, Stanford U. |
| Anna Reade, Ph.D. | Tetrad, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship | Staff Scientist, NRDC, San Francisca, CA |
| Filomena Ricciardi, Ph.D. | MPI student | Postdoctoral Fellow with Andrei Goga, UCSF |
| Jenny Pestel, Ph.D. | Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship | MERCK, Darmstadt |
| Suchit Ahuja, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada |
| Ziba Jaberansari, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Research Manager, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Deepika Dogra, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada |
| Claudia Gerri , Ph.D. | IMPRS, Otto Hahn Medal | Postdoctoral Fellow with Kathy Niakan, Crick Institute, London, UK |
| Almary Guerra Rodríguez, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Consultant, Leadvise Reply GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Jason Kuan Han Lai, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Research Fellow, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore |
| Pourya Sarvari, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Research Assistant, Bad Nauheim, Germany |
| Seyed Javad Rasouli, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Postdoctoral Fellow, Muenster, Germany |
| Ayele Taddese Tsedeke, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Postdoctoral Researcher, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Brijesh Kumar, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Postdoctoral Fellow, Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC, USA |
| Michele Marass, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Editor, Nature Communications |
| Sophie Ramas, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Germany |
| Sri Teja Mullapudi, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Analyst, Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners, Toronto, Canada |
| Vanesa Jiménez Amilburu, Ph.D. | IMPRS | Postdoctoral Fellow, IRCM, Montreal, Canada |
Postdoctoral Fellows who have left the lab and their current position
(most recent listed last)
| Leon Parker, Ph.D. | NIH NRSA Fellowship | Associate Director, Solazyme, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Chi-Yip Ho, Ph.D. | AHA Fellowship | Director, Microarray Facility, Lunenfeld Res. Inst., Toronto, Canada |
| Wayne Liao, Ph.D. | AHA Fellowship | Program Manager, TLC pharmaceuticals, Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Erik Kupperman, Ph.D. | NSF Fellowship, UC President’s Fellowship | Global Project Leader, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Birgitta Olofsson, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Cambridge, England | |
| Deborah Yelon, Ph.D. | LSRF Fellowship, Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship | Professor, UC San Diego, USA |
| Amy Sehnert, M.D., Ph.D. | PSDP Fellowship, NIH K08 Grant, AHA and BGIA Fellowships | Senior Director, Artemis Health, San Carlos, CA, USA |
| Yutaka Kikuchi, Ph.D. | HFSP Fellowship | Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan |
| Tom Bartman, M.D., Ph.D. | HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Physicians | Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Medical Center, USA |
| Julie Frantsve, Ph.D. | CVRI Training Grant Fellowship | Assistant Director, ADA Council on Scientific Affairs, USA |
| Heather Verkade, Ph.D. | HFSP Fellowship | Assistant Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Federica Bertocchini, Ph.D. | Principal Investigator, ibbtec, Santander, Spain | |
| Dimitris Beis, Ph.D. | HFSP Fellowship | Associate Professor, Academy of Athens, Greece |
| Tracy Mitchell, Ph.D. | CVRI Training Grant Fellowship | Senior Scientist, Adnexus, Boston, MA, USA |
| Elke Ober, Ph.D. | AHA Fellowship | Associate Professor, DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Suk-Won Jin, Ph.D. | AHA Fellowship | Associate Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
| Ian Scott, Ph.D. | MRC of Canada Fellowship | Associate Professor, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada |
| Leonard D’Amico, Ph.D. | NIH NRSA Fellowship | Postdoctoral Fellow, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Tatiana Hochgreb, Ph.D. | Pew Foundation Fellowship | Senior Fellow, Science Education, Stanford, CA, USA |
| Benno Jungblut, Ph.D. | MPI Fellowship, AHA Fellowship | Junior Group Leader, MPI Bad Nauheim, Germany |
| Pia Aanstad, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria | |
| Massimo Santoro, Ph.D. | EMBO Fellowship, HFSP Fellowship | Associate Professor, University of Turino, Italy |
| Wiebke Herzog, Ph.D. | DFG Fellowship, AHA Fellowship | Junior Group Leader, MPI Muenster, Germany |
| Paul Scherz, Ph.D. | Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship | Associate Professor, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA |
| Michel Bagnat, Ph.D. | EMBO Fellowship | Associate Professor, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA |
| Duc Dong, Ph.D. | JDRF Fellowship, Hillblom Fellowship | Associate Professor, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| Neil Chi, M.D., Ph.D. | AHA Fellow to Faculty Award, NIH K08 Grant | Professor, UC San Diego, CA, USA |
| Lingfei Luo, Ph.D. | JDRF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship | Professor, Southwest University, China |
| Silvia Curado, Ph.D. | CVRI Fellowship | Program Manager, New York University, NY, USA |
| Jan Huisken, Ph.D. | HFSP Fellowship | Director, Morgridge Institute for Research Madison, USA and Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Takuya Sakaguchi, Ph.D. | APS Fellowship, NIH K99 Grant | Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Ryan Anderson, Ph.D. | JDRF Fellowships | Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Chong Shin, Ph.D. | NIH NRSA Fellowship, NIH K01 Grant | Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Donghun Shin, Ph.D. | JDRF Fellowship | Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Amnon Schlegel, M.D., Ph.D. | NIH K08 Grant | Associate Professor, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| Yoshiko Kametani, Ph.D. | JSPS and HFSP Fellowships | Assistant Professor, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, Japan |
| Shane Herbert, Ph.D. | Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship, UK | Assistant Professor, University of Manchester, UK |
| Dan Hesselson, Ph.D. | Hillblom and JDRF Fellowships | Assistant Professor, Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia |
| Jiandong Liu, Ph.D. | AHA postdoctoral Fellowship and Training Grant Fellowship, NIH K99 Grant | Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
| Chunyue Yin, Ph.D. | JDRF postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH K99 Grant | Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, OH, USA |
| Olov Andersson, Ph.D. | Swedish Research Council and EMBO fellowships | Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Philipp Gut, M.D. | DFG postdoctoral Fellowship | Group Leader, Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Stefan Materna, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, UC Merced, CA, USA | |
| Benoit Vanhollebeke, Ph.D. | EMBO and HFSP Fellowships | Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium |
| Stephanie Woo, Ph.D. | CVRI training grant, NIH K01 Grant | Assistant Professor, UC Merced, CA, USA |
| Xiaoyan Ge, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai, NY, USA | |
| Atsushi Nakano, M.D., Ph.D. | Banyu Life Science Foundation International Fellowship | Fellow, Osaka University, Japan |
| Marion Delous, Ph.D. | French Foundation Medical Fellowship | Assistant Professor, Imagine Institute and Necker Hospital, Paris, France |
| Nikolay Ninov, Ph.D. | Canadian Diabetes Foundation Fellowship | Assistant Professor, CRTD and Paul Langerhans and Institute, Dresden University, Germany |
| Maiko Higuchi, Ph.D. | Uehara Memorial Foundation Fellowship | Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Emilie Maquet, Ph.D. | BAEF Fellowship | Consultant, BCG, Brussels, Belgium |
| Dong Yao, Ph.D. | Scientist, Guilin University, China | |
| Bilge Reischauer, Ph.D. | IMPRS Coordinator, MPI Bad Nauheim, Germany | |
| Chinmoy Patra, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Agharkar Institute, Pune, India | |
| Avdesh Avdesh, Ph.D. | Founder AridGreen, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Michael P. Housley, Ph.D. | CIRM training grant | Research Scientist, Agenovir, SF, CA, USA |
| Kim Evason, M.D., Ph.D. | Damon Runyon Fellowship | Assistant Professor, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| Rima Arnaout, M.D. | NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sarnoff Cardiovascular, Foundation Scholar Award |
Assistant Professor, UCSF, USA |
| Anoop V. Cherian, Ph.D. | Scientist, Giessen University, Germany | |
| Suphansa Sawamiphak, Ph.D. | HFSP Fellowship | Research Group Leader, MDC, Berlin |
| Brian Njaine Ramos, Ph.D. | Capes Humboldt Foundation Fellowship | Postdoctoral Fellow, Frankfurt |
| Andrea Soggia, Ph.D. | Account Manager, AgileBio, Paris, France | |
| Hiroki Matsuda, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan | |
| Ben Shih-Lei Lai, Ph.D. | Junior Group Leader, IBS, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Alethia Villasenor, Ph.D. | CONACyT Fellowship | Project Manager, Centogene, Rostock, Germany |
| Silvia Parajes Castro, Ph.D. | ESPE Fellowship | Pharmacist, Milton Keynes Hospital, UK |
| Einat Blitz, Ph.D. | EMBO, Human Frontier Science Program Fellowships | Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University, Israel |
| Wenguang Yin, Ph.D. | Junior Group Leader, Guangzhou, China | |
| Ryota Matsuoka, Ph.D. | Damon Runyon Fellowship, Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship, JSPS Fellowship | Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner, Research Institute, Ohio, USA |
| Oliver Stone, Ph.D. | British Heart Foundation Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK | |
| Veronica Uribe Sokolov, Ph.D. | Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia | |
| Andrea Rossi, Ph.D. | Group leader, IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| Hyouk-Bum Kwon, Ph.D. | Nat’l Research Foundation of Korea Fellowship | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA |
| Konstantinos Gkatzis, Ph.D. | Field Applications Scientist, Axion BioSystems, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Zacharias Kontarakis, Ph.D. | EMBO Fellowship | Head of GEML, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Aosa Kamezaki, Ph.D. | Medical and Scientific Relations, Pfizer, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Christian Helker, Ph.D. | Professor, Philipps University Marburg, Germany | |
| Sébastien Gauvrit, Ph.D. | Imaging Specialist, MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Germany | |
| Hyun-Taek Kim, Ph.D. | Professor, Soonchunhyang University, Korea |