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 |