Alumni

Postdoctoral scholars

NameYearsCurrent position 
Susan Erickson-Viitanen1984–1986Senior Director, Incyte Corporation 
Siew Peng Ho1986–1988Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb 
Lynne Regan1986–1988Professor, Yale University 
Normand Voyer1986–1988Professor, University of Laval (Quebec) 
Tracy Handel1988–1991Professor, University of California, San Diego 
Rob Fairman1990–1993Professor, Haverford College 
Spencer Anthony-Cahill1990–1993Professor, Western Washington University 
Karin Akerfeldt1991–1994Professor, Haverford College 
Dan Raleigh1991–1994Professor, SUNYSB 
Steve Betz1993–1996Vice President, Biology at Crinetics Pharmaceuticals 
Jim Bryson1994–1996EX. Director, Bristol Myers Squibb 
Helen Lu1994–1999Researcher, DuPont Central Research 
Daniel Suich1994–1998Cell Biological Science, Palo Alto, CA 
Guillermo Morales1995-1997Director of Scientific Services, Cogent Professionals 
Richard Cheng1995–2002Professor, National Taiwan University 
Gregg Dieckmann1995–2000Associate Professor, University of Texas at Dallas 
Blake Hill1995–2000Professor, Medical School of Wisconsin 
Joel Schneider1995–2000Director, NCI 
Giovanna Ghirlanda1996–2002Professor, Arizona State University 
David Salom1996–2000Senior Scientist, Polgenix / Case Western Reserve University 
Zelleka Getahun1998-2000Regulatory Review Chemist, FDA 
Paul Dalby1998-2000Professor, University of London 
Dahui Liu1999–2003Chemistry Reviewer, FDA 
Herschel Wade2000–2006Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University 
Michael Rosenblatt2000–2003Group Leader, Promega 
Gregory Tew2000–2001Professor, U Mass Amherst 
Renhao Li2001–2005Professor, Emory University School of Medicine 
Vikas Nanda2001–2005Professor, Rutgers University 
Seth Snyder2002–2004Patent Agent, Dechert LLP 
Lidia Cristian2002–2005Program and Alliance Manager, Drug Discovery Applications Group, Schrödinger 
Frank Cochran2002–2005Scientific Staff, Stanford University 
Lars Gerlach2003–2004Executive Vice President R&D at EpiTherapeutics 
Catherine Goodman2003–2006Associate Editor, Nature Chemical Biology 
Kenichi Kuroda2003–2006Associate Professor, University of Michigan 
Jen Cochran2004–2005Professor, Stanford University 
Alessandro Senes2004–2008Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Chad Tatko2004–2006Associate Professor, Calvin College 
Hubert Yin2004–2007Professor & Deputy Dean, Tsinghua University 

Shalom Goldberg

2004–2010

Senior Scientist, Centyrex, Johnson & Johnson

 
Karen McAllister2005–2006  
Chris Fry2005–2007Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory 
Bryan Berger2005–2009Associate Professor, University of Virginia 
Greg Caputo2005–2007Professor, Rowan University 
Ting Xu2006–2006Professor, UC Berkeley 
Ilan Samish2006–2010CEO, Amai Proteins 
Soni Basra2006–2007Patent Attorney Candidate, df-mp (Germany) 
Amanda Reig2006–2009Professor, Ursinus College 
Cinque Soto2006–2011Regulatory Reviewer, FDA (Bioinformatics/Computational Biology) 
Rudresh Acharya2006–2011Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, NISER 
Ivan Korendovych2006–2011Associate Professor, Syracuse University 
Jade Qiu2007–2012Associate Professor, Soochow University in China 
Jason Donald2007–2011Head of Design, Manus Bio, Inc. 
Jon Rudick2007–2010Associate Professor, Stony Brook University 
Anjali Ganjiwale2007–2009Scientist, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore, Karnataka, India 
Gevorg Grigoryan2008–2011Associate Professor, Dartmouth College 
Michael Bryan2088-2011Principal Scientist, Bristol Myer Squibb 
Patrik Nygren2009–2010Senior Research Scientist, Rational Enzyme Mining AB 
Jenny Hu2009–2014Staff Scientist, Schief Lab, Scripps Research Institute 
Craig Streu2009–2011Associate professor, Albion College 
Marcos Pires2009–2011Associate Professor, University of Virginia 
Nathan Joh2009-2015Scientist, Amgen 
Brooke Rosenzweig2010–2011Program Manager, Mount Sinai School of Medicine 
Belgin Canturk2010–2012Senior Chemist, Dow AgroSciences 
Michelle McCully2012–2016Professor, Santa Clara University 
Reza Malmirchegini2013–2016Biophysical Analytical Scientist, Revance Therapeutics 
Manasi Bhate2013-2017Scientist II, DuPont/Genecor 
Gozde Ulas2012-2017‎Scientist, Genentech 
Mimi Nick2013-2016Upper School Biology Teacher, Charlotte Latin School 
Thomas Lemmin2013-2017Postdoctoral fellow, ETHZ 
Sungkyu Park2016-2017  
Shao-Qing Zhang2016-2018Principal Investigator, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
Nathan Schmidt2015-2018Protein Engineer, Ginkgo Bioworks 
Bobo Dang2015-2019Assistant Professor, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study 
Jack Nicoludis2018-2019Principal Scientist/Group Leader at Genentech in the Computational Structural Biology group 
Haifan Wu2016-2020Assistant Professor, Wichita State University 
Nina Hentzen2020-2021Scientist, Lonza Pharma & Biotech 
Robert Newberry2016-2022Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austin 
Greg Merz2018-2022Assistant Professor, University of California-San Francisco 
Nick Polizzi2016-2022Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School 
Ketaki Belsare2017-2022Assistant professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science 
Sam Schneider2020-2022Protein/Antibody Engineer, IGM Biosciences 
Huong Tran Kratochvil2016-2022Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Jon Boyce2017-2022Executive Founder, Stealth Global Sciences 
Matthew Chalkley2020-2023Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb 
Samuel Mann2017-2023Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside 
Lam-Kiu Fong Eiranova2018-2024  
Lei Lu2020-2024Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University 
Hyunjun Yang2019-2025Assistant Professor, Brandeis University 

Graduate students

NameYearsCurrent position 
Karyn O'Neill1992–1998CSO, Centyrex Venture, Johnson & Johnson 
Chris Summa1996–2002Associate Professor, University of New Orleans 
Wai Lau1996–2004Associate Director, Lead Discovery, Aktis Oncology 
Scott T. Walsh1997–2000Staff Scientist, NCI 
Holly Gratkowski1998–2002Associate Director, Bracket 
Avram Slovic1999–2004Managing Director, AgVali, Brazil 
Jen Calhoun2001–2007  
Amanda Stouffer2001–2007Principal Scientist in Discovery Technologies, Roche Pharmaceuticals 
Ben North2001–2006Research Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center 
Rachel Signarvic2001–2007Adjunct Professor, Rowen University 
Sungwook Choi2002–2006Assistant Professor, GSDD at Chungnam National University 
Don Engel2002–2006Associate Vice President for Research Development
Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST) UMBC		 
Douglas Metcalf2002–2009Associate, Foley Hoag, LLP 
Joanna Slusky2002–2008Professor, University of Kansas 
Gretchen Bender2003–2008Senior Analyst, PriceSpective, LLC 
Scott Shandler2003–2009CEO, Longevity Biotech 
Alexei Polishchuk2004–2009Resident Physician in Radiation Oncology, UCSF 
Dave Moore2004–2010Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale medical School 
Dan Kulp2005–2009Associate Professor, Wistar Institute 
YongHo Kim2005–2011Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University 
Meredith Miller2006–2008Anesthesia Specialist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Yao Zhang2006–2011Director of Emerging Portfolio Strategy, AstraZeneca 
Jun Wang2006–2014Associate Professor, Rutgers University 
Geronda Montalvo2007–2012Sr. Scientist, Merck 
Graham Clinthorne2007–2012Medical Writer, MediTech Media 
Brett Hannigan2008–2013Computational Biologist Project Leader, DNAnexus 
Gabriel Gonzalez2009–2013Software Engineer, Twitter 
Chaim Schramm2010–2012Staff Scientist, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH 
Kathleen Molnar2007–2015Research Scientist, ViewPoint Therapeutics 
Jessica L Thomaston2011–2018Postdoc, Trinity College Dublin, Marie Curie Fellow 
Marco Mravic2014–2020Scripps Fellow, Scripps Research Institute 
Alison Maxwell2016-2021Associate, McKinsey & Company 
Bruk Mensa2008-2021NGM Bio 
Hailey Wallace2020-2023Bioinformatic Research Scientist, St. Jude 
David Larwood2022-2024CEO, Valley Fever Solutions 
Rian Kormos2020-2025Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University 

Visiting Scholars

NameYearsCurrent position
Debbie Chadi2004Student, University of Pennsylvania
Jessica Dweck2005 
Elysia Jeavons2005–2006 
Robin Walters2005 
Roland Bell2005 
Anna Levine2005–2007Managing Director, Intrax Cultural Exchange
Melanie Smith2005 
Konrad Karczewski2006 
Patty Keenan2006Electrophysiology Technical Service Specialist Intern, St. Jude
Mirela Spillane2006–2007Graduate Student, Drexel University
John Welsh2007 
Michael Lis2007 
Christina Sanchez2008Nutrition Education Advisor
Ian Clark2008 
Jonathan Eldridge2009 
Tommy Bilinski2010 
Ashley Schloss2010–2011 
Kazuma Yasuhara2013-2015Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology 
Tammy Chan2015Student, Raoul Wallenberg High School
Zunera Ghalib2015Student, Monta Vista High School
Elena Gochez2015Student, University of California Santa Cruz
Shalini Gupta2015Graduate Student, MIT
Hailin Hu2014-2016Graduate Student, Tsinghua University
Sara Nick2018Graduate Student, UW
Maxwell Tucker2018DE Shaw Research
Lior Shtayer2017-2019Medical Student, Cornell
Hojae Choi2019-2020Graduate Student, Sungkyunkwan University
Jia Jin2019-2020Professor, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Addison Roush2019Graduate Student, University of Washington
Sasha (Alexander) Kvitsinski2021Graduate Student, University of South California
Edith Hernandez2021Undergraduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
Julia Shifman2021-2022Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jorge Hernandez2022Undergraduate Student, University of California, Merced
Gabrielle Kroepfl2022Undergraduate student, Scripps college
Ismael Mingarro2022Professor, University of Valencia
Max Mueller2023Undergraduate student, City College of San Francisco
Vee Xu2023Undergraduate student, City College of San Francisco
Novik Thomas2023Undergraduate student, University of Montana
Sebastian Zamarripa2023Undergraduate student, Johns Hopkins University
Deniel Giron2023Student, KIPP SFUSD High School
Isaiah Simpson2023Student, KIPP SFUSD High School
Arianna Trammell2023Student, Bishop O’Dowd High School 
Junyi Xu2022-2023Graduate Student, Yale University
Jiage Song2022–2024Graduate Student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Oliwia Lidwin2024Undergraduate student, Johns Hopkins University
Seth Fraden2024Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
Sarah Yorke2024Chemistry Graduate Student,  University of Cambridge

Staff

NameYearsCurrent Position
Henry Wolfe1983–1987Senior Director, Translational Medicine, URL Pharma Inc.
Justin Kaplan2001–2006
Peter Law2003–2005PhD Student, University of Washington
Dylan Clements2002–2004Research Associate, PolyMedix
Jessica Incmikoski2005–2009
Andy Ryan2006–2008Graduate Student, Scripps Research Institute
Paul Billings2007–2011Senior Scientist, Orthopedic Surgery for CHOP
Emma Magavern2008–2010
Debbie Bell2009–2010
Amanda Joseph2009–2010Medical Student, University of Illinois
Gabriella Howell2012–2013 
Zac Kornberg2012–2014Medical Student, UCSF
Billy Egan2014–2015 
Joel McIntosh2014-2015Senior Research Associate, Nurix