Alumni | DeGrado Lab

Postdoctoral scholars

Name	Years	Current position
Susan Erickson-Viitanen	1984–1986	Senior Director, Incyte Corporation
Siew Peng Ho	1986–1988	Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Lynne Regan	1986–1988	Professor, Yale University
Normand Voyer	1986–1988	Professor, University of Laval (Quebec)
Tracy Handel	1988–1991	Professor, University of California, San Diego
Rob Fairman	1990–1993	Professor, Haverford College
Spencer Anthony-Cahill	1990–1993	Professor, Western Washington University
Karin Akerfeldt	1991–1994	Professor, Haverford College
Dan Raleigh	1991–1994	Professor, SUNYSB
Steve Betz	1993–1996	Vice President, Biology at Crinetics Pharmaceuticals
Jim Bryson	1994–1996	EX. Director, Bristol Myers Squibb
Helen Lu	1994–1999	Researcher, DuPont Central Research
Daniel Suich	1994–1998	Cell Biological Science, Palo Alto, CA
Guillermo Morales	1995-1997	Director of Scientific Services, Cogent Professionals
Richard Cheng	1995–2002	Professor, National Taiwan University
Gregg Dieckmann	1995–2000	Associate Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
Blake Hill	1995–2000	Professor, Medical School of Wisconsin
Joel Schneider	1995–2000	Director, NCI
Giovanna Ghirlanda	1996–2002	Professor, Arizona State University
David Salom	1996–2000	Senior Scientist, Polgenix / Case Western Reserve University
Zelleka Getahun	1998-2000	Regulatory Review Chemist, FDA
Paul Dalby	1998-2000	Professor, University of London
Dahui Liu	1999–2003	Chemistry Reviewer, FDA
Herschel Wade	2000–2006	Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Rosenblatt	2000–2003	Group Leader, Promega
Gregory Tew	2000–2001	Professor, U Mass Amherst
Renhao Li	2001–2005	Professor, Emory University School of Medicine
Vikas Nanda	2001–2005	Professor, Rutgers University
Seth Snyder	2002–2004	Patent Agent, Dechert LLP
Lidia Cristian	2002–2005	Program and Alliance Manager, Drug Discovery Applications Group, Schrödinger
Frank Cochran	2002–2005	Scientific Staff, Stanford University
Lars Gerlach	2003–2004	Executive Vice President R&D at EpiTherapeutics
Catherine Goodman	2003–2006	Associate Editor, Nature Chemical Biology
Kenichi Kuroda	2003–2006	Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Jen Cochran	2004–2005	Professor, Stanford University
Alessandro Senes	2004–2008	Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chad Tatko	2004–2006	Associate Professor, Calvin College
Hubert Yin	2004–2007	Professor & Deputy Dean, Tsinghua University
Shalom Goldberg	2004–2010	Senior Scientist, Centyrex, Johnson & Johnson
Karen McAllister	2005–2006
Chris Fry	2005–2007	Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Bryan Berger	2005–2009	Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Greg Caputo	2005–2007	Professor, Rowan University
Ting Xu	2006–2006	Professor, UC Berkeley
Ilan Samish	2006–2010	CEO, Amai Proteins
Soni Basra	2006–2007	Patent Attorney Candidate, df-mp (Germany)
Amanda Reig	2006–2009	Professor, Ursinus College
Cinque Soto	2006–2011	Regulatory Reviewer, FDA (Bioinformatics/Computational Biology)
Rudresh Acharya	2006–2011	Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, NISER
Ivan Korendovych	2006–2011	Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Jade Qiu	2007–2012	Associate Professor, Soochow University in China
Jason Donald	2007–2011	Head of Design, Manus Bio, Inc.
Jon Rudick	2007–2010	Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
Anjali Ganjiwale	2007–2009	Scientist, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Gevorg Grigoryan	2008–2011	Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
Michael Bryan	2088-2011	Principal Scientist, Bristol Myer Squibb
Patrik Nygren	2009–2010	Senior Research Scientist, Rational Enzyme Mining AB
Jenny Hu	2009–2014	Staff Scientist, Schief Lab, Scripps Research Institute
Craig Streu	2009–2011	Associate professor, Albion College
Marcos Pires	2009–2011	Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Nathan Joh	2009-2015	Scientist, Amgen
Brooke Rosenzweig	2010–2011	Program Manager, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Belgin Canturk	2010–2012	Senior Chemist, Dow AgroSciences
Michelle McCully	2012–2016	Professor, Santa Clara University
Reza Malmirchegini	2013–2016	Biophysical Analytical Scientist, Revance Therapeutics
Manasi Bhate	2013-2017	Scientist II, DuPont/Genecor
Gozde Ulas	2012-2017	‎Scientist, Genentech
Mimi Nick	2013-2016	Upper School Biology Teacher, Charlotte Latin School
Thomas Lemmin	2013-2017	Postdoctoral fellow, ETHZ
Sungkyu Park	2016-2017
Shao-Qing Zhang	2016-2018	Principal Investigator, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nathan Schmidt	2015-2018	Protein Engineer, Ginkgo Bioworks
Bobo Dang	2015-2019	Assistant Professor, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study
Jack Nicoludis	2018-2019	Principal Scientist/Group Leader at Genentech in the Computational Structural Biology group
Haifan Wu	2016-2020	Assistant Professor, Wichita State University
Nina Hentzen	2020-2021	Scientist, Lonza Pharma & Biotech
Robert Newberry	2016-2022	Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austin
Greg Merz	2018-2022	Assistant Professor, University of California-San Francisco
Nick Polizzi	2016-2022	Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Ketaki Belsare	2017-2022	Assistant professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Sam Schneider	2020-2022	Protein/Antibody Engineer, IGM Biosciences
Huong Tran Kratochvil	2016-2022	Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jon Boyce	2017-2022	Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Matthew Chalkley	2020-2023	Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb
Samuel Mann	2017-2023	Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Lam-Kiu Fong Eiranova	2018-2024
Lei Lu	2020-2024	Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
Hyunjun Yang	2019-2025	Assistant Professor, Brandeis University

Graduate students

Name	Years	Current position
Karyn O'Neill	1992–1998	CSO, Centyrex Venture, Johnson & Johnson
Chris Summa	1996–2002	Associate Professor, University of New Orleans
Wai Lau	1996–2004	Associate Director, Lead Discovery, Aktis Oncology
Scott T. Walsh	1997–2000	Staff Scientist, NCI
Holly Gratkowski	1998–2002	Associate Director, Bracket
Avram Slovic	1999–2004	Managing Director, AgVali, Brazil
Jen Calhoun	2001–2007
Amanda Stouffer	2001–2007	Principal Scientist in Discovery Technologies, Roche Pharmaceuticals
Ben North	2001–2006	Research Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Rachel Signarvic	2001–2007	Adjunct Professor, Rowen University
Sungwook Choi	2002–2006	Assistant Professor, GSDD at Chungnam National University
Don Engel	2002–2006	Associate Vice President for Research Development Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST) UMBC
Douglas Metcalf	2002–2009	Associate, Foley Hoag, LLP
Joanna Slusky	2002–2008	Professor, University of Kansas
Gretchen Bender	2003–2008	Senior Analyst, PriceSpective, LLC
Scott Shandler	2003–2009	CEO, Longevity Biotech
Alexei Polishchuk	2004–2009	Resident Physician in Radiation Oncology, UCSF
Dave Moore	2004–2010	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale medical School
Dan Kulp	2005–2009	Associate Professor, Wistar Institute
YongHo Kim	2005–2011	Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
Meredith Miller	2006–2008	Anesthesia Specialist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Yao Zhang	2006–2011	Director of Emerging Portfolio Strategy, AstraZeneca
Jun Wang	2006–2014	Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Geronda Montalvo	2007–2012	Sr. Scientist, Merck
Graham Clinthorne	2007–2012	Medical Writer, MediTech Media
Brett Hannigan	2008–2013	Computational Biologist Project Leader, DNAnexus
Gabriel Gonzalez	2009–2013	Software Engineer, Twitter
Chaim Schramm	2010–2012	Staff Scientist, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
Kathleen Molnar	2007–2015	Research Scientist, ViewPoint Therapeutics
Jessica L Thomaston	2011–2018	Postdoc, Trinity College Dublin, Marie Curie Fellow
Marco Mravic	2014–2020	Scripps Fellow, Scripps Research Institute
Alison Maxwell	2016-2021	Associate, McKinsey & Company
Bruk Mensa	2008-2021	NGM Bio
Hailey Wallace	2020-2023	Bioinformatic Research Scientist, St. Jude
David Larwood	2022-2024	CEO, Valley Fever Solutions

Visiting Scholars

Name	Years	Current position
Debbie Chadi	2004	Student, University of Pennsylvania
Jessica Dweck	2005
Elysia Jeavons	2005–2006
Robin Walters	2005
Roland Bell	2005
Anna Levine	2005–2007	Managing Director, Intrax Cultural Exchange
Melanie Smith	2005
Konrad Karczewski	2006
Patty Keenan	2006	Electrophysiology Technical Service Specialist Intern, St. Jude
Mirela Spillane	2006–2007	Graduate Student, Drexel University
John Welsh	2007
Michael Lis	2007
Christina Sanchez	2008	Nutrition Education Advisor
Ian Clark	2008
Jonathan Eldridge	2009
Tommy Bilinski	2010
Ashley Schloss	2010–2011
Kazuma Yasuhara	2013-2015	Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Tammy Chan	2015	Student, Raoul Wallenberg High School
Zunera Ghalib	2015	Student, Monta Vista High School
Elena Gochez	2015	Student, University of California Santa Cruz
Shalini Gupta	2015	Graduate Student, MIT
Hailin Hu	2014-2016	Graduate Student, Tsinghua University
Sara Nick	2018	Graduate Student, UW
Maxwell Tucker	2018	DE Shaw Research
Lior Shtayer	2017-2019	Medical Student, Cornell
Hojae Choi	2019-2020	Graduate Student, Sungkyunkwan University
Jia Jin	2019-2020	Professor, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Addison Roush	2019	Graduate Student, University of Washington
Sasha (Alexander) Kvitsinski	2021	Graduate Student, University of South California
Edith Hernandez	2021	Undergraduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
Julia Shifman	2021-2022	Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jorge Hernandez	2022	Undergraduate Student, University of California, Merced
Gabrielle Kroepfl	2022	Undergraduate student, Scripps college
Ismael Mingarro	2022	Professor, University of Valencia
Max Mueller	2023	Undergraduate student, City College of San Francisco
Vee Xu	2023	Undergraduate student, City College of San Francisco
Novik Thomas	2023	Undergraduate student, University of Montana
Sebastian Zamarripa	2023	Undergraduate student, Johns Hopkins University
Deniel Giron	2023	Student, KIPP SFUSD High School
Isaiah Simpson	2023	Student, KIPP SFUSD High School
Arianna Trammell	2023	Student, Bishop O’Dowd High School
Junyi Xu	2022-2023	Graduate Student, Yale University
Jiage Song	2022–2024	Graduate Student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Oliwia Lidwin	2024	Undergraduate student, Johns Hopkins University
Seth Fraden	2024	Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
Sarah Yorke	2024	Chemistry Graduate Student, University of Cambridge

Staff

Name	Years	Current Position
Henry Wolfe	1983–1987	Senior Director, Translational Medicine, URL Pharma Inc.
Justin Kaplan	2001–2006
Peter Law	2003–2005	PhD Student, University of Washington
Dylan Clements	2002–2004	Research Associate, PolyMedix
Jessica Incmikoski	2005–2009
Andy Ryan	2006–2008	Graduate Student, Scripps Research Institute
Paul Billings	2007–2011	Senior Scientist, Orthopedic Surgery for CHOP
Emma Magavern	2008–2010
Debbie Bell	2009–2010
Amanda Joseph	2009–2010	Medical Student, University of Illinois
Gabriella Howell	2012–2013
Zac Kornberg	2012–2014	Medical Student, UCSF
Billy Egan	2014–2015
Joel McIntosh	2014-2015	Senior Research Associate, Nurix