Alumni

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

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 Senior Scientist in Protein Engineering, Metagenomi
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  

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

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