Alumni
Name | Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Fellow, August 2004-2009 | Founder and President of Heppin Biosciences | |
Maricela Alarcón | Postdoctoral Fellow, October 1999-2003 | Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Neurology, UCLA |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, May 2012-March 2014 | Founder/CEO of The Bioinformatics CRO and Senior Director Bioinformatics at bit.bio | |
Pre-doctoral trainee, UCLA N Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, October 2008-2013. (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee) Completed Ph.D. | Research Consultant for the Music Cognition Lab at Vanderbilt University and Singer/Songwriter, recording artist, and frequent performer, especially of original music for children | |
| Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2017-January 2018 | Assistant Professor of Neuroinformatics, University of Cambridge | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, August 2008-2014 | Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UT Tyler | |
| Wendy Buchanan | Master's thesis in genetic counseling, 1997 | Genetic Counselor |
| Resident in Neurology, UCLA, 1996-1997 | Subsequent Role: Instructor in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Boston, MA | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2009-January 2012 | Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, School of Medicine | |
| Shaohong Cheng | Postdoctoral Scholar, December 2005-July 2011 | Subsequent Role: Researcher, Loma Linda University |
| In Hee (Ellen) Cho | Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2008-December 2009 | Professor, Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea |
| Sang-Hyun Choi | Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Researcher, May 2002-February 2004 | Subsequent Role: Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, June 2015-November 2019. K99 in 2018 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University, Ontario Canada as of August 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Researcher, April 2004-2007 | Vice-President, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Genetics, Regeneron | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2017 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Intellectual Development and Disabilities Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine and Broad Stem Cell Research Center, UCLA | |
| UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, September 2000-June 2005. (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee.) | Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School in St. Louis | |
| M. Phil. ACCESS Program, UCLA Department of Human Genetics Ph.D. Program, 2002-2008. (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee) | Biology Faculty at Pasadena City College | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, June 2005-2008 | Assistant Professor, Medical Faculty Mannheim Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Germany | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2007-June 2009 | Professor of Neurology and Human Genetics, UCLA | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2001 | Principal scientist, BridgeBio | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar & Psychiatry Resident, July 2013-2017 | Hetznecker Associate Professor of Psychiatry Perelman School of Medicine UPenn | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, January 2010-July 2014 | Principal, LifeSci Consulting | |
| Tarik Hadzic | Postdoctoral Scholar, January 2010-July 2015 | Private practice child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Los Angeles, CA |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, September 2012-August 2017 | Principal Scientific Researcher, Genentech | |
| Robert Jackson | Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2005 | Subsequent Role: Researcher, Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, UCLA |
| Se Jin Jeon | Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, August 2012-August 2013 | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2000-2004 | Subsequent Role: Co-Founder, NeuroInDx Inc.; Assistant Professor, Harbor-UCLA | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2006-March 2011 | Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX | |
| UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, September 2000-July 2005 (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee) | CAO/CSO, NeuroInDx, Inc. | |
| Catherine Kugler | Postdoctoral Scholar, October 2015-June 2019. K00 recipient in 2018 | Scientist II at Fluent BioSciences Inc |
| UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, Fall 2010-Nov 2016. (Co-Chair of Dissertation Committee, Neuroscience IDP) | Senior Medical Science Liaison at Amgen | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, August 2012-July 2017 | Instructor at Dept of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, May 2013-June 2017 | Project Manager, Biobank Sweden Karolinska Institutet | |
| Maxim Loginov | Postdoctoral Fellow, 1997-1999 | Subsequent Role: Bioinformatics Specialist, City of Hope Medical Center, Department of Molecular Genetics, Duarte, CA |
| Maria Araceli Vazquez Lopez | Postdoctoral Scholar, November 2005-December 2007 | Subsequent Role: Forensics researcher, Government of Spain |
| Pre-doctoral trainee, ACCESS Program, UCLA Department of Human Genetics, July 2009-2014 (Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Machine Learning Scientist Manager at Amazon | |
| Catherine Mamah | Postdoctoral Scholar, Intercampus Medical Genetics Training Program, June 2008- July 2011 | Subsequent Role: Clinical Neurophysiology Fellow, UC Irvine |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, September 2007-2010 | Senior Laboratory Director Ambry Genetics | |
| Pre-doctoral trainee, UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, July 2006-December 2010 (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee) | Senior Scientist - Human Cell Types Allen Institute of Brain Science | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, June 2006-2010 | Staff scientist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel | |
| Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, October 2016-January 2019 | Translational Neuroscientist at Roche | |
| Visiting Assistant Researcher/Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2004-August 2007 | Professor and Chairman Department of Integrative Pharmacology, Mie University, Mie, Japan | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, May 2008-June 2012 | Lecturer, Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Exeter Medical School, UK | |
| UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, July 2003-2009 (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee) | Associate Professor Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, June 2002-March 2004 | Professor at Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil | |
| UCLA Medical Scientist Training (MD-PhD) Program, July 2010-June 2015 (Neuroscience IDP; Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Physician scientist/Associate Director, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Regeneron | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, September 2016-October 2020 | Genomics Data Analyst, of the Discovery Genomics Team at GlaxoSmithKline UK | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, December 2008-January 2012 | Associate Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine University of the Basque Country, Spain | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, June 2015 - February 2020 | Senior Computational Biologist at Prime Medicine, Inc. | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, January 2016-January 2020 | Sr. Data Scientist at CAMP4 Therapeutics, Cambridge MA | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, June 2015-2019. K08 Recipient 2019 | Assistant Professor in Residence, Neurogenetics Program, Department of Neurology, UCLA | |
| Pre-doctoral trainee, UCLA Medical Scientist Training (MD-PhD) Program, July 2006-May 2011 (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee) | Medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | |
| Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, August 2014-December 2019 | Founder and CEO at Adyn | |
| Rituparna Sarma | Postdoctoral Scholar, October 2012-March 2014 | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Researcher, May 1999-June 2001 | Founder and director at Telegenomics, Spain | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurogenetics (Autism), 1999-2001 | Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Co-Director Autism Spectrum Center, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, February 2003-August 2006 | Clinical Associate Professor, Pathology, Stanford Health Care | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2011-October 2015 | Associate Professor, Department of Genetics & Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | |
| Resident in Neurology/ Fellow in Epilepsy Program, UCLA, 1996-1999 | Director of the Epilepsy Clinical Program and Professor in the Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Dmitri Tentler | Postdoctoral Fellow, April 2002-November 2004 | Subsequent Role: Senior Researcher, Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Cytology, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Yuan Tian | Postdoctoral Scholar, November 2014-January 2015; Pre-doctoral trainee, ACCESS Program, UCLA Program in Bioinformatics, Winter 2010-2014 (Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Senior Medical Scientific Principal at Roche Pharma, Shanghai, China |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, December 2008-August 2011 | Professor, The University of New South Wales, Australia | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, August 2014-October 2014; Pre-doctoral trainee, UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, Fall 2009-2014 (Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Assistant Professor Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI | |
| Clinical Instructor/Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2004-June 2006 | Private practice, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow/Clinical Instructor, July 2000-2003, Postdoctoral Mentor, 2003-2004 | Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology, UCLA | |
| Pre-doctoral trainee, UCLA Medical Scientist Training (MD-PhD) Program, October 2006-2010 (Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee) | Assistant, Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar, June 2013-2016 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology at UCLA | |
| Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, December 2009-February 2011 | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University, Bundang Hospital; Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic | |
| Pre-doctoral trainee, UCLA Medical Scientist Training (MD-PhD) Program, July 2012-May 2015 | CEO & Co-founder, Verge Genomics | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, May 2019-May 2023 | Scientist, Discovery Biomarker at Amgen | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, March 2014-March 2019 | Head of Discovery, Deputy Head of Discovery and Data Science at STALICLA | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, July 2012-June 2018 | Associate Professor, Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders/Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, April 2017-December 2023 | Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, September 2017-2020, K08 in 2020 | Assistant Professor, Augustus S. Rose Chair in Neurology, Department of Neurology | |
B.S., Ph.D., UCLA Medical Scientist Training (MD-PhD) Program, August 2018-June 2021 (Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Medical residency at Stanford, followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship | |
B.S., Ph.D., D. (Co-Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Computational Genomics Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals | |
Ph.D. UCLA Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, Fall 2016-August 2019 (Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Chief Technology Officer - Epigenome Technologies Inc. | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, July 2022-November 2022 | Assistant Professor-in-Residence Step II at UCLA Department of Psychiatry | |
B.S. Ph.D. student, UCLA Dept. of Human Genetics, Spring 2019-Fall 2021 | Transferred to UCLA-Arboleda lab | |
Sathiji Nageshwaran | MBBS, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, November 2023-June 2024 | |
Ph.D., UCLA Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program. Spring 2015-2019. (Chair of Dissertation Committee) | Data Scientist - 2seventy bio | |
Postdoctoral Scholar, March 2022-March 2023 | Assistant Professor SUNY-Buffalo NY |
* Deceased