Previous Lab Members

Visiting Professors

Marie Morielle, PhD (2023-2024) - Fulbright Scholar

 

Scientific Grant Writers

Natalie Tobin, B.S. (2024)

Alexandra M. Iavorovschi, B.S. (2019-2024)

Nora Lelivelt, B.S. (2021-2023)

Aimee Hopkins, B.S. (2022)

Sabrina Lazar, B.S. (2020-2021)

Nicole Kreutzberg, B.S. (2016-2019)

Connor Long, B.S. (2014-2015)

Nicole Sitkin, B.S. (2013-2014)

 

Staff Research Associates & Junior Specialists

Mira Ramachandran, B.S.

Taylor Tran, B.S.

Taylor Martinez, B.S. 

Samiha Chohan, M.S. 

Alyssa Payton-Cheney, M.S.

Annie Jensen, B.S. 

Weidi Zhang, B.S. 

Samantha Avallone, B.S. 

Grace Garcia, M.S. 

Ashley Amador, B.S.

Brandon Light, B.S. 

Alicia Hyllen, B.S., M.A.

Lizette Reynaga, B.S.

Meiby Ramos

Emma Loll

Zachary Paxton

Lee Lankford

Taryn Selby 

Olivia K. Vukcevich

Yemi Lawrence

 

Post Doctoral Researchers

David Wang, PhD (2025-2026)

Yi Cheng, MD, PhD (2024-2025)

Yongheng Wang, PhD, (2024-2025) 

Kewa Gao, MD, PhD (2019-2025)

Hengyue Song, MD, PhD (2019-2024)

Vanessa Franco Carvalho Dartora, PhD (2020-2022) 

Chaoxing Zhang, PhD (2020-2022)

Dake Hao, PhD (2017-2023)

Maricel Miguelino, MD (2012-2015)

 

Ph.D. Students

Tanner Henson, PhD (2020-2026)

David Wang, PhD (2020-2025)

Yongheng Wang, PhD (2020-2024)

Hengyue Song, MD, PhD (visiting 2020-2024)

Leora Goldbloom-Helzner, PhD (2018-2024)

Kaitlin C Clark, PhD (2018-2023)

Lalithasri Ramasubramanian, PhD (2017-2022)

Kewa Gao, MD, PhD (visiting 2015-2018)

Dake Hao, PhD (visiting 2014-2017)

 

Research Surgical Residents

Erin Brown, MD (2012-2014)

David Boudrealt, MD (2013-2015)

Ben Keller, MD (2013-2016)

James Becker, MD (2014-2016)

Sandra Kabagambe, MD (2015-2017)

Julia Yue Chen, MD (2015-2017)

Melissa Vanover, MD (2016-2028)

Laura Galganski, MD (2017-2019)

Kaeli Yamashiro, DO (2018-2020)

Christina Theodorou, MD (2019-2021)

Jordan Jackson, MD (2019-2021)

Sarah Stokes, MD (2020-2022)

Edwin Kulubya, MD (2020-2021, 2022-2023)

Abd-Elrahman Said Hassan, MD (2021-2023)

Mary Lee, MD (2021-2023)

Elise Hill, MD (2022-2023)

Monalisa Hassan, MD (2022-2024)

Emily Byrd, MD, PhD (2022-2024)

Zoe Saenz, MD (2022-2024)

Nataliya Bahatyrevich, MD (2023-2025)

Jose Castillo, MD (2024-2025)

Elizabeth Reynolds, MD (2024-2026)
 

Master's Students 

Shanxiu Xu, M.S. (2020-2022)

Nghia (James) Bui, M.S. (2021-2023)

Emma Loll, M.S. (2023-2026)

Abigail Humphries, M.S. (2023-2026)

Arundhuti Sanyal, M.S. (2023-2024)

Isha Maisuriya, M.S. (2024-2025)

Azadeh Mirmosayeb, M.S. (2024-2026)

Shufei Luo, M.S. (2025-2026)

Han Jing, M.S.  (2025-2026)

 

CIRM Bridges and Master’s Students 

Lee Lankford (2012-2013)

Taryn Selby (2013-2014)

Volodymyr Ryshuk (2014-2015)

Scott Walker (2015-2016)

Kyle Herout (2016-2017)

Lizette Reynaga (2017-2018)

Jennifer Phan (2017-2018)

Sylvain Barthe (2018-2019)

Harsha Jyothi (2018-2019)

Mounika LS Bhaskara (2019-2020)

Hila Shimshi Swindell (2019-2020)

Tyler Sickler (2020-2021)

Ryan Stagnaro (2020-2021)

James Gomez (2020-2021)

Brandon Light (2020-2021)

Ashley Amador (2021-2022)

Juan-Maria G. Lopez (2021-2022)

Julian X Duran (2022-2023)

Ethan Nabeta (2022-2023)

Grace Garcia (2022-2023)

Samuel Emerson (2023-2024)

Amanda Ratcliff (2024-2025)

 

Medical Students

Sirjan Mor

Anastasiya Stasyuk

Andrew Ligsay

Sarah Chen

Muhtada Abdulelah Kamal Aldin 

Tara Narasimhalu

Danielle Wang

Aida Nasirishargh

 

Visiting Scholars and Students 

Qiang Ao, MD, PhD, (2013-2013)

Yahan Fan, MD, PhD, (2013-2015) 

Yang Wu, MD, PhD, (2013-2015)

Xijun Wang, DDS, PhD, (2014-2015)

Hongmei Guo, DDS, PhD, (2014-2015)

Xuxin Zeng, MD, PhD, (2014-2015)  

Kewa Gao, MD, (2016-2019)

Chuwang Wang, MD, (2016-2017)

Pengyu Fan, MD, PhD, (2016-2018)

Chuanchao He, MD, PhD, (2017-2018) 

Ezgi Collu, (2017-2017)

Cansu Karamanli, (2017-2017)

Stefanie Emrich (Marshall Plan Foundation Scholar), (2017-2017)

Hongyuan Chen, MD, PhD, (2018-2019)

Xinke Zhang, MD, PhD, (2018-2019)

Siqi He, MD, (2018-2021)

Lu Lu, PhD, (2020-2021)

Antonin Marquant (Visiting Fulbright Scholar PhD Student), (2024-2024) 

 

Vet School Students & scholars   

Connor Long (STAR scholar), (2017-2017)

Leticia G Rivas (VIRC scholar), (2021-2021)

 

Undergraduate Students 

Kathy Gyehyun

Jianing Chen

Han Zhang

Siraj Gidda

Aaron Kian

Aireen Agulto

Thong Nguyen

Ivonne Palma

Charleen Pfanner

Aaron Kian

Jason Compton

Trent You

Zoe Saenz

Robert Abbott

Margaret Sahu

Venjamin Melnychuk

Jason Meierhenry

Dallas Peters

Yalda Toofan

Kuo Hao Tseng 

Karen Chung 

Josephine Tsang

Dylan Hunt

Andrea Kulinich

Ali Khavari

Chelsey Lee 

Zach Paxton 

Yung-Ling (Jubi) Lin 

Erica Tuluwan 

Brenna Joe 

Katie Shao 

Mitchel Lee 

Mia Arostegui 

Sara Albertson 

Kurt Miura 

Katie Johnson 

Evan Shen 

Morgan Hardie 

Emil Cowa 

Kirun Chohan 

Camille Reed 

Francesca Speciale 

Diego Toscano 

Brittany Novoa 

Cory Reybum 

Destiney Larkin 

Stefan Wei 

Shixian Du 

Hannah Schmitz 

Rachel Nguyen