Name Dissertation Title Graduation Year Faculty Mentor Current Position
The Origins of Cardiovascular Sex Differences: Novel Phylogenomic and Computational Methodologies Identify Key Drivers of Disproportionate Female Vulnerability to Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy 2024 Kalyanam Shivkumar Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at UCLA
Aracely Acevedo The BCKDK inhibitor BT2 is a chemical uncoupler that lowers mitochondrial ROS production and de novo lipogenesis 2023 Ajit Divakaruni TBD
Sarah Nami Ahn Identification Of Locomotor-Associated Fos Spinal Neurons After Treadmill Locomotion And Mesencephalic Locomotor Region Stimulation 2006 V. Reggie Edgerton Senior Technical Designer at Kitty Fashion
Olujimi A Ajijola Intra- And Extra-Cardiac Neural Remodeling In Mammalian Ventricle: Implications For Arrhythmogenesis 2013 Joshua Goldhaber Associate Professor at UCLA Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Alin Lina Akopians Reelin Signaling Pathway And Its Contributions To Nociceptive Processing 2006 Patricia E. Phelps Medical Doctor at Southern California Redproductive Center
Abigail Aleman Investigating the Neural Networks that Regulate Sleep and Arousal in the Drosophila Central Complex 2025 Jeffrey Donlea TBD
Yazan Khalaf Alhadid Single-Molecule Studies Of Different Steps In Human Rna Polymerase Ii And Bacterial Rna Polymerase Transcription 2018 Shimon Weiss Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Laila Aryan An Investigation into the role of microRNAs in Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Late Pregnancy 2024 Mansoureh Eghbali Business Owner in Wedding Planning
Adrian Au Activation Mechanism And Novel Therapeutic Agent Of A Membrane Receptor Involved In Pathogenic Angiogenesis 2020 Hui Sun Resident Physician at UCLA- Department of Ophthalmology- EyeSTAR program
Rozeta Avetisyan X-linked KDM5C histone demethylase dosage is a determinant of sex differences in adiposity 2023 Karen Reue Biomedical Informatics Data Scientist at Stanford University
Jihane Benhammou From Bedside To Bench-Side: The Clinical, Epidemiological And Molecular Basis For Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis And Hepatocellular Carcinoma 2019 Joseph Pisegna Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA Department of Medicine- Division of Digestive Diseases
Lara Bideyan Transcriptional Control of Hepatic Metabolism in Physiology 2022 Peter Tontonoz Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Southwestern
Montgomery (Monty) Blencowe Uncovering the Molecular Networks of Metabolic Disease Using Systems Biology 2022 Xia Yang Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
David McCabe Boland The Impact Of Aerobic Fitness On Cognition And Molecular Intermediates 2016 Christopher Cooper, Alan Garfinkel Associate Professor at Baylor University
Alexandra Jeanette Brownstein Mitochondria Lipid-Droplet Interaction in the Control of Cellular Lipid Metabolism 2023 Orian Shirihai Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Medicine - Division of Endocrinology
Zachary Daniel Burkett Network-Based Insights To Learned Vocalization 2017 Stephanie White Bioinformatics Research and Development Manager at Bio-Rad Laboratories
Alvin Chan Selective Actions of Bile Acids on Fatty Acid Absorption 2025 Thomas Vallim Clinical Instructor for Department of Pediatrics at UCLA
Marvin Guinyu Chang Dynamics Of Early Afterdepolarization (Ead)-Mediated Arrhythmias 2012 James Weiss Anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital
Douglas Chapski Chromatin Architectural Dynamics In Cardiovascular Disease 2019 Thomas Vondriska Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Anesthesiology
Lingxuan Chen Novel Quantitative Analyses In Mouse Models Of Neurological And Psychiatric Disorders 2018 Istvan Mody Postdoctoral Scholar at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Qianqian Chen Brain Behavior Interactions In Avian Models For Speech Disorders 2015 Stephanie White Lecturer at Hangzhou Normal University, Institute of Art Education
Haodong Chen Systems Biology Approaches Investigating Cardiac Epigenome Dynamics In Heart Hypertrophy And Failure 2013 Thomas Vondriska Bioinformatics Scientist at Sentieon Inc.
Natalie Y Chen Nuclear Membrane Ruptures in the Setting of Nuclear Lamin Deficiencies 2021 Stephen Young Postdoctoral Scientist at Genentech
Chieh Chen The Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity Promotion by Alpha-Ketobutyrate in Caenorhabditis elegans and mice 2024 Jing Huang Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Medical & Molecular Pharmacology
Junjie (Roy) Chen Identification of IGFBP3 as a Novel Endogenous Protective Mechanism Induced by Cardiomyocytes Following Injury 2025 René Packard Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Medicine - Division of Cardiology
Guo Cheng Transforming A Macromolecular Therapeutic Factor Into Small Molecules That Target Its Transmembrane Receptors 2015 Hui Sun Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Physiology
Sarah Cheng The Role of Vision in Specification of Cell Type Identity, Synaptic Specificity, and Cortical Organization in the Visual Cortex 2021 Stephen Zipursky Resident Physician at UCLA Health- Department of Ophthalmology
Dawnis Mong-Lai Chow Visuo-Olfactory Integration In Drosophila Flight Control: N Eural Circuits, Behavior, And Ecological Implications 2011 Mark Frye Senior Data Scientist at Box
Raymond Wai-Keung Chui Bioelectronic Intervention In Cardiovascular Control 2017 Kalyanam Shivkumar Co-Founder and CEO at Cardiovascular Analytics LLC
Joana Cline Elucidation Of The Regulatory Role Of Osteopontin On The Pathology Of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy 2017 Melissa Spencer Unknown
Michael Cohen Adipose Tissue-Cancer Cell Crosstalk in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 2024 Steven Mittelman Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Pediatrics
Whitaker Cohn The Art of Contemporary Drug Discovery: Developing Novel Small Molecule Therapeutics For Neurological and Muscular Disorders 2023 Varghese John Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Neurology
Michael Christopher Condro A Songbird Model Of Genetically Based Speech Disorders 2013 Stephanie White Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Colin MacDonald Court Development Of Circulating Tumor Cell Sequencing As A Biomarker In Gastrointestinal Cancers 2019 Thomas Graeber Complex General Surgical Oncology (CGSO) Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kristen Coveleskie The Impact Of Glp-1 Analog, Exenatide, On The Resting Brain Of Lean Vs Obese Women 2016 Emeran Mayer Project Manager, Clinical Technology Innovations at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Christine Marie Cunningham An Investigation into Y Chromosome Protection and Therapeutic Potential in Pulmonary Hypertension 2021 Mansoureh Eghbali Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University
James Dang Neural Mechanisms of Prosocial Comforting Behavior 2023 Weizhe Hong TBD
Mirian Krystel De Siqueira Adipose Tissue and Translation Machinery in Metabolic Regulation 2024 Claudio Villanueva Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
Jun Deng Identification Of New Trophic Factors That Prevent Photoreceptor Degeneration 2014 Hui Sun Healthtech & Life Science Investor at HealthTech Capital, Social Starts, Nymbl Science, and Joyance Partners
Bo Deng Regulatory Interactions Between Skeletal Muscle And Other Tissue Systems 2011 James Tidball Internal Medicine Physician at Advent Health Medical Group
Jessica Aliyah Ding Development and Application of Multi-omics Integration Tools to Understand Metabolic Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease 2023 Xia Yang Bioinformatics Scientist at Kite Pharma
Kaitlin Lee Ingraham Dixie Transplantation Of Olfactory Ensheathing Cells Combined With Epidural Stimulation And Climb Training As A Long-Term Treatment For Severe Spinal Cord Injury In Rodents 2019 Patricia E. Phelps Assistant Director at UCLA- Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS)
Tien Sy Dong The Intestinal Gut Microbiome As A Biomarker And Driver Of Obesity And Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 2020 Jonathan Jacobs, Joseph Pisegna Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Digestive Diseases
Sienmi Du Parent-Of-Origin Sex Chromosome Effects On The Immune And Central Nervous System During Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis 2015 Rhonda Voskuhl Resident Physician at UCSF ObGyn & RS Residency Program
Brian John Duistermars Multisensory Input To Fly Flight: Vision, Olfaction And Mechanosensation 2009 Mark Frye Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Claremont McKenna College
Wael Noor El-Nachef Exploring Schwann Cell Precursor-Derived Enteric Neurogenesis In Post-Embryonic Development And Regeneration 2019 Charalabos Pothoulakis, Marianne Bronner Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Digestive Diseases
Danny Omar El-Nachef Epigenetic Regulation Of Mammalian Cardiac Myocyte Cell Cycle 2016 Thomas Vondriska, W. Robb MacLellan Principal Scientist at Sana Biotechnology, Inc.
Nathaniel Curtis Elia Mouse Models Of Periodic Paralysis In Andersen Tawil Syndrome And Functional Studies Of Novel Nav1.4 Mutations In Myotonia & Myopathy 2020 Stephen Cannon Senior Consultant at Guidehouse
Erika Marie Ellis Investigating Early Retinal Remodeling and Secondary Cone Degeneration in Retinitis Pigmentosa 2022 Alapakkam Sampath Resident Fellow at UCLA Department of Ophthalmology
James Lloyd Engel Harnessing The Power Of Human Embryonic Stem Cells And Direct Reprogramming For Cardiac Regeneration 2019 Reza Ardehali Postdoctoral Scholar at Amgen
Madza Yasodara Farias-Virgens To Tame a Songbird 2023 Stephanie White Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington
Zhiping Feng Spatiotemporal Manipulation Of Hindbrain Development And Cancer Induction In Live Zebrafish Via Optical Tools 2016 Shimon Weiss Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford Department of Chemical and Systems Biology
Isabella Ferando Plasticity Of Gabaergic Inhibition 2014 Istvan Mody Resident Physician at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine- Neurology Residency Program
Allison Lynn Fisher The Physiology And Pathology Of Iron In Pregnancy 2020 Elizabeta Nemeth, Tomas Ganz Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard Medical School- Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine
Ivan Flores Targeted delivery of LIF to dystrophic muscles by macrophages reduces muscle fibrosis and inflammation 2021 James Tidball Associate Consultant at ZS
William Howard Foster Protein Phosphorylation And Dephosphorylation During Development 2011 Yibin Wang Lecturer at California State University, Sacramento- Departmnet of Biological Sciences- College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Irina Jessica Fox Brennan The Role Of Heparin-Binding Epidermal Growth Factor In Murine Cortical Development 2004 Alan Grinnell, Harley Kornblum Emergency Medicine Physician in Alexandria, Virginia
Elizabeth Ross Fraley Reelin Signaling In The Basal Ganglia: Comparative Neuroanatomy And Implications For Vocal Behavior 2017 Stephanie White Aerialist with Circque du Soleil
Ricardo Frausto Antagonistic signaling pathways establish the same sensory valence in Caenorhabditis elegans 2025 Elissa Hallem Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Pomona College in Claremont
Ting Fu Deciphering the Function of Single Nucleotide Variants in Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation 2022 Xinshu (Grace) Xiao Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Erika Lane Galer Cervical Epidural Electrical Stimulation Activation of Spinal Respiratory Sensorimotor Circuits 2021 Daniel Lu Consultant at MAXIS, LLC
Anders Olav Garlid An Informatics Roadmap Toward A Fair Understanding Of Mitochondrial Biology And Rare Mitochondrial Disease 2019 Peipei Ping Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA- Department of Radiological Sciences
Navjot Kaur Gill Cell Mechanotype In Cancer Progression And Metastasis 2018 Amy Rowat Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Canada
Jessica Marie Gluck Understanding The Role Of The Microenvironment In Cardiovascular Differentiation 2013 Joshua Goldhaber, W. Robb MacLellan Assistant Professor at NC State Wilson College of Textiles
Danielle S Graham Characterizing the transcriptomic and genomic signatures of immune cell infiltration in undifferentiated sarcoma 2022 Thomas Graeber Resident Physician at UCLA Health- Department of General Surgery
Khris Griffis Mechanisms of detection threshold and adaptation in the rod visual pathway 2022 Alapakkam Sampath Visiting Project Scientist at UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute
Pritha Payel Gupta Translating Mouse Systems Genetics To Discovery In Human Disease 2017 Aldons Jake Lusis Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Miguel-Angel Gutierrez Langerhans Cells In Autoimmunity: New Perspectives In Function And Homeostasis 2018 Ram Raj Singh Lecturer at California State University, Northridge- Department of Health Sciences
Vincent Manuel Gutierrez The role of hepatic mitochondrial biliverdin exporter ABCB10 in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and alcoholic liver disease (ALD) 2023 Orian Shirihai Medical Student at UCLA MSTP
Joseph Elias Hadaya Autonomic Dysfunction Following Myocardial Infarction: Mechanisms and Therapies 2022 Kalyanam Shivkumar Clinical Resident Fellow at UCLA Health- Department of General Surgery
Peter Hanna Intrinsic Cardiac Neural Control of the Mammalian Sinoatrial Node 2021 Kalyanam Shivkumar Cardiac Electrophysiologist Resident Fellow at UCLA Health
Michelle Henricks Nitric Oxide Function In Dystrophin-Deficient Muscular Dystrophy 2002 James Tidball Associate Project Scientist at UCLA Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Center
Jonathan Duy-Thach Hoang Mechanisms of Parasympathetic Dysfunction Following Myocardial Infarction 2022 Marmar Vaseghi Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech Department of Biology & Biological Engineering
Jason Hong Integrative Multiomics and Systems Biology of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 2021 Xia Yang, Mansoureh Eghbali Clinical Instructor at UCLA Health- Department of Medicine- Division of Pulmonary
Jui-Yi (Ray) Hsieh Sca13 Mutations Reveal A Causal Relationship Between Excitability And Neuronal Degeneration In Zebrafish Purkinje Cells 2015 Diane Papazian Clinical Data Scientist at Verana Health
Jeffrey John Hsu Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy And Molecular Imaging To Elucidate Mechanisms Of Cardiovascular Development And Disease 2019 Linda Demer Clinical Instructor at UCLA Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Charles Stanton Hummel Mechanisms Of Active Sugar Transport In The Kidney: Biophysical Characterization Of Human Sodium/D-Glucose Co-Transporters, Hsglt1 And Hsglt2 2011 Ernest Wright Partner Physician at Southern California Kaiser Permanente
Jon-Philippe Keli Hyatt The Neural Modulation Of Myod, Myogenin, And The Satellite Cell In Adult Skeletal Muscle 2002 V. Reggie Edgerton Associate Professor at Arizona State University- College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
Norianne Theresa Ingram Unlocking Mouse Cone Photoreceptors: Phototransduction And Biophysics 2019 Gordon Fain, Alapakkam Sampath Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington- Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Andrea Iorga Estrogen Therapy Rescues Advanced Heart Failure Via Estrogen Receptor Beta 2015 Mansoureh Eghbali Research Assistant Professor at Unviersity of Maryland, Baltimore County- Center of Accelerated Real Time Analytics
Noam Jacob Contributors To Intestinal Fibrosis In The Tnfsf15/Tl1A Pathway 2018 Joseph Pisegna Assistant Professor-in Residence at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Digestive Diseases
Aaron Watkins James Bone Tissue Engineering With Perivascular Stem Cells 2016 John Adams Professor at Johns Hopkins University- Department of Pathology
Shekib Ahmad Jami Muscarinic Modulation Of Pyramidal Cell Excitability And Long Term Potentiation Across Dorsal-Ventral Axis Of Mouse Hippocampus 2018 Thomas O'Dell Product Support Scientist/Engineer II at Bio-Rad Laboratories
Shanxi Jiang Epigenetic Regulators Of Cardiac Hypertrophy And Failure 2018 Thomas Vondriska Senior Analyst at Ping An Technology
Benita Jin Brain-wide mapping of fear memory circuits during development identifies a role for retrosplenial cortex in the emergence of persistent memory 2024 Laura DeNardo TBD
Mai Huy Johnson Preclinical Evaluation Of Adenovirus-Mediated Suicide Gene Therapy For Prostate Cancer And Multimodality Imaging Of Viral Biodistribution And Transgene Expression 2008 Lily Wu Senior Scientist at Immuneering Corporation
Michael Selvan Joseph Mechanisms Of Spinal Learning Related To A Simple Motor Task In A Mammalian System 2016 V. Reggie Edgerton Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles- Department of Kinesiology and Nutritional Sciences
Laura Gabriela Kammel Sexually Differentiated Neuron Populations In The Ventromedial Hypothalamus Contribute To Sex-Specific Regulation Of Energy Balance 2019 Stephanie Correa Postdoctoral Fellow at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)- Single Cell Dynamics Group
Pranav Kannan Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Mechanotransduction in the Pathogenesis of Muscular Dystrophy 2025 Rachelle Crosbie TBD
Elaheh Karbassi Orchestration Of Cardiac Gene Expression Mediated By Global Chromatin Architecture 2016 Thomas Vondriska Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington- Department of Pathology
Mehmet Fatih Keles Neural And Behavioral Analysis Of Object Detection In Drosophila 2017 Mark Frye Postdoctoral Sholar at Johns Hopkins University- Department of Neuroscience
Rana R Khankan Mechanisms Of Olfactory Ensheathing Cell-Enhanced Neurite Outgrowth And Axon Regeneration After Spinal Cord Injury 2015 Patricia E. Phelps Academic Adminstrator at UCLA- Department of Life Sciences Core Education
Youn-Jung Roy Kim Mechanisms Of Neuroprotection And Remyelination In Demyelinating Disease Models Of Multiple Sclerosis: A Lesson From Estrogen Receptor Specific Ligands 2018 Rhonda Voskuhl Scientist II at Mitokinin Inc.
Soo Jung Kim Use Dependent Modulation Of Adult Rat Skeletal Muscle 2007 V. Reggie Edgerton Unknown
Todd Haswell Kimball Mechanoresponsive Mechanisms In Hypertrophic Cardiac Remodeling 2023 Thomas Vondriska Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Kyle Klingbeil Targeting Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in Liposarcoma 2024 David Shackelford Surgery Resident at UCLA Department of General Surgery
Christopher Young Ko The Dynamical Emergence Of Calcium-Mediated Arrhythmias From The Subcellular Calcium Release Unit Network 2016 James Weiss Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Davis- Department of Pharmacology
Ying Kong Effects Of Aging On The Lymphoid Potential Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells 2018 Kenneth Dorshkind Medical Affairs Manager at Roche Tissue Diagnostics
Marc Douglas Kubasak Axonal Regeneration And Step-Training After Complete Spinal Cord Transection In The Neonatal And Adult Rat 2004 Patricia E. Phelps Vice President- Program Lead and Regulatory Affairs at Acelyrin, Inc.
Alexander Ming Kong Lai Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Of In Vivo Human Triceps Surae Motion During Contraction After Atrophy And Achilles Tendon Rupture 2002 V. Reggie Edgerton, Shantanu Sinha Medical Doctor and Sports Medicine Specialist in Petaluma, California
Edward Lau Mitochondrial Protein Dynamics In Cardiac Remodeling 2014 Peipei Ping Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine- Department of Medicine-Cardiology
Elinor Lee The Role Of Lipids In Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis 2020 Elizabeth Tarling Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care
John Yo Han Lee Understanding the Therapeutic Components and Mechanisms of Corneal Stromal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Reducing Corneal Scarring 2025 Sophie Deng Resident Physician at UCLA Health
Tamara Lee Lenis Cell-Autonomous Retinal Pigment Epithelium Dysfunction In Stargardt Disease 2017 Gabriel Travis Vitreoretinal Surgeon at NJRetina
Lok Kwan Leung The Roles Of X11 And Rheb In Dlk/Wnd-Dependent Axonal Growth And Regeneration In Drosophila 2016 Ming Guo Senior Associate Consultant at Cambridge Healthcare Research
Quan Li Dysfunction Of Circadian System In A Mouse Model Of Rett Syndrome 2014 Christopher Colwell, Yi Sun Research Administration Specialist at UCLA- Department of Neurology
Gaoyan Li Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Hypothalamus and White Adipose Tissue under Internal and External Cues 2023 Xia Yang Consultant at McKinsey
Kayla Ying Yan Lim How and Why We Comfort Others: Neural Mechanisms of Prosocial Allogrooming 2025 Weizhe Hong Program Coordinator, Science, Society and Culture at Simons Foundation
Amanda Lin Mitochondrial Dynamics: The Role Of Adaptations In The Mitochondrial Proteomic Profile In Different Cellular Contexts 2018 Andrea Hevener Senior Associate Scientist at 23andMe
Michael Bon-Hao Liu Multiscale Modeling Of Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis: Beyond The Trigger-Substrate Paradigm 2019 Zhilin Qu Medical Student at UCLA David School Geffen School of Medicine
Meng-Chia (Norika) Liu Vascular Protective Effects Of Netrin-1 And Netrin-1 Pre-Conditioned Endothelial Progenitor Cells 2018 Hua (Linda) Cai Postdoctoral Scholar at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Department of Molecular Physiology in Japan
Gang Lu Regulation Of Local Signaling By Type 2C Protein Phosphatases 2008 Yibin Wang Founder, President & CEO at GluBio Therapeutics Inc
Roshni Vyas Madhvani L-Type Ca2+ Channels As Therapeutic Targets For Early Afterdepolarization-Related Arrhythmias 2014 Riccardo Olcese Research Scientist at Cytokinetics
Jamie Lind Marshall The Role Of Sarcospan In The Adhesion Glycoprotein Complexes At The Sarcolemma In Murine Models Of Muscular Dystrophy 2012 Rachelle Crosbie Principal Scientist at Solid Biosciences
Cynthia Marie McKee Klotho and the epigenetic regulation of the Wnt pathway by Jmjd3 in muscle stem cells 2022 James Tidball Manager at Amgen Ventures
Andrew Charles Melton Protrusion-Mediated Chemotaxis Of Hepatic Stellate Cells 2006 Nancy Wayne Director, Assay Strategy and Development at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
Gabriel Cuauhtemoc Mercado Besserer Structural And Functional Studies Of The Sarcolemmal Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger 2011 Jeffrey Abramson Senior Field Application Scientist at Advanced Cell Diagnostics
Griselda Metta Yvone Dorsal Horn Errors In Neuronal Positioning Contribute To Nociceptive Abnormalities In Reelin-Signaling Pathway Mutant Mice 2018 Patricia E. Phelps Postdoctoral Scholar at Cedars-Sinai
Natali Anne Minassian Distinct Functional Effects Of Kv3.3 Mutations Associated With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type-13 2010 Diane Papazian Principal Investigator at Neurocrine Biosciences
Anahid Mirzatoni Regulation And Function Steroidogenic Factors In The Songbird Brain 2010 Barney Schlinger Adjunct Faculty at Pasadena City College- Department of Natural Sciences
Emma Marie Monte Control Of Cardiac Gene Expression By Chromatin Architectural Proteins: Mechanisms At The Level Of Chromatin Fiber, Transcriptome Remodeling And Cellular Phenotype 2015 Thomas Vondriska Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford- Department of Genetics
Sean Edward Morony Regulation Of Vascular Calcification By Osteoprotegerin 2007 Linda Demer Associate Director Global Program Management at Seagen
Ala Morshedian Sensitivity And Adaptation In Vertebrate Photoreceptors: Evolution And Mechanism 2016 Gordon Fain Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA- Department of Ophthalmology
Joseph James Munier Sex differences in hypothalamic responses to stress following chronic intermittent ethanol exposure 2022 Igor Spigelman Postdoctoral Researcher at Antharis Therapeutics
Jessica Nevarez-Mejia Investigating Macrophage Phenotype and Arterial Heterogeneity in Antibody-Mediated Rejection and Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy 2023 Elaine Reed TBD; Pursuing biotech industry opportunities
Eunice Ng Stargardt Disease: Insights on ATP-binding cassette subfamily A member 4-mediated Endo-Lysosomal Dysfunction in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium 2023 Roxana Radu Senior licensing associate - External R&D, Business Development at AMGEN
Tung Hoang Ngo Molecular Mechanisms Of Dietary And Exercise Prevention Of Prostate Cancer 2002 R. James Barnard Physician in General Internal Medicine in Fountain Valley, CA
Angelyn Thuy An Vu Nguyen Dissecting The Role Of Cell Physical Properties In The Invasion Of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma 2017 Amy Rowat Senior Associate, Corporate Development at Aadi Bioscience
Hal X Nguyen The Role Of Myeloid Cells In Muscle Injury Induced By Modified Muscle Use Of Disease 2004 James Tidball Project Scientiest/Research Professional at UC Irvine- Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Ngoc Bao Nguyen Cardiomyocyte Regeneration And The Potential Role Of Neonatal Systemic Factors 2021 Reza Ardehali Medical Student at University of Washington School of Medicine
James David O'Hearn Unravelling The Genetic Basis Of Heart Failure Via Systems Genetics 2017 Yibin Wang Principal Writer, Project Development Scientist, Project Manager, Staff Scientist at City of Hope
Christine Ann Olson The gut microbiota mediates dietary and stressor-induced risk for murine neurological dysfunction 2021 Elaine Hsiao Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSF
Cheri Lynne Osteen Prolonged Calcium Flux Following Traumatic Brain Injury Occurs Via Injury-Induced Molecular Alterations In The Nmda Receptor 2002 V. Reggie Edgerton, David Hovda Executive Director, Global & US Medical Communications at AMGEN
Asuka Ota The Ever Expanding Role Of Hsp90-Cdc Chaperone Complex In Cell Signaling Networks 2009 Yibin Wang Product Manager at Strateos
Rene Rupen Sevag Packard Advanced Imaging And Bioengineering Approaches To Cardiovascular Disease 2016 Tzung Hsiai Assistant Professor-in Residence at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Nicolaos Jay Palaskas A Platform For Investigating Immune Checkpoint-Mediated Changes In Metabolism 2017 Thomas Graeber Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Hematology & Oncology
Saemi Park Circadian And Cardiovascular Dysfunction In The Huntington'Sdisease Mouse Models 2020 Christopher Colwell Associate Director, Business Development - EMD Digital at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Shuin Park The Potential Role Of Pericytes And Genetic Regulation Of Fibroblasts In Cardiac Fibrosis 2020 Reza Ardehali Scientist II at NGM Bio
Megha Patel Molecular Evolution Of Nr0B1 (Dax1) And Related Genes In Mammals 2002 Arthur Arnold, Edward McCabe Assistant Vice President, Research & Graduate Studies at California State University, Northridge
Angela Kay Peter Amelioration Of Muscular Dystrophy And Muscle Wasting: Harnessing The Potential Of Sarcospan And Akt 2007 Rachelle Crosbie Principal Scientist at Edgewise Therapeutics
Richard Scott Peterson Estrogen Synthesis In The Central Nervous System: The Cellular And Spatial Distribution Of Aromatase In The Songbird Brain 2004 Barney Schlinger Executive Director, R&D Asset Strategy Lead - Skincare at AbbVie
Thanh Thuy Dan Pham Heterogeneity of Pericytes after Ischemic Stroke 2021 S. Thomas Carmichael Associate at OVC- Venture Capital Firm Investing in Technology and Healthcare Startups
Nguyen Phi Inter-brain Neural Dynamics in Interacting Biological and Artificial Intelligence System 2025 Weizhe Hong TBD
Jingyi Qian Disruption Of Circadian Rhythm Impairs Pancreatic Islet Function And Increases Susceptibility To Beta-Cell Failure, While Pathological Complications Of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Have Scant Effects On The Circadian System 2015 Christopher Colwell Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director, Medical Chronobiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pradeep Sundaram Rajendran Intrinsic Cardiac Neuronal Control Of The Heart In Health And Disease 2017 Kalyanam Shivkumar Internal Medicine Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital & Co-Founder of NeuCures Inc.
Sara Ranjbarvaziri The Effect Of Developmental Heterogeneity And Genetic Variation Of Fibroblasts On Cardiac Injury And Repair 2017 Reza Ardehali Translational Scientist II at Tenaya Therapeutics
Asif Razee Pharmacologic Neuromodulation Targeting Neuroinflammation as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Experimental Pulmonary Hypertension 2023 Soban Umar Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Anesthesiology
Jessica Lindsay Richardson The Structure And Function Of Voltage-Dependant Potassium And Sodium Channels 2008 Julio Vergara General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at Federation Bio
Esther Richler Imaging And Tracking Single P2X2 Receptors In The Plasma Membrane Of Neuronal Dendrites 2011 Baljit Khakh Data Scientist at Tala
Martha Rimniceanu Multisensory functional and comparative analysis of object tracking in flying fruit flies 2024 Mark Frye Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology
Adam Christopher Roberts Cellular Mechanisms Of Sensitization In Aplysia 2005 David Glanzman Assistant Professor at California State University, Fullerton- Department of Psychology- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Beth Ann Rose The Role Of P38 Mapk Mediated Paracrine Signaling From Cardiomyocytes To Endothelial Cells In Vitro And In Vivo 2010 Yibin Wang Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at Edwards Lifesciences
Stephen Alexander Runyan The Role Of L1 And Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor In Axonal Sprouting And Outgrowth 2007 Patricia E. Phelps Associate Professor of Biology at California Baptist University
Kholoud Saleh Understanding the Impact of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Disease Severity on Human Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Cell Delivery 2022 April Pyle TBD; Pursuing postdoctoral scholar opportunities
Tamer Sallam Characterization Of Novel Liver X Receptor Regulatory Circuits 2014 Peter Tontonoz Associate Professor-in Residence at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
Joshua Parks Sasine Kras Expands And Exhausts Hematopoietic Stem Cells 2018 John Chute Assistant Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the CAR T Program at Cedars-Sinai
Analyne Manzano Schroeder A Study On Circadian Regulation Of The Cardiovascular System: Dysfunction In The Bachd Huntington'S Disease Model And Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide-Deficient Mice And The Use Of Scheduled Exercise To Rescue Circadian Deficits 2012 Christopher Colwell Postdoctoral Scholar at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Albert Chi Sek Eosinophil Infiltration In Muscular Dystrophy: Key Characteristics And Contributions To Disease 2020 Tomas Ganz, Helene Rosenberg Global Labeling Lead - Oncology at Merck Research Laboratories
Daniel Sanghoon Shin Resistance To Programmed Death Protein 1 Blockade Mediated By Somatic Jak1/2 Mutations 2017 Antoni Ribas Assistant Professor-in Residence at UCLA- VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System
Le Shu Uncovering The Molecular Networks Of Metabolic Diseases Using Systems Biology 2018 Xia Yang Senior Manager, Marketing Analytics and Insights at Illumina
Artin Soroosh MicroRNA-24 and Ulcerative Colitis: Expression, Functionality, and Therapeutic Potential 2021 Charalabos Pothoulakis Lecturer at UCLA and part-time faculty at CSU Dominguez Hills
Rory Desmond Spence Estrogen Signaling Through Estrogen Receptor Alpha In Astrocytes Mediates Neuroprotection During Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis And Decreases Astrocyte Levels Of Proinflammatory Chemokines 2013 Rhonda Voskuhl Associate Professor (Teaching) at USC- Deparment of Quantitative and Computional Biology
Debora Chavdarova Stefanova The Role Of Iron And Hepcidin In Infection 2018 Elizabeta Nemeth, Tomas Ganz Postdoctoral Scholar at ETH Zurich in Switzerland
DeAnna Lee Steiger Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Sensor Ire1 Alpha Preserves Function Of The Stressed Myocardium 2013 Yibin Wang Director of Strategic Planning: Neuroscience Business Unit at Amgen
Ashley Fran Stein-Merlob A Dynamic Model of Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis Predicts a Bistable Response 2025 Alan Garfinkel Clinical Instructor for Department of Medicine - Division of Cardiology at UCLA
Brandon Michael Stell Mechanism And Plasticity Of Tonic Inhibition 2005 Istvan Mody, Thomas Otis CNRS Research Scientist, CR-CNRS (National Center for Scientific Resarch) in France
John Michael Streicher The Role Of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Activated Protein Kinase-2 In Regulating P38 Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Induced Cyclooxygenase-2 Induction And Heart Failure 2009 Yibin Wang Associate Professor at the University of Arizona- Departments of Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Junichi Sugihara Dynamics Of Sugar/H+ Symport Proteins Of The Major Facilitator Superfamily 2016 H. Ronald Kaback Postdoctoral Scholar at University Health Network in Canada
Hannah Sunshine Elucidating the role of Zinc-finger protein 36 in endothelial angiogenic response 2023 Luisa Arispe, Thomas Vallim TBD
Aya Takeoka Axon Regeneration And Spinal Cord Reorganization Contribute To Functional Changes In Adult Rats With Complete Spinal Cord Transsectons: The Role Of Oeg Transplantation And Long-Term Step Training 2010 Patricia E. Phelps Principal Investigator at VIB in Belgium
Ikuko Teramitsu Brain-Behavior Relationships In A Songbird Common Molecular Mechanism For Birdsong And Human Speech 2007 Stephanie White Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara- Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Marlin Touma Transcriptome Complexity Of Neonatal Heart During Perinatal Circulatory Transition: -- A Road Map For Functional Discovery 2015 Yibin Wang Associate Professor-in Residence at UCLA- Department of Pediatrics Neonatology
Diana Xuan Huong Tran Mathematical Modeling Of Cardiac Arrhythmias 2010 Zhilin Qu Postdoctoral Scholar at Institute of Applied Math and Information Technology
Tracy Samantha Tran Gabaergic Spinal Commissural Neurons Project To Brainstem Targets 2003 Patricia E. Phelps Associate Professor at Rutgers University- Deparment of Biological Sciences
Tiffany Maithao Tran The Role of the RNA Binding Protein IGF2BP3 in MLL-AF4 Mediated Leukemogenesis 2021 Dinesh Rao Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine
Rachna Ujwal Structural And Functional Characterization Of The Outer Mitochondrial Membrane Protein: Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel 1 2009 Jeffrey Abramson, Peipei Ping Patent Agent and Scientific Advisor at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Brittany Nicole Ulrich Infant Onset Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 13 Mutation Leads To Developmental And Rapid Degenerative Phenotypes Related To Hyperexcitability In Purkinje Cells 2017 Diane Papazian Scientific Associate at Chameleon Communications International
Gina Rinetti Vargas Regulation Of Neurotransmitter Release By Ubiquitnation 2012 Felix Schweizer Data Consultant at Kaiser Permanente
Marmar Vaseghi Cardiac Parasympathetic Neural Remodeling And Electrophysiological Effects Of Vagal Nerve Stimulation 2016 Kalyanam Shivkumar Assoicate Professor-in Residence at UCLA- Department of Medicine- Division of Cardiology
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