Alumni

Graduate Students who have left the lab and their current position
(most recent listed last)

Name Fundings/Awards Current Position
John Alexander, M.D., Ph.D. Tetrad, AHA Fellowship Pulmonologist, Kaiser, San Francisco
Jeremy Reiter, M.D., Ph.D. Tetrad, ARCS Fellowship Professor and Chair, UCSF Biochem & Biophysics, San Francisco
Emily Walsh, Ph.D. Tetrad, HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship Program Manager, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Sally Horne, Ph.D. Tetrad, AHA Predoctoral Fellowship Associate Professor, University of Chicago School of Medicine
Holly Field, Ph.D. Tetrad Medical Writer, Cambridge, MA
Le Trinh, Ph.D. BMS, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, AHA Predoctoral Fellowship Assistant Professor, USC
Nick Osborne, Ph.D. BMS, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Clinical Strategy Scientist, Cato Research, Springfield, MA
Kevin Vogeli, Ph.D. Tetrad, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Orthopedic Surgeon, Los Angeles
Chantilly Munson, Ph.D. Tetrad, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Assistant Professor, City College of San Francisco
Won-Suk Chung, Ph.D. BMS, Genentech Fellowship, CIRM Fellowship Assistant Professor, KAIST, South Korea
Isla Cheung, Ph.D. Tetrad, ARCS Fellowship Scientist at Genentech, CA
David Staudt BMS, MSTP, AHA, NIH Fellowships Resident in Pediatrics, Stanford U.
Anna Reade, Ph.D. Tetrad, NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Staff Scientist, NRDC, San Francisca, CA
Filomena Ricciardi, Ph.D. MPI student Postdoctoral Fellow with Andrei Goga, UCSF
Jenny Pestel, Ph.D. Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship MERCK, Darmstadt
Suchit Ahuja, Ph.D. IMPRS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada
Ziba Jaberansari, Ph.D. IMPRS Research Manager, University of Ottawa, Canada
Deepika Dogra, Ph.D. IMPRS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada
Claudia Gerri , Ph.D. IMPRS, Otto Hahn Medal Postdoctoral Fellow with Kathy Niakan, Crick Institute, London, UK
Almary Guerra Rodríguez, Ph.D. IMPRS Consultant, Leadvise Reply GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
Jason Kuan Han Lai, Ph.D. IMPRS Research Fellow, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
Pourya Sarvari, Ph.D. IMPRS Research Assistant, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Seyed Javad Rasouli, Ph.D. IMPRS Postdoctoral Fellow, Muenster, Germany
Ayele Taddese Tsedeke, Ph.D. IMPRS Postdoctoral Researcher, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany
Brijesh Kumar, Ph.D. IMPRS Postdoctoral Fellow, Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC, USA
Michele Marass, Ph.D. IMPRS Editor, Nature Communications
Sophie Ramas, Ph.D. IMPRS Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Germany
Sri Teja Mullapudi, Ph.D. IMPRS Analyst, Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners, Toronto, Canada
Vanesa Jiménez Amilburu, Ph.D. IMPRS Postdoctoral Fellow, IRCM, Montreal, Canada

 

Postdoctoral Fellows who have left the lab and their current position
(most recent listed last)

Name Funding/Awards Current Position
Leon Parker, Ph.D. NIH NRSA Fellowship Associate Director, Solazyme, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
Chi-Yip Ho, Ph.D. AHA Fellowship Director, Microarray Facility, Lunenfeld Res. Inst., Toronto, Canada
Wayne Liao, Ph.D. AHA Fellowship Program Manager, TLC pharmaceuticals, Mountain View, CA, USA
Erik Kupperman, Ph.D. NSF Fellowship, UC President’s Fellowship Global Project Leader, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
Birgitta Olofsson, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, Cambridge, England
Deborah Yelon, Ph.D. LSRF Fellowship, Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship Professor, UC San Diego, USA
Amy Sehnert, M.D., Ph.D. PSDP Fellowship, NIH K08 Grant, AHA and BGIA Fellowships Senior Director, Artemis Health, San Carlos, CA, USA
Yutaka Kikuchi, Ph.D. HFSP Fellowship Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan
Tom Bartman, M.D., Ph.D. HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Physicians Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Medical Center, USA
Julie Frantsve, Ph.D. CVRI Training Grant Fellowship Assistant Director, ADA Council on Scientific Affairs, USA
Heather Verkade, Ph.D. HFSP Fellowship Assistant Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Federica Bertocchini, Ph.D.   Principal Investigator, ibbtec, Santander, Spain
Dimitris Beis, Ph.D. HFSP Fellowship Associate Professor, Academy of Athens, Greece
Tracy Mitchell, Ph.D. CVRI Training Grant Fellowship Senior Scientist, Adnexus, Boston, MA, USA
Elke Ober, Ph.D. AHA Fellowship Associate Professor, DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Suk-Won Jin, Ph.D. AHA Fellowship Associate Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ian Scott, Ph.D. MRC of Canada Fellowship Associate Professor, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Leonard D’Amico, Ph.D. NIH NRSA Fellowship Postdoctoral Fellow, Seattle, WA, USA
Tatiana Hochgreb, Ph.D. Pew Foundation Fellowship Senior Fellow, Science Education, Stanford, CA, USA
Benno Jungblut, Ph.D. MPI Fellowship, AHA Fellowship Junior Group Leader, MPI Bad Nauheim, Germany
Pia Aanstad, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Massimo Santoro, Ph.D. EMBO Fellowship, HFSP Fellowship Associate Professor, University of Turino, Italy
Wiebke Herzog, Ph.D. DFG Fellowship, AHA Fellowship Junior Group Leader, MPI Muenster, Germany
Paul Scherz, Ph.D. Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship Associate Professor, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
Michel Bagnat, Ph.D. EMBO Fellowship Associate Professor, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Duc Dong, Ph.D. JDRF Fellowship, Hillblom Fellowship Associate Professor, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Neil Chi, M.D., Ph.D. AHA Fellow to Faculty Award, NIH K08 Grant Professor, UC San Diego, CA, USA
Lingfei Luo, Ph.D. JDRF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship Professor, Southwest University, China
Silvia Curado, Ph.D. CVRI Fellowship Program Manager, New York University, NY, USA
Jan Huisken, Ph.D. HFSP Fellowship Director, Morgridge Institute for Research Madison, USA and Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA
Takuya Sakaguchi, Ph.D. APS Fellowship, NIH K99 Grant Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Ryan Anderson, Ph.D. JDRF Fellowships Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of
Ryan Anderson, Ph.D. JDRF Fellowships Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Chong Shin, Ph.D. NIH NRSA Fellowship, NIH K01 Grant Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Donghun Shin, Ph.D. JDRF Fellowship Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Amnon Schlegel, M.D., Ph.D. NIH K08 Grant Associate Professor, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Yoshiko Kametani, Ph.D. JSPS and HFSP Fellowships Assistant Professor, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, Japan
Shane Herbert, Ph.D. Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship, UK Assistant Professor, University of Manchester, UK
Dan Hesselson, Ph.D. Hillblom and JDRF Fellowships Assistant Professor, Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia
Jiandong Liu, Ph.D. AHA postdoctoral Fellowship and Training Grant Fellowship, NIH K99 Grant Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Chunyue Yin, Ph.D. JDRF postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH K99 Grant Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, OH, USA
Olov Andersson, Ph.D. Swedish Research Council and EMBO fellowships Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Philipp Gut, M.D. DFG postdoctoral Fellowship Group Leader, Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
Stefan Materna, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, UC Merced, CA, USA
Benoit Vanhollebeke, Ph.D. EMBO and HFSP Fellowships Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
Stephanie Woo, Ph.D. CVRI training grant, NIH K01 Grant Assistant Professor, UC Merced, CA, USA
Xiaoyan Ge, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Atsushi Nakano, M.D., Ph.D. Banyu Life Science Foundation International Fellowship Fellow, Osaka University, Japan
Marion Delous, Ph.D. French Foundation Medical Fellowship Assistant Professor, Imagine Institute and Necker Hospital, Paris, France
Nikolay Ninov, Ph.D. Canadian Diabetes Foundation Fellowship Assistant Professor, CRTD and Paul Langerhans and Institute, Dresden University, Germany
Maiko Higuchi, Ph.D. Uehara Memorial Foundation Fellowship Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
Emilie Maquet, Ph.D. BAEF Fellowship Consultant, BCG, Brussels, Belgium
Dong Yao, Ph.D.   Scientist, Guilin University, China
Bilge Reischauer, Ph.D.   IMPRS Coordinator, MPI Bad Nauheim, Germany
Chinmoy Patra, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, Agharkar Institute, Pune, India
Avdesh Avdesh, Ph.D.   Founder AridGreen, Frankfurt, Germany
Michael P. Housley, Ph.D. CIRM training grant Research Scientist, Agenovir, SF, CA, USA
Kim Evason, M.D., Ph.D. Damon Runyon Fellowship Assistant Professor, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Rima Arnaout, M.D. NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sarnoff Cardiovascular, Assistant Professor, UCSF, USA
Rima Arnaout, M.D. Foundation Scholar Award Assistant Professor, UCSF, USA
Anoop V. Cherian, Ph.D.   Scientist, Giessen University, Germany
Suphansa Sawamiphak, Ph.D. HFSP Fellowship Research Group Leader, MDC, Berlin
Brian Njaine Ramos, Ph.D. Capes Humboldt Foundation Fellowship Postdoctoral Fellow, Frankfurt
Andrea Soggia, Ph.D.   Account Manager, AgileBio, Paris, France
Hiroki Matsuda, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan
Ben Shih-Lei Lai, Ph.D.   Junior Group Leader, IBS, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Alethia Villasenor, Ph.D. CONACyT Fellowship Project Manager, Centogene, Rostock, Germany
Silvia Parajes Castro, Ph.D. ESPE Fellowship Pharmacist, Milton Keynes Hospital, UK
Einat Blitz, Ph.D. EMBO, Human Frontier Science Program Fellowships Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University, Israel
Wenguang Yin, Ph.D.   Junior Group Leader, Guangzhou, China
Ryota Matsuoka, Ph.D. Damon Runyon Fellowship, Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship, JSPS Fellowship Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner, Research Institute, Ohio, USA
Oliver Stone, Ph.D.   British Heart Foundation Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
Veronica Uribe Sokolov, Ph.D.   Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Andrea Rossi, Ph.D.   Group leader, IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Dusseldorf, Germany
Hyouk-Bum Kwon, Ph.D. Nat’l Research Foundation of Korea Fellowship Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Konstantinos Gkatzis, Ph.D.   Field Applications Scientist, Axion BioSystems, Frankfurt, Germany
Zacharias Kontarakis, Ph.D. EMBO Fellowship Head of GEML, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Aosa Kamezaki, Ph.D.   Medical and Scientific Relations, Pfizer, Tokyo, Japan
Christian Helker, Ph.D.   Professor, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
Sébastien Gauvrit, Ph.D.   Imaging Specialist, MPI for Heart and Lung Research, Germany
Hyun-Taek Kim, Ph.D.   Professor, Soonchunhyang University, Korea
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