Alumni

Tan Inoue                              
1983-1985
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Kyoto University

Gail Dinter-Gottlieb            
1983-1986    
Dean, Natural & Social Sciences, Buffalo State College;
Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, New York
President Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia

Michael D. Been               
1984-1987
Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry, Duke University

Carolyn M. Price  
1985-1988
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, University of Nebraska
Professor of Cancer and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati

James A. McSwiggen           
1986-1989
Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Nastech Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.

John A. Latham                     
1986-1989  
Gilead Sciences Darwin, Inc.; Alder Biopharmaceuticals

Sarah A. Woodson               
1987-1990  
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Chem. and Biochem, University of Maryland
Prof. of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University

James R. Williamson            
1988-1990   
Assoc. Prof., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof., Dept. of Integrative Structural & Computational Biology, Dean of Grad and Postdoc Studies; Executive Vice President for Research & Academic Affairs, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA

Dan W. Celander  
1988-1991   
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Microbiology, University of Illinois

Alexandra Gampel               
1989-1991        
Postdoc. Fellow, M.R.C., Cambridge,UK;
Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Dept. of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Dan Herschlag                      
1989-1992      
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Senior Assoc, Dean of Graduate Education & Postdoctoral Affairs, Stanford University

Anna Marie Pyle             
1989-1992
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biochem and Mol Biophys., Columbia University; Investigator, HHMI;

William Edward Gilbert
1989-1992
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University.

Fuyuki Ishikawa                    
1990-1992
Prof., Dept. of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Prof. Kyoto University

Joseph A. Piccirilli                      
1989-1993    
Prof., Dept. of Chem. and Dept. of Biochem. & Mol. Biol., University of Chicago

Jin-Feng Wang                      
1990-1993
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biochem. and Mol. Biol., Penn. St. University, Hershey;
Tianjin University

Jennifer A. Doudna              
1991-1994
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and
Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Professor in Biomedical and Health;
Investigator, HHMI, University of California, Berkeley

Bruce A. Sullenger               
1991-1994  
Professor, Dept. of Experimental Surgery, Duke University Medical Center

Scott A. Strobel                    
1992-1995  Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry & University Provost,  Yale University

Thomas B. Campbell            
1993-1995    
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Health Sciences Center

Kevin M. Weeks                   
1992-1996   
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of North Carolina

Julia Promisel Cooper         
1993-1996    
Professor, Dept. of Biochem. and Mol. Genetics, University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Health Sciences Center;
Group Leader, ICRF, London;
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, National Cancer Inst., Bethesda, MD

Christine Chapon               
1995-1996        
Postdoc. Fellow with Larry Gold, MCDB, University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥

Joachim Lingner                 
1993-1997     
Full Professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Philip C. Bevilacqua            
1993-1997
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Penn State University

Stacie J. Froelich-Ammon
1996-1997  
Scientist, Sangamo Biosciences; Scientist, Baxter

Alex A. Szewczak  
1994-1997 
Postdoc. Fellow with Scott Strobel, Yale University;
Merck Research Laboratories, Boston

Scott B. Cohen                      
1995-1998
Postdoc. Fellow with Randall Halcomb, University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥;
Senior Research Scientist, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead Australia.

Biliang Zhang                         
1995-1998 
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Molec. Medicine, Dept. of Pharmacology & Molec. Toxicology, University of Mass Med.;
Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health

Barbara L. Golden                
1994-1998  
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Purdue University

Evelyn Jabri                           
1995-1999    
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington;
Editor, ACS Chemical Biology

Scott Silverman                    
1997-2000    
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Daniel Lyons                         
1998-2000    
Equity Analyst at Janus Capital

Sona Vasudevan                   
1999-2000   
Scientist, NIH;
Res. Asst. Prof, Georgetown University

Tracy Bryan                           
1997-2001  
Professor, The University of Sydney, Head of the Cell Biology Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead Australia

Kathy Friedman                    
1997-2001   
Assoc. Prof., and Vice Chair of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Michael Jarstfer                   
1998-2001       
Assoc. Prof. and Assistant Dean for Graduate Education, Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Andy Berglund                    
2000-2001     
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Florida Gainesville; Director of the RNA Institute and Professor of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY

Peter Baumann                    
1998-2002    
HHMI Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City; Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Germany

Feng Guo                               
2000-2004      
Assoc. Prof., Biological Sciences, UCLA

Jeff Mandell                          
2000-2004   
Sen. Scientist, Ionian Technologies. La Jolla, California;
Illumina, LaJolla

Ming Lei                               
2001-2004  
Assoc. Prof., University of Michigan and HHMI Investigator;
Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai China

Amy (Mozdy) Davis              
2005-2007     
Associate Director, University of Utah Brain Institute

David C. Zappulla                  
2002-2008  
Asst. Prof., Johns Hopkins University; Asst Prof., Lehigh University

Quentin Vicens                     
2003-2008     
Postdoc., Rob Batey Laboratory, Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Univ of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder
Postdoc, Aarhus, Denmark; Research Asst. Professor, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Anschutz School of Medicine

Feng Qiao                              
2005-2009 
Assoc. Professor of Biological Chemistry, UC Irvine

Jen Pfingsten                        
2007-2011   
Scientific Director, HCP Management Holdings

                  
2007-2012     
Associate Prof., Department of Biological Science, University of Pittsburgh

  
2007-2013
Associate Prof., Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Jacob C. Schwartz
2009-2014
Asst Prof., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona Tucson

Mai Nakashima 
2011-2014
Asst Professor at Osaka University, Osaka Japan

Chen Davidovich                   
2010-2015
Associate Professor, Monash University, Group Leader, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, EMBL Australia 

Sumit Borah
2011-2016
Research Scientist, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Memphis TN; Scientific and Medical Writer, Oxford Square Langhorne, PA

Jens Schmidt           
2012-2017
Asst Professor, Institute for Quantitative Health Sciences & Engineering, Michigan State Univ.

Josh Stern              
2014-2019
Asst Professor, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ci Ji Lim
2014-2019
Asst. Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Madison

Yicheng Long
2015-2021
Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University

Linnea Jansson-Fritzberg
2018-2023
Scientist II, Editas Medicine, Boulder, CO

Kaitlin Johnson
2019-2024
Research Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

 

Paula J. Grabowski
1983 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Helen Hay Whitney Fellow with Phil Sharp, M.I.T.
Prof. and Chairman, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Daniel E. Gottschling
1984 Ph.D. in Chemistry 
ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Virginia Zakian, Hutchinson Cancer Center
Assoc. Prof., University of Chicago; Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle;
Head of Research, Calico Labs, So. San Francisco, CA

Ted E. Palen
1984 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Postdoc. Fellow at National Jewish Hospital Research Center, Denver
M.D., ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Permanente Medical Group

Brenda L. Bass
1985 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Hal Weintraub, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Distinguished Prof., University of Utah

Francis X. Sullivan
1986 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Chris Walsh, Harvard Medical School
Array BioPharma, Inc.

N. Kyle Tanner     
1986 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
NIH Postdoc. Fellow with John Abelson, Cal Tech and Claude Jacq. Paris
Member, RNA Helicases Team, CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot

James V. Price
1986 Ph.D. in MCDB           
ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Trudy Schupbach, Princeton
Professor of Biology, Utah Valley State College

Christopher J. Dunn
1988 M.S. in Chemistry      
Yavapai College, Chino Valley, AZ

Gregg B. Morin
1988 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Joan Steitz, Yale
Assistant Prof., University of California, Davis; Geron Corp.; BC Cancer Agency., Vancouver, Canada

Elisabeth T. Barfod
1988 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
NIH Postdoc. Fellow with Jeremy Thorner, UC Berkeley
Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; Lecturer, Univ. of Vermont

Peter J. Flor          
1989 M.A. in MCDB            
Grad. Student with H. Saedler, Max Planck Institute, Koln (Ph.D. 1992)

M. K. Raghuraman
1990 Ph.D. in MCDB           
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with W. Fangman, U. Washington
Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Benjamin Young
1990 Ph.D. in MCDB     
M.D., University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Health Sciences Center, 1993
Rose Medical Center Denver, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥

Felicia L. Murphy
1992 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Deceased

John T. Gray
1992 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Postdoc. Fellow with Richard Mulligan, Harvard Medical School
Director Vector Develop. & Production, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

William D. Downs
1993 Ph.D. in MCDB           
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Jim Preiss, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Instructor, Univ. of Puget Sound

Jennifer A. Dávila-Aponte 
1993 Ph.D. in MCDB   
Postdoc. Fellow at MSU-DOE Plant Res. Lab, Michigan State U., East Lansing, MI
Research Scientist, Divergence, St. Louis

Brian J. Hicke
1993 Ph.D. in MCDB   
Postdoc. Fellow at NeXstar, Boulder, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥
Global Technologies (NZ) Dunedin, New Zealand

Guowei Fang
1993 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Postdoc. Fellow with Hal Weintraub, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Helen Hay Whitney
Postdoc. Fellow with Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School
Asst. Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford U.; Project Leader, Genentech, So. San Francisco; Head of Biology, Oncology Discovery, Abbvie, Chicago; Head of Discovery, Pharmacyclics, Sunnyvale, CA; Senior VP, Zymeworks, Vancouver, BC

Christopher P. Rusconi
Postdoc, Bruce Sullenger, Duke University; Chief Research Officer, Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, Durham, NC

Timothy S. McConnell
1994 Ph.D. in Chemistry  
Postdoc. Fellow with Joan Steitz, Yale
Scientist, Rib-X Pharm., New Haven, CT

Philip W. Hammond
1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Senior Scientist at Mosaic, Boston, MA; Phylos, Boston, MA; Group Leader, Molecular Biology, Xencor, Inc.

Lara B. Weinstein
1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Postdoc. Fellow with Scott Strobel and Joan Steitz, Yale
Senior Editor, Cell Press, Cambridge

Michael A. Tanner
1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Postdoc. Fellow with Norman Pace, University of California, Berkeley
Sr. Scientist, Kairos Scientific Inc., Santa Clara, CA.; Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA.

Moira Hagen
1999 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Postdoc. Fellow with Thomas Campbell , University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Health Sciences Center

Toru M. Nakamura
1999 Ph.D in Chemistry     
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Paul Russell, Scripps Research Inst., LaJolla
Assoc. Prof. U. Illinois at Chicago, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Kara Juneau
2000 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
Postdoc Fellow with Ronald Davis at Stanford University

Jamie Sperger
2001 Ph.D.in Chemistry     
Postdoc. Fellow with Jamie Thompson at University of Wisconsin; Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

April Livengood
2002 Ph.D. in MCDB
Postdoc. Fellow with Dennis Carson, University of California, San Diego

Anita Seto
2003 Ph.D.in Chemistry     
Postdoc. Fellow with Robert Kingston, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston;
Scientist, MiRagen, Boulder CO:
Director of Clinical Science, Artiva, San Diego CA

Robert Gottlieb
2003 Ph.D. in Chemistry    
M.D., ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Health Sciences, Denver
Cardiologist, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, Dallas, TX

Stefan Aigner
2003 Ph.D.in Chemistry    
Postdoc. Fellow with Fred Gage, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
Scientist, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel
Project Scientist, UC San Diego

Chrysa Latrick
2009 Ph.D.in Chemistry   
Postdoc. Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Scientist, Mosaic, Boulder CO

Andrew Dalby
2014 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Business Architect/Program Manager Invitae

Linghe Xi
2015 Ph.D. in MCDB
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, New York City, NY
Principal Scientist, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge MA

Katherine C. Goldfarb
2016 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Regenerative Medicine and Genome Editing (REGEN) Program, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO

Xueyin Wang
2017 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Scientist at A2 Biotherapeutics, Thousand Oaks CA

Daniel Youmans
2021 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
2023 MD University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ School of Medicine
2023 - present: Physician Scientist Training Program, UCSD