Katrina Hoyer, PhD (1999-2004)
Graduate Student
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Katrina was a post-doc at UCSF in the lab of Abbul Abbas working on the mechanisms of T cell tolerance from 2004-2012. She is currently an Assistant Professor at UC Merced in the School of Natural Sciences.
Rhine Shen, PhD (2001-2006)
Graduate Student
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Rhine was a post-doc in the lab of William Hahn at Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, studying metastasis. She is currently a Discovery Scientist at Agensys, Inc., in Santa Monica, CA.
Hsiao-Wen Chen, PhD (2003-2008)
Graduate Student
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Hsiao-Wen is currently working in the lab of Doug Wallace at UC Irvine to study mitochondrial metabolism.
Ali Kuraishy, PhD (2003-2008)
Graduate Student
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Ali was a postdoctoral research fellow in the HHMI lab of Michael Karin at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, studying the epigenetics of cancer from 2008-2012. He is currently a Scientist at Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA.
Cynthia Balatoni Deignan, PhD (2004-2009)
Graduate Student
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Cynthia joined Amgen, Inc. in Thousand Oaks as a Science Writer. She is currently the Director of Scientific Affairs at Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Matthew Frank, MD PhD (2005-2009) MSTP
Graduate Student
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Resident, Internal Medicine, Beth Israel/Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, 2009-2012
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Fellow, Hematology/Oncology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2013-2020
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Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2020-
Mara Sherman, PhD (2006-2010)
Graduate Student
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Mara was a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Ronald Evans at the Salk Institute studying pancreatic cancer from 2010-2016. She moved on as an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology Department at Oregon Health & Science University from 2016-2022.
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Recently, Mara relocated to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she is a Professor of Cancer Biology & Genetics studying the tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer.
Jin Zhang, PhD (2007-2011)
Graduate Student
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When Jin left the Teitell lab, he became a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of George Daley, HHMI Professor and Dean of the Medical School at Harvard University, studying tumorigenesis and the Warburg effect.
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Currently, Jin is Director, Zhejiang University Medical Center Gene & Cell Engineering Division, and Affiliated professor, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, China.
Olivia Schontzler, MS (2010-2012)
Graduate Student
Lydia Zheng, MS (2009-2012)
Graduate Student
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Lydia is currently studying to obtain an D.O. in medicine.
Christine Van Horn, MS (2011-2013)
Graduate Student
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Christine is currently in Medical School at the University of Southern California, CA, Class of 2018
Dana Case, MS (2013-2014)
Graduate Student
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Dana is currently the lead Software Engineer at Histowiz, a full service histology company in Brooklyn, New York.
Jennifer Chun, PhD (2009-2014)
Graduate Student
Nicole Walsh, PhD (2007-2015)
Graduate Student
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Nicole is currently working as a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dale Greiner at the University of Massachusetts Medical School studying humanized mouse models of cancer immunology.
Tara TeSlaa, MS, PhD (2011-2017)
Graduate Student
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Tara was a post-doctoral fellow from 2017-2022 in the lab of Joshua Rabinowitz in the Departments of Chemistry and Integrative Genomics in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University studying quantitative whole body metabolism.
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Tara is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Eriko Shimada, PhD (2010-2018)
Graduate Student
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Eriko is a consultant at axiom healthcare strategies. She provides competitive intelligence and clinical development analysis to support strategic decision making in the pharmaceutical industry.
Lynnea Waters, PhD (2012-2018)
Graduate Student
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Lynnea is a Medical Communications Manager - US Oncology at Amgen, Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA, where she makes materials for congresses and speaks to doctors and patients about the science behind oncology products.
Dian Huang, PhD (2013-2019)
Graduate Student
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Dian is a Life Science Consultant at Putnam Associates in San Francisco. She consults on products, such as therapeutic or medical devices, throughout their development.
Jason Hong, PhD (2011-2020)
Graduate Student
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Jason is currently a Scientist at ImmunityBio, Inc., Culver City & El Segundo, CA, where he is working on immunotherapy against cancer.
Diane Kim, PhD (2014-2021)
Graduate Student
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Diane is a Fellow at Goldman Sachs in Boston, MA, in the Biotechnology Global Investment Research division.
Alexander Sercel, PhD (2016-2021)
Graduate Student
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Alex is currently a post doc in Martin Picard's Mitochondrial PsychoBiology Laboratory at Columbia University.
Vivian Lu, PhD (2017-2022)
Graduate Student
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Vivian is currently a Scientific Affairs Liaison at Deepcell, Inc, Menlo Park, CA, where she uses artificial intelligence and single cell morpholomics to interrogate biology.
Alejandro Torres (2017-2022)
Graduate Student (2019-2022)
Staff Research Associate I (2018-2019)
CSUN-UCLA CIRM Bridges Scholar (2017-2018)
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Alejandro is currently a graduate student in the lab of Sophie Deng, M.D., Ph.D. at UCLA.