Alumni

Graduate Students

NameYearsPost-Doctoral PositionCurrent Position
Ashkaan Younai2007-2011Northwestern University (Scheidt Group)Scientist I, FLX Bio
James Biggs-Houck2007-2011n/aIntel
Michelle Kim2007-2011Emory University (Liotta Group)Postdoctoral Researcher at Emory University (Liotta Group) (2015-present)
AJ Brockway2008-2013UT Southwestern (De Brabander Group)Associate Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Nektar Therapeutics
Charles Grove2008-2013Rice University (Nicolaou Group)Process Scientist, AMPAC Fine Chemicals
Nohemy Sorto2008-2013Max-Planck Institute (List Group)Postdoctoral Researcher at Max-Planck Institute (List Group)
Darlene Tan2008-2013n/a
Jared Moore2009-2014California Institute of Technology (Stoltz Group)Scientist, ORIC Pharmaceuticals
Kevin Martin2009-2014The Scripps Research Institute (Schultz Group)Patent Agent, Morrison and Foerster LLP
Gabriella Nepomuceno2010-2015n/aCalifornia CCST
Mike Di Maso2012-2016n/aAssociate Principal Scientist, Merck
Kellan Lamb2012-2017n/aUC Davis Risk and Safety Solutions Group
Richard Squitieri2013-2017Northwestern University (Scheidt Group)Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University
Stephen Laws2014-2019Northwestern University (Scheidt Group)Process Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Lucas Moore2014-2019n/aProcess Scientist, AMPAC Fine Chemicals
Leslie Nickerson2015-2019Smith CollegePostdoctoral Researcher
Noah Burlow2015-2020n/aProcess Scientist, AMPAC Fine Chemicals
Christine Dimirjian2016-2020n/aProcess Scientist, Orbiter Research
Nina Howard2017-2021UCSF (Seiple Group)
Anna Lo2017-2022Yale (Herzon Group)
Lucas Souza2017-2022Novartis/UCLA (Doyle Group)
Ben Bergstrom2018-2022n/aSenior Scientist 1, Abbvie
Sarah Dishman2019-2023n/aSenior Scientist, Merck
David Gutierrez2019-2023n/aLyterian Therapeutics

 

Masters Students

NameYearsPost-Doctoral PositionCurrent Position
Clarissa Tadeus2012-2014n/aNovartis
Valerie Huynh2013-2015n/aGilead Sciences
Blanka Hodur2014-2016n/aGilead Sciences
Andrea Faulkner2013-2017n/aResearch Associate, Pliant Therapeautics
Nicole Cooper2016-2018n/aSr. Research Associate, REVOLUTION medicines

 

Postdoctoral Researchers

NameYearsCurrent Position
Yuchen Tang2007-2009Independent financial consultant
Marcos González-López2006-2008Senior Scientist I (Medicinal Chemistry), IGNYTA, Inc.
Young Sam Park2008-2010Scientist at Samsung Basic Research
Max Mahoney2010-2013Professor, Sierra College
Cristian Soldi2010-2013Professor,Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Campus de Curitibanos
Ed Balmond2014-2016Senior Scientist, Proximagen
Jesus Cordova Guerrero2016-2017Assistant Professor, California Lutheran University
Mingchun Gao2018-2021
Tarun Kumar Roy2022-2023

 

Undergraduate Researchers

NameYearsPost-Undergraduate
Greg Chin2007-2009Gilead Sciences
Katherine Hurley2008-2010Graduate Student at UW Madison
Dattesh Dave2008-2009UCSF, Masters in Global Health
Flora Rutaganira2009-2010Hanna Gray ChemBio Postdoc at UC Berkeley
Incoming Assistant Professor at Stanford
Ruben Martinez2008-2010Graduate Student at The Scripps Research Institute (Shenvi Group)
Austin Smith2010-2011Associate Chemist, Nanosys
Amy Atherton2010-2012Founder, Amy's Healthy Baking
Francisco Sarabia2012-2013Graduate Student at University of Georgia (Ferreira Group)
Manuel Munoz2012-2013Gilead Sciences
Molly Fensterwald2012-2013Undergraduate Surgical Intern, UC Davis School of Medicine
Katie Chan2012-2014Graduate Student at Cal Tech (Reisman Group)
Luiz Pollo2013-2014Graduate Student at UCSF
Galen Shearn-Nance2013-2015Associate at Novartis (Emeryville)
Zi Yao2014-2015Graduate Student at UC-Irvine
Michael St. Peter2014-2015Associate at Seattle Genomics
Ana Martinho2014-2016
Corinne Penrod2016-2017Dow Chemical
Ada Kwong2015-2017Graduate Student at Northwestern
Tomas Garcia2016-2017
Tony Moreno2017-2018Graduate Student at UCLA
Matthew Culberson2017-2018Graduate Student at University of Michigan
Nolan Turman2017-2019Graduate Student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Martin Bravo2018-2019Pfizer
Nicolas Havenner2018-2019Graduate Student at Texas A&M University
Kaia Yellowhorse2019-2021Pfizer
Daniel Duan2019-2021Graduate Student at Duke University
Kristin Shimabukuro2020-2021Graduate Student at Emory University (Davies Group)
Jeffrey Toman2021-2022Biotium
Emily Jimenez2021-2023Graduate Student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tania Shahvali2023-2024Graduate Student at University Colorado Boulder
Michael Yasuda2023-2024Graduate Student at Rice University