ALUMNI - POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS
Timothy Laing, MD
1985-1987
Now: Professor, Vice Chair, Internal Medicine,
Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Bernhard Manager, MD
1985-1987
Now: Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of Erlangen, West Germany
Linda K. Bockenstedt, MD
1985-1989
Now: Harold W. Jockers Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT
Gary Koretzky, MD, PhD
1987-1991
Now: Professor and Dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
and Senior Associate Dean for Research at Weill Cornell Medical College
Joel Picus, MD
1988-1991
Now: Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine,
Medical Oncology, Washington Univ., School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Martha Graber, MD
1988-1992
Now: Assoc. Professor, Div. of Nephrology,
Dept. of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
James Fraser, PhD
1988-1993
Now: Executive Director, Pfizer Vaccine, Inc., NJ
Lee Tan, PhD
1988-1993
Now: Associate Director, Practice Group Leader, Genentech, Inc. So. San Francisco, CA
Andrew Chan, MD, PhD
1989-1993
Now: Senior Vice President-Research Biology, Genentech, Inc.,
So. San Francisco, CA
Makio Iwashima, PhD
1989-1994
Now: Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology,
Loyola Medical School, Chicago, IL
David Strauss, PhD
1989-1994
Now: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biology,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Charlottesville, VA
Peter Stein, MD
1990-1994
Now: Rheumatology Private Practice, Kentfield, CA
Louise Howe, Ph.D.
1993-1996
Now: Associate Research Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology,
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Alicia Fry, MD
1994-1997
Now: Medical Officer, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
Nicolai Van Oers, PhD
1994-1997
Now: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Microbiology,
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Dapeng Qian, PhD
1994-1997
Now: CEO, Huapu Bio, Shanghai, China
Virgina Shapiro, PhD
1994-2000
Now: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Immunology, Mayo Clinic Medical School,
Rochester, MN
Qihong Zhao, PhD
1994-1998
Now: Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb, Inc., Princeton, NJ
Charlene Liao, PhD
1995-1996
Now: Project Team Leader, Genentech, Inc., So. San Francisco, CA
Deborah Yablonski, PhD
1995-1999
Now: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Bente Lowin-Kropf, PhD
1995-1998
Now: German Language Instructor, Oman
Tim Finco, PhD
1995-1999
Now: Professor, Dept. of Biology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
Lawrence P. Kane, PhD
1996-2000
Now: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Immunology,
Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Kristen Lynch, PhD
1997-2001
Now: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Jeffrey M. Critchfield, MD
1997-2001
Now: Professor of Clinical Medicine, Chief of Staff, SFGH, UCSF
Michelle Kuhne, PhD
1997-2001
Now: Senior Scientist II, Immuno-Oncology, Biology, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA
Jeanne Baker, PhD
1998-2000
Now: Group Leader, Protein Science, Redwood Bioscience, Emeryville, CA
Michael Tomlinson, PhD
1999-2003
Now: Senior Lecturer, Cells and Molecules Research Theme Lead, School of Biosciences, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Jeroen Roose, PhD
1999-2004
Now: Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, UCSF
Tiffani Cook, PhD
1999-2000
Now: Senior Scientist, Integral Molecular, Inc. Philadelphia, PA
Michelle Hermiston, MD, PhD
2000-2007
Now: Associate Professor, Hematology/Oncology, Dept. of Pediatrics, UCSF
Ajay Nirula, MD, PhD
2001-2005
Now: Vice President, Immunology, Lilly Research Laboratories, San Diego, CA
Leonard Dragone, MD, PhD
2001-2003
Now: Vice President, Head of Early Development, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, CA
Hyewon Phee, PhD
2001-2012
Now: Director, Immuno-Oncology, IGM Biosciences, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Zheng Xu, PhD
2003-2004
Now: Staff Scientist, Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA
Jing Zhu, PhD
2002-2012
Now: Clinical Scientist, Genentech, Inc., So. San Francisco, CA
Tomas Brdicka, PhD
2003-2007
Now: Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Soren Beinke, PhD
2005-2008
Now: Scientific Director, Genomic Immunology, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Stevenage, UK
Andre Limnander, PhD
2005-2011
Now: Senior Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY
Tamiko Katsumoto, MD
2006-2013
Now: Assistant Clinical Professor, Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Julie Zikherman, MD
2006-2013
Now: Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Dept. of Medicine, UCSF
Ethan Corcoran, MD, PhD
2006-2008
Now: Pulmonary Physician, Kaiser Health Center, Portland, OR
Jamie Schoenborn, PhD
2007-2010
Now: Senior Proposal Development Officer, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Hannah Sjolin-Goodfellow, PhD
2008-2012
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Sweden-American/Wenner-Gren Foundations
Tanya Freedman, PhD
2007-2014
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota
Boryana Manz, PhD
2011-2014
Now: Manager, Data Science at Capital One, Dallas, TX
Henrik Flach, PhD
2011-2015
Now: Medical Advisor, CAR T / Lymphoma, Celgene, Inc. / Bristol-Myers Squibb, Munich, Germany
Haopeng Wang, PhD
2009-2015
Now: Associate Professor, Shanghai Institute of Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Byron Au-Yeung, PhD
2007-2016
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Lowance Center for Human Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Lih-Yun (Lyn) Hsu, PhD
2005-2017
Now: Staff Scientist, Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc., Berkeley, CA
Luying Jia, PhD
2016-2018
Now: Associate Director of R&D, Cure Genetics Co., Ltd., China
Adam Courtney, PhD
2012-2018
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ynes Helou, PhD
2015-2020
Now: Scientist II, Rheos Medicines, Cambridge, MA
Wan-Lin Lo, PhD
2013-2021
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
ALUMNI - GRADUATE STUDENTS
Mark A. Goldsmith, MD
1986-1988
Now: CEO, Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. and Nurix Inc.
Partner, Third Rock Ventures, San Francisco
Brian A. Irving, PhD
1989-1993
Now: Director of Cancer Immunology, CytomX, So. San Francisco, CA
Dev Desai, MD
1990-1994
Now: Chief, Pediatric Transplantation, Assoc. Professor,
Transplant Surgery, UTSW, Dallas, TX
Jun Wu, PhD
1991-1997
Now: Chairman and Managing Partner, Cenova Ventures
Monica Sieh Moore, PhD
1994-1996
Now: Housewife
David H. Chu, MD
1994-1999
Now: Dermatologist, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA
Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD
1994-2000
Now: Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
Jen Liou, PhD
1994-2001
Now: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology, UTSW, Dallas, TX
Tomasz Sosinowski, PhD
1992-2001
Now: Senior Scientist, BioCheck, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Zheng Xu, PhD
1994-2003
Now: Scientist, Illumina, San Diego, CA
Gregory M. Ku, MD, PhD
1998-2002
Now: Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes Center, UCSF
Joseph Lin, PhD
1999-2004
Now: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Sonoma State Univ.
Margaret Myers, PhD
1999-2005
Now: Postdoc, Greg Payne Lab, UCLA
Emil Palacios, PhD
2001-2007
Now: Principle Scientist, Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA
Vikas Gupta, MD, PhD
2001-2007
Now: Instructor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA
Susan Levin, PhD
2003-2007
Now: Lecturer, Department of Biology, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Ying Xim Tan, PhD
2008-2013
Now: Research Scientist, Medisix Therapeutics, Singapore
Kasia Skrzypczynska, PhD
2010-2016
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Jackson Egen Lab, Immunology/Oncology, Amgen, So. San Francisco, CA
Geoffrey A. Smith, PhD
2012-2017
Now: Pediatrics Resident and Physician Scientist, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA