The UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program

Student Directory

 

Please welcome the 2009 incoming MSTP students:
  

 

Amy Baohan, Columbia University

 

*Yoon Han, UC Berkeley

 

Wesley Kerr, University of Pennsylvania

 

Esther Nie, Yale University

 

Gwen Owens, Cornell University

 

Jin Park, Harvard University

 

Adam Singer, UC Berkeley

 

Zachary Sun, Harvard University

 

Olivia Twu, Ohio State University (MD2)

 

Genaro Villa, UC Los Angeles

 

 

 

2nd year Medical Students - David Geffen School of Medicine

Name

Undergraduate Institution
Jacob W. Aptekar Harvard University
Andria Balogh MIT
Anthony Daggett UC San Diego
Scott M. Knowles Tulane University
Anthony J. Linares Pomona College
Arnav Mehta Duke University
Onika D. Noel University of Rochester
Ivan Osokine UC Berkeley
Neelroop N. Parikshak Rice University
Anna D. Reichardt Stanford University
Rebecca B. Rojansky Stanford University
Shiru Schokrpur UC Berkeley

 

PhD Trainees
Name Undergraduate Institution Advisor/Graduate Department
David Akhavan UC Berkeley P. Mischel/Mol & Med Pharmacology
Erik S. Anderson Univ. of Pennsylvania D. Black/Molecular Biology IDP
Valerie Arboleda Columbia Univ E. Vilain/Human Genetics
Marvin G. Chang Johns Hopkins Univ J. Weiss
Margaret Cheng UC Los Angeles B. Lee/Pathology (CMPC)
John Colby UC San Diego E. Sowell/BME
Kathryn A. Cross Univ. of Pennsylvania  
Chris Crowley Univ. of Montana T. Yeates/Molecular Biology IDP
Adam C. Frank Univ. of Pittsburgh A. Silva/Neuroscience IDP
Tova Fuller UC Los Angeles S. Horvath/Human Genetics
Amir Ghaffari UC Irvine G. Chang/Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
Julia Goodnough Stanford Univ T. Ganz/Pathology
Kishan Gupta UC Berkeley H. T. Blair/Neuroscience IDP
Nathan Hageman Johns Hopkins Univ A. Toga/Neuroscience IDP
Victoria Ho Claremont McKenna College K. Martin/ Neuroscience IDP
Charles Hummel Pomona College E. Wright/Physiology
Steven Jonas Univ. of Michigan B. Dunn/Engineering
Omid Kohannim UC Los Angeles P. Thompson/Biomath
Lisa A. Kohn UC Berkeley G. Crooks/Pathology (CMPC)
Amit Lakhanpal Harvard Univ M. Elowitz/Biology - Caltech
Binghai Ling Caltech P. Tontonoz/Molecular Biology IDP
Su-Yang Liu Brown Univ G. Chang/Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
Lotus Loo UC Los Angeles G. Chang/Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
Kevin McEvoy UC Berkeley C. Portera-Cailliau/Neuroscience IDP
Alejandro Meruelo Caltech J. Bowie/Molecular Biology IDP
Alissa F. Minkovsky UC Los Angeles  
Evan D. Nair-Gill Univ. of Chicago O. Witte/Mol & Med Pharmacology
Kelley C. O'Donnell St. John's College A. Sagasti/Neuroscience IDP
Vishal Patel Brown Univ A. Toga/Biomedical Engineering
John Phillips Yale Univ P. Dervan/Chemistry - Caltech
Yan Poon UC Berkeley D. Rees/Chemistry - Caltech
Bahram Razani Rice Univ G. Cheng/Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
Jessica Reddy UC Irvine MSTP Office
Jessica Rexach Cornell Univ L. H. Wilson (Y. Sun)/Neuroscience IDP
Ezra Rosen MIT D. Geschwind/Neuroscience IDP
Jeffrey Rudie Wash. Univ. St. Louis M. Dapretto/Neuroscience IDP
Ryan Schmidt Univ.  of Pennsylvania K. Plath/Neuroscience IDP
Caroline Sham Univ.  of Chicago J. Braun/Pathology
Oscar Silva Santa Clara Univ C. Miceli/Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
Megan Y. So Stanford Univ M. Pellegrini/Bioinformatics
Elif Sozmen CSU - Sacramento T. Carmichael/Neuroscience IDP
Besim Uzgil UC Los Angeles K. Martin/Neuroscience IDP
David Van Valen MIT R. Phillips/Engineering - Caltech
Ophir Vermesh Stanford Univ J. Heath/Chemistry - Caltech
Kellen Winden UC San Diego D. Geschwind/Neuroscience IDP
David Wu Univ. of Chicago  S. Fraser/Bioengineering- Caltech
Ghiam Yamin UC Santa Cruz D. Teplow/Neuroscience IDP
Jonathan Young Reed College M. Elowitz/Biology - Caltech
Liu "Jimmy" Y. Zhao UC Berkeley D. Baltimore/Biology - Caltech
Jonathan E. Zuckerman Johns Hopkins Univ M. Davis/Bioengineering - Caltech

 

3rd Year Medical Students - David Geffen School of Medicine

Name

Undergraduate Institution
Allen Ardestani UC Los Angeles
Mark Dodson, PhD Univ. of N. Carolina
Matthew Frank, PhD MIT
Brent Kious, PhD Caltech
Stacey Maskarinec, PhD Univ. of Chicago
Patricio Riquelme, PhD UC Berkeley
Ramin Salehi-Rad, PhD UC Los Angeles
Carrie Shilyansky, PhD Caltech
Adam Sperling, PhD UC Santa Cruz
 

4th Year Medical Students - David Geffen School of Medicine

Name

Undergraduate Institution
Vikram Anand, PhD UC Los Angeles
J. Kate Baicy, PhD Univ. of Arizona
Jimmy Donkor, PhD CSU - San Bernardino
Jennifer Fulcher, PhD Univ. of Washington
Vaibhav "Bob" Medhekar, PhD

Georgetown Univ.
Esther Melamed, PhD UC Los Angeles
Arash Shahangian, PhD

UC Los Angeles
Adam J.T. Smith, PhD

Emory Univ
Jason Tarpley, PhD

Dickinson College
Asha Iyer, PhD

Stanford Univ