Teitell Lab
CURRENT MEMBERS [FORMER MEMBERS]
Samuel French MD PhD
(2000-2006)

Sam is an Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine. He currently works on Hepatitis C-mediated hepatocarcinogenesis.

David Dawson MD PhD
(2002-2006)

Dave is an Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine and studies the role of epigenetics in cancer development.

Daphne Weihs PhD
(2003-2006)

Daphne is a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion in Israel studying bio-microrheology and drug activity on live cells.

Angara Zambrano, PhD
(2010-2012)

Angara is an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, continuing her studies on the role of CRTC2 in gene regulation and development.

Herbert Eradat MD
(2006-2008)

Herbert is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology at UCLA, specializing in leukemia and lymphoma.

Christine Bonzon PhD
(2006-2008)

Ivan Khvorostov PhD
(2007-2009)

Ivan passed away on July 15, 2009 and is greatly missed by members of the Teitell lab, family and friends.

Ksenia Bagrintseva MD
(2004-2005)


Ksenia is currently working in the lab of Jacques Ghysdael as a post-doc at the Institut Curie, Paris, France, studying signal transduction in the immune system.

Jin Zhang PhD
(2007-2011)

Jin is currently working as a post-doc in the lab of George Daley at Harvard University studying tumorigenesis and the Warburg effect.

Mara Sherman

Mara Sherman PhD
(2006-2010)

Mara is currently working as a post-doc in the lab of Ronald Evans at the Salk Institute studying pancreatic cancer.

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Matthew Frank MD PhD
(2005-2009)

MSTP Program

Matt is a Resident in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel/Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA.

 

Cynthia Balatoni Deignan PhD
(2004-2009)


Cynthia is currently working for Amgen as a Medical Communications Manager in the Inflamation Business Unit in Thousand Oaks, CA.

 

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Ali Kuraishy PhD
(2003-2008)


Ali is currently working as a post-doc in the lab of Michael Karin at the University of California, San Diego, studying the epigenetics of prostate cancer.

Hsiao-Wen Chen PhD
(2003-2008)


Hsiao-Wen is currently working in the lab of Doug Wallace at UC Irvine to study mitochondrial metabolism.
Rhine Shen PhD
(2001-2006)


Rhine is currently working as a post-doc in the lab of William Hahn at Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, studying metastasis.
Katrina Hoyer PhD
(1999-2004)

Katrina is currently a post-doc at UCSF in the lab of Abbul Abbas working on the mechanisms of T cell tolerance.

 

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Brenda Mueller
Administrative Assistant (2000-2011)

B.S. - Washington State U, 1987, Microbiology

Geoff Smith
Laboratory Manager
Research Associate I (2008-2010)


B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2008, Physiological Sciences

Geoff is now a medical student at Jefferson Medical College.

 

Sheraz Kalim
Research Associate I (2006-2009)

B.S. - UC Riverside, 2004, Chemistry

Sheraz is currently working as an instructor in the department of Organic Chemistry at UC Riverside.

Eric Allen
Laboratory Manager
Research Associate II (2007-2009)


Eric is currently working at the National Cancer Centre of Singapore as a research officer.

Josh Troke
Laboratory Manager
Research Associate II (2004-2007)
M.D. Stanford Medical SChool, Palo Alto, CA (2007-2011)


Josh is currently a Resident in Emergency Medicine at UCLA.

Grant Sanders
Lab Technician I (2005-2007)

Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellow (2005-2007)

Grant is currently a medical student at UCSF, San Francisco, CA. Class of 2011.

 

Lisa Reznik
(Lab Technician 2003-2004)

UC Davis Veterinary School, Davis, CA.

Mai Nyugen
(Lab Technician 2001-2004)

Lab Technician, Burnham Institute, San Diego, CA.
Larry Wong
(Lab Technician 2001-2003)

Graduate School. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Mathilde Renard
(Lab Technician 2000-2003)

Lab Technician, Genfit S.A., Lille, France

Mindy Miner PhD
(Lab Technician 1999-2001)

PhD, Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Post-doc at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute in Seattle, WA

Mindy is currently a Technical Editor for Dr. Larry Corey, President Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), Seattle, WA and she also teaches biology at Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA

Devin Turner
(Lab Technician 1998-2000)

Graduate Student. Harvard, Boston, MA.

Roonalika Wisidagama
(2010-2011)

CSUN-UCLA CIRM Bridges Scholar
rukiee84@yahoo.com

B.S. - California State University, Northridge, 2009, Honors Biotechnology/Chemistry

Roo is currently a research assistant at the California State University, Northridge.

   

Anna Do
(2007-2010)
Undergraduate Assistant
annado@ucla.edu

B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2010, Physiological Sciences

Anna is currently a medical student at Stanford in the class of 2015.

Jackie Tran
(2009)

B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2011 (expected)

 

Caitlin Callahan
(2007-2009)

B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2009, Biochemistry

Caitlin Callahan is currently a medical student at Michigan State University.

Kelly Fan
(2006-2009)

B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2009, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

Kelly Fan is currently a medical student at UCSD.


Arye Lipman
(2005-2008)

B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2008, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Arye is currently a Research Associate for Imagine Antibody.

Jane Suh
(2007)

High School Volunteer

Jane is currently an undergraduate student at Harvard University.

Mike Cummings
(2007)

B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2007, Biochemistry
Elizabeth Kay
(2006 Summer Undergraduate)

B.S. - Johns Hopkins, 2007, Political Science, Biology
David Carreon
(2003-2006)


B.S. - UC Los Angeles, 2007


David is currently a medical Student at Stanford in Palo Alto, CA in the class of 2012.
Henry Lin
(2003-2005)


Henry is now in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.
Andrea Huber
(2003-2005)

Andrea is now a medical student at Drexel Medical School, Philadelphia, PA, Class of 2010



Kathleen Kong
(2003-2004)

MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL


Jason Weinger
(2002-2004)

PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Louis Savar MD
(2001)

MD, UCSF, San Fransisco, CA.
Resident, Opthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA.

Patricia Koh MD
(1998-2000)


Family Practitioner. UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.

Michael Lee MD
(1997-1998)


Orthopedic Surgeon. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.