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.

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.

Herbert Eradat MD
(2006-2008)

Herbert is a Clinical Instructor transitioning into a faculty position 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

   
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Matthew Frank PhD
(2005-2009)

MSTP Program

Matt is currently completing his MD degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine as part of his enrollment in UCLA's MSTP Program.

Cynthia Balatoni Deignan PhD
(2004-2009)


Cynthia is currently working for Amgen as their Medical Communications Manager apart of their 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.

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


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

Geoff 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)


Josh is now a medical student at Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA, Class of 2011.

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

Mindy is currently a Post-doc at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute in Seattle, WA

Devin Turner
(Lab Technician 1998-2000)

Graduate Student. Harvard, Boston, MA.
   
Anna Do
(2007-2010)
Undergraduate Assistant
annado@ucla.edu

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