Alumni

Past Graduate Students (see Photo Stream below)

  1. Ernest Levroney (URiM, African-American) (CMB T32 GM007185, then F31 AI061824)

  2. Patrick Hong

  3. Hoorig Nassanian

  4. Oscar Negrete (URiM, Latino-American) (CMB T32 GM007185, then Dissertation Fellowship)

  5. Jennifer Fulcher (MD/PhD candidate) (Immunology T32 AI07126)

  6. Sandra Nguyen (M.Sc.)

  7. Sara Tajyar Hashimi (NSF, DGE-9987641 Bioinformatics training grant)

  8. Michael Christopher Wolf (MPTG T32 AI007323)

  9. Yao Wang (Foreign student, Beijing University)

  10. Margaret Chang (MD/PhD candidate) (F30 HL096392)

  11. Karina Palomares (URiM, Latino-American) (Cota Robles Fellowship)

  12. Kelechi Chikere (URiM, African-American) (MPTG T32 AI007323)

  13. Arnold Park (4/2009 – 8/2014) (CMB T32 GM007185), Warsaw Fellowship

  14. Nicholas Webb (7/2010 – 8/2015) (CMB T32 GM007185)

  15. Shannon Beaty (started 7/2011) (MPTG T32 AI007323) -transferred to ISMMS (VTG T32 AI07647), defended 10/24/2016

  16. Kristopher Azarm (7/2015 - 4/2020), (F31 AI133943), defended 04/26/2020

  17. Kasopefoluwa (Sope) Oguntuyo (MD/PhD candidate) (F31 AI154739) (07/2017-05/2021), defended 05/07/2021

  18. Christian Stevens (MD/PhD candidate) (0259-A811) (2018-05/2023), defended 05/17/2023


Past Post-doctoral Fellows (see Photo Stream below)

(1) Kevin B. Gurney (3/01/02 to 7/31/04) (Immunology T32 AI07126)

  • presently Director, Cell based Assay center for excellence, Merck, NJ

(2) Stephen V. Su (10/01/01 to 11/01/05)

  • presently Principal Scientist, Moderna Therapeutics, Boston, MA

(3) Hector C. Aguilar (Post-doc, 4/15/03 to 07/31/07; Assist Researcher, 08/07 to 06/11)

  • Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

(4) Zeynep Akyol-Ataman (10/02/06 to 10/31/11),

  • presently Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Mt San Jacinto College, Orange, CA

(5) Patrick Hong (07/01/08 to 9/21/11) (Rheumatology T32)

  • presently, Scientist, Regeneron (Tarrytown, NY)

(6) Frederic Vigant (12/01/08 to 10/31/16)

  • presently Senior Scientist, Vectorology and Biosafety, F1 Oncology (San Diego, CA)

(7) Mickey Pentecost (02/01/10 to 01/31/15)

  • 9/10-8/12: Virology & Gene Therapy T32 AI060567

  • 02/01/13-01/31/15: F32 AI100498 (Priority Score: 10)

  • presently, CEO, Diadem Biotherapeutics

(8) Olivier Pernet (01/05/2011 to 06/30/2014)

  • presently Lecturer at UCLA College of Arts & Sciences

(9) Arnold Park (08/2014 – 12/2016)

  • now Scientist/Post-doc with Skip Virgin at Vir Biotechnology, Inc. San Francisco, CA


Past Clinical MD Fellows (Research Training, UCLA) (see Photo Stream below)

(1) Samantha Johnston, M.D. (7/1/05 to 6/15/08) (VGT T32 AI060567)

  • Pediatrics Infectious Disease Fellow (no previous bench experience)

  • presently Staff Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland (CHRCO)

(2) Shirley Delair, M.D., MPH (07/01/07 to 06/15/10)  (URiM, Haitian-American)

  • Pediatrics Infectious Disease Fellow (no previous bench experience)

  • presently Associate Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center; Director of Pediatric Residency Global Health Track

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