Alumni
| Name | Faculty Mentor | Graduating Year | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myra Alayoubi | Cahill | 2026 | |
| Sara Blagburn Blanco | DeNardo | 2026 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Yesenia Cabrera | Poe | 2026 | |
| Martina Cavallini | Peng, Y. | 2026 | |
| Leonardo Dionisio | Yang | 2026 | |
| Elisa Fazzari | Bhaduri | 2026 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Michael Gongwer | DeNardo | 2026 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Caitlin Goodpaster | DeNardo | 2026 | |
| Ryan Gorzek | Trachtenberg | 2026 | Senior Scientist Omics, Johnson & Johnson |
| Natalie Hawken | Geschwind | 2026 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Brittany Henry | Lara Ray | 2026 | |
| Max Melin | Churchland | 2026 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Danchau "Claudia" Nguyen | Bhaduri | 2026 | |
| Ari Schaler | De Biase | 2026 | Not Available |
| Darsol Seok | Freimer | 2026 | |
| Priyanka Sigar | Uddin | 2026 | Senior Consultant at Another Degree |
| Charles Smith | Uddin | 2026 | |
| Amy Than | Green | 2026 | Senior Mentor, Another Degree |
| Michelle Wu | Portera-Cailliau | 2026 | MD/PhD - Return to Medical School |
| Lewis Yu | Hsiao | 2026 | |
| Humza Zubair | Suthana | 2026 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Jessie Buth | Novitch/Gandal | 2025 | STEM Specialist/AI Trainer, DataAnnotation |
| Melis Cakar | Dapretto/Green | 2025 | Associate Consultant, Emerging Pharma ZS |
| Stephanie Chu | Leuchter | 2025 | Unknown |
| Conor Dorian | Golshani | 2025 | Neuroscientist Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley |
| Alexander Kostiuk | Ellingson | 2025 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Roy McReynolds III | Hinman | 2025 | Unknown |
| Mikhail Melnik | Gylys | 2025 | Unknown |
| Kathleen O'Hora | Bearden | 2025 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University |
| Natalie Shih | Carmichael | 2025 | Not Available |
| Norman Spivak | Bookheimer/Monti | 2025 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Anita Torossian | Adhikari | 2025 | Program Manager, Mass General Brigham |
| Lauren Wagner | Dapretto | 2025 | Scientist Human Factors, Exponent |
| Chaoqun Yin | Churchland | 2025 | Postdoctoral Scientist, UC San Francisco |
| Sarah Chang | Bearden/Narr | 2024 | Postdoc, UCSD |
| Trishala Chari | Portera-Cailliau | 2024 | Scientist In Vivo Pharmacology, Lundbeck |
| Elena Coley | Hsiao | 2024 | Unknown |
| Zoë Dobler | Portera-Cailliau | 2024 | Human Factors Scientist, Exponent |
| Marcelo Francia | Ophoff | 2024 | Unknown |
| Michelle Frazer | Poe | 2024 | Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry |
| Christopher Gabriel | DeNardo | 2024 | Field Application Scientist, Oxford Nanoimaging |
| Lauren Kupis | Uddin | 2024 | Lieutenant, Assistant Director of Research, Naval Aerospace Medical Institute |
| Benjamin Liu | Buonomano | 2024 | Postdoc, Stanford |
| Charltien Long | Masmanidis | 2024 | Unknown |
| Blake Madruga | Golshani | 2024 | Not Available |
| Stephanie Njau | Narr | 2024 | Project Lead, Testing Center Development Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science |
| Charles Schleifer | Bearden | 2024 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Gil Torten | Williams | 2024 | Medical Science Liaison-Central California, Dompe |
| Elizabeth Burnette | Ray | 2023 | Sr. Manager & Clinical Science Liaison, Autobahn Therapeutics Inc. |
| Elizabeth Cooke | White | 2023 | Patent Agent, Morrison Foerster |
| Jay Gill | Suthana | 2023 | MD/PhD - Return to Med School |
| Marlesa Godoy | Zhang | 2023 | Scientific Communications Manager, Amgen |
| Kelly Jameson | Jameson | 2023 | Manager, Texas Medical Center |
| Cassandra Klune | DeNardo | 2023 | Unknown |
| Mitchell Krawczyk | Zhang | 2023 | Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego |
| Talia Oughourlian | Ellingson | 2023 | Medical Science Liaison at Servier Pharmaceuticals |
| Ethan Rohrbach | Krantz | 2023 | Spatial Biology Specialist at Miltenyi Biotec |
| Joselyn Soto | Khakh | 2023 | Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, California State University Fullerton |
| Juyoun Yoo | Zipursky | 2023 | Postdoc, UCLA |
| Sam Bridges | Carmichael | 2022 | Postdoc, UCLA |
| Stephanie Cheung | Golshani | 2022 | MD/PhD - Return to Medical School |
| My La-Vu | Adhikari | 2022 | Associate Researcher II, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Megan Massa | Correa | 2022 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Haverford College |
| Peter Schuette | Adhikari | 2022 | Senior Field Scientific Consultant, Bruker Nano GmbH |
| Ana Sias | Wassum | 2022 | Scientist, Neurocrine Biosciences |
| Jeremy Trott | Fanselow | 2022 | Lecturer, UCLA |
| Scott Vincent | Paul | 2022 | Vice President of Operations, Glyphic Biotechnologies; Advisor, Berkeley Startup Cluster |
| Caitlin Aamodt | White | 2021 | Postdoc, UC San Diego |
| Bryce Bajar | Orkun/Zipursky | 2021 | MD/PhD- Ophthalmology Resident, UC San Francisco |
| Karen Cheng | Frye | 2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Bonn (Germany) |
| Jillian | Geschwind and Gandal | 2021 | Computational Genomics Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Zoe Guttman | London | 2021 | Policy Consultant and Campaign Strategist, Cortex Consulting |
| Ian Heimbuch | Charles | 2021 | Postdoctoral Scholar in Neurology, UC San Francisco |
| Andrew Howe | Blair | 2021 | Neural Modeling and Machine Learning Scientist, HRL Labs |
| Lyle Kingsbury | Hong | 2021 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow,Harvard University MCB |
| Amy Lin | Bearden | 2021 | Senior Scientist, Ultragenyx |
| Cassandra Meyer | Mackenzie-Graham | 2021 | Clinical Scientist,Genentech |
| Natalia Orendain | Bookheimer/Galvan | 2021 | Scientist and Biostatistician at Scripps Health| Scripps Research Translational Institute |
| Namita Padgaonkar | Dapretto | 2021 | Researcher, American Institutes for Research (AIR) |
| Sean Pianka | Lai | 2021 | Resident Physician Interventional Radiology at Mass General Brigham; Resident Editorial Fellow for the Journal of Vascular & Interventional Radiology |
| Vidya Saravanapandian | Jeste | 2021 | Director of Neuroscience Community Engagement and Public Education at the UCLA Brain Research Institute; UCLA IRACDA Neuroscience Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Catherine Schweppe | Carmichael | 2021 | Science Officer, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) |
| Jillian | Geschwind and Gandal | 2020 | Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Katherine Lawrence | Dapretto, M. | 2020 | Postdoc, University of Southern California |
| Janelle Liu | Dapretto | 2020 | Postdoctoral Scientist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
| Jeffrey Richman | Yang, W. | 2020 | Associate Consultant, ZS associates |
| Christopher Ching | Bearden, C. | 2019 | Postdoc, University of Southern California |
| Erica Arroyo | Portera-Cailliau, C. | 2018 | Unknown |
| Shivan Bonanno | Martin, K. | 2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA |
| Joel Frohlich | Jeste, S. | 2018 | Postdoc, University of Tuebingen |
| Nicholas Hardy | Buonomano, D. | 2018 | Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco |
| Roni Hazim | Williams, D. | 2018 | Postdoc, UCLA |
| Leanna Hernandez | Dapretto, M. | 2018 | Postdoc, UCLA |
| Christopher Nachun | Coppola, G. | 2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Wesley Smith | Masmanidis, S. | 2018 | Principal Scientific Researcher at a neurotech/manufacturing startup in Seoul (Cellames) |
| Elliot Swartz | Coppola, G. | 2018 | Academic Research Advisor, The Good Food Institute |
| Jennifer Tribble | Fanselow, M. | 2018 | Postdoc, Duke University |
| Courtney Yaeger | Tractenberg, T. | 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT |
| Madeline Andrews | Butler, S. | 2017 | Postdoc, UCSF |
| Kostya Bakhurin | Masmanidis, S. | 2017 | Postdoc, Duke University |
| Hua Chai | Khakh, B. | 2017 | Fellow Physician, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| David DiTullio | Carmichael, S. | 2017 | MD/PhD - Return to Medical School |
| Michael Einstein | Golshani, P. | 2017 | Senior Director, Simon-Kucher |
| Katherine Fehlhaber | Sampath | 2017 | Vice President of Global Education Strategy and Operations, The Fundingsland Group |
| Cynthia He | Portera-Cailliau, C. | 2017 | Resident Physician, UCSF |
| Ruyi Huang | Lu, D. | 2017 | Postdoc, UCLA |
| Shan Huang | Alcino, S. | 2017 | Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA |
| Rachel Jonas | Bearden, C. | 2017 | Scientist, Exponent |
| Donald Julien | Sagasti, A. | 2017 | Associate Director, Global Medical Affairs (Liver) |
| Sophie Rengarajan | Hallem, E. | 2017 | Resident physician (Neurology), Stanford University |
| Supraja Varadarajan | Butler, S. | 2017 | Postdoc, Stanford |
| Donald Vaughn | Cohen, M. | 2017 | Co-Founder & CEO, Ampa |
| Derek Verley | Harris, N. | 2017 | Medical Writer, CD Chunn & Associates |
| Patrick Chen | K. Martin | 2016 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA |
| Anthony Dagget | Yang, W. | 2016 | Assistant Professor, Psychiatry UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences |
| Martina DeSalvo | Martin, K. | 2016 | Business Development Associate, AMGEN |
| Shayn Ember | Arnold, A. | 2016 | CROSS Initiative Project Coordinator, Wheeler Clinic |
| Matthew Garrett | Kornblum, H. | 2016 | Neurological Surgeon,Kettering Health Medical Group Brain & Spine |
| Katherine Gschweng | Schweizer, F. | 2016 | Unknown |
| Ryan Guglietta | O'Dell, T. | 2016 | Foreign Affairs Officer, US Department of State |
| Theresa Harrison | Bookheimer, S. | 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley |
| Theresa Maria Harrison | BookHeimer, S. | 2016 | Postdoc, UC Berkeley |
| Sarah Hersman | Fanselow, M. | 2016 | Postdoc, Neurology at Harvard/ BCH (Boston's Children Hospital) |
| Jonathan Heston | White, S. | 2016 | Head of Survey Science at Axiom Ophthalmic |
| Maria Teresa Lazaro | Geschwind, D. | 2016 | Regional Medical Liason, Amgen |
| Jia Liu | Otis, T.S. | 2016 | Consultant, Acsel Health |
| Jason Moore | Mehta, M. | 2016 | Postdoctoral Research, NYU |
| Esther Nie | Carmichael, S. | 2016 | MD/ PHD- Return to Medical School |
| Alexander Reeves | Otis, T. | 2016 | Data Scientist, Data Skeptic |
| Sarah Stankowicz | Fanselow, M. | 2016 | Scientist, Biogen |
| Andrew Thompson | Izquierdo, A. | 2016 | Foreign Affairs Officer, US Department of State |
| Andrew Thompson | Izquierdo, A. | 2016 | Foreign Affairs Officer- Global Drug Demand Reduction Programs, U.S. Department of State |
| Jeffrey Cantle | X. Yang | 2015 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Washington University |
| Adam Frank | Novitch | 2015 | MD/PHD - Return to Medical School |
| Daya Alexander Grant | Prins, M. | 2015 | Brain Education and Outreach Consultant, LoveYourBrain Foundation |
| Albert Han | Novitch | 2015 | MD/PHD - Return to Medical School |
| Ashley Kees | Mehta | 2015 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bordeaux |
| Jennifer Kong | Novitch | 2015 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford |
| Wei Li | Feusner | 2015 | Senior Manager, Amgen |
| Laurel Martin-Harris | Bookheimer, S. | 2015 | Teaching Fellow, UCLA |
| Whitney McDonald | Harris | 2015 | Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute |
| Kevin Mcevoy | Jeste, S. | 2015 | Senior Medical Doctor at iOta Biosciences, Inc. powered by Astellas |
| Anna Parievsky | Mike Levine | 2015 | Electrophysiology Sales Specialist, Harvard Bioscience |
| Neelroop Parikshak | Geschwind, D. | 2015 | Neurology Resident / Research Fellow, UCSF |
| Matthew Schreiner | Bearden | 2015 | Data Scientist, Twitter |
| Jacob Aptekar | Frye | 2014 | MD/PHD - Return to Medical School |
| Scott Arno | Mody, I. | 2014 | Cardiologist, Henry Ford Health System |
| Jaehoon Choe | Edgerton, V. | 2014 | Research Scientist V, HRL Laboratories, LLC |
| Emily Dennis | Thompson, P. | 2014 | Assistant Professor, University of Utah |
| Angelica Morales | London, E. | 2014 | Assistant Professor, Oregon Health and Science University |
| Donna Werling | Geschwind, D. | 2014 | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Jesse Brown | Bookheimer | 2013 | Founder, Radiata |
| Kathryn Cross | Iacobni, M. | 2013 | MD/PhD Assistant Professor, UCLA |
| Sangmok Kim | Martin, K. | 2013 | Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA |
| Thuc Le | Fan, G./ Faull, K. | 2013 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA |
| Sarah Madsen | Paul Thompson | 2013 | Medical Communication Manager, Amgen |
| Kelley O'Donnell | Sagasti, A. | 2013 | Clinical Instructor, NYU School of Medicine |
| Change Park | Yang, W. | 2013 | Unknown |
| Elif Sozman | Carmichael, T. | 2013 | MD/PhD- Neurology at the Swedish Neuroscience Womens Brain Health Clinic |
| Salvatore Torrisi | Lori Altshuler | 2013 | Research Scientist at UCSF and SF VA Medical Center |
| Austin Hilliard | Stephanie White | 2012 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
| Ray LC | Otis, T. | 2012 | Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media |
| Kimberly Leblanc | Maidment, N. | 2012 | Scientific Program Manager, National Institute on Drug Abuse |
| Wei Song Ong | Bisley, J. | 2012 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Jeffrey Rudie | Dapretto, M. | 2012 | Neuroradiology Clinical Instructor, UCSF |
| Ryan Schmidt | Martin, K. / Plath, K. | 2012 | Assistant Director, Clinical Genomics Laboratory, Center for Personalized Medicine, CHLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine/Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology Children's Hospital Los Angeles/Keck School of Medicine of USC |
| Andrew Vosko | Colwell,C. | 2012 | Associate Provost, Claremont Graduate University |
| Lisa Wu | Leif Havton | 2012 | Unknown |
| Dylan Hirsch-Shell | Larry Hoffman | 2011 | Senior Engineer, Tesla Motors, Inc. |
| Evan Lutkenhoff | Cannon, T. | 2011 | Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA |
| Jeremy Miller | Geschwind, D. | 2011 | Scientist II, Allen Institute for Brain Science |
| Jason Stein | Thompson, P. | 2011 | Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| Marina O Ziehn | Voskuhl, R. | 2011 | Global Medical Affairs Director, Novartis Pharmaceutical AG |
| Jesse Cushman | Fanselow, M. | 2010 | Adjunct Assistant Professor/Research Scientist, UCLA |
| Lara Foland-Ross | Paul Thompson | 2010 | Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University |
| Tim Indersmitten | O'Dell, T. | 2010 | Postdoc, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson |
| Jeremy Miller | Daniel Geschwind | 2010 | Scientist, Allen Institute for Brain Science |
| Veena Narayan | Arthur Toga | 2010 | Sr. Global Clinical Marketing Manager, Carl Zeiss Meditec |
| Michael Oldham | Daniel Geschwind | 2010 | Sandler Fellow, UCSF |
| April Ho Reese | Paul Thompson | 2010 | CNS Medical Science Liaison, Forest Labs |
| Angela Marie Rizk- Jackson | Poldrack, R. | 2010 | Analyst, UCSF |
| Kate Wassum | Maidment, N. | 2010 | Assistant Professor, UCLA |
| Suren Ambegaokar | George Jackson | 2009 | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Microbiology, Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Che Hutson | Chesselet, M. | 2009 | Scientist, Companion Diagnostics, Dako North America |
| Emily L. Jocoy | Levine, M. | 2009 | Associate Study Director, The Jackson Laboratory |
| Kristin McNealy | Dapretto, M. | 2009 | Director, Author Product Strategy & Operations, John Wiley & Sons |
| Michael Oldham | Geschwind, D. | 2009 | Assistant Professor, UCSF |
| Doris Payer | London, E. | 2009 | Operations Manager, The Beckley Foundation |
| Nanthia Suthana | Bookheimer | 2009 | Assistant Professor, UCLA |
| Valerie Carr | Barbara Knowlton | 2008 | Research Associate, Department of Psychology at Stanford University |
| Brian Jackson | Thomas Newton | 2008 | Partner, Webb Law Firm |
| Libby O'Hare | Sowell, E. | 2008 | Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| Joseph Glykys | Mody, I. | 2007 | Instructor/Assistant in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School |
| Joshua Johansen | Blair, H. | 2007 | Team Leader/Lab Head, RIKEN Brain Science Institute |
| Mary Kay Lobo | Yang, X. | 2007 | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| John Ohab | Carmichael, S. | 2007 | Chief, Communications and Public Liaison, National Human Genome Research Institute |
| Uday Patel | Edgerton, V. | 2007 | Senior Research Scientist, Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. |
| Rafael Romero, Jr. | David Krantz | 2007 | Lecturer, UCLA Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Dept |
| Deborah Lee Smith | Voskuhl, R. | 2007 | Unknown |
| Meredith Braskie | Bookheimer, S. | 2006 | Assistant Professor of Research, USC |
| Camron D. Bryant, PhD. | Chris Evans | 2006 | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Psychiatry, Boston University |
| Alberto Cruz-Martín | Felix Schweizer | 2006 | Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Boston University |
| Gene Gurkoff | Hovda, D. | 2006 | Associate Professor, UC Davis |
| Terry Kelly | Harley Kornblum | 2006 | R&D Manager, Active Motif |
| Vlasta Lyles | Martin, K. | 2006 | Instructor, Glendale Community College |
| Allan MacKenzie-Graham | Toga, A. | 2006 | Assistant Professor, UCLA |
| Kerri Martinowich | Sun,Y. | 2006 | Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Lorelei Shoemaker | Harley Kornblum/Kym Faull | 2006 | Research Scientist, Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford |
| Eric Walker | Maidment, N. | 2006 | Lead Data Engineer, Factual Inc. |
| Stephen Wilson | Iacoboni, M. | 2006 | Assistant Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona |
| Lili Chigusa Kudo | Geschwind, D. | 2005 | CSO, NeuroInDx, Inc. |
| Jessy Dorn | Dario Ringach | 2003 | Scientific Director, Second Sight Medical Products |