Meet the Current Lab Members

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Ira Blitz (Research Assistant Professor) Research Description
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Margaret Fish (Postdoctoral fellow)
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Rebekah Le Charney (Graduate student)
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Soledad Mochel (Graduate Student)
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Kitt Paraiso (Graduate student)
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Jin Cho (Graduate student)
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Elmira Forouzmand (Graduate student)
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Tommy Yoon (Research specialist)
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Masani Coley (Undergraduate)
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Sam Koo (Graduate student)
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James Tran (Undergraduate)
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Jessica Cheung (Research specialist)
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Yvonne Cao (Lab Assistant)
Past Lab Members

GRADUATE STUDENTS
  • Tetsuro Watabe, Professor, University of Tokyo Pharmacy School
  • Mike Artinger, Vice President, Marketing & Strategic Partnering at ViroCyt, LLC
  • Stephanie Bagully
  • Micheline Laurent, Teacher
  • Wunnenberg-Stephen, Katrin, Senior Staff Scientist, Affymatrix CA
  • Minako Hashimoto Partyka, High School Instuctor
  • Lauren Meek, Staff Scientist, InVitrogen, CA
  • Andreas von Bubnoff, Science journalist and writer for IAVI Report.
  • Dan Peiffer, Senior Product Manager, Illumina Inc, San Diego
  • Souichi Ogata: Medical Affairs Specialist, Roche, JAPAN.
  • Anna Javier; Scientist, Kite Pharma, CA
  • William Chiu: Research Scientist, BioRad, CA
  • Mui Luong: Research Scientist, Research DX, CA

  • Elaina Levine: Biotech company in Los Angeles
  • AJ Evinger
  • Nahoko Iwatani: Staff Scientist, Cal Tech
  • Lei Tian:  
  • Pancham Parikh: AMGEN

PostDoctoral Fellows
  • Kunio Inoue: Professor, Kobe University, Japan
  • Tetsuro Watabe: Professor, University of Tokyo Pharmacy School, Japan
  • Ira Blitz: Research Assistant Professor, UCI
  • Colleen Ring: Quintiles, RTP, NC
  • Jihwan Song: Professor, Cha-Medical School, Korea
  • Ute Rothbacher: Associate Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  • Hashimoto, Chikara: Laboratory Head, Biohistroy, Osaka, Japan
  • Candia, Albert: Director,  Dynavax Technologies, CA
  • Yongchol Shin: Associate Professor, Dept of Applied Chemistry, Kogakuin University in Japan  
  • Souichi Ogata: Medical Affairs Specialist, Roche, JAPAN.
  • William Chiu: Research Scientist, BioRad, CA
  • Kitt Paraiso, Postdoc, UC Irvine

Undergraduates
  • Uyen Tran: Densist
  • Sam Yong-Hyon Kim: Dentist
  • Roland Wang: MD
  • Thanh-Uyen Chiem, Dentist
  • Bao-Uyen Bui: Physical therapist
  • John Kim:
  • Lynn Phuong:
  • Eui Jeong Lim:
  • Grace Sil Chi: Dentist
  • Huynh, Lynn: Lab Assistant, UCSD
  • Magali Mallen:
  • Wei Tang:
  • Salvador:
  • Sharon Tsai:    
  • Pam Lincon: ‎Director of Pharmacy at Concerto Health Care
  • Thao Nguyen: Dentist, Bloom Orthodontics
  • Tiffany T. Nguyen: MD, UCI Medical Center
  • Jackie Le:
  • Cynthia Ungson
  • Renee Padiernos: Microbiologist, FDA, Irvine CA
  • Kelly Nguyen: Dental School.
  • Stepahnie Hua: Physical Therapist
  • Yetunde Fetunde: OBGYN, Residency, U of Chicago
  • Cirus Farzaneh:  Medical School, UCI.
  • Jayne Unzelman: Medical School, UCI
  • Catherine Bui
  • Julia Percy: Taboratory Tech, Labcyte Inc.
  • Krishana Petel (SURP fellow 2013)
  • Katie Kim (UROP Fellow, 2013-14, Honors Research)
  • Elizabaeth Luu
  • Jessica Cheung (2014-2016, SURP Fellow, 2015, UROP Fellow)
  • James T. Tran (2014 –2016 UROP Fellow, 2014-2015)
  • Tae Yeon Yoo (2014-2016, UROP Fellow, Winter 2016)
  • Masani Coley (2015-2016, UROP Fellow, Winter 2016
  • Elizabeth Chamu (Bridges student, summer, 2015)​
  • Karen Lin (2014, summer, Noyce fellows)
  • Huong Thien Nguyen (2014, summer, Noyce fellows)
  • Maisie Cai (2014, summer, Noyce fellows)
  • Elizabeth Chamu (Bridges student, summer, 2015)
  • Joseph Giammalva (2016-2017)
  • Junseok Yong (2017-2018): UROP Fellow, Winter 2017
  • Marvin Cortez (2017-2018): UROP Fellow, Winter 2017
  • Amber Hilfong Peterson (2018-2019), SURP, Summer 2019
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