Alumni
Tan Inoue
1983-1985
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Kyoto University
Gail Dinter-Gottlieb
1983-1986
Dean, Natural & Social Sciences, Buffalo State College;
Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, New York
President Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
Michael D. Been
1984-1987
Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry, Duke University
Carolyn M. Price
1985-1988
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, University of Nebraska
Professor of Cancer and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati
James A. McSwiggen
1986-1989
Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Nastech Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.
John A. Latham
1986-1989
Gilead Sciences Darwin, Inc.; Alder Biopharmaceuticals
Sarah A. Woodson
1987-1990
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Chem. and Biochem, University of Maryland
Prof. of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
James R. Williamson
1988-1990
Assoc. Prof., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof., Dept. of Integrative Structural & Computational Biology, Dean of Grad and Postdoc Studies; Executive Vice President for Research & Academic Affairs, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA
Dan W. Celander
1988-1991
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Microbiology, University of Illinois
Alexandra Gampel
1989-1991
Postdoc. Fellow, M.R.C., Cambridge,UK;
Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Dept. of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Dan Herschlag
1989-1992
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Senior Assoc, Dean of Graduate Education & Postdoctoral Affairs, Stanford University
Anna Marie Pyle
1989-1992
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biochem and Mol Biophys., Columbia University; Investigator, HHMI;
William Edward Gilbert
1989-1992
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University.
Fuyuki Ishikawa
1990-1992
Prof., Dept. of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Prof. Kyoto University
Joseph A. Piccirilli
1989-1993
Prof., Dept. of Chem. and Dept. of Biochem. & Mol. Biol., University of Chicago
Jin-Feng Wang
1990-1993
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biochem. and Mol. Biol., Penn. St. University, Hershey;
Tianjin University
Jennifer A. Doudna
1991-1994
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and
Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Professor in Biomedical and Health;
Investigator, HHMI, University of California, Berkeley
Bruce A. Sullenger
1991-1994
Professor, Dept. of Experimental Surgery, Duke University Medical Center
Scott A. Strobel
1992-1995 Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry & University Provost, Yale University
Thomas B. Campbell
1993-1995
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Kevin M. Weeks
1992-1996
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of North Carolina
Julia Promisel Cooper
1993-1996
Professor, Dept. of Biochem. and Mol. Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center;
Group Leader, ICRF, London;
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, National Cancer Inst., Bethesda, MD
Christine Chapon
1995-1996
Postdoc. Fellow with Larry Gold, MCDB, University of Colorado
Joachim Lingner
1993-1997
Full Professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Philip C. Bevilacqua
1993-1997
Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Penn State University
Stacie J. Froelich-Ammon
1996-1997
Scientist, Sangamo Biosciences; Scientist, Baxter
Alex A. Szewczak
1994-1997
Postdoc. Fellow with Scott Strobel, Yale University;
Merck Research Laboratories, Boston
Scott B. Cohen
1995-1998
Postdoc. Fellow with Randall Halcomb, University of Colorado;
Senior Research Scientist, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead Australia.
Biliang Zhang
1995-1998
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Molec. Medicine, Dept. of Pharmacology & Molec. Toxicology, University of Mass Med.;
Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health
Barbara L. Golden
1994-1998
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Purdue University
Evelyn Jabri
1995-1999
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington;
Editor, ACS Chemical Biology
Scott Silverman
1997-2000
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Lyons
1998-2000
Equity Analyst at Janus Capital
Sona Vasudevan
1999-2000
Scientist, NIH;
Res. Asst. Prof, Georgetown University
Tracy Bryan
1997-2001
Professor, The University of Sydney, Head of the Cell Biology Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Westmead Australia
Kathy Friedman
1997-2001
Assoc. Prof., and Vice Chair of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Michael Jarstfer
1998-2001
Assoc. Prof. and Assistant Dean for Graduate Education, Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Andy Berglund
2000-2001
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Florida Gainesville; Director of the RNA Institute and Professor of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY
Peter Baumann
1998-2002
HHMI Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City; Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Germany
Feng Guo
2000-2004
Assoc. Prof., Biological Sciences, UCLA
Jeff Mandell
2000-2004
Sen. Scientist, Ionian Technologies. La Jolla, California;
Illumina, LaJolla
Ming Lei
2001-2004
Assoc. Prof., University of Michigan and HHMI Investigator;
Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai China
Amy (Mozdy) Davis
2005-2007
Associate Director, University of Utah Brain Institute
David C. Zappulla
2002-2008
Asst. Prof., Johns Hopkins University; Asst Prof., Lehigh University
Quentin Vicens
2003-2008
Postdoc., Rob Batey Laboratory, Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Univ of Colorado Boulder
Postdoc, Aarhus, Denmark; Research Asst. Professor, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØAnschutz School of Medicine
Feng Qiao
2005-2009
Assoc. Professor of Biological Chemistry, UC Irvine
Jen Pfingsten
2007-2011
Scientific Director, HCP Management Holdings
2007-2012
Associate Prof., Department of Biological Science, University of Pittsburgh
2007-2013
Associate Prof., Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jacob C. Schwartz
2009-2014
Asst Prof., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona Tucson
Mai Nakashima
2011-2014
Asst Professor at Osaka University, Osaka Japan
Chen Davidovich
2010-2015
Associate Professor, Monash University, Group Leader, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, EMBL Australia
Sumit Borah
2011-2016
Research Scientist, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Memphis TN; Scientific and Medical Writer, Oxford Square Langhorne, PA
Jens Schmidt
2012-2017
Asst Professor, Institute for Quantitative Health Sciences & Engineering, Michigan State Univ.
Josh Stern
2014-2019
Asst Professor, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ci Ji Lim
2014-2019
Asst. Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Madison
Yicheng Long
2015-2021
Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
Linnea Jansson-Fritzberg
2018-2023
Scientist II, Editas Medicine, Boulder, CO
Kaitlin Johnson
2019-2024
Research Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Paula J. Grabowski
1983 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Helen Hay Whitney Fellow with Phil Sharp, M.I.T.
Prof. and Chairman, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Daniel E. Gottschling
1984 Ph.D. in Chemistry
ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Virginia Zakian, Hutchinson Cancer Center
Assoc. Prof., University of Chicago; Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle;
Head of Research, Calico Labs, So. San Francisco, CA
Ted E. Palen
1984 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow at National Jewish Hospital Research Center, Denver
M.D., Colorado Permanente Medical Group
Brenda L. Bass
1985 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Hal Weintraub, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Distinguished Prof., University of Utah
Francis X. Sullivan
1986 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Chris Walsh, Harvard Medical School
Array BioPharma, Inc.
N. Kyle Tanner
1986 Ph.D. in Chemistry
NIH Postdoc. Fellow with John Abelson, Cal Tech and Claude Jacq. Paris
Member, RNA Helicases Team, CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot
James V. Price
1986 Ph.D. in MCDB
ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Trudy Schupbach, Princeton
Professor of Biology, Utah Valley State College
Christopher J. Dunn
1988 M.S. in Chemistry
Yavapai College, Chino Valley, AZ
Gregg B. Morin
1988 Ph.D. in Chemistry
ACS Postdoc. Fellow with Joan Steitz, Yale
Assistant Prof., University of California, Davis; Geron Corp.; BC Cancer Agency., Vancouver, Canada
Elisabeth T. Barfod
1988 Ph.D. in Chemistry
NIH Postdoc. Fellow with Jeremy Thorner, UC Berkeley
Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; Lecturer, Univ. of Vermont
Peter J. Flor
1989 M.A. in MCDB
Grad. Student with H. Saedler, Max Planck Institute, Koln (Ph.D. 1992)
M. K. Raghuraman
1990 Ph.D. in MCDB
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with W. Fangman, U. Washington
Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Benjamin Young
1990 Ph.D. in MCDB
M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1993
Rose Medical Center Denver, Colorado
Felicia L. Murphy
1992 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Deceased
John T. Gray
1992 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Richard Mulligan, Harvard Medical School
Director Vector Develop. & Production, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
William D. Downs
1993 Ph.D. in MCDB
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Jim Preiss, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Instructor, Univ. of Puget Sound
Jennifer A. Dávila-Aponte
1993 Ph.D. in MCDB
Postdoc. Fellow at MSU-DOE Plant Res. Lab, Michigan State U., East Lansing, MI
Research Scientist, Divergence, St. Louis
Brian J. Hicke
1993 Ph.D. in MCDB
Postdoc. Fellow at NeXstar, Boulder, Colorado
Global Technologies (NZ) Dunedin, New Zealand
Guowei Fang
1993 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Hal Weintraub, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Helen Hay Whitney
Postdoc. Fellow with Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School
Asst. Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford U.; Project Leader, Genentech, So. San Francisco; Head of Biology, Oncology Discovery, Abbvie, Chicago; Head of Discovery, Pharmacyclics, Sunnyvale, CA; Senior VP, Zymeworks, Vancouver, BC
Christopher P. Rusconi
Postdoc, Bruce Sullenger, Duke University; Chief Research Officer, Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, Durham, NC
Timothy S. McConnell
1994 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Joan Steitz, Yale
Scientist, Rib-X Pharm., New Haven, CT
Philip W. Hammond
1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Senior Scientist at Mosaic, Boston, MA; Phylos, Boston, MA; Group Leader, Molecular Biology, Xencor, Inc.
Lara B. Weinstein
1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Scott Strobel and Joan Steitz, Yale
Senior Editor, Cell Press, Cambridge
Michael A. Tanner
1997 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Norman Pace, University of California, Berkeley
Sr. Scientist, Kairos Scientific Inc., Santa Clara, CA.; Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA.
Moira Hagen
1999 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Thomas Campbell , University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Toru M. Nakamura
1999 Ph.D in Chemistry
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Paul Russell, Scripps Research Inst., LaJolla
Assoc. Prof. U. Illinois at Chicago, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Kara Juneau
2000 Ph.D. in Chemistry
Postdoc Fellow with Ronald Davis at Stanford University
Jamie Sperger
2001 Ph.D.in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Jamie Thompson at University of Wisconsin; Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April Livengood
2002 Ph.D. in MCDB
Postdoc. Fellow with Dennis Carson, University of California, San Diego
Anita Seto
2003 Ph.D.in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Robert Kingston, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston;
Scientist, MiRagen, Boulder CO:
Director of Clinical Science, Artiva, San Diego CA
Robert Gottlieb
2003 Ph.D. in Chemistry
M.D., Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØHealth Sciences, Denver
Cardiologist, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, Dallas, TX
Stefan Aigner
2003 Ph.D.in Chemistry
Postdoc. Fellow with Fred Gage, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
Scientist, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel
Project Scientist, UC San Diego
Chrysa Latrick
2009 Ph.D.in Chemistry
Postdoc. Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Scientist, Mosaic, Boulder CO
Andrew Dalby
2014 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Business Architect/Program Manager Invitae
Linghe Xi
2015 Ph.D. in MCDB
Damon Runyon Postdoc. Fellow with Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, New York City, NY
Principal Scientist, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge MA
Katherine C. Goldfarb
2016 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Regenerative Medicine and Genome Editing (REGEN) Program, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
Xueyin Wang
2017 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Scientist at A2 Biotherapeutics, Thousand Oaks CA
Daniel Youmans
2021 Ph.D. in Biochemistry
2023 MD University of Colorado School of Medicine
2023 - present: Physician Scientist Training Program, UCSD