Current lab members
![]() Associate Project Scientist sporwoll@uci.edu |
![]() Lab Technician weipingc@uci.edu |
Fred Long, Bioinformatician flong1@uci.edu |
Hyun Ah Kim, M.D., Visiting Scientist hyunahk2@hs.uci.edu |
Masham Mukhtar, Ph.D. student mashamm@uci.edu |
Past visiting researchers
Year(s) | Names |
1993 | Pierre Perolat, MD Professor |
1994-95 | Richard Borowski, PhD Professor |
1995 | Beat Schwitzer, BS Graduate fellow |
1996-97 | Kathrine Branger, PhD Associate Professor |
1996-97 | Pierre Belichard, PhD |
1998-1999 | Anna Rojas, MS Assistant Professor |
2000-01 | Catherine Legras, PhD Professor |
2001-02 | Javier Garaizar, PhD Professor |
2003 | Fidelma Boyd, PhD Professor, U. Delaware |
2003-04 | Jon Alvarez Microbiology company in Spain |
2004 | Silvana Spinelli, PhD ASM travel fellow |
2004 | Jerry Reen, PhD Postdoctoral fellow |
2004 | Raquel Quinera, PhD ASM travel fellow |
2004 | Gopal Nath, MD, PhD Associate Professor |
2004 | Erwin Strahsburger, PhD ASM travel fellow |
2005 | Stephano Cairo, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow |
2005 | Ed Schwartz, PhD Professor |
2005 | Jim Wilson, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow |
2005 | Massimo Merighi, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow |
2005 | Travis Bourrett, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow |
2005 | GyeYung Yun, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow |
2005 | Hyun-Joong Kim, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow |
2007 | Kathrin Wolf, BS Undergraduate fellowship |
2007-08 | Sang-Ho Choi, PhD Professor |
2007-08 | Michael McConnell, PhD Professor |
2010 | Probadh Borah, PhD Professor |
2010 | Lucas Pontel, PhD ASM International Fellow |
2010 | Mudit Chandra, DVM Professor |
2010 | Nefise Akkoc PhD Postdoctoral Fellowship |
2011 | Eduardo Morales PhD Fellowship |
2011-12 | Liz Chao, MD Sponsored junior faculty |
2013 | Swaraj Rajkhowa, PhD Professor |
2014 | Chanchal Gupta, PhD Postdoctoral fellow |
2014 | Sreerupa Ganguly, PhD Postdoctoral fellow |
2015 | Sebastian Barrios PhD Fellowship |
2015 | Saakshi Tandon, PhD Postdoctoral fellow |
2016-17 | Jae-Bum Jun, MD Associate Professor |
2016-17 | Jun Seong Son, MD Associate Professor |
2019-20 | Oh-Hun Chu, MD Associate Professor |
2019-20 | Yong Pil Chong, MD Associate Professor |
2018-19 | Seunghyun Hwang, MD Associate Professor |
2020-22 | Kyung Mok Sohn, MD Associate Professor |
2022-23 | Eun-Ju Lee, MD Associate Professor |
2022-23 | Sang Ho Hun, MD Associate Professor |
Past PhD students and postdocs
Years | Name | Where are they now? |
1987-90 | John Hanish, PhD | Biotech Patent Law, partner, New York |
1988-91 | Mike Nelson, MS | President Megabase Corp. Deceased |
1988-89 | Bo-qin Qiang, MD | Professor, Beijing. Member, Chinese Acad. Sci. |
1988-90 | Mike Weil, MD | Most recently at UCSF |
1988-90 | Saibal Poddar, PhD | Most recently at UCSD |
1989-90 | Alvydas Spokauskas | Biotech company in Vilnius |
1989-91 | Bruno Sobral, PhD | Professor, Colorado State U. |
1989-91 | John Welsh, PhD | Research Program Director, VRISD, Retired |
1990-95 | KK Wong, PhD | Professor, MD Anderson, TX |
1991-94 | David Ralph, PhD | Director at several Biotech companies |
1991-95 | Rhonda Honeycutt, PhD | CEO Clarity BioSci |
1992-93 | Hartwig Arensdorf, PhD | |
1993-97 | Francoise Mathieu-Daude, PhD WHO & Lavoisier Fellow | Research Scientist, International Res. for Development, France |
1995-97 | Thomas Vogt, MD | DRG Fellow. Chair, Dermatology, U Saarland |
1995-96 | Frank Kullmann, MD | DRG Fellow. Professor, Gastroenterology, U Regensburg |
1995-98 | Nick Benson, PhD | Clinical Trials Director Scripps Health |
1996-99 | Barbara Jung, MD | DRG Fellow. Chair of Medicine, U Washington |
1996-99 | Thomas Trenkle, MD | DRG Fellow. Professor Maxillofacial Surgery, U Luebeck |
1998-00 | Steven Ringquist, PhD | Res. Assist. Prof, U Pittsburgh |
1999-01 | David Boyle, PhD | Chief Scientific Officer, Path.org |
1999-01 | Takuya Higashiyama, MD | Kuma Hospital, Kobe, Japan |
2000-09 | Gaelle Rondeau, PhD | French Govt. Fellow R&D, Biospider Biotech |
2000-02 | Gerhard Gebauer, MD German Govt Fellow | Department Chair, Gynecology, U Hamburg |
2001-03 | Jonathan Frye, PhD | Senior Research Microbiologist, USDA, GA |
2001-10 | YiPeng Wang, MD China Govt. Fellow | Serial Biotech. Bioinformatics |
2002-04 | Rosana Risques, PhD Catalonia Govt. Fellow | Associate Professor, U Washington |
2003-04 | QuiJu Yu, MD China Govt. Fellow | |
2004-07 | Carlos Santiviago, PhD Chile Govt. Fellow | Associate Professor, U of Chile |
2005-09 | Eun-Ju Lee, MD Travel Fellow | Professor, South Korea |
2005-09 | Nabil Arrach, PhD | Founder & CEO, Progenesis |
2008-09 | Song, WenZhi, MD China Govt. Fellow | Lecturer, JiLin University |
2008-09 | Kan, MuJie, MD China Govt. Fellow | Associate Professor, JiLin University |
2009-11 | Xiao-Qin Xia, PhD China Govt. Fellow | Professor, Haibin, China |
2010-11 | Shabarinath Srikumar, PhD | Assistant Professor, Food Safety, U AE |
2010-11 | Li Bie, MD. China Govt. Fellow | Associate Professor, Jilin U, China |
2010-12 | Jennifer Fredlund, PhD | Scientist at Octant Bio |
2008-13 | Rocio Canals, PhD. Catalonia Govt. Fellow. | Project Leader at GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health |
2010-14 | Cecilia Silva, PhD | Assistant Professor, Chile |
2010-16 | Prerak Desai, PhD | Associate Director, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, J&J |
2017-20 | Erwin Strahsburger, PhD | Associate Professor, U Arturo Prat, Chile |
2022-23 | Irene Esteban Cuesta, DVM Postdoctoral fellow | Ludwig-Maximilians-University München |