Current lab members

Steffen Porwollik, Ph.D.
Associate Project Scientist
sporwoll@uci.edu
Weiping Chu
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