Lab Members

Diane O’Dowd 
Principal Investigator
HHMI Professor
Email: dkodowd at uci.edu
Phone: (949) 824-4562
Fax: (949) 824-8549
Olga Safrina   
Sr. Lab Specialist
Email: osafrina at uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8141
Research Project – Human stem cell model
 Antara Das   
Post doctoral scholar
Email: antarad at uci.edu
Research Project – Transgenic mouse model
 Yunyao Xie   
Graduate Student
Email: yunyaox at uci.edu
Research Project – Patient iPSC model, mouse model
Alexa Roemmich   
Graduate Student
Email: aroemmic at uci.edu
Research Project – Transgenic Drosophila model
Charlesice Hawkins   
Graduate Student
Email: cchawkin at uci.edu
Research Project – Human stem cell model
Karla Soto Sauza
CIRM Trainee
Email: sotosauk at uci.edu
Research Project – Human stem cell model

Undergraduates

George ParampathuLisha ZengThy (Theresa) Vu
Daniel Benavides    Andrea Leonor

Lab Alumni

Postdocs

Ryan Schutte2014-2016Postdoc at Univ of Florida
Soleil Schutte2009-2016Resident Anesthesiology, Univ of Florida
Hauiyu (Victor) Gu2002-2008Professor, Guangzhou Medical School, China
Jorge Campusano2002-2008Associate Professor, Catholic University, Chile
Hailing Su2001-2006Scientist, Allergan
Hyun-Woo Oh2002-2004Senior Researcher, Korea Research Instit. of Biotech
Daewoo Lee1997-2000Professor, Ohio University, OH

Graduate Students

Ryan Schutte2008-2013Postdoc at Univ of Florida
Jorge Iniguez2007- 2012Lecturer atPasadena City College
Shaojuan (Amy) Jiang2002-2006Lawyer, Oklahoma
Jennifer Massengill1992-1997Scientist, ViaCell Inc. Boston, MA
Casey Annis1990-1994Publisher/Editor; Parabolic
Wendy Thomas1990-1995

CIRM Trainees/Lab assistants

Carmen Ramos
Noor OsmanGraduate student at Cal State University, Long Beach
Priscilla FigueraGraduate student at University of Utah
An PhamCell specialist at Kite Pharma
Sara KonopelskiGraduate student at UC Davis
Tiffany JomocPharmacy resident at Peconic Bay Medical Center – Northwell Health

Selected Undergraduates (2000s onwards)

Nathan NgMD candidate at Stanford University
Sahar AmoozadehMD candidate at UC Irvine
Eden BarraganGraduate student at UC Davis
Neema HaririMD candidate at College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
Vivian Nguyen
Saurin Gandhi
Adam Truong Resident surgeon at Cedars-Sinai

High school students

Grace YuUndergraduate at Case Western University
Eirene FithianUndergraduate at Northwestern University
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