Lab Alumni

(Alumni: Please contact Katrin if you would like to update your current position)

  • Cristela Samaniego, Post-baccalaureate fellow, 2022-2023, Research Assistant, 2023-2025

  • Maria Angulo-Ibanez, Post-doctoral fellow, 2016-2022, Instructor, 2022-2023, Recipient of Stanford Dean’s Fellowship, Stanford Cancer Institute Fellowship Award. Current position: Clinical Research Development Specialist, Medica Scientia Innovation Research (MEDSIR), Barcelona.

  • Lidia Villanova, PhD student (visiting student from Sapienza Univ., Rome. Served as primary PhD advisor, 2012-2014. Current Position, Post-doctoral Fellow, Instituto Superiore di Sanità, (Italian National Institute of Health) Rome, Italy.

  • Tie-Mei Li, Post-doctoral fellow, Current Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

  • Winnie Wei Zheng, Post-doctoral fellow 2015-2019, transitioned to independent Scientist position, Research & Development, Systems Biosciences

  • Joan Coan, Graduate Student (Co-mentor), Biological Sciences Program, 09/01/2017 – 06/10/21. Current position: Scientist, EpiBiologics.

  • Shinji Tanaka, Visiting Scientist from Daiichi Sankyo Co, Ltd., 2017-2018. Current position: Group leader, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd

  • Zaneta Odrowaz, Post-doctoral fellow, 2012-2015. Recipient of Stanford Dean’s Fellowship and the Walter V. and Idun Berry Postdoctoral Fellowship. Current position: Chief Business Officer, Amunix Pharmaceuticals.

  • Shivani Malik, Post-doctoral fellow, 2013-2014. Current position: Senior Director, Kura Oncology, Inc.

  • Silvana Paredes, Post-doctoral fellow, Research Scientist, May 2011-2018. Transitioned to Senior Research Scientist, now independent Scientist position at Cepheid, Inc.

  • Luisa Tasselli, Post-doctoral fellow and Research Associate, June 2010-2018. Recipient of fellowship awards from the Italian Foundation of Cancer Research (FIRC) and Stanford Dean’s post-doctoral fellowship. Transitioned to Assistant Professor position at University of Perugia, Italy, and obtained the American-Italian Cancer Foundation Fellowship and Marie Curie Independent Fellowship.

  • Michelle Turski, Post-doctoral fellow, December 2009-2011. Current position: Program Manager, UCSF Molecular Oncology Initiative, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

  • Mara Damian (Pavel-Dinu), Research Assistant, 2006-2008. Matriculated and graduated from Stanford Biosciences PhD program. Current position: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine and Principal Investigator, Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies, at Seattle Children’s Research Institute

  • Wendy Pang, MD-PhD Rotation Student, Cancer Biology Program, Stanford, Summer 2005. Current position: Senior Vice President, Research and Translational Medicine at Jasper Therapeutics.

  • Lisa Boxer, Research Assistant (2008-2009), Undergraduate (UCLA) summer student (2005). Matriculated and graduated from Stanford PhD Biosciences program. Current position: Stadtman Investigator, Laboratory of Genome Integrity, National Cancer Institute, NIH.

  • Ruth Tennen, Graduate student, Cancer Biology Program, Stanford, July 2008-2011. PhD granted 9/2011. Recipient of AAAS Science and Technology Fellowship. Current position: Senior Product Scientist, 23andMe.

  • Matthew Barber, Graduate student (co-mentor), Biological Sciences Program, Stanford, 2007–2011. PhD granted 12/2011. Current position: Associate Professor, Univ. of Oregon.

  • Tao Hong, Post-doctoral fellow, August 2005-2011, Recipient of the Stanford Radiation Oncology Fellowship, Stanford Dean’s Fellowship. Current Position: Leadership Position as Director of Molecular Biology, Quantapore.

  • Ronald A. McCord, Post-doctoral fellow, July 2005-2009, Recipient of the Stanford Dean’s Fellowship, Stanford Cancer Biology Program Fellowship. Current position: Director, Clnical Biomarkers and Companion Diagnostics, BeOne Medicines, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • Eriko Michishita, Research Associate, 8/1/06 ‒ 7/31/10, Recipient of the Ellison Foundation/American Federation for Aging Research Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009, and the Stanford Cancer Center post-doctoral fellowship (2009-2010). Transitioned to leadership position at Daichi Sankyo, Inc (Tokyo, Japan), as a Senior Scientist and promoted to Program Manager of a major Research Division; Independent position as a Visiting Professor at Yokohama City University, Japan.