Lab Personnel

Senior Lab Staff

Jessica Pham
Senior Researcher
Lab Manager

Inge Van Der Werf
Director of Biorepository

Project Scientists

Wenxue Ma, M.D., Ph.D.
Project Scientist

Larisa Balaian, Ph.D.
Project Scientist

Fumi Sato-Kaneko, Ph.D.
Project Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellows

Teresa Sposito, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Graduate Students

Jenna Sneifer
Graduate Student - UCSD BS/MS Program

Claire Engstrom
Graduate Student - UCSD BS/MS Program

Staff Research Associates (SRAs)

Neha Katragadda
Staff Research Associate

Emma Klacking
Staff Research Associate

Kendale Wirtjes
Staff Research Associate

Administrative Support

Karina Santos
Executive Administrative Assistant
Department of Medicine

Ashley Hartford
Executive Assistant
Sanford Stem Cell Institute

Alumni

Jane Isquith, M.S.
Senior Researcher
Lab Manager

Ethan Lam
Lab Assistant 

Farli Jo De La Cruz
CIRM SPARK scholar

Vanessa Cruz
CIRM SPARK scholar

Amran Mohamed
SDSU PSP Scholar

Kathleen Steel
Director of Biorepository

Gabriel Pineda, Ph.D.
Senior Laboratory Researcher

Frida Holm, Ph.D.
Senior Laboratory Researcher

Cayla Mason, B.S.
Staff Research Associate
Lab Manager

Stephanie Kearney
Staff Research Associate

Phoebe Mondala
Staff Research Associate

Raymond Diep
Staff Research Associate

Shawn Ali
Staff Research Associate

Peter Emanuel
Staff Research Associate

Isabelle Oliver
Staff Research Associate

Jeremy Lee
Staff Research Associate

Antonio Ruiz
Staff Research Associate

Thomas Frias
Staff Research Associate

Eduardo Reynoso Moreno, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Elisa Lazzari, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Christina Wu, Ph.D.
Project Scientist

Mary Donohoe, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist