Lab Members - current members

Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD  

Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
L.K. Whittier Foundation Investigator in Stem Cell Biology
Director and Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA)

Julia Draper

Research Associate II

Karena Essex

Senior Administrative Specialist

Radia Jamee

Research Associate I

Aye Khaine  

Research Associate I

Akira Kunitomi  

Staff Research Scientist

Haruko Kunitomi  

Postdoctoral Scholar

Mariselle (Gay) Lancero  

Research Associate III

Samuel Perli, PhD  

Postdoctoral Scholar
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Eugenea Raychaudhuri  

Research Associate II
 

Mie Yamanaka, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Kaho Washizu

Visiting Researcher

 

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Yohei Hayashi (Postdoctoral Fellow) – Team Leader (Principal Investigator), RIKEN BioResource Research Center (BRC), Ibaraki, Japan
Tim Rand (Staff Scientist) - Sr. Scientist, Tempus, Chicago, IL
Kazutoshi Takahashi (Visiting Scientist) – Associate Professor, Center for iPS cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, Japan
Kathleen Worringer (Postdoctoral Fellow) – Senior Principal Scientist, Head of Early Target Discovery, Neuroscience at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), MA

Graduate Students

Ivana Vasic (Graduate Student) - Founder / CEO, Vitra Labs, SF

Research Associates

>Vanessa Arreola (Research Associate I) – Associate Project Manager, Stanford University
Justin Henson (Research Associate I)
Daeun Jeong (Research Associate I) – PhD Candidate, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Sabatini Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA
Maaz Khurram (Research Associate I) - PhD program, Cellular Biology, New York University, School of Medicine
Cody Kime (Research Associate I) – RIKEN Organoid Young Investigator, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan
Sean Leo Kito Okawa (Summer Student Intern) – MASc Student (Masayoshi Son Scholar), Yachie Laboratory, The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
Prakriti Paul (Summer Bioinformatics Software Engineer II) – Computational Biology PhD Candidate, Princeton University, NJ
Salma Sami (Research Associate III)
Emi Tomoda (Research Associate II) – Scientist, I Peace Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Jonathan Tong (Research Associate I)
Songnan Wang (Research Associate I) - MD Student, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA

Updated on May 10, 2021