Postdoctoral Fellows

He Song (2019-2023), Assistant Professor, University of Macau, China


Yaqiang Wang (2012-2021), Principal Scientist, Arrakis Therapeutics, MA


Catherine D. Eichhorn (Katie) (2012-2019), Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE


Ritwika Basu (2015-2019), Researcher, University of Texas Medical Branch, TX


Christina Helmling (2017-2019), Principal Scientific Researcher at Genentech, San Francisco Bay Area


Lukas Susac (2016-2019), Senior scientist, Uni Frankfurt, Germany


Frederic Allain (1997-2000), Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich


Patrick Bortmann (1993-1995), Web Application Manager, Pacific Life Insurance Co., Newport Beach, CA


Samuel Butcher (1995-2000), Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison


Nicholas Chim (2003-2007), Project Scientist, Goulding Lab, University of California, Irvine


Thorsten Dieckmann (1993-1998), Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada


Yi Ding (2004-2007), Associate Scientist, Galaxy Biotech


Dara Gilbert (1998-1999), Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada


Nicholas Hud (1995-1999), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology


Jiansen Jiang (2009-2017), Investigator at NIH/NHLBI


Carina Johansson (2001-2003), Senior Research Scientist, AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Sweden


Mariusz Kamionka (2002-2004), Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland


May (Meroueh) Khanna (2001-2004), Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine


Nak-Kyoon Kim (2006-2011), Senior research scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology


Bon-Kyung Koo, (2008-2011) Research Professor, Asan Medical Center - University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea


Edward Miracco (2011-2014), Scientist, Moderna Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, MA


Thomas Mueller (1999-2001), Professor, Department of Botany I - Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Wurzberg, Germany


Chin-Ju Park (2006-2008), Assistant Professor, Basic Education Department, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea


Ponni Rajagopal (1987-1989), Research Scientist, Biomolecular Structure Center, University of Washington


Sapna Ravindranathan (1999-2000), Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India


Peter Schultze (1990-1998), Programmer Analyst, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles


Mahavir Singh (2007-2014), Assistant Professor, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India


Mijeong Kang (2006-2015), Korea


Markus Tarkoy (1994-1996), Head of Process Development, Kenta Biotech, Berne, Switzerland


Carla Theimer (2000-2006), Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York


Lukas Trantirek (2002-2003), Professor, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Structural Biology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic


Zhonghua Wang (2008-2012), Assistant Professor/Research, School of Medicine, University of Texas San Antonio


Sebastian Warmlander (2003-2004), Ph.D.  student in Archeology at UCLA


Haihong Wu (2004-2006), Analytical Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA


Qi Zhang (2007-2011), Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UNC Chapel Hill


Xuefeng Zhao (1994-1996), Assistant Scientist, Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University


Graduate Students (Master's & Ph.D.)

Kenneth Addess, Ph.D, 1994, Senior Scientist, Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information


Craig Blois, M.S., 2006, Project Engineer, Blois Construction, Inc.


Katherine Breece, M.S., 2004


Nhi (Hua) Casey, M.S., 1989, Senior Software Engineer, Dreamworks


Darian Cash, Ph.D., 2015, Scientist, Moderna Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, MA


Henry Chan, Ph.D., 2017, Scientist, Octant Inc., Los Angeles, CA


Dara Gilbert, Ph.D., 1991, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada


Richard Fahrner, Ph.D., 2000, Principal Scientist, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA


L. David Finger, Ph.D., 2004, Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7HF, U.K.


Karl Koshlap, Ph.D., 1996, NMR Facility Manager, Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, Univ. of North Carolina, Eshelman School of Pharmacy


Roman Macaya, Ph.D., 1993, Costa Rica's ambassador to the United States


James Masse, Ph.D., 2002, Researcher, National Institutes of Health


Rebecca (Richards) Moen, M.S., 2005, Ph.D. student in Biochemistry at the Univ. of Minnesota


Robert Peterson, Ph.D., 1997, Manager, NMR Facility, UCLA


Flint Smith, Ph.D., 1995, Chemistry Teacher, Fairfax High School, Los Angeles, CA


Ellen (Fujikawa) Suzuki, M.S., 1996


Edmond Wang, Ph.D., 1996


Haihong Wu, Ph.D., 2004, Analytical Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA


Visiting Graduate Students


Charlotte Gotfredsen, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark


Richard Stefl, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic


Undergraduate Researchers & Lab Helpers

Shannon Zhuang, undergraduate student at UCLA


Rachel Wang, undergraduate student at UCLA


Tanya Hadjian, undergraduate student at UCLA


Refat Ahsan, Saint Louis University School of Medicine


Liang Chen (CSST), Johnson & Johnson Beijing


Charles Choi, Ph.D. student at UCLA ACCESS


Rahul Chug, undergraduate student at UCLA


Anthony DeBenedetti, Consultant, DeciBio, Los Angeles, CA


Petros Giannikopoulos, M.D. - Harvard School of Medicine, currently a Fellow at Texas Children's Hospital


Destiny Hixon, undergraduate student at University of Southern California


Chun Kit Kwok (2007-2008), - Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University, currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong


Songlei Liu (CSST) (2014 Summer), - Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School


Brenton Mar, M.D./Ph.D. - Univ. of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, currently a Clinical Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., Boston, MA


Anooj Patel (2009-2011), J.D. student at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA (current: Patent Attorney at Hankin Patent Law, APC)


Lucas Repeta (2015-2018), Ph.D. student at The Rockefeller University


Kyle Stahmer, Ph.D. student in Biological Sciences at Columbia University


Thai Tran, Ph.D. student at City of Hope Graduate School of Biological Sciences


Tianze (Christopher) Yi, currently a undergraduate student at UCLA


Visiting Scientists

Philippe Bouvet, Ecole Normale SupErieure de Lyon, France


Vladimir Sklenar, Professor, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno


Others

Ben Akiyama, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Colorado at Denver


Tsogt Erdenee (2018 Summer), High School Student


Evan Feinstein, Physician's Assistant, Monterey Park, CA


Jonathan Luo (2018 Summer), High School Student


Nishitha Viswanathan, High School Student

The Feigon Laboratory

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry