SINTN– Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation & Translational Neurosciences

PhD Program Alumni

Websites, where available, can be accessed by clicking on the names of individual alumni

Name Advisor Current Position
Namiko Abe Meyer Neuroscience Phd Program, Wash U. as of Aug 2007
Nancy Adleman Reiss NIH Investigator
Aric Agmon Connors Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, West Virginia University School of Medicine
Olusola Ajilore Sapolsky Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Carolina Albers Steinberg Research Associate, Stanford University
Richard Aldrich Thompson The University of Texas,Professor and Chair of the Section of Neurobiology in the School of Biological Sciences and the Karl Folkers Chair II in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research.
Karen Allendoerfer Shatz Project Manager, Communicatons and Grant Development, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Robin Allgren Ciaranello Biotechnology Consultant: Clinical Development & Regulatory Affairs Breakthrough Bio Development, LLC
Kathryn Anderson Wilson Program Chair, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Katherine Armstrong Moore Postdoctoral researcher, Moore Lab, Stanford University
Jenifer Austin Garner Program Manager, Google Earth & Maps at Google
Crista Barberini Newsome Postdoctoral researcher, Columbia University
Diana Bautista Lewis Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, UC Berkeley
Steven Beier Scott
Iris Bell Dement Professor- Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, Univ. Of Arizona
Larry Benardo Prince Deceased
Curtis Benson Smith
Joseph Bergan Eric Knudsen Postdoctoral researcher, Dulac Lab, Harvard University
Jeremy Bergsman Tsien consultant at the Corporate Executive Board in the Information Risk Executive Council
Mark Bieda Copenhagen Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary
John Bigbee Eng Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology,
Mike Bissell Bensch Professor of Pathology- Ohio State
Louise Bitting Heller Deceased
George Bittner Kennedy Professor, Departments of Neurobiology and Pharmacology, University of Texas at Austin
Mark Blanton Kriegstein
Jason Bock Scheller Senior Manager, Pharmaceutical Development, CoGenesys
Laurel Bolin Shooter Assistant Research Scientist, Parkinsons Institute
R. Borden Shooter
Ed Boyden Raymond Assistant Professor, MIT
Michael Brainard Knudsen Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco
James Brewer Gabrieli Assistant Professor, Departments of Radiology and Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego
Alyssa Brewer Wandell Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
Richard Britt Starr Deceased
Mathew Brock Gilly Postdoctoral researcher, NASA Ames Research Center
Lihi Brocke Schulman Postdoctoral researcher, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
Thomas Brown Kennedy Professor- Yale
Silvia Bunge Gabrieli Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California at Berkeley
Robert Burgess Schwarz Associate Professor, The Jackson Laboratory
Nicole Calakos Scheller Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology Duke University
Walter Carlini Ransom Medford Neurological and Spine Clinic
Mary Carskadon Dement Professor of Psychiatry, Brown University School of Medicine
Lauren Case Tessier-Lavigne Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
Daniel Chao Shen
Yu Chen Scheller Staff Scientist, Genomics Institute, Novartis Research Foundation
Anjen Chenn McConnell Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Northwestern University School of Medicine
Cecilia Cheung Davidson Professor Emeritus of Reproductive Medicine, UC San Diego
Anne Chiapella Ciaranello
EJ Chichilnisky Wandell Associate Professor, Salk Institute
Fung Chiu Smith
Jerold Chun Shatz Professor of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute
Francesca Cirulli Levine Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
Marlene Cohen Newsome Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Gregory Corrado Newsome Researcher, Google, Inc.
John Costalupes Dewson
Sallyeana Coyle Levine
Tania Cronin Kennedy
Carolyn Csongradi Barchas Professor -Chemistry & Physics - Palo Alto Senior High School
Charles Czeisler Dement Professor of Sleep Medicine, Director, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Muffie Dalton Kopito Senior Manager of Production Planning, Genentech
Robin Davis Nicholls Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Rutgers
Karl Deisseroth Tsien Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stanford
Robert Dodd Baylor Neurosurgery Resident, Stanford
Richard Dolmetsch Lewis Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Sascha Dulac Knudsen Assoc. Professor Systems Neurobiology, Salk Institute
Vikas Duvvuri Schulman Postdoctoral researcher, UCSD
Arthur Edelman Barchas Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, SUNY at Buffalo
Glen Elliott Barchas Chief Psychiatrist at Children's Health Council, Palo Alto, CA
Michelle Emond Madison Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Ohio State University
Douglas Eng Kocsis
Juan Espinosa Luo Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco
Ralph Felder Ganz section chief for cardiovascular nutrition, cardiology fellowship program at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Daniel Feldman Knudsen Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,University of California at Berkeley
Deveroux Ferguson Sapolsky Postdoctoral researcher, Mount Sinai Medical School
Fabian Fernandez Garner Postdoctoral researcher, University of Colorado
Howard Fields Kennedy Professor, Departments of Neurology and Physiology & Director, Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, University of California San Francisco
Sheri Fink Sapolsky Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Robert Fisher Prince Professor
Joseph Fisher Scheller
H. Fisk Shooter Private Practice- Los Angeles
Judith Ford Dewson Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
Michael Fossel Mathers Professor- Univ. of Michigan
Marcos Frank Heller Assistant Professor, Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, Univ of Pennsylvania
Paul Fuchs Getting Co-Director, Center for Sensory Biology, JHU
Kin Futamachi Prince
Anirvan Ghosh Shatz Professor, Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego
Curtis Gleason Prince
Lloyd Glenn Dement
Steven Glotzbach Heller Deceased
Joshua Gold Knudsen Assistant Professor, Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, Univ of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Goldberg Barres Medical Intern, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Ann Goldstein Luo Postdoctoral researcher, Harvard University
Allison Gontang Clandinin
Lisa Goodrich Scott Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Bryan Gore Tessier-Lavigne
Karl Greene Barchas Neurosurgeon
Walter Greenleaf Davidson Founder of Greenleaf Institute
Anna Greenwood Fernald Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Robert Grossfeld Shooter Professor of Zoology, Physiology, Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University
Michael Gutnick Prince Professor of Neurobiology, The Hebrew University
Laurel Haak Heller Science Director, Discovery Logic
Suzanne Haber Barchas University of Rochester-Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Ilana Hairston Heller Research Scientist, University of Michigan
Mark Harlow McMahan Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology at Texas A&M University
Melissa Harrington Peroutka Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnolgy & Director of Biomedical Research, Delaware State University
Andrew Harris Bennett
Dean Hartley Dennis Choi
James Havstad Hance
Sarah Hays Barchas
Christopher Hazuka Scheller Associate, Latham and Watkins Law Firm
Kevin Heist Schulman Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiac Electrophysiology) at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Leslie Henderson Nicholls Professor, Department of Physiology & Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Dartmouth Medical School
Rachel Henderson Fernald Instructor, UC Berkeley
Steven Henriksen Dement Vice President for Research and Biotechnology Western Univ for Health Sciences
Karl Herrup Shooter Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Rutgers University
William Hewlett Barchas Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt
John Heymach Shooter Assistant Professor,T H&N Onc & Cancer Biol, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Benjamin Hoehn Steinberg Senior Research Scientist, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford
Kim Hoke Fernald Postdoctoral researcher, University of Texas, Austin
Eric Hoopfer Luo Postdoctoral researcher, CalTech
Sharon Horton McMahan
Gregory Horwitz Newsome Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Yuanyuan Hua Smith Postdoctoral researcher, University of California San Francisco
Matthew Huggins Madison managing family business
Peter Hyde Knudsen Teacher, Roxbury Latin School, Massachusetts
Michael Ignatius Shooter Director of Cell Biology, Molecular Probes, InvitrogenInc.
Richard Jacobsen Huguenard Reearch Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
Gregory Jefferis Luo Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK
Bradley Jones Thompson
Wonil Jung Schwarz Staff Scientist, Alertness Solutions
Miriam Kaplan Barres Postdoctoral researcher, University of California San Francisco
Alexander Katsov Clandinin
Yun Kee Scheller Postdoctoral researcher, Bronner-Fraser Lab, Caltech
Matthew Kirschen Glover Medical Student, Stanford University
Matthew Klassen Shen Postdoctoral researcher, Yuh Nung Jan laboratory, University of California San Francisco
Juliet Knowles Longo
Barbara Knowlton Thompson Associate Director of Research, Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles
Jaeyoung Koh Choi Professor in Neurology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Takaki Komiyama Luo Postdoctoral researcher, Svoboda lab, Janelia Farms, HHMI
Thane Kreiner Scheller President & CEO, iZumi Bio, Inc.
Richard Kuo Feinstein/Schulman Chief Scientific Officer, Aegen Biosciences, Inc, Monterrey, CA
Matthew Lawrence Sapolsky Medical Resident, Harvard
Mitchell Lazar Barchas Professor, University of Pennsylvania-Medicine & Genetics
Dean Le Tatemoto
Gabrielle Leblanc Ciaranello Program Director for Neurogenetics National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Star Lee Palmer Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford
Robert Levy Barchas Professor of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University
David Lieberman Istvan Mody Pediatric Neurology Resident, Johns Hopkins
Richard Lin Scheller Opthalmology Resident, Stanford School of Medicine
Brie Linkenhoker Knudsen Practitioner, Global Business Network, San Francisco
Taylor Liu Gilly Cardiology Resident, UCSF
Joseph Lo Turco Kriegstein Professor, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut
Christine Logan Richard Thompson
Catherine Lomen Hoerth Shooter Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco
Heath Lukatch MacIver Partner- Novo Ventures
James Lynch Pribram Professor of Anatomy University of Mississippi
Kristin Maczko Knudsen Quantitative Insights Manager at Google
John Madden Barchas
Catherine Magill McMahan Freelance Medical Writer and Consultant
Julie Mak Cox Genetic Counselor, Cancer Center at University of California San Francisco
Robert Malenka Waxman Stanford- Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Laura Mamounas Waxman Program Director, Extramural Research Program
Devanand Manoli Baker
Milica Margeta Shen
Benjamin Martinez
Joshua Mast Clandinin Research Associate, Princeton
Thomas Matches Heller
Peter Maxim Pribram
Linda McAllister Corey Goodman Vice President of Diagnostics, Arbor Vita
David McCormick Thompson Professor of Neurobiology, Yale
Margot McNeil Pribram
Mollie Meffert Schulman Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
Geoffrey Meissner Baker
Leslie Meltzer Deisseroth Medical Affairs, Actelion Pharmaceuticals US
Sally Mendoza Levine Research Psychologist, UCDavis
Christina Milburn Prince
Kenneth Miller Shatz Professor-Computational Neuroscience, Columbia Univ.
Gregory Miller Knudsen Science writer, Science magazine
William Mobley Shooter Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Michelle Monje Palmer
Denise Montell Corey Goodman Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry & Director, Center for Cell Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University
William Moody Kennedy Professor of Biology, Univ. of Washington
Stephen Morris Shooter
Mala Murthy Shwarz Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Mireya Nadal-Vicens Fernald Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
David Nadell Wandell Analyst, Duff & Phelps
Elly Nedivi Skene Associate Professor, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences & Biology, M. I. T.
Robert Nichols Shooter Professor-Dept. of Cell & Molecular Biology at the University of Hawaii.
Christopher Niell Smith Postdoctoral researcher, University of California San Francisco
Kenneth Nielsen Baylor
Jeffrey Noebels Prince Professor-Department of Neurology, Baylor
Marc Nuwer Pribram Chief, Clinical Neurophysiology, UCLA
Karl Obrietan Heller Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
Eva Ogielska Aldrich Associate, Foley Hoag, Boston
Louis Ostrach Mathers Program Executive, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
Thomas Otis Mody Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of California at Los Angeles
Clare Ozawa Blau Investment Professional, Versant Ventures
Maulik Patel Shen Postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center /Harmit Malik Laboratory
Andrew Patterson Kobilka Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford Medical School
Anna Penn Shatz Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Medical School
Donald Perkel Prince Deceased
Pamela Pierce Stephen Peroutka Director of PainCare, University of California San Francisco
Arthur Piltch Shooter
Mark Plummer Wine Professor, Cell Biology & Neuroscience , Rutgers, UMDNJ
Nicholas Poolos Jeff Kocsis Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle
Vivian Poon Shen Postdoctoral researcher, Fivaz Lab, Duke-National University of Sinagpore Graduate Medical School, Singapore
Darrell Porcello Huguenard Postdoctoral researcher, Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA
Matthew Porteus Ciaranello Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern
Vivek Prabhakaran Gabrieli Assistant Professor, CoDirector of Functional Neuroimaging in Radiology, University of Wisconsin
Saurabh Prakash Clandinin
Robin Price Palmer Completing Medical School, Stanford University
Sonja Pyott Aldrich Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Bruce Quinn Barchas Senior Health Policy Specialist, Foley Hoag LLP
Elizabeth Race Wagner Postdoctoral fellow, Memory and Disorders Research Clinic, Boston University and Boston VA Healthcare System
Monte Radeke Shooter Assistant Research Scientist
Daniel Ramot Goodman Project Manager, DE Shaw Research, New York
Noreen Reist McMahan Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
Patricia Rosenfeld Levine
Glenn Rossi Britt
Kevin Roth Barchas Professor of Pathology, Univ. of Alabama ,Birmingham
Daniel Salzman Newsome Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Rory Sayres Grill-Spector Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Research, Stanford University
Michael Scanlon Fernald Founding member and Chief Scientific Officer, Lumosity
Mark Schaefer Barchas Executive Vice President of ZedX,and is a principal of Asyet International
Laura Schaevitz McConnell Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College
Robert Schafer Moore Postdoctoral fellow, Desimone Lab, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, M.I.T.
Philip Schwartzkroin Chow Professor Neurological Surgery, UC Davis
Tina Seelig Kendig Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Eyal Seidemann Newsome Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Alfred Server Shooter Dr. Alfred Server is a partner in the Technology Transactions and Licensing Practice Group.
Janet Shen Kriegstein
Chuck Sholtz Richard Aldrich Senior Patent Counsel, Amgen
Lauren Silva Barry Connors
Sheela Singla Malenka Completing Medical School, Stanford University
Andrew Smith Shooter
Deanna Smith J. H. Pate Skene Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of South Carolina
Barbara Smuts Hamburg/Levine Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Thomas Snyder Barchas
Noam Sobel Gabrieli Associate Professor Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Vikaas Sohal Huguenard Resident, Stanford University
David Sretavan Kennedy Professor of Opthamology & Physiology- UCSF
Paul Stein Kennedy Professor of Biology & Physical Therapy, Washington University in St. Louis
Gary Steinberg Mathers Professor of Neurosurgery
Laura Streichert Sargent Public Health Consultant
Fotini Stylianopoulou Clayton Professor- School of Health Sciences
Leo Sugrue Newsome Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford
Susan Sullivan Barchas
Gargi Talukder Aldrich Associate, Morgan Lewis Law Firm, SF
Darrell Tanelian Barchas Founder and President -Research, Development and Health Affairs
Larry Tecott Barchas Professor in Residence of Psychiatry, UCSF
Elise Temple Gabrieli Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development, Cornell University
Barbara Tennent Davidson Jackson Laboratory Director of Scientific Program Development
Tara Thiagarajan Tsein Postdoctoral researcher, Unit of Neural Network Physiology, NIMH/NIH
Moriah Thomason Gabrieli Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Stanford
Scott Thompson Prince Professor, Department of Physiology, Univ. of Maryland
Amy Tiemann McConnell Author
Robert Toler Kennedy
Jennifer Tsui Malenka Postdoctoral researcher, McGill University
Ronald Vale Shooter Professor UCSF Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Biology
Russell Van Gelder Dement Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology/Director of Medicine Eye Institute, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Scott VandenBerg Rubinstein Professor, UCSF, Neuropathology
Mauricio Vargas Barres Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford
Mariel Velez Clandinin
Matthew Waldor Steinman Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts
Samuel Wang Thompson Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Trent Watkins Barres Postdoctoral researcher, Genentech
Joanne Weinberg Levine Professor -Cellular and Physiological Sciences
John Weiss Choi Professor, Departments of Neurology and Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California at Irvine
Charles Weitz Goldstein Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard
Beverly Wendland Scheller Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Wetmore Schnitzer Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences Fellow, Garner Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
David Wheeler Tsien Medical Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stephanie White Fernald Associate Professor, Department of Physiological Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles
Sandra Wiener Levine Deceased
Sue Williams Madden
Wyndham Wilson Shooter Head, Lymphoma Therapeutics Section,Senior Investigator National Cancer Institute
Ilana Witten Knudsen Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford
Dona Wong Ciaranello Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School & Director, Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology, McLean Hospital
Yifan Xia Wine Returned to China. Whereabouts currently unknown.
Yufeng Yang Lu Principal Investigator, Institute of Life Sciences, Fuzhou University
Bruce Yankner Shooter Professor of Pathology and Neurology, Harvard School of Medicine
William Zagotta Aldrich Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington
Felix Zajac Iannone Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Othopaedic Surgery, Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab, Stanford University
Astrid Zimmermann Shooter Admin Staff- Max Planck Institute
Robert Zucker Kennedy Professor of Neurobiology, UC Berkeley

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