Faculty

PETER KUHN, PHD

Director, CSI Cancer
University Professor of Biological Sciences, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, and Urology

JAMES HICKS, PHD

Professor of Research, Deputy Director, CSI Cancer
Department of Biological Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

JEREMY MASON, PHD

Assistant Professor of Research, Director of Data Science
Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine

LIYA XU, PHD

Assistant Professor of Research, Director of Applied Genomics
Department of Ophthalmology, CHLA

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Institute Fellows

JORGE NIEVA, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Department of Medicine

INDERBIR GILL, MD

Chair and Distinguished Professor of Urology, Associate Dean for Clinical Innovation

Department of Urology

JESSE BERRY, MD

Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, Associate Director of Ocular Oncology 

Department of Ophthalmology

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Administrative Staff

ELVIA NUNEZ

Director of Research Administration

ALLIE WELSH

Director of Finance

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Research Staff

ANAND KOLATKAR, PHD

Director of Data Science and Infrastructure

STEPHANIE SHISHIDO, PHD

Director of Clinical Research

MOHAMED KAMAL, PHD

Staff Scientist

LIZ QI, PHARMD

Clinical Research Regulatory Administrator

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Technical Support Staff

VALERIE HENNES

Research Lab Specialist

ANDRÉS RIVERA

Research Lab Technician, Supervisor

AVERY LIN

Specialized Lab Technician

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Software Engineering (Devops & IT) Staff

RAFAEL NEVAREZ

Research Programmer I

WILLIAM KIM

Programmer Analyst II

RAJIV MANDYA NAGARAJU

Associate Data Scientist

ROBIN DOMINGUEZ

Systems Administrator III

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Postdoctoral Scholars

BRIAN ZHANG

Postdoc – Research Associate

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Graduate Students

NIKKI HIGA

PhD Candidate 

Cancer Biology and Genomics

AMIN NAGHDLOO

PhD Candidate 

Mechanical Engineering

DOANNA PHAM

PhD Candidate

Molecular and Computational Biology

MINA TOLOU GHANI

PhD Candidate

Molecular and Computational Biology

DEAN TESSONE

PhD Student 

Molecular and Computational Biology

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Undergraduate Students

Anya Shah

ANYA SHAH

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

SRIKAR KOLLURU

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

EMMETT LILJEGREN

Mentors: Liz Qi, Stephanie Shishido

THERESA LUO

Mentor: Liya Xu

Brandon Ye

BRANDON YE – CURE Co-Lead

Mentor: Jeremy Mason

AMY HUANG

Mentors: Mina Tolou, Stephanie Shishido

ANDREW UDOV – CURE Co-Lead

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

ASHLEY ASANTE-MANU

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

SAM LIU

Mentor: Jeremy Mason

MONICA RODRIGUEZ – CURE Co-Lead

Mentor: Dean Tessone

VIDUR MUSRAN

Mentor: Jeremy Mason

STEVE SOTO TRUJILLO

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

CAMILLA PLASCENCIA

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

BAISHALI CHAUDHURI

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

SRIRAM SESHADRI

Mentor: Mina Tolou Ghani

JEFFREY KANG

Mentor: Dean Tessone

CLAUDIA BJERREGAARD

Mentor: Stephanie Shishido

ANDREW NGUYEN

Mentor: Liya Xu, Stephanie Shishido

KATE OLSEN

Mentor: Mohamed Kamal

AYLA SEDDIGHNEZHAD

Mentors: Mohamed Kamal, Olga Eremina and Pegah Bagheri (Zavaleta Lab)

ANMOL SINGHAL

Mentor: Liya Xu

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