- Lisette Acevedo
Appointment Period: 2008-2009 / Grant Year: [24]
Research advisor during training: Dr. David Cheresh
Project during training:
A Role for Semaphorin 3A, a Novel Vascular Permeability Factor in Tumor Cell Extravasation and Metastasis.
Current position/institution: Associate Project Scientist, UCSD
- Ronald Aimes
Appointment Period: 1996-1997 / Grant Year: [11]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Susan Taylor
Project during training:
Cloning, expression and characterization of a chicken
matrix metalloproteinase and its inhibitor.
Current position/institution: Associate Director of Research & Development,
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tustin, CA
- Aaron Aslanian
Appointment Period: 2005-2007 / Grant Years: [21,22]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Tony Hunter
Project during training:
Identification of protein interactions and post-translational modifications by mass spectrometry that characterize.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
- Beth Baber-Furnari
Appointment Period: 1999-2000 / Grant Year: [15]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Tony Hunter
Project during training:
A possible link between the DNA damage checkpoint & chromatin remodelling factors.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
- Elizabeth Barnes
Appointment Period: 2002-2003 / Grant Year: [18]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Daniel Donoghue
Project during training:
Interaction between cyclin B1/CRS domain and the tumor suppressor Ptc1.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of Washington, WA
- Tiffany Barrows Yano
Appointment Period: 2005-2007 / Grant Years: [21,22]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Mike Burkart
Project during training:
Cloning, mechanistic study, and inhibition of polyketide synthase thioesterase domains as anti-cancer agents.
Current position/institution: Tech Support Scientist, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA
- John Brognard
Appointment Period: 2007-2008 / Grant Years: [23]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Tony Hunter
Project during training:
Functional Consequences of Driver Mutations in Novel Cancer-Associated Kinases.
Current position/institution: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Tony Hunter, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
- Rebecca Bowers-Gentry
Appointment Period: 2003-2004 / Grant Year: [19]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Ed Dennis
Project during training:
Phosphorylation of Phospholipase A2 in Cell Proliferation.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Andrea Carrano
Appointment Period: 2002-2003 / Grant Year: [18]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Tony Hunter
Project during training:
Role of Nedd4 family of HECT/WW domain E3 ubiquitin ligases in cell growth and
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
- Yijun Chen
Appointment Period: 1997-1998 / Grant Year: [13]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Ed Dennis
Project during training:
Expression and mechanistic study on a novel group V phospholipase A2.
Current position/institution: Professor and Director, Laboratory of Chemical Biology, China Pharmaceutical University
- Yong-Qing Chen
Appointment Period: 1995-1996 / Grant Year: [10]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Joe Kraut
Project during training: Crystal structures of E. coli and DHFR.
Current position/institution: Sr. Software Engineer / Lion Bioscience, Inc.
- Gabriela Coutinho-Mansfield
Appointment Period: 2004-2005 / Grant Year: [20]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Xiang-Dong Fu
Project during training:
Regulation of Alternative Splicing by the EGF-Signalling Pathway.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Daniel Drolet
Appointment Period: 1993-1994 / Grant Year: [09]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld
Project during training: A novel TEF factor cloned.
Current position/institution: Research Scientist / Nexagen - Boulder, CO
- Chris Eggers
Appointment Period: 2003-2004 / Grant Year: [19]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Susan Taylor
Project during training:
A-Kinase Anchoring Proteins and Regulation of Nuclear Transport and Gene Expression.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Pascal Gagneux
Appointment Period: 1998-1999 / Grant Year: [14]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Ajit Varki
Project during training: Comparative study of sialic acids in humans and chimpanzees.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of California San Diego, CA
To see Dr. Gagneux's website, click
here.
- Matthew Gentry
Appointment Period: 2003-2005 / Grant Years: [19,20]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Jack Dixon
Project during training:
A Dual Specificity Phosphatase and Control of Beta-Catenin Signaling.
Current position/institution: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
To see Dr. Gentry's website click:
here.
- Brent Hamaoka
Appointment Period: 2006-2008 / Grant Years: [22,23]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Partho Ghosh
Project during training:
The Role of Met in Malignancy and Invasiveness of Tumor Progression.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, Lab of Partho Ghosh, UCSD
- David Hartley
Appointment Period: 1996-1997 / Grant Year: [12]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Bart Sefton
Project during training: Herpes virus transformation.
Current position/institution: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of South Alabama
- Ken Humphries
Appointment Period: 2000-2001 / Grant Year: [16]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Susan Taylor
Project during training:
The role of PKA anchoring and localization in mitochondria.
Current position/institution: Research Scientist, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK
- Kristen Jepsen
Appointment Period: 2002-2003 / Grant Year: [18]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld
Project during training:
Molecular mechanisms involved in the nuclear receptor corepressor (N-CoR), and
implications for normal proliferation and tumor organogenesis.
Current position/institution: Assistant Research Scientist, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Peter Kjellen
Appointment Period: 2000-2001 / Grant Year: [16]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Bart Sefton
Project during training:
Regulation of Lck activity by the Herpes virus saimiri Tip484 and Tip488 proteins.
Current position/institution: Assistant Professor, Orebro Life Sciences Center, Orebro University, Sweden
To see Dr. Kjellen's website click:
here.
- Michael Kuchinskas
Appointment Period: 2007-2009 / Grant Year: [23,24]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Susan Taylor
Project during training:
Structural Analysis and Crystallographic Studies of the Novel Protein AKIP1:
Interactions with SRPK1 and Implications as a Tumor Suppressor.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, S. Taylor Lab, UCSD
- Maya Kunkel
Appointment Period: 2001-2002 / Grant Year: [17]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Alexandra Newton
Project during training:
Regulation of Akt signaling.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Shaun Lee
Appointment Period: 2004-2006 / Grant Years: [20,21]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Jack Dixon
Project during training:
Cell Motility, Membrane Ruffling and Cell Death
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Joel Leverson
Appointment Period: 1998-1999 / Grant Year: [14]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Tony Hunter
Project during training: Regulation of the anaphase promoting complex (APC) in mitosis and meiosis.
Current position/institution: Scientist, Abbott Research Labs
- Sean X. Li
Appointment Period: 1998-1999 / Grant Year: [13]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld
Project during training:
Role of Prop1 in pituitary development.
Current position/institution: Assistant Professor, Harvard Boston's Children's Hospital
- Kun Ping Lu
Appointment Period: 1993-1994 / Grant Year: [09]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Tony Hunter
Project during training: Cell cycle regulation.
Current position/institution: Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Hospital - Harvard University
To see Dr. Lu's faculty website, click
here.
- Chris Murriel
Appointment Period: 2005-2006 / Grant Years: [21]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Steve Dowdy
Project during training:
Alternative Splicing of Cyclin E in Breast Cancer.
Current position/institution: Research Scientist, Genentech - San Francisco, CA
- Mike Musci
Appointment Period: 2003-2004 / Grant Year: [19]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Geoff Wahl
Project during training:
Wnt-Dependent Stem Cell Populations in Breast Tissue.
Current position/institution: Physician, Oncology Department, Kaiser, Walnut Creek, CA
To see Dr. Musci's physician website click:
here.
- Marceen Newlon
Appointment Period: 1999-2000 / Grant Year: [15]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Alexandra Newton
Project during training:
Role of the C2 domain in protein kinase C enzyme function.
Current position/institution: Lecturer, Ursuline College, Cleveland, OH
- Dennis Otero
Appointment Period: 2003-2005 / Grant Year: [19,20]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael David
Project during training:
Radioresistance of B Cells in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL).
Current position/institution: Postdoc, UCSD
- David Pagliarini
Appointment Period: 2009-2009 / Grant Year: [25]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Jack Dixon
Project during training:
Proteomic Analyses of Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Biochemistry
Current position/institution: Assistant Professor, University of WI, Madison
To see Dr. Pagliarini's website click:
here.
- Irene Pedersen
Appointment Period: 2006-2007 / Grant Year: [22]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael David
Project during training:
Interferon's involvement in viral infection and cancer.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, UCSD
- Eric Rogers
Appointment Period: 2005-2006 / Grant Year: [21]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Dan Donoghue
Project during training:
FGFR3 and SH2-B Interactions in Breast Cancer.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
- Melinda Roy
Appointment Period: 1996-1996 / Grant Year: [11]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Patricia Jennings
Project during training: Investigation of native state of plasticity of interleukin 1-beta.
Current position/institution: Assistant Project Scientist, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Aimee Ryan
Appointment Period: 1994-1995 / Grant Year: [10]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld
Project during training: Brn-1, Brn-2 biology.
Current position/institution: Assistant Professor, Children's Research Hospital - Montreal Research Institute, Canada
To see Dr. Ryan's website click:
here.
- Michal Schwartz
Appointment Period: 2008-2009 / Grant Year: [24]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld
Project during training:
Investigations of underlying molecular mechanisms of tumor translocation events.
Current position/institution: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of M.G. Rosenfeld, UCSD
- Tiffany Seagroves
Appointment Period: 1999-2000 / Grant Year: [15]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Randy Johnson
Project during training:
Conditional gene deletion mouse models.
Current position/institution: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
- Jameel Shah
Appointment Period: 2000-2001 / Grant Year: [16]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Tony Hunter
Project during training:
Mitotic regulation of ribosomal protein S6 kinases.
Current position/institution: Scientist, Abbott Research Labs
- Tim Smith
Appointment Period: 2001-2002 / Grant Year: [17]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Ed Dennis
Project during training:
Regulation of the group VI Ca2+ -independent PLA2.
Current position/institution: Research Technician, Novartis
- Derek Solum
Appointment Period: 2001-2002 / Grant Year: [17]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld
Project during training:
Role of co-regulators in cell growth and gene expression.
Current position/institution: Postdoc Fellow, NIH
- Stephanie Truhlar
Appointment Period: 2004-2005 / Grant Year: [20]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Betsy Komives
Project during training:
Structural Features of the IkappaB-alpha as Determinants of Biological Activity.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, The University of California San Diego, CA
- Melanie Webster
Appointment Period: 1996-1997 / Grant Year: [12]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Dan Donoghue
Project during training:
FGFR regulation in human developmental disorders.
Current position/institution: Patent Scientist, Campbell & Flores LLP, San Diego, CA
- Dominic Yee
Appointment Period: 2006-2008 / Grant Year: [22,23]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Roger Tsien
Project during training:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Protease-Associated Human Diseases for Detection and Treatment of Carcinogenesis.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, Lab of Dr. Roger Tsien, UCSD
- Wenlai Zhou
Appointment Period: 2007-2008 / Grant Year: [23]
Research advisor during training: Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld
Project during training:
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Prostate Cancer Progression.
Current position/institution: Postdoc, Lab of Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld, UCSD
