THE PEOPLE

“People are our greatest asset”

RSI in motion

RSI in motion

The vision, passion, and creative ingenuity of RSI derives  from the hearts and minds of our faculty.

Research Faculty
Katalin Baksa, PhD, Assistant Professor
James W. Larrick, MD, PhD, Professor
Jennifer L. Lei, Executive Director, Senior Scientist, and Professor
Andrew Mendelsohn, PhD, President, Research Director, and Professor

Board of Directors
Martha Dunham, PhD, Scientist at Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Owner of Identity Expression
Russell L. Finley, Jr., PhD, Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Jennifer L. Lei, Executive Director, Senior Scientist, and Professor, Regenerative Sciences Institute
Eve Mendelsohn, BS, Mechanical and Computer Engineer for alternative energy
Andrew Mendelsohn, PhD, President and Research Director, Regenerative Sciences Institute

Research Staff
Shraddha Kamat, MS

Interns
Debashree Bannerjee, MS Dominican University of California
Ruma Gupta, PhD

 Lab Alumni
AMRITA Interns
Patricia Barilko, BA, UC Santa Cruz
Alison Tang – UC Berkeley
Preethi Kandhalu, BA, UC Berkeley
Jimmy Guo – UC Berkeley
Lena Meyer – UC Santa Barbra

Undergraduate Fellows
Omar Khan – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine MD/PhD Program
Julie Seng – UC Berkeley graduate
Hugo Decker – Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University MD/PhD Program
Zhenzhen Mo – UC Berkeley graduate, Research Associate, Planet Biopharma
Sandy Wong – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill PhD program
Johnny Jiang – Research Associate, UCSF
Jazmine Liew – UC Berkeley, Drexel University College of Medicine MD Program
Seung Woo Jung – Stanford University

iGEM Team Members
Omar Khan – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine MD/PhD Program
Hugo Decker -Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University MD/PhD Program
Jack Tung – Medical College of Georgia MD/PhD Program
Ed Cho – Stanford University, USC MD Program
Molly Allen – UC Berkeley, UCSD PhD Program
LeAnn Duong – Stanford University
Xiaoqian Gong – UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business MBA Program
Anastasia Shabalova – UC Berkeley graduate, USC MD Program
Simina Ticau – UC Berkeley, MIT PhD Program
Joshua Resa – Stanford University,  UCSF MD Program
Sean Allen – UC Berkeley, Northwestern University PhD Program
Gabriel Sumano – UC Berkeley
Ida Bezabeh – UCLA, UCSF Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership MS Program
Israel Lipinsky – UC Berkeley
Justine Widjaja – UC Berkeley
Peijia Jessica Yuan – UC Berkeley, Yale University PhD program
Tarang Srivastava – UC Berkeley, Medical College of Wisconsin MD Program
Lily Liu – UC San Diego

RSI Highschool Biology Scholars Program
Anna Sadovnikova- UC Berkeley, University of Michigan MPH, UC Davis MD/PhD Program
Andrey Smakov  – UC Berkeley
Eunice Lee – UCSD
Olga Prikhodko – UCLA, UCSD PhD program and graduate student at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Janna Minehart – Colgate University, research technician at Gerster Sloan Kettering

BTE-SV Highschool Internship Program
Austin Rayford – UC Berkeley
Julia Proctor – University of Washington
Sammy Sidhu – UC Berkeley, Apple Inc.
Ayako Ohoka – University of Illinois
Rebecca Sze – University of Chicago
Evan Xue – UCLA

RSI Biotechnology Internship
Smitha Rao, MS, Adicet Bio, Inc
Chetna Dwivedi, MS, Pharmacyclics
Eleonora Migliore, MS, Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research
Malek Hamdi, MS – WhatsApp
Maria Julia Alonso, DVM
Lisha Lin, PhD – Database Informatics Manager, Accelrys
Subhadra Dash, MS – Verseon
Konica Suchde, MS
Ka Ki Yip – UC Berkeley, R&D Technologist, Leyden Energy
Aparna Bhate, MS – Synthetic Biology Professional, Life Technologies
Aparna Raman, PhD – Ultrasolar Technologies
Tiffany Lin, MS
Justin Laboriante – UC Irvine, Primitybio
Preethi Venkateswaran, MS
Araceli Luu – UC Irvine, Laboratory Technician at the California State Public Health Department
Niloofar Ghoreshi, MS in Pharmacy
Reecha Nepal, MS –  Affymetrix, Cepheid
Vidula Naik, MD – Applied Stem Cell, Inc.
Yingying Henry – National University of Singapore, Wing Nien Foods
Emily Chu – UC Davis, DNA 2.0
Christine Scherp, MD – Scientist, Life Technologies
Lynda Banh  – UC Berkeley, Affymetrix, Caribou Biosciences
Wallace Fong – UC Santa Cruz, Analytical Lab at Genomic Health
Eva Pan – University of Texas at Austin, Research Assistant, Genentech
Kiley Rucker, BS candidate, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Justin Peter Rus, BS candidate, SFSU
Tram-Ngoc Nguyen, BS, Boston University, Research Assistant at UCSF

 Postdoctoral Fellows
Suzana Tulac, PhD, Cepheid
Suvarna Erande, PhD, NextBio
Patricia Babin, PhD, Rare Genomics Institute

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