The Team
The success of the lab is driven by a team of intelligent and creative postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate, researchers led by Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler.
Principal Investigator
Professor of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
W.M. Keck Distinguished Young Scholar
Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth A. Winzeler is a professor in the Division of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Department of Pediatrics and director of translational research at the UC San Diego Health Sciences Center for Immunity, Infection & Inflammation. Read more…
Lab Members
Project Manager MalDA
Drug Target Identification
Yeast Models for Malaria
Synthetic Biology and Gene Editing
Visiting Professor
Professor Emeritus University of California (Riverside),
Assistant Clinical Professor
at School of Medicine, UCSD
Selina Bopp, Ph.D. | Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health
Erika Flannery, M.P.H. Ph.D. | Scientist, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases
Marisa Hovlid, Ph.D. | Thermo Fisher Scientific
Nobutaka Kato, Ph.D. | Scientist, Global Health Drug Discovery Institute, Beijing
Claire Kidgell, Ph.D. | Program Officer, The Wellcome Trust
Karine Le Roch, Ph.D. | Professor, UC Riverside
Case McNamara, Ph.D. | Principal Investigator, California Institute for Biomedical Research
Shinji Okitsu, Ph.D. | Scientist, EMD Serono
Vandana Ramachandran, Ph.D. | Program Officer, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore (A*STAR)
Shailendra Kumar Sharma, Ph.D. | Research Associate, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Scott Westenberger, Ph.D. | Field Application Scientist, Illumina
Melanie Wree, Ph.D.
Stephan Meister, Ph.D. | Scientist, Beckman Coulter
Annie Cowell, M.D. MPH | Assistant Professor, UCSD
Pamela Orjuela-Sanchez, Ph.D. | Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases
Purva Gupta, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow, UCSD
Jenya Antonova-Koch, Ph.D. | California Institute for Biomedical Research
Gregory LaMonte, Ph.D. | Instructor, Point Loma Nazarene University
Juan Carlos Jado, Ph.D.
Taylor Bright, Ph.D. | Founder, Novoron Bioscience Inc.
Neekesh Dharia, M.D. Ph.D. | Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Gregory Goldgof, Ph.D. | Residency, Stanford Medical School
Jeff Johnson, Ph.D. | Research Assistant Professor, UC San Francisco
Justine Swann, Ph.D. | Arbor Scientia
Jason Young, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, UCSD
Victoria Corey | Illumina
Lawrence Wang | Medical Student
Matthew Abraham | Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Olivia Fuchs
Sang Kim | Pharmacy Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marie Nachon | Illumina
Haidang Nguyen | Medical Student, Michigan State University
Maximo Prescott
Suriya Singhakul
Rebecca Stanhope
Christine Teng
Felicia Gunawan
Alan Du
Jennifer Yang
Eddie Vigil
Biniam Ambachew
Peter Chibi
Caroline Page
Jake Schenken
Erika Sasaki
Kristen Thorne
Emma Paytas
Mclean Taggard
Megan Verma
Andrea Cheung
Melanie (Bing) Zou
Lindsey Skokan
Keshin Visahan
Colleen Boyle | TuSimple
Christie Lincoln
Jacklyn Sanchez-Alvarez
Dylan Hutson
Monica Le
Gisel Del Carmen Lopez
Ayden Fonseca
Prianka Kumar
Ioana Vestemean
Natalia Koga
Korina Eribez
Lauren Midyett
