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Val Catanzarite
Email:
vcatanza@aol.com
Website:
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Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology, BS, Biology & Math, 1975
Graduate Department: Biophysics Group at UC Berkeley
Thesis Title: Neurologist: An Interactive Computer Program for Consultation in Neurology and Preliminary Description and Overview
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Charles E. Spooner
Graduation Year: 1980
Postgraduate Education: Neurology, University of California, Medical Center, San Diego
Current Position: Director of Perinatal Imaging, San Diego Perinatal Center;
Co-Director Sharp Children's Prenatal Diagnostic Center;
Assoc. Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Woman
Publications
Corey Raffel
Email: Unknown
Website:
Profile
Undergraduate Institution: Harvard, AB, Biochemistry, 1975
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Identification of Rabbit Lymphocyte Subpopulations on the Basis of an Ultrastructural Analysis of Lectin Reactivity and the Distribution of Surface Immunoglobulin
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Steward Sell
Graduation Year: 1980
Postgraduate Education: Neurology, University of California, Medical Center, San Diego
Current Position: Chief of Neurosurgery, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Ohio State University College of Medicine
Publications
John D. Hoff
Email: unknown
Website:
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Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego, BA, Biology
Graduate Department: Physiology and Pharmacology
Thesis Title: Functional Regulation of the Gonadotrope
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Samuel S.C. Yen
Graduation Year: 1981
Postgraduate Education: OB/Gyn, University of California, Medical Center, San Diego
Current Position: unknown
Publications
Clayton Wiley
Email:
wileyca@upmc.edu
Website:
Profile
Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago, BS, Biology, 1976
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: An Ultrastructural Study of Peripheral Myelination of Mature, Developing and Diseased Rodents
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Mark Ellisman
Graduation Year: 1981
Postgraduate Education: Neuropathology, University of California, Medical Center, San Diego
Current Position: Professor, Pathology, Director Division of Neuropathology, PERF Research Chair, Assistant Dean for the MD/PhD Program, University of Pittsburgh
Publications
Eric C. Beyer
Email:
ebeyer@peds.bsd.uchicago.edu
Website:
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Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago, AB, Biological Sciences, 1976
Graduate Department: Physiology and Pharmacology
Thesis Title: Lectins from Chicken Tissues: Purification, Characterization, Localization, Distribution and Possible Functions
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Samuel H. Barondes
Graduation Year: 1982
Postgraduate Education: Pediatrics, University of Chicago
Current Position: Section Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University of Chicago
Publications
Mark W. Hamblin
Email:
hamblin@u.washington.edu
Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago, BA, Biology, 1976
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: Radioligand Binding Properties of Dopamine Receptor Subtypes in the Central Nervous System
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Ian Creese
Graduation Year: 1982
Postgraduate Education: Psychiatry, Stanford University Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Advisor Roland D. Ciaranello
Current Position: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, School of Medicine
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Joseph Lipsick
Email:
lipsick@stanford.edu
Website:
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Undergraduate Institution: Oberlin College, AB, Biology/English, 1975
Graduate Department: Physiology / Pharmacology
Thesis Title: Differentiation and Activation of T Cells Precursors in the Absence of Thymus
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Nathan O. Kaplan
Graduation Year: 1982
Postgraduate Education: Pathology Residency and Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA School of Medicine
Current Position: Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Ellen Sung
Email: unknown
Undergraduate Institution: CIT, BS, Biology, 1976
Graduate Department: Biological Sciences at Stanford University
Thesis Title: The Structure and Biosynthesis of the Ia Antigens and their Associated Invariant Chain
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Patricia P. Jones
Graduation Year: 1983
Postgraduate Education: Pathology, UCSD
Last Known Position: Pathologist, Diagnostic Pathology Medical Group, Inc.
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Jonathan Z. Tepper
Email: unknown
Undergraduate Institution: Stanford, BS, Biology, 1976
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: The Spatial and Temporal Properties of the Penicillin-Induced Epileptic Focus in Rat Cortex
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Arnold J. Mandell
Graduation Year: 1983
Postgraduate Education: Psychiatry, Stanford University Hospital
Current Position: unknown
Publications: unknown
Dennis M. Frisman
Email:
dfrisman@immunoquery.com
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, BS, Biochemistry, 1976
Graduate Department: Pathology
Thesis Title: A Membrane Antigen on Epstein-Barr Virus Infected Human B Cells Recognized by a Monoclonal Antibody
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: unknown
Graduation Year: 1983
Postgraduate Education: Pathology
Current Position: Senior pathologist at Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA
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Christopher Glass
Email:
cglass@ucsd.edu
Website:
Profile
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley, Biophysics, BA, 1977
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Studies of HDL-Associated APO A-I Cholesterol Ester Catabolism in the Rat
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Daniel Steinberg
Graduation Year: 1984
Postgraduate Education: Medicine, Harvard Medical Center
Current Position: Professor, Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
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Mark A. Smith
Email: unknown
Undergraduate Institution: University of South Florida
Graduate Department: Physiology / Pharmacology
Thesis Title: Regulation of Gonadotropin Secretion by Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone in Cultured Anterior Pituitary Cells
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Wylie Vale
Graduation Year: 1984
Postgraduate Education: Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
Current Position: lost contact
Publications: unknown
Dennis Templeton
Email:
dt9b@virginia.edu
Undergraduate Institution: Claremont Men's College, BA, Chemistry, 1977
Graduate Department: Physiology / Pharmacology
Thesis Title: Mutation Causing Premature Termination of the Polyoma Virus Medium T Antigen Blocks Cell Transformation
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Walter Eckhart
Graduation Year: 1984
Postgraduate Education: Pathology, Deaconess Hospital
Current Position: Current Position:
Walter Reed Professor of Pathology; Chair, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
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Gerald F. Joyce
Email:
gjoyce@scripps.edu
Website:
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Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago, BA, Biological Sciences, 1978
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: Construction of Non-Biological Evolving Systems
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Robert Tschirgi / Dr. Leslie E. Orgel
Graduation Year: 1984
Postgraduate Education: Transitional, Mercy Hospital, San Diego
Current Position: Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California,Member of the Academy of Science (2001)
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Geoffrey H. Murdoch
Email:
murdochgh@upmc.edu
Website: Profile
Undergraduate Institution: Yale, BS, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, 1976
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Prolactin Gene Transcriptional Regulation by Peptide Hormones
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Michael Rosenfeld
Graduation Year: 1984
Postgraduate Education: Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology, Yale University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Neuropathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Publications
Daniel S. Rimkus
Email: unknown
Undergraduate Institution: Caltech, BS, Chemistry, 1978
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Digital Tomosynthesis
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Norman A. Bailey
Graduation Year: 1984
Postgraduate Education: Research, University of California, Medical Center, San Diego
Current Position: Program Director, Santa Barbara Nuclear Medicine Technologist Training Program, South Coast Nuclear Medicine
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Neal R. Swerdlow
Email:
nswerdlow@ucsd.edu
Undergraduate Institution: Amherst College
Graduate Department: Neuroscience
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. George F. Koob
Graduation Year: 1986
Postgraduate Education: Mercy Medical Center Transitional Internship; UCSD Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Current Position: Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine
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