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Andrew T. Gray
Email:
graya@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University, AB, Chemistry, 1983
Graduate Department: Physiology / Pharmacology
Thesis Title: The Effects of Diffusion in Homogeneity on Pulmonary and Skeletal Muscle Gas Exchange
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Frank Powell
Graduation Year: 1990
Postgraduate Education: Internal Medicine, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, Anesthesiology, UC Medical Center, San Francisco
Current Position: Professor, Anesthesiology, UCSF
Publications
Thomas P. Knecht
Email:
browndogz@comcast.net
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego, BA, Biology, 1979
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Studies of the mechanisms of the selective uptake of high density lipoprotein cholesteryl esters without holo-particle uptake
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Ray Pittman
Graduation Year: 1990
Postgraduate Education: Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospital
Current Position: Unknown
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David L. Levin
Email:
levin.david@mayo.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: Stanford, BS, Biology, 1983
Graduate Department: Physiological Research Laboratory of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Thesis Title: Studies on the Movement of Fluid and Protein across the Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelium in a Freshwater Turtle
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Fred N. White
Graduation Year: 1990
Postgraduate Education: Internal Medicine at UC San Diego; Radiology/Diagnostic at UC San Francisco
Current Position: Associate Professor, Radiology, Mayo Clinic
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Dowain A. Wright
Email: Unknown University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Undergraduate Institution: UC Riverside, BS, Biochemistry, 1982
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Identification and analysis of a family of DNA-binding phosphoproteins encoded by a human cytomegalovirus early transcription unit
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Deborah Spector
Graduation Year: 1990
Postgraduate Education: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston
Current Position: Medical Director of immunology and rheumatology at Children’s Hospital; Chair of the Department of Medicine and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine.
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Stefano M. Bertozzi
Email:
sbertozzi@correo.insp.mx
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Undergraduate Institution: MIT, BS, Biology, 1981
Graduate Department: Economics
Thesis Title: The Economics of HIV Testing in Africa
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Jeffrey Harris
Graduation Year: 1991
Postgraduate Education: Internal Medicine, Mt. Zion Hospital, UCSF
Current Position: Director, Health Economics Unit, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico
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Sacha Nelson
Email:
nelson@brandeis.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: Brown University, SB, Neurosciences, 1983
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Orientation-Selective Suppression in Cat Visual Cortex
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Simon LeVay
Graduation Year: 1991
Postgraduate Education: Research, MIT, Boston
Current Position: Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
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Gustavo Gonzalez
Email: unknown
Undergraduate Institution: UC Irvine, BS, Biomedical Sciences, 1985
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: Transcriptional Regulation by the Second Messenger Camp
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Wylie Vale
Graduation Year: 1992
Postgraduate Education: Ophthalmology, UC San Francisco
Current Position: A B See Eye Care, Monterey, California
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Michael S. Kapiloff
Email:
kapiloff@ohsu.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins, BA, Humanistic Studies, 1984
Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
Thesis Title: The Regulation of transcription by phosphorylation in two systems: calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase and pit-1 tissue-specific factor
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Michael Rosenfeld
Graduation Year: 1992
Postgraduate Education: Pediatrics, University of Utah
Current Position: Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics; Director, Cardiac Signal Transduction and Cellular Biology Laboratory, University of Miami, School of Medicine
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George F. Wittenberg
Email:
GWittenb@GRECC.UMaryland.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: Harvard, AB, Engineering, 1983
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Intersegmental Coordination of Shortening Behavior in the Leech
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. William Kristan
Graduation Year: 1992
Postgraduate Education: Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis
Current Position: Associate Professor, Laboratory for Research on Arm Function and Therapy (RAFT), Neurology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
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Clifton Callaway
Email:
callawaycw@upmc.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: Harvard, AB, Psychobiology, 1986
Graduate Department: unknown
Thesis Title: Behavioral Effects of Serotonin Release by Substituted Derivatives of Amphetamine
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Mark Geyer
Graduation Year: 1993
Postgraduate Education: Residency in Emergency Medicine, University Health Center, Pittsburgh
Current Position: Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Jorge F. DiMartino
Email:
jorged@stanford.edu
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego, BS, Biochemistry, 1985
Graduate Department: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Thesis Title: Novel Cis-Acting Elements Regulate Expression of CD45
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Janet Lee
Graduation Year: 1993
Postgraduate Education: Pediatrics, Stanford University Hospital
Current Position: Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Hyder A. Jinnah
Email:
hjinnah@jhmi.edu
Undergraduate Institution: Duke University, BS, Psychology and Zoology, 1984
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: The neurologic consequences of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency in a genetic mouse model of lesch-nyhan disease
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Theodore Friedmann
Graduation Year: 1993
Postgraduate Education: Medicine, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
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Anthony E. Oro
Email:
oro@stanford.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University, BS, Biology, 1985
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Genetic Analysis of Two Drosophila Nuclear Receptor Genes, Knirps-Related and Ultraspiracle
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Ron Evans
Graduation Year: 1993
Postgraduate Education: Dermatology, Stanford University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Program in Epithelial Biology and Dermatology; Appointment in Cancer Biology Graduate Program, Stanford University
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Edwin S. Monuki
Email:
emonuki@uci.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: MIT, BS, Biology, 1984
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: Expression and Activity of the POU Domain Transcription Factor SCIP
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Greg Lemke
Graduation Year: 1994
Postgraduate Education: Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Developmental & Cell Biology, UC Irvine
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Darryl Palmer-Toy
Email:
Dpalmertoy@partners.org
Undergraduate Institution: MIT, BS/BS, Physics/Biology, 1984
Graduate Department: Physics / Biophysics
Thesis Title: Conformational Studies of the Peptide Antibiotic Nisin
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Murray Goodman
Graduation Year: 1994
Postgraduate Education: Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Rama Ranganathan
Email:
rama.ranganathan@utsouthwestern.edu
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Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley, BS, Bioengineering, 1985
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: An Electrophysiological Analysis of Regulation of Signal Transduction in Drosophila Photoreceptors
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Charles Zuker
Graduation Year: 1994
Postgraduate Education: Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Director of Systems Biology, Howard Hughes Investigator, University of Texas, Southwestern
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David J. Rozansky
Email:
rozansky@ohsu.edu
Website:
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Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University
Graduate Department: Biomedical Sciences
Thesis Title: Medical and Molecular Genetic Approaches to Studying the Rat Chromogranin A Gene: Linkage to Hypertnesion and Regulation by Glucocorticoids
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Dan O'Connor
Graduation Year: 1994
Postgraduate Education: Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Chief Division of Pediatric Kidney Services and Hypertension,
OHSU, Dept of Pediatrics
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J. Barney Welsh
Email:
johnb@welsh.org
Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Cruz, BA, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1985
Graduate Department: Molecular Pathology
Thesis Title: Molecular Mechanism of Endocytosis of Receptors for Epidermal Growth Factor and Insulin
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Gordon Gill
Graduation Year: 1994
Postgraduate Education: Pathology Postdoc at UCSF, Residency at UCSD Medical Center
Current Position: Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
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