Graduates 2020-2023

​​​​​2023​​

Hunter Bennett

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: h1bennett@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2014), B.S. Biomedical Engineering
  • Graduate Program: BMS
  • Research Interests: Gene Expression Regulation, Epigenetics, Genomics, Immunology, Cancer Genetics
  • Laboratory Rotation: Trey Ideker (Su '15), Sam Pfaff (Su '16), Chris Glass (Su '16)
  • Thesis Lab: Chris Glass
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Internal Medicine, Stanford Health
  • Publication
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Charles Dickey
Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: cdickey@health.ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2014), B.S. Neurobiology, B.F.A. Digital Arts & Experimental Media
  • Graduate Program: Neurosciences
  • Research Interests: Human Neurophysiology, Intracranial Recordings, Brain Oscillations, Plasticity, Memory
  • Laboratory Rotation: Eric Halgren (Su '16), Terry Sejnowksi (Su '16)
  • Thesis Lab: Eric Halgren
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry & Research, Stanford Health
  • Publications


Kyle Marra

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: kmarra@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Boston College (2012), B.S. Physics and Pre-Med​
  • Graduate Program: Bioengineering
  • Research Interests: Bioengineering
  • Laboratory Rotation: Todd Coleman (Su '14), Christian Metallo, Martin Friedlander (Su '15)
  • Thesis Lab: Martin Friedlander, Scripps Research
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Opthalmology, UCSD
  • Publications​


Daniella McDonald

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: dnmacdona@health.ucsd.edu​
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego (2011) B.S. Human Biology
  • Graduate Program: BMS
  • Research Interests: Tissue Engineering, CRISPR-Cas9, Human Development, Stem Cell Biology, LGBTQ+ Health Inequities
  • Laboratory Rotation: Ron Evans (Su '15), Karen Christman (Su '16)
  • Thesis Lab: Prashant Mali
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry, UCLA
  • Publications
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Denis Smirnov

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: dsmirnov@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2014) B.S. Biochemistry, Neurobiology
  • Graduate Program: Neuroscience
  • Research Interests: Neuroscience, Pharmacology/Drug Discovery
  • Laboratory Rotation: Athina Markou (Su '15), David Salmon (Su '16), James Brewer (Su '16)
  • Thesis Lab: James Brewer​
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital

​​​​​2022

Jennifer Chousal

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium    
  • Email: jdumdie@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution:University of South Dakota (2013), B.S. Biology, Mathematics
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Cancer Biology, Endocrinology, Fertility, and Pharmacology
  • Laboratory Rotation: Heidi Cook-Andersen, Mana Parast (Su '14), Duane Stupack (Su '13)
  • Thesis Lab: Heidi Cook-Anderson
  • Current Position: Resident in Clinical Pathology, UCSD 
  • Publications

Robert Kim

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium      
  • Email: r8kim@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University (2012), B.S. Applied Math and Statistics, Biomedical Engineering
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Research Interests: Neuroscience
  • Laboratory Rotation: Terry Sejnowski, Sam Pfaff (Su '15), Ed Callaway, Salk (Su '14)
  • Thesis Lab: Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute
  • Current Position: Resident Physican, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Liam King

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium      
  • Email: lking@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2012), B.S. Chemical Biology
  • Graduate Department: Scripps Graduate Program​
  • Research Interests: Immunology/ Infection and Chemistry/ Biochemistry
  • Laboratory Rotation: David Pride, Bill Fenical (Su '14), Elizabeth Winzeler (Su '13)
  • Thesis Lab: Erica Ollmann Saphire
  • Publications

Molly Kwiatkowski

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium        
  • Email: mkwiatkowski@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Bowdoin College (2011), B.S. Neuroscience
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Research Interests: Neuroscience
  • Laboratory Rotation: Mark Tuszynski, Sam Pfaff (Su '15), Nick Spitzer (Su '14)
  • Thesis Lab: Jared Young
  • Publications
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University

Vitor Martins

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium   ​    
  • Email: vfmartins@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida (2014), B.S. Biochemistry, Math, Bioinformatics
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Cardiovascular, Endocrinology
  • Laboratory Rotation: Marc Montminy, Simon Schenk (Su '15), Fred Levine, Sanford Burnham (Su '14)
  • Thesis Lab: Simon Schenk
  • Current Position: Internship (2022-2023): Internal Medicine, University of Miami Holy Cross Hospital. Residency (2023-2028): Diagnostic Radiology Clinician-Scientist Pathway, UC San Diego
  • Publications

2021

Debha Amatya

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: damatya@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2014), B.S. Bioengineering   
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Research Interests: Bioengineering/Neuro-Engineering, Neuroscience
  • Laboratory Rotation: Fred Gage, Jonathan Sebat (Su '15), Terry Sejnowski, Salk (Su '14)
  • Thesis Lab: Fred Gage
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry, UC Los Angeles
  • Publications

Joyce Chen

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: j2chen@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: UCLA 2008, B.S. Biochemistry
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Cancer biology, epigenetics
  • Laboratory Rotation: Clodagh O'Shea (Su '14), Anjana Rao (Su '13), Victor Nizet (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Anjana Rao
  • Current Position: Resident Physican, Internal Medicine, NYP Hosp-Weill Cornell Med Center
  • Publications

Mark Fang

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: myfang@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Stanford (2011), B.S. Biology, Mathematical & Computational Sciences
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Cancer biology, genomics, and systems biology
  • Laboratory Rotation: Gene Yeo, Chris Glass (Su '13), Bing Ren (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Gene Yeo
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Pediatrics, UC San Diego Med Center
  • Publications

Anupam Garg

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: akgarg@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2013), B.S. Bioengineering
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Research Interests: Bioengineering and Neuroscience
  • Laboratory Rotation: Brad Voytek, Ed Callaway (Su '14), Tom Albright, Salk (Su '13)
  • Thesis Lab: Ed Callaway, Salk Institute
  • Current Position: Resident Physican in Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins
  • Publications

Eric Geier

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: egeier@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University (2011), B.S. Astronomy, Physics
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Cancer biology, genomics, and systems biology
  • Laboratory Rotation: Kim Prisk, Kevin Patrick (Su '13), Kim Prisk, Rick Buxton (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Kim Prisk
  • Current Position: Resident Physician in Psychiatry, UC San Diego Med Center
  • Publications


Eulanca Liu
Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: eyl015@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2010), B.S. Chemic​al Biology
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Research Interests: The physiological basis and clinical applications of functional brain imaging
  • Laboratory Rotation: Shyni Varghese, Karen Christman (Su '13), Jim Brewer (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Rick Buxton
  • Current Position: Resident Physican, Radiation Oncology, UC Los Angeles 
  • Publications

​Stosh Ozog

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: sozog@ucsd.edu​​
  • Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2010), B.A./ B.S. Molecular & Cell Biology, Plant
  • Graduate Department: Scripps Graduate Program​​
  • Research Interests: Epidemiology/ Public Health and Immunology/ Infection
  • Laboratory Rotation: Bruce Torbett (Su '13), Sumit Chanda & Victor Nizet (Su '14)
  • Thesis Lab: Bruce Torbett
  • Current Position: Resident Physican, Pediatrics, University of Washington Affil Hospitals
  • Publications

Jason Seidman

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: jseidman@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Barbara (2010), B.S./M.A. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Type 2 diabetes, metabolism, and energy homeostasis
  • Laboratory Rotation: Chris Glass, Reuben Shaw (Su '13), Marc Montminy, Salk (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Chris Glass
  • Current Position: Resident Physican, Dermatology, UC San Diego
  • Publications​​

Sahil Shah

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: sas032@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: U. of Maryland (2012), B.S. Cell Biology & Genetics
  • Graduate Department: Neuroscience
  • Research Interests: Type 2 diabetes, metabolism, and energy homeostasis
  • Laboratory Rotation: Hollis Cline, Scripps &​ Ed Callaway, Salk (Su '13), Al La Spada (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Jeff Goldberg
  • Current Position: Resident Physican, Opthalmology, Stanford University
  • Publications


2020

Matt Kolar

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: mkolar@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: U. of North Carolina (2009), B.S. Chemistry
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Chemical biology
  • Laboratory Rotation: Reuben Shaw, Salk, Ben Cravatt, Scripps (Su '13), Jeff Kelly/Luke Wiseman, Scripps (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Alan Saghatelian, Salk Institute
  • Current Position: Resident Physican, Dermatology, UC San Diego
  • Publications

Spencer Moore

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: s2moore@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: UCLA (2012), B.S. Neuroscience
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Research Interests: Systems neuroscience and neural circuits
  • Laboratory Rotation: Binhai Zheng, Jeff Goldberg (Su '13), Jeff Isaacson (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Alysson Muotri
  • Current Position: Resident Physician, Opthalmology, University of Arizona
  • Publications

Angela Ianni

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: aianni@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  • Graduate Department: NIH Partners Program (OxCam)
  • Research Interests: The effect of dopamine on the neural coding of reward value in healthy individuals and patients with Schizophrenia.
  • Laboratory Rotation: Karen Berman, NIH; Tim Behrens , Oxford (Su '12)
  • Thesis Lab: Karen Berman, NIH; Tim Behrens, Oxford
  • Current Position: Resident Physician, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
  • Publications

Jessica Meves

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: jmeves@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan
  • Graduate Department: Neurosciences
  • Thesis Title: Neuron-intrinsic and extrinsic control of axon sprouting after central nervous system injury
  • Thesis Lab: Binhai Zheng
  • Current Position: Resident, Psychiatry, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  • Publications

Priya Nayak

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: pmnayak@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Caltech (2011), B.S. Physics
  • Graduate Department: Bioengineering
  • Research Interests: Stem Cells, Bioinformatics
  • Laboratory Rotation: Shankar Subramaniam (Su '13), John Serences (Su '12),​​​ Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Su '11)
  • Thesis Lab: Shankar Subramaniam
  • Current Position: Resident, Primary Care, UC San Diego
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Nicholas Protopsaltis

Medical Scientist Training Program Colloquium
  • Email: nprotops@ucsd.edu
  • Undergraduate Institution: Saint Louis University
  • Graduate Department: BMS
  • Thesis Title: Role of Interleukin-22 in Promoting Tumor Angiogenesis 
  • Thesis Lab: Napoleone Ferrara
  • Current Position: Resident Physician, Pathology, University of Cincinnati