Students in Medical School

MS I Students

Leen Abbas
- Email: labbas@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of Colorado at Boulder (2022), B.A. Integrative Physiology; (2024), M.S. Integrative Physiology
- Publications: ORCID
Suneel Banerjee
- Email: s5banerjee@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Georgetown University (2023), B.S. Neurology
- Publications: ORCID
David Berrios
- Email: daberrios@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis (2019), B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Research Interests: Metabolism/Diabetes, Developmental Biology, and Immunology
- Laboratory Rotation: Vira Kravets (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Bandy Chen
- Email: bac008@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: City University of New York Hunter College (2021), B.S. Nutrition and Food Science: Dietetics
- Laboratory Rotation: Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Nora Jabassini
- Email: njabassini@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles (2020), B.S. Biochemistry
- Research Interests: Neuroimmunology, Neurodegeneration , Glial cells
- Laboratory Rotation: Richard Daneman (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Aidan McGinnis
- Email: aimcginnis@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Duke University (2020), B.S. Biology
- Laboratory Rotation: Christian Metallo, Salk Institute (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Katherine Nurminsky
- Email: knurminsky@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago (2022), B.S. Mathematics
- Lab Rotation: Andrew McCulloch (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Maxwell Okros
- Email: mokros@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Grand Valley State University (2024), B.S. Biochemistry
- Research Interests: Developmental Neuroscience
- Laboratory Rotation: Ed Callaway (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Miranda Olson
- Email: miolson@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate University: Brown University (2017), B.A. Global Health Narrative, B.S. Biomedical Engineering
- Research Interests: Health Policy, Disability Studies, Women & Gender, Science & Technology, Global Health
- Laboratory Rotation: David Serlin (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Sintra Stewart
- Email: sistewart@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt (2020), B.S. Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Laboratory Rotation: Leslie Crews (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Lui Suzuki-Williams
- Email: lsuzukiwilliams@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of Georgia (2021), B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Research Interests: Immunology/Infection, Microbiology, and Infectious Disease
- Laboratory Rotation: Sujan Shresta (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Jose Vasquez
- Email: jov003@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Irvine (2021), B.S. Neurobiology
- Research Interests: Neuropsychiatric Illness, Substance Abuse, Neurodegeneration, and Plasticity
- Laboratory Rotation: Tom Hnasko (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Yifan Zhang
- Email: yiz276@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Haverford College (2021), B.S. Biology
- Laboratory Rotation: Prashant Mali (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID

MS II Students

Fatema Abdurrob
- Email: fabdurrob@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Boston University (2014), B.A. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and English; M.A. in Biotechnology
- Research Interests: Neurodegeneration, Glia, Learning & Memory
- Laboratory Rotation: Richard Daneman (Su 23), Rusty Gage (Su 24), Nicola Allen (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Parwana Khazi
- Email: pkhazi@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Santa Clara University (2020), B.S. Biomedical Biology and Public Health Science, B.A. Spanish Studies; University of California, Los Angeles (2022), M.S.S. with a Concentration in Anthropology
- Research Interests: Global Health, Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Anthropology, Migration, Health Policy
- Laboratory Rotation: Tala Al-Rousan (Su '23)
- Publications: ORCID
Matthew Jundong Kim
- Email: mak014@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University (2019), B.S. Biological Engineering
- Research Interests: Genomics, Stem Cells, Bioengineering, Regenerative Medicine
- Laboratory Rotation: Neil Chi (Su '23)
- Publications: ORCID
Elida Kocharian
- Email: ekocharian@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Harvard University (2021), A.B. Earth & Planetary Sciences and Environmental Engineering
- Research Interests: Biochemistry, Metabolism, Microbiology
- Laboratory Rotation: Christian Metallo, Salk (Su 23), Neal Devaraj (Su 24), Bradley Moore, Scripps Research (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Matthew Levy
- Email: m4levy@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Georgia Tech (2020), B.S. Biomedical Engineering
- Research Interests: Cancer Immunology, Gene Therapies
- Laboratory Rotation: Fotis Asimakpopulos (Su '23)
- Publications: ORCID
Ben Liebman
- Email: bliebman@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: Hampshire College (2016), B.A. Molecular Biology; University of Vermont (2021), M.S. Pharmacology
- Research Interests: Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration
- Laboratory Rotation: Richard Gallo (Su '23)
- Publications: ORCID
Shelby McGriff
- Email: smcgriff@health.ucsd.ed
- Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida (2020), B.S. Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience
- Research Interests: Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Laboratory Rotation: Ed Callaway (Su 23), Nicola Allen (Su 24), Kay Tye (Su 24)
- Publications: ORCID
Cristina Mora
- Email: c1mora@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley (2013), B.S. Environmental Sciences; San Francisco State University (2019), M.S. Cell and Molecular Biology
- Research Interests: Stem Cell Disease Modeling, Neurodevelopment, Regenerative Medicine, Neuroscience
- Laboratory Rotation: Nicole Coufal (Su '23)
- Publications: ORCID
Foxy Robinson
- Email: fprobinson@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis (2019), B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, B.A. African American and African Studies
- Research Interests: Cancer Biology, Stem Cell Research, Genetics
- Laboratory Rotation: Christina Towers, Salk (Su '22), Leslie Crews (Sp '23), & Christian Metallo, Salk (Su/Fa '23)
- Publications: ORCID
Aileen Szczepanski
- - Email: aiszczepanski@health.ucsd.edu
  - Undergraduate Institution: Carthage College (2019), B.A. Biology
  - Research Interests: Cancer Biology, Cardiovascular Research, Regenerative Medicine, Gene Regulation, Epigenetics
  - Laboratory Rotation: Neil Chi (Su '23)
  - Publications: ORCID
Taariq Woods
- Email: tawoods@health.ucsd.edu
- Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst (2021), B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Research Interests: Clinical Decision Support, Patient Risk Assessment, Computational Precision Medicine
- Laboratory Rotation: Jejo Koola (Su '23)
- Publications: ORCID