Postdocs
Novella Rapini, M.D., Ph.D. (2010-2011), resident in Pediatrics, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Rossella Messina, Ph.D. (2010-2011), Pfizer, Milan, Italy.
Karen Doody, Ph.D. (2011-2015), Adjunct Professor, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Canada.
German Aleman Muench, Ph.D. (2014-2016), Scientist, Janssen Inc, La Jolla, CA.
Kuninobu Wakabayashi, M.D., Ph.D. (2015-2017), Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology,
Showa University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Cristiano Sacchetti, Ph.D. (2014-2018), Scientist II, Arcturus Therapeutics, La Jolla, CA.
Dennis Wu, PhD. (2016-2019), Scientist I, Lynx Biosciences, La Jolla CA.
Mattias Svensson, Ph.D. (2014-2020), Assistant Professor, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg,
Sweden.
Wan-Chen Hsieh, Ph.D. (2018-2020), Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Denise Beckmann, Ph.D. (2019-2021), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine (IMM), University Hospital Muenster, Germany.
Sho Sendo, Ph.D. (2019-2021), Visiting Assistant Professor in Dr. Firestein's lab at UC San Diego.
Research Technicians
Matthew Falk (2009-2011), Pfizer, La Jolla, CA.
Logan Walker (2009-2011), D.O. program at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Des Moines, IA.
Michael Maestre (2010-2012), Pfizer, La Jolla, CA.
Amanda Campbell (2011-2013), D.V.M. program at UC Davis, Davis, CA.
Matthew Bliss (2011-2013), M.S. program at UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.
Caila Pilo (2014-2016), Ph.D. program at UCSD, La Jolla, CA.
Michelle Le Roux (2015-2017), M.D. program at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
Nathaniel Harder (2015-2017), Ph.D. program at UC Davis, Davis, CA.
Vida Zhang (2014-2017), Ph.D. program at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Alexander Funderburk (2014-2017), Fund Manager at UC San Diego, San Diego, CA.
Benjamin Van Espen (2017-2019), Ph.D. program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery
Institute, San Diego, CA.
Michael Diaz (2017-2020), Ph.D. program at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA.
Andrew Wilson (2019-2020)
Ruiyuan Zhang (2018-2021), Ph.D. program at Columbia University, New York City, NY.
Megan Lee (2019-2021), Research Associate at Lung Biotechnology, San Diego, CA.
Zachary Holmes (2019-2022), Ph.D. program at UCSF, San Francisco, CA.