Group

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Daniel Pelaez, PhD

El Jefe

Galina Dvoriantchikova, PhD

Senior Scientist

Hua Wang, MD

Research Associate

Chloe Moulin

PhD candidate

Molecular and Developmental Cell Biology

Emma Drabbe

PhD Candidate

Biomedical Engineering

Maddison Marshall

PhD Candidate

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Ishita Garg

PhD Candidate

Cancer Biology

Laura Gonzalez

PhD Candidate

Molecular and Developmental Cell Biology

Niloufar Bineshfar

Research Associate

Samantha McLaughlin

MD/PhD Student

Cancer Biology

Kendall Knechtel

PhD Student

Cancer Biology

PAST TRAINEES

Acadia Moeyersoms, PhD

Cancer Biology

Thomas Strong, PhD

Molecular and Developmental Cell Biology

Qikai Wang, MS

Research Assistant

Gaby Martinez

Research Associate

Michelle Zhang, PhD

MD/PhD student

Ryan Gallo, PhD

MD/PhD student

John Y Lee, MD

Ophthalmology Resident

UCLA EyeStar program

Zenith Acosta, PhD

Engineer

Stryker Corp.

Undergrads

Ryan Donahue

Mattew Penna

Cornelis Rowaan

Javier Lira

Gloria Andrade

Ryan Izquierdo

Carlos Concepcion

Cory Harrington

Yulia Escalante

Kevin Pino


Post-doctoral Fellows

Wensi Tao, PhD

Ravi Doddapaneni, PhD

Medical Students

Ernesto Weisson

Courtney Goodman

Madison Weiss

Ryan Zukerman

Maria José Urueta

Liang Wang

Javier Lira

Mike Zein

Andrea Naranjo

John Lee

Karthik Kalahasty

Steven Lang

Want to join the team? Check out the current Job Postings in the Department of Ophthalmology