Scientific Report 2008

Molecular and Experimental Medicine

Chairman's Overview

Staff

Ernest Beutler, M.D.*^†
Chairman and Professor

Jeffery W. Kelly, Ph.D.
Professor and new Chairman

Masahiro Aoki, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Hiroshi Asahara, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine

Bonno N. Bouma, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

William D. Bugbee, M.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

Joel N. Buxbaum, M.D.
Professor

Dennis A. Carson, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Sergio D. Catz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Clifford W. Colwell, Jr., M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Laura M. Crisa, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine

Arthur D. Dawson, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Albert B. Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Gregory J. del Zoppo, M.D.**
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Thomas F. Deuel, M.D.
Professor

Darryl D’Lima, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Darlene J. Elias, M.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

Brunehilde Felding-Habermann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Kelly A. Frazer, Ph.D.
Professor of Translational Genomics

Mitchell H. Friedlaender, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Jeffrey S. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Theodore Friedmann, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Andrew J. Gale, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Struan Grant, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

John H. Griffin, Ph.D.***
Professor

Andras Gruber, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Asa B. Gustafsson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

Anne M. Hanneken, M.D.
Associate Professor

Dominik R. Haudenschild, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Mary J. Heeb, Ph.D.***
Associate Professor

James A. Hoch, Ph.D.
Professor

Frank M. Huennekens, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Brian F. Issell, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Shaun Phillip Jackson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

Eric F. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor

Thomas J. Kipps, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Lawrence E. Kline, D.O.
Adjunct Associate Professor

James A. Koziol, Ph.D.
Professor

Daniel F. Kripke, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Thomas J. Kunicki, Ph.D.***
Associate Professor

Pauline L. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine

Stuart A. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Martin Lotz, M.D.
Professor

Christopher Lee Marsh, M.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

David A. Matthews, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Robert McMillan, M.D.
Professor Emeritus

William E. Miller, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Richard Milner, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Kevin V. Morris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Laurent O. Mosnier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Sarah Shaw Murray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Translational Genomics

Marta Perego, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Paul J. Pockros, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

K. Michael Pollard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine

Giuseppe Remuzzi, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Zaverio M. Ruggeri, M.D.***
Professor

Enrique Saldivar, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Daniel R. Salomon, M.D.
Associate Professor

Nicholas J. Schork, Ph.D.
Professor

Alessandro Sette, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Farhad F. Shadan, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Sanford J. Shattil, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Alexander R. Shikhman, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Inmaculada Silos-Santiago, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

Gregg J. Silverman, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Ronald A. Simon, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Jack C. Sipe, M.D.
Associate Professor

Donald D. Stevenson, M.D.
Adjunct Professor

Hendrik Szurmant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Eng M. Tan, M.D.
Professor Emeritus

Eric J. Topol, M.D.
Professor of Translational Genomics

Bruce E. Torbett, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Peter K. Vogt, Ph.D.
Professor

Matthias G. von Herrath, M.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

Jill M. Waalen, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Xiaohua Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Takao Yagi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Dong-Er Zhang, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Staff Scientists

Joseph R. Biggs, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Stephanie Cherqui, Ph.D.

Hiroshi Deguchi, M.D., Ph.D.

Jose A. Fernandez, M.D., Ph.D.

Olivier Harismendy, Ph.D.

Mei-Hui Hsu, Ph.D.

Jennifer L. Johnson, Ph.D.

Sunil M. Kurian, Ph.D.

Patrizia Marchese, Ph.D.

Tsaiwei Olee, Ph.D.

Natalie M. Pecheniuk, Ph.D.

Natalia Reixach, Ph.D.

Brian Savage, Ph.D.

Uzen Savas, Ph.D.

Rachel D. Schrier, Ph.D.

Akemi Yagi, Ph.D.

Ming Yan, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Subramanian Yegneswaran, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associates

Hua Jing, Ph.D.

Yuichi Kamikubo, Ph.D.

Joseph S. Krueger, Ph.D.**
OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado

Shuhei Otsuki, Ph.D.

Noboru Taniguchi, M.D.

Xia Yang, Ph.D.

Research Associates

Eun-Young Ahn, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Marcy R. Auerbach, Ph.D.**
Genentech, Inc.
San Francisco, California

Dong Bai, Ph.D.

Yajnavalka Banerjee, Ph.D.

Jennifer L. Barber-Singh, Ph.D.

Cinnamon S. Bloss, Ph.D.

Cristina Bongiorni, Ph.D.**
Danisco USA, Inc.
Palo Alto, California

Sebastian Breuer, Ph.D.

Namandje N. Bumpus, Ph.D.

Christoph Burkart, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Beatriz Carames-Perez, Ph.D.

Norma A. Castro-Guerrero, Ph.D.

Yunchao Chang, Ph.D.**
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, California

Guofeng Cheng, Ph.D.**
Gilead Sciences
Foster City, California

Xiu Li Cong, M.D., Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Angel Dago Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Chinh T. Dao, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Tatsuya Fukushima, Ph.D.**
Shinshu University
Nagano, Japan

Leontine L. Galante, Ph.D.

Nazli Ghaboosi, Ph.D.

Michael J. Giffin, Ph.D.

Shawn Patrick Grogan, Ph.D.

Marco Gymnopoulos, Ph.D.

David Habart, M.D., Ph.D.

Jonathan Hart, Ph.D.

Reiji Higashiyama, M.D.

Petra Hillmann, Ph.D.

Yan Wing Ho, Ph.D.

Hao Jiang, Ph.D.

Martin L. Jirout, M.D., Ph.D.

Daisy Vanitha John, Ph.D.

Kwi Hye Koh, Ph.D.

Alan Yueh-Luen Lee, Ph.D.**
Kaohsiung Medical University
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Shi-Sheng Li, Ph.D.**
Senomyx, Inc.
San Diego, California

Miao-Chia Lo, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Mihaela Lorger, Ph.D.

Maria Michela Mancarelli, Ph.D.

Mathieu Marella, Ph.D.

Shinobu Matsuura, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Sebastien Mauen, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Shigeru Miyaki, Ph.D.

Travis J. Muff, Ph.D.

Masakazu Nakano, Ph.D.

Christian J. Nievera, Ph.D.

Maria S. Ninniri, Ph.D.

Akiko Okumura, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Petra Pavlickova, Ph.D.

Luke F. Peterson, Ph.D.**
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Pablo Perez Pinera, M.D.

Rosamund Leila Reynald, Ph.D.**
Southwestern Community College
Chula Vista, California

Stefaan J. Sansen, Ph.D.

Francesca Scaramozzino, Ph.D.**
Arianne Consulting
San Diego, California

Antonio Fernandez Santidrian, Ph.D.

Jin Shi, Ph.D.

Wei-Jong Shia, Ph.D.**
University of California
San Diego, California

Prem Kumar Sinha, Ph.D.

Erin N. Smith, Ph.D.

Karin Staflin, Ph.D.

Minghao Sun, Ph.D.

Jesus Torres-Bacete, Ph.D.

Jaroslav Truksa, Ph.D.

Lan N. Truong, Ph.D.

Hailong Wang, Ph.D.

Adam C. Wilson, Ph.D.

Mariko Yabe, M.D.

Antonella Zampolli, Ph.D.

Alessandro Zarpellon, Ph.D.

Li Zhao, Ph.D.

Jin Zhong, Ph.D.**
Institut Pasteur of Shanghai
Shanghai, China

Scientific Associates

Fanny E. Almus, Ph.D.

Terri P. Gelbart, B.S., M.T.

Deirdre M. O’Sullivan, Ph.D.

Byoung Boo Seo, Ph.D.

* Joint appointment in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology

** Appointment completed, new location shown

*** Joint appointment in the Department of Cell Biology

^†Deceased