Programmatic Leadership
Kristian Andersen
Kristian Andersen is a professor in the Department of Translational Medicine at Scripps Research, with a joint appointment at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. Over the past decade, his research has focused on the complex relationship between host and pathogen.…
Stuti Jaiswal
Stuti Jaiswal is a physician scientist who splits her time between research work, clinical care and education activities. Dr. Jaiswal obtained her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Arizona, where she studied the neuronal circuitry underlying central breathing control.…
Katja Lamia
Katja Lamia earned her PhD in biophysics from Harvard University and did postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Lamia has been a faculty member at Scripps Research since 2010. Her laboratory focuses…
Julia Vogel
Julia Vogel is an assistant professor in the Department of Translational Medicine at Scripps Research. At the Scripps Research Translational Institute, she also manages The Participant Center (TPC) for the All of Us Research Program, which is charged with recruiting…
Evan Muse
Evan Muse is a physician-scientist with research interests that mine the transition zone of mobile health, genomics and cardiovascular disease. He completed his medical and graduate studies as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Albert Einstein College…
Laura Nicholson
Laura Nicholson received her medical and doctoral degrees at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She joined Scripps Clinic in 2006 as…
Athena Philis-Tsimikas
Athena Philis-Tsimikas is the corporate vice president of the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute at Scripps Health and the director of community engagement for the Clinical Translational Science Award, housed at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. She previously served as a…
Emily Spencer
Emily Spencer has more than a dozen years of experience in human genetics research, overseeing recruitment and retention of participants in many large-scale genomics studies. Within the Department of Translational Medicine, she directs local implementation of Clinical and Translational Science…
Edward Ramos
Edward Ramos is senior director of Digital Clinical Trials for the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center (DTC). The DTC seeks to decentralize research through the use of digital health technologies, employing novel strategies for remote, “site-less” participation, and applying state-of-the-art…
Andrew Su
Andrew Su is a professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and holder of the Elden and Verna Strahm Chair for Medical Research. His research focuses on building and applying bioinformatics infrastructure for biomedical discovery with a…
Eric Topol
Eric Topol is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, chair and professor of Translational Medicine and Executive Vice President of Scripps Research. He has published over 1,200 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 370,000 citations, been elected…
Ali Torkamani
Ali Torkamani’s research covers a broad range of areas centered on the use of genomic technologies to identify the genetic etiology and underlying mechanisms of human disease in order to define precision therapies for diseased individuals. Major focus areas include…
Chunlei Wu
Chunlei Wu is a professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at Scripps Research. His research focuses on applying data science methodology and cloud computing technologies to facilitate biomedical discovery, through the large-scale biological data integration. Representative…