Zorrilla Lab Members
Alumni
Postgraduate Trainees
| Name | Position | Dates | Current Status |
| Éva Fekete1 | Post-doc | 2003-2005 2008-2011 |
Asst Professor, Univ of Pécs, Hungary Assistant Scientist, U. Wisconsin-Madison |
| Valentina Sabino2 | PhD (2006)/Post-doc | 2003-2009 | Asst Professor, Boston University |
| Shinichi Iwasaki | Visiting Post-doc | 2005-2006 | Asst Professor, Osaka City Univ Med School |
| Pietro Cottone3 | PhD (2007)/Post-doc | 2005-2009 | Asst Professor, Boston University |
| Yanina Grant | Visiting MS student | 2005 | Vice President, Atara Biotherapeutics |
| Luca Steardo | Visiting MD student | 2007 | Professor, Psychiatry, Magna Græcia Univ. of Catanzaro, Italy |
| Yu Zhao | Post-doc | 2006-2008 | Scientist, Amylin Pharmaceuticals |
| Marian Logrip4 | Post-doc | 2008-2012 | Associate Professor, Psychology, Indiana University Indianapolis |
| Jennifer Frihauf5 | PhD student | 2008-2014 | Faculty Lecturer, Psychology, Santa Clara University |
| Sarah Parylak6 | Post-doc | 2008-2012 | Staff Researcher, Salk Institute |
| Alessandra Dicitore | Visiting Scientist | 2012 | Staff Scientist, BIOMETRA, Univ. of Milan |
| Grace Lee | BS/MS student | 2013-2016 | Fellow, Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School |
| Belinda Hui | BS/MS student | 2015-2017 | Instructor, Complutense University of Madrid |
| Alison Kreisler7 | PhD student | 2015-2018 | Faculty Lecturer, Psychology, CSU-San Marcos |
| Samantha Spierling Bagsic8,9,10 | PhD student | 2014-2019 | Research Scientist and Biostatistician, Scripps Health Whittier Diabetes Institute |
| David McCue7 | Post-doc | 2017-2018 | Scientist, Genentech |
| Jiayuan (Jane) Murphy | BS/MS Student | 2019-2020 | Medical Student, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine |
| Drew Schreiner11 | PhD student | 2019-2021 | Post-doc, Duke University |
| Luisa Bertotto | Post-doc | 2021-2023 | Assistant Project Scientist, UC-Irvine |
| Giovana de Macedo7 | Post-doc | 2021-2022 | Scientist, HD Biosciences |
| Sarah Singh | Rotating PhD student | 2021-2022 | Program Coordinator for MS in Community Medicine, Keck Graduate Institute |
| Rosanna Sandoval | Rotating PhD student | 2021-2022 | PhD student, UCSD |
| Valentina Vozella12 | Post-doc | 2021-2024 | Scientist, Bausch & Lomb |
| Saumya Ranjan | BS/MS student | 2022-2024 | Scientific Research Associate, UC-Irvine |
| Sara Zimmerman | Rotating PhD student | 2022-2023 | PhD student, UCSD |
| HeeYang (Mia) Lee | Rotating PhD student | 2022 | PhD student, Scripps Research |
| Cassandra White | Rotating PhD student | 2023 | PhD student, Scripps Research |
| Weiye Dai | Rotating PhD student | 2024 | PhD student, Scripps Research |
| Rebecca Han | Rotating PhD student | 2024 | PhD student, UCSD |
| Grace Clarke | Rotating PhD student | 2025 | PhD student, Scripps Research |
| Cristiane Favoretto | Post-doc | 2023-2025 | Post-doc, University of Mississippi Medical Center |
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1 Hungarian Eotvos Fellowship 2003, 2007 |
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2 2006 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Awardee |
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3 2007 National Institute on Drug Abuse K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Awardee |
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4 2010 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Postdoctoral NRSA Awardee |
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5 2011 National Institute on Drug Abuse Predoctoral NRSA Awardee |
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6 2010 National Institute on Drug Abuse Predoctoral NRSA Awardee |
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7 T32 Awardee |
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8 NIH TL1 Awardee |
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9 George H. Collier New Investigator Awardee |
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10 Endocrine Society Early Career Forum Awardee |
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11 F31 Awardee |
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12 K99/R00 Awardee |
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Technicians
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Dates |
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Jeanette Helfers |
2007-11 |
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Molly Brennan |
2007-08 |
Pregraduate Trainees (* denotes honors thesis)
| at the University of Pennsylvania (1993-1996): | ||
| Name | Years | Left To or Current Position |
| Marni Borricelli | 1994 | |
| Allison Cherner (Bender) * | 1995-96 | BusinessLogic Corp. |
| Kristin Dolte (McNaughton)* | 1995 | MHS Johns Hopkins / Merck |
| Jason Kessler* | 1994-95 | MD, MPH Columbia Univ. School of Medicine |
| Heather Lieberman (Zinkin)* | 1995-96 | MD NYU / Asst. Prof. Mass Gen Hospital |
| Vaughn Mankey* | 1995-96 | MD Harvard Medical School, Psychiatry |
| Samir Shah | 1994-96 | ExlPharma, Executive Vice President |
| Partha Sinha | 1994-96 | MD, PhD Tufts/Mass Gen Hosp., Endocrinology |
| Fernando Suarez-Rivas | 1993-94 | co-Head N. America financials, JPMorgan Chase |
| at The Scripps Research Institute) (1997-present): | ||
| Name | Years | Left To or Current Position |
| Diego Castaneda | 1997 | Dr.PH. UC-Berkeley, MPH SDSU |
| Stephen Schneid | 1997 | Health Sciences Educator, UCSD School of Med. |
| Lindsay Reinhardt * | 1998-99 | Clinical Trial Coordinator, UCSD School of Med. |
| Carmen Carrillo | 1998-99 | PhD Program Princeton, MPH Johns Hopkins |
| Victoria Bender | 2000 | Asst. to Dr. Ren Sun, UCLA Pharmacology |
| Minette Unson (Pineda) | 2001 | Registered Nurse (RN) |
| Andrea Cugini (Spencer) | 2002 | FoxFury Lighting Solutions |
| Maegan Mattock | 2002-04 | Project Coordinator, UCLA IRLE Institute |
| Cherie Virtitas (Falvey) | 2005 | MPH Yale School of Public Health, now UCSF |
| Lara Pockros | 2006-07 | PhD Psychology Program, Arizona State University |
| Belinda Leos | 2007 | Research Technician, Scripps Research Institute |
| Michael Douglas | 2007 | |
| Justin Bokhoor | 2007 | MD student, U. Miami School of Medicine |
| Kimberly Lally | 2007 | Teacher, Orange County |
| Stephanie de la Cruz | 2008-09 | PharmD program, U. of the Incarnate Word |
| Elizabeth Wolf | 2008-09 | Ph.D. Psychology program, Pepperdine University |
| Meaghan Dischler | 2009 | Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) |
| John Sekab | 2009-10 | PharmD program, Mass College Pharm&Health Sci |
| Mariam Asrdyzhyan | 2010 | PharmD program, Loma Linda U. Pharmacy |
| Adrianne Remigio | 2010 | PharmD program |
| Edward Vaisberg | 2010 | Senior (2012), Dartmouth University |
| Melissa Kramer | 2010 | MD program, SUNY-Stony Brook |
| David Howard | 2010 | |
| Natalie Gill | 2010 | |
| Rheall Roquet * | 2010-12 | PhD program, UT-Austin, Behav. Neuroscience |
| Eunice Kim | 2011 | PharmD program, UCSF |
| Jaimie Shubin | 2011 | Applicant, MSN Nursing graduate school |
| Daniel Le | 2011 | |
| Daniel Kim | 2011 | |
| Nate Balmert | 2011 | |
| Tiffany Andres | 2011 | Research Technician, White Labs Inc. |
| Ryan Chen | 2011-12 | |
| Jean Kim | 2011-12 | Applicant, PhD Neuroscience graduate school |
| Michelle Hong | 2011-12 | Intern, Wintherix |
| Nathaniel Tran | 2012 | Research Associate, Harvard |
| Ryan Muir | 2012-13 | Senior Scientist, Septerna |
| Karen Fernandes | 2012-13 | Physician, Royal Oak, MI |
| Sameeha Khalid | 2012-13 | Hospitalist, Scripps Mercy Hospital SD |
| Tina Hörbelt (Hörbelt-Gruenheid | 2012 | Post doc, University Hospital, Essen |
| Amber Kazi | 2012-13 | Pediatrician, Seattle Children's Hospital |
| Saba Naamo * | 2012-13 | Chief Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Med. |
| Megg Garcia | 2014-15 | Research Engineer, Experimental Dementia Research, Lund University |
| Grace Lee | 2014-16 | Fellow, Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School |
| Deborah Sevigny-Resetco | 2014 | PhD student, Clinical Psychology, OHSU |
| Melody Sayrany | 2015-16 | Science writer, CellCarta |
| Kelsey Kines | 2016 | MD/PhD student, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| Savannah Fang | 2016-17 | Associate Scientist, R&D, Janssen Pharmaceuticals |
| Casey Williams | 2016-17 | Behavioral Health Counselor, Eating Recovery Center and Equip |
| James Huang | 2017 | Emergency Medicine PA, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center |
| Taimur Rehan | 2017-18 | JD student, UC-San Francisco |
| Ashley Scott | 2017 | Medical Assistant, Virginia Neurosurgeons |
| Sarah Pucci | 2017-18 | RN, Oncology/BMT, Sutter Health |
| Julia Prinzi | 2018 | Genetic Counselor, Pediatric Cardiology, Las Vegas |
| Hang Chang | 2018-20 | Clinical Research Data Manager, Univ. of Chicago School of Med. |
| Jiayuan (Jane) Murphy | 2018-20 | MD student, Univ. of South Florida Health Morsani College of Med. |
| Meghana Ottur | 2020-22 | MS, Data Science, UC-San Deigo |
| Katelyn Luu | 2020-22 | BS Public Health, UC-San Diego |
| Dolly Lampson-Stixrud * | 2020-21 | Scientist 1, Institute for Protein Design, UW Core Research Labs |
| Nicki Rohani | 2020-21 | MD student/researcher, Virginia Tech |
| Garret Wang | 2020-22 | MD/PhD student, Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Anushka Sinha | 2020-22 | MS, Computational Biology, Cernegie Mellon Univ. |
| Eleanna Sakoulas | 2020-23 | Researcher, UC-San Diego |
| Gordon Ye | 2020-24 | MD/PhD student, Stanford University |
| Sebastian Oakes | 2021 | BS student, UC-San Diego |
| Natalia Valderrama Pena | 2021 | Research Associate, HCW Biologics, Miami |
| Lucas Santos | 2021 | Research Assistant, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute |
| Olivia Cai | 2021 | BS student, UC-San Diego |
| Michael Torres | 2021-22 | MD student, UCSF School of Med. |
| Jeffrey Feng | 2021-22 | Data Scientist, LinkedIn |
| Katrina Lin | 2021-23 | PhD student, Psychology, Ohio State Univ. |
| Olivia Alcoran | 2021-23 | BS student, UC-San Diego |
| Helen Zhao | 2021-22 | MS student, Harvard |
| Prothit Halder | 2021-22 | Software Engineer, PayPal |
| Sukanya Krishna | 2021-22 | BS student, UC-San Diego |
| Saumya Ranjan | 2021-22 | Scientific research associate, UC-Irvine |
| Anush Ghoogasian | 2021-22 | MA student, CSU-Fresno |
| Landi Guo | 2021-22 | Biostatistician, Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Solimar Rosado-Iglesias | 2022 | BS student, Univ. of Puerto Rico-Ponce |
| Surabhi Bhupathi | 2022-23 | BS student, UC-San Diego |
| Xioyang (Rebecca) Liu | 2022-23 | PhD student, Peking Univ. |
| Gabriela Chacon | 2023 | BS student, UC-San Diego |
| Amelia Hawley | 2023-24 | BS student, Duke Univ |
| Randy Bach | 2023 | MD student, Univ. of Pennsylvania |
| Zechen Lin | 2023 | PhD student, Zhejiang Univ. |
| San Diego area high school students at The Scripps Research Institute | ||
| Name | Years | Left To or Current Position |
| Minh (Alvin) Huynh | 2004 | Technician, Baxter Bioscience |
| Rosie Alevas | 2004 | |
| Sujin Park | 2009 | Software Engineer, Margeta |
| Michelle Doyle | 2009 | Post-doc, UC-San Diego |
| Paola Odriozola | 2010 | Post-doc, UC-Los Angeles |
| Gustavo Chavez | 2010 | Resident, UC-Davis |
| Jessica Becker | 2011 | Post-doc, Univ. of Cambridge |
| Stacy Flores | 2015 | Marriage and Family Therapy, Pacific Oaks College |
| Daniela Walter | 2016 | PhD student, UC-Santa Barbara |
| Ricardo Cano | 2018 | Engineer, RBC Sonic Industries |
| Axl Martinez | 2019 | San Bernardino Valley College |
| Isabella Myer | 2021 | BS student, Duke Univ. |
| Lenwood Thompson | 2022 | BS student, SDSU |
| Eli Browne | 2022-23 | BS student, Stanford Univ. |
| Emily Zhu | 2022-23 | BS student, USC |
| Frankie Guox | 2022 | Current HS student |
| Vanessa Palomera | 2022 | Current HS student |
| Paulina Ai | 2023 | BS student, UC-Berkeley |
| John (Jerry) Huber | 2023-24 | BS student, Univ. of Michigan |
| Bhadra Rupesh | 2023-24 | BS student, MIT |
| Mia Bravo | 2023-24 | BS student, UC-Los Angeles |
| Joseph Patiño | 2023 | Current HS student |
| Natalie Luu | 2023 | Current HS student |
| Jared Zambrano | 2024 | Current HS student |
| Zane Borker | 2024 | Current HS student |
| Aiden Afshar | 2024 | Current HS student |
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