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Principal Investigator

Arjun Deb, MD 
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Director, UCLA Cardiovascular Theme
Broad Stem Cell Research Center
Molecular Biology Institute
 

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Scientists & Post-Docs

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Shen Li, Ph.D
Project Scientist
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Qihao Sun, Ph.D
Post-doc
 
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Kiran Das, Ph.D
Post-doc
 
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Jijun Wan, Ph.D
Project Scientist 

 
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Lianjiu Su, Ph.D
Post-doc
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Zhihao Liu, Ph.D
Post-doc

 
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Baiming Sun, MD
Project Scientist

 
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Shan Kou, Ph.D
Post-doc

 
Lennart Hartig, Ph.D
Post-doc
 
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Yali Zhao, MD, Ph.D
Project Scientist
 
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Ziheng Zhou, Ph.D
Post-doc

 
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Jianhuan "Jill" Qi, Ph.D
Post-doc
 

Clinical Fellows & Graduate Students

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Koren Kwag, MD
STAR Program Fellow   

Eranthi Jayawardena, MS
MCIP Ph.D Student   

Lab Assistants & Staff

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Manaal Hasan, BS
Lab Assistant
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Linlin Zhang, BA
Lab Manager 

Undergraduate Students

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Mo Zhou 
Biology Major

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Shivani Swaminathan
MCDB Major

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Anya Yang 
MCDB Major

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Boah Jin
MCDB Major

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Alan Zhong 
MCDB Major

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Safina Abramova 
Biochemistry Major

Lab Alumni

Name
Position
Indulekha C.L. Pillai
Postdoc
Yan Lu
Project Scientist
Jie Huang
Lab Manager
Xin Li
Postdoc
Jinzhu Duan
Postdoc
Eric Ubil
Graduate student
Nathaniel Dillard
Undergraduate Volunteer
Marketa Zemanova
Visiting Scholar
Ana Carolina Borges De Araujo
Postdoc
Julia Ainsworth
Lab manager
Hu Nie
Visiting Scholar
Jayna Jumabay
Visiting Scholar
Kaitlyn Honeychurch
Undergraduate Volunteer
Kelly Yeo
Undergraduate Volunteer
Gentian Lluri
Assistant Professor
Jingyi Yu
Lab manager
SooYoung Park
Staff Research Associate
Yonggang Zhou
Project Scientist
Ping Wang
Project Scientist
Rimao Wu
Postdoc
Sam Atlasi
Staff Research Associate
Tomohiro Yokota
Project Scientist
Yijie Wang
Postdoc
Juan Qin
Postdoc
Jimmy Zhou
Undergraduate Volunteer
Marie Kang
Undergraduate Volunteer
James Antonios
Undergraduate Volunteer
Abraham Rodriguez
Lab manager
Brandon Wong
Undergraduate Volunteer
Marwan Masri
Undergraduate Volunteer
Name
Position
Benjamin Ye
Undergraduate Volunteer
Mengmeng Zhai
Postdoc
Maxine Nanthavongdouangsy
Staff Research Associate
Edward Cao
Staff Research Associate
James Hyun
Postdoc
Shivani Srivastava
Postdoc
Kindra Kelly-Scumpia
project scientist
Sivakumar Ramadoss
project scientist
Wei Chen
project scientist
Bo Tao
Postdoc
Fernando Pulido Quezada
Staff Research Associate
Maximilian Mobley
Staff Research Associate
Juan Alvarez
Staff Research Associate
David Yang 
undergraduate volunteer
Audrey Banzali-Marks 
undergraduate volunteer
Xianqiang Yu
Postdoc
Chloe Thorpe
Clinical Coordinator
Bridget Vause 
undergraduate volunteer
Aravinth Ruppa
undergraduate volunteer
Xiyun Bian
Visiting Scholar
Carissa Lee
Clinical Coordinator
Martin Ezeani
Postdoc
Parnika Karthik
undergraduate volunteer
YuSheng Li 
undergraduate volunteer
Zeyu Tang  
undergraduate volunteer
Ilya Savchenko
Staff Research Associate

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