People
Current and former members of the Raj Lab
Current Members
Peter Ebasone
Collaborator, Director of Research Operations, CRENC
Yael Heyman
Postdoc
Asmus Nielsen
Undergraduate, Molecular Life Sciences
Pranav Sompalle
Undergraduate, Molecular Life Sciences
McLean Taggart
MD/PhD rotation student
Julia Wald
Lab Manager
Alumni
| Name | Role in lab | Year | Next Position |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aoife O'Farrell | PhD Student | 2025 | Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh |
 Caitlin Fagan | Undergraduate Researcher | 2025 | |
 Gianna Busch | PhD Student | 2025 | GSK |
 Laura Van Eyndhoven | Postdoc | 2025 | Postdoc, Eindhoven University of Technology |
 Sam Reffsin | MD/PhD Student | 2025 | Merck |
 Sean Woo | Undergraduate Researcher | 2025 | Undergrad, University of Pennsylvania |
 Jess Li | PhD Student | 2024 | Co-founder, Biocartesian |
 Kate Alexander | Friend of the Lab | 2024 | Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| LC Luciann Cuenca | Postdoc | 2024 | Associate Regulatory Medical Writer, Merck |
 William Niu | Undergraduate Researcher | 2024 | PhD Student, MIT |
 Laila Norford | Undergraduate Researcher | 2023 | PhD Student, Harvard University |
 Margaret Dunagin | Lab Manager | 2023 | Manager of a Rural A-Frame |
| NG Nava Graham | Undergraduate Researcher | 2023 | Undergraduate, Columbia University |
 Naveen Jain | MD/PhD Student | 2023 | Internal Medicine Resident, UCSF |
 Ryan Boe | MD/PhD Student | 2023 | Psychiatry Resident, UCSF |
| AK Amanpreet Kaur | Postdoc | 2022 | Competitive Intelligence Senior Manager, Galapagos |
 Ian Dardani | PhD Student | 2022 | Co-founder, Biocartesian |
 Karun Kiani | MD/PhD Student | 2022 | Dermatology Resident, University of Washington |
 Juan McCook | Undergraduate Researcher | 2022 | Postbac Researcher, Northwestern University |
 Lee Richman | MD/PhD Student | 2022 | Pathology Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
 Yogesh Goyal | Postdoc | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Northwestern University |
| CC Chris Coté | Lab Technician | 2021 | Research Specialist, University of Pennsylvania |
 Connie Jiang | MD/PhD Student | 2021 | Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital |
 Fang-Yi Chu | Postdoc | 2021 | Senior Regional Account Manager, Sino Biological |
 Lauren Beck | PhD Student | 2021 | Principal Computational Biologist, Pathos AI |
 Phil Burnham | Postdoc | 2021 | CSO, Kanvas Biosciences |
 Allison Cote | PhD Student | 2020 | Senior Computational Fellow, Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences |
 Amy Azaria | Undergraduate Researcher | 2020 | Manager, Simon Kucher |
 Ben Emert | MD/PhD Student | 2020 | Anatomic Pathology Resident, UCLA |
 Eric Sanford | MD/PhD Student | 2020 | Psychiatry Resident, The Mount Sinai Hospital |
| JL Jasmine Lee | Undergraduate Researcher | 2020 | Communications Specialist, National Cancer Institute |
 Max Betjes | Visiting Masters Student | 2020 | PhD Student, AMOLF |
 Eduardo Torre | PhD Student | 2019 | Dermatologist, UCSF Dermatology Clinic at Mount Zion |
 Ian Mellis | MD/PhD Student | 2019 | Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University |
 Marcello Chang | Undergraduate Researcher | 2019 | Radiology Resident, Stanford University |
 Orsolya (Uschi) Symmons | Postdoc | 2019 | Programme Manager for Health and Biotechnology, EISMEA |
 Caroline Bartman | Postdoc | 2018 | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
 Lea Schuh | Visiting PhD Student | 2018 | PhD Student, Helmholtz Zentrum München |
 Rohit Gupte | Lab Technician | 2018 | PhD Student, UT Austin |
 Sara Rouhanifard | Postdoc | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Northeastern University |
 Sareh Bayatpour | Lab Technician | 2018 | PhD Student, University of Toronto |
 Sydney Shaffer | MD/PhD Student | 2018 | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
 Rohan Joshi | MD/PhD Student | 2017 | Resident/Postdoc, Stanford University |
 Paul Ginart | MD/PhD Student | 2016 | Resident, Harvard University |
 Stefan Torborg | Undergraduate Researcher | 2016 | MD-PhD student, Tri-Institutional Program |
 Andrew Biaesch | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015 | MS Student, University of Pittsburgh |
 Chris Hsiung | MD/PhD Student | 2015 | Resident/Postdoc, Stanford University |
 Elliott Eggan | Lab Technician | 2015 | Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
 Grace Wu | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015 | Software Engineer, Facebook |
 Matthew MacLean | Undergraduate Researcher | 2015 | MD Student, UT Southwestern |
 Olivia Padovan-Merhar | PhD Student | 2015 | Primary Care Resident, University of Pennsylvania |
 David Gabrieli | Undergraduate Researcher | 2014 | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Shopify |
 Gautham Nair | Postdoc | 2014 | Sr. Data Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| SS Stacey Sloate | Undergraduate Researcher | 2014 | Strategy & Consulting Manager, Pfizer |
 Steven Scarfone | Undergraduate Researcher | 2014 | MD Student, University of Pennsylvania |
 Hedia Maamar | Postdoc | 2013 | Chief Scientific Officer, Proof Diagnostics |
 Marshall Levesque | PhD Student | 2013 | Engineering Manager, Google |
 Yaanik Desai | Undergraduate Researcher | 2013 | Resident, UCSF |
 Bobby Kent | Undergraduate Researcher | 2012 | MD-PhD Student, University of Michigan |
 Patrick McClanahan | Lab Technician | 2012 | Postdoc, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| SA Subhadra Aiyer | Undergraduate Researcher | 2012 | Senior Project Manager, Phil, Inc. |
| Y( Yichen (Daniel) Wei | Undergraduate Researcher | 2012 |