GRADINARU LAB

Umesh Padia, B.S.

Eric Schmidt Scholar

Software Engineer

Umesh is now a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sripriya Kumar, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, 2015-2020

Priya is now Scientist and Beckman Resource Center Director for AAV Engineering, CLOVER Center at Caltech.

Elliott Robinson, M.D., Ph.D.

CTF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2020

Elliott is now a Assistant Professor in the Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Ryan Cho, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, 2013-2019

Ryan is now a C.V. Starr Postdoctoral Fellow at The Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI).

Nick Goeden, Ph.D.

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019

Nick is now Co-founder and Vice President of Technology at a Gene Therapy Startup (2019 - Present).

Nick Flytzanis, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, 2013-2018

Scientific Director CLOVER, 2018-2019

Nick received his PhD in 2018, and served as the Scientific Director of the CLOVER center until 2019. He is now Co-founder and Vice President of Research at a Gene Therapy Startup (2019 - Present).

Rosemary Challis, Ph.D.

AHA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2019

Collin Challis, Ph.D.

NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2019

Collin is now a Medical Science Liason at Alkermes.

Jennifer Treweek, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2018

Jenny is now a Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Alon Greenbaum, Ph.D.

LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2018

Alon is now an assistant professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. Lab Website

Rajib Schubert, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018

Rajib is now the Vice President of Research and Development at CellFE - Cell Fluidics Engineering, a Bay Area startup developing microfluidic-based cell engineering methods.

Claire Bedbrook, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, 2013-2018

Claire received her PhD in 2018. She is a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University now.

Ken Chan, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, 2013-2017

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2018

Ken is now a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Ben Deverman, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, 2014-2015

Director CLOVER, 2015-2018

Ben is now a Director of Vector Engineering at the Stanley Center within the Broad Institute.

Greg Stevens

Undergraduate Researcher, 2014-2016

Greg is starting his PhD program at Columbia University from 2016 Fall.

Cheng Xiao, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, 2013-2016

Cheng is now an assistant professor at Xuzhou Medical College, China.

Chunyi Zhou, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2016

Chunyi is now a staff scientist at Xuzhou Medical College, China.

Bin Yang, M.S.

Research Assistant, 2012-2014

Bin is now a graduate student of Neurobiology program at Caltech.

Lindsay Bremner, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow, 2013-2014

Lindsay is now an Instructor at Caltech for Bi/CNS/NB 162. Cellular and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory and a Freelance Scientific Editor at Bremner Scientific.