Principal Investigator
Eric J. Huang, MD, PhD
Professor
Lab Members
Jiapei Chen
Graduate Student
Yao Xuan Chen
Lab Assistant
Elizabeth “Betsy” Crouch, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kei Hashimoto, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeffrey Hofmann, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yu-Hsin Huang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Naznin Jahan
Graduate Student
David McFall
Junior Specialist
Elise Marsan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Christina Mora, MS
Junior Specialist
Amy Tang
Lab Manager
Can Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jiasheng Zhang, PhD
Specialist
Huang Lab Alumni
| Trainee Name | Training Period (Degree) | Prior Academic Degree Institution(s) |
Prior Academic Degree(s) | Prior Academic Degree Year(s) |
Title of Research Project | Current Position / Source of Support of Current Trainees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauren Herl Martens | ‘09 – ‘13 (PhD) |
U. of New Hemisphere | BS | '03 | Role of progranulin in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) | Director of Biology, Tiaki Therapeutics, Boston, MA |
| Sarah Xinwei Luo | ‘09 – ‘15 (PhD) |
U. of Wisconsin Madison | BS | '09 | TGF-β signaling in dopaminergic neuron development | Postdoctoral fellow, A*STAR, Singapore |
| Trainee Name | Training Period | Prior Academic Degree Institution(s) |
Prior Academic Degree(s) | Prior Academic Degree Year(s) |
Title of Research Project | Current Position / Source of Support of Current Trainees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda K. Wiggins | ‘02 – ‘05 | U. of Melbourne | PhD | 2001 | Role of HIPK2 in neuronal survival | General Manager, Forest Herbs Research, Ltd |
| Guangwei Wei | ‘02 – ‘06 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | PhD | 2001 | Role of HIPK2 in neuronal survival & tumorigenesis | Professor, Shang-Dong University, China |
| Vanee Pho | ‘03 – ‘05 | Boston U. | PhD | 2003 | Role of HIPK2 in neuronal survival | Director of Product Management, Advanced Cell Diagnostics |
| Jiasheng Zhang | ‘04 – ‘10 | Kanazawa U., Japan | PhD | 2004 | Role of progranulin in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) | Specialist, Department of Pathology, UCSF |
| Mianzhi Tang | ‘05 – ‘09 | Shanghai Institute of Physiology | PhD | 2004 | TGF-β & Wnt/β-catenin signaling in dopaminergic neuron development | Engineer, Northrop Grumman |
| Han S. Lee | ’08 – ‘10 | University of Cincinnati | MD, PhD | 2005 | Role of HIPK2 in ER stress-induced cell death | Pathologist, Diagnostic Pathology Medical Group, Inc. |
| Hsin-Yi Huang | ‘13 – ‘14 | National Taiwan U. | MD, PhD | 1996/2013 | Role of progranulin in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) | Attending Pathologist, National Taiwan University Hospital |
| Hiayan Qiu | ‘10 – ‘14 | Institute of Neuroscience, China | PhD | 2008 | Role of RNA binding protein FUS mutations in ALS | Senior Scientist, Annexon Biosciences |
| Sebum Lee | ‘08 – ‘15 | U. of North Texas | PhD | 2009 | Role of HIPK2 in ER stress induced cell death | Senior Scientist & Group Leader, Kolon Life Science, Seoul, Korea |
| Yulei Shang | ‘07 – ‘16 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | PhD | 2006 | Role of HIPK2 in neurovascular development | Senior Scientist, DiaCarta, Inc., Hayward, CA |
| Jennifer Cotter | ‘14 – ‘16 | USC | MD | 2011 | Radial Glia and TGF-β Signaling in the Neurovascular Niche of Germinal Matrix | Assistant Professor, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles & Dept of Pathology, USC |
| Mercedes Paredes | ‘14 – ‘18 | UCSF | MD, PhD | 2007 | Neuronal migration in human brain development | Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology, UCSF |
| Areli Cuevas-Ocampo | ‘17 – ‘18 | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | MD | 2012 | Glial pathology in Alzheimer’s disease | Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol & Consultant Neuropathologist, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK |
| Sean Ferris | ‘18 – ‘19 | U. of Michigan | MD, PhD | 2014 | Glial pathology in Alzheimer’s disease | Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology at U. of Michigan |
| Trainee Name | Training Period | Prior Academic Degree Institution(s) |
Prior Academic Degree(s) | Prior Academic Degree Year(s) |
Current Position / Source of Support of Current Trainees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esther Luo | ‘00 – ‘02 | Scripps College | BS | 1999 | Internist, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Santa Clara |
| Nazzy Pakpour | ’00 – ‘01 | UC Davis | BS | 1999 | Assistant Professor, Cal State East Bay |
| Stephen Ku | ’06 – ‘07 | Stanford | BS | 2006 | Endocrinologist, Palo Alto, CA |
| Connie Wong | ’03 – ‘05 | UC Berkeley | BS | 2002 | PharmD |
| Michael Tang | ’05 – ‘06 | UC Berkeley | BS | 2004 | PhD in Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh |
| Sidney Hsin-Kang Hsieh | ’06 – ‘07 | McGill University | MSc | 2006 | Senior Scientist, Merck |
| Sherry Kamiya | ’09 – ‘12 | UC Davis | BS | 2007 | Histotechnologist, UCSF Medical Center |
| Leah Timbang | ’12 – ‘14 | UC Berkeley | BS | 2012 | Medical Student, UC Davis |
| Vivian Tang | ’14 – ‘16 | UC Berkeley | BS | 2014 | Medical Student, UC Davis |
| Hansen Lui | ’12 – ‘15 | UCLA | BS | 2012 | Medical Student, UCSF |
| Michelle Cahill | ’15 – ’16 | UC Berkeley | BS | 2015 | Graduate Student in Neuroscience, UCSF |
| Ashley Del Dosso | ’17 – ‘18 | San Francisco State University | BS | 2016 | Graduate Student in Stem Cell Biology, USC |
| Julian Dishart | ‘17 – ‘19 | Vassar College | BS | 2017 | Graduate Student in Neurobiology, UC Berkeley |
| Trainee Name | Training Period | Prior Academic Degree Institution(s) |
Prior Academic Degree(s) | Prior Academic Degree Year(s) |
Current Position / Source of Support of Current Trainees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yasunori Miyamoto | ‘08 | University of Tsukuba | PhD | 1989 | Associate Professor, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan |
| Helene Boudin | ‘12 – ‘13 | University of Paris V | PhD | 1995 | Research Scientist, Universite de Nantes, Nantes, France |
| Sherry Shu-Jung Hu | ’18 – ‘19 | Brown University | PhD | 2007 | Associate Professor, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan |