Faculty

Faculty members with an asterisk next to their names are receiving new students in their laboratories for the 2022-2023 academic year. Information about which faculty members have completed an optional UCLA mentor training or training as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellow mentors is provided on the Graduate Programs in Bioscience faculty page.

Core Faculty

Valerie Arboleda

Valerie Arboleda, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Daniel Benjamin

Daniel Benjamin, PhD

Professor

Paul Boutros, Ph.D., M.B.A.

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

Interim Vice Dean for Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, Professor

Esteban Dell'Angelica

Esteban Dell'Angelica, PhD

Professor, FEC Member/Preclinical Sciences

Eleazar Eskin

Eleazar Eskin, PhD

Chair, Computational Medicine, Professor

Brent Fogel

Brent Fogel, MD, PhD

Associate Professor-in-Residence

Nelson Freimer

Nelson Freimer, MD

Professor-in-Residence

Michael Gandal

Michael Gandal, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Nandita Garud

Nandita Garud, PhD

Assistant Professor

Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD

Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD

Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Precision Medicine & Professor-in-Residence

Michael Gorin

Michael Gorin, MD, PhD

Professor

Wayne Grody

Wayne Grody, MD, PhD

Professor

Deborah Krakow

Deborah Krakow, MD

Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor

Leonid Kruglyak

Leonid Kruglyak, PhD

Chair, Human Genetics, Professor

Jingyi Jessica Li

Jingyi Jessica Li, PhD

Professor

Kirk Lohmueller

Kirk Lohmueller, PhD

Associate Professor

Chongyuan Luo

Chongyuan Luo, PhD

Assistant Professor

Jake Lusis

Jake Lusis, PhD

Professor

Julian Martinez

Julian Martinez, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Stanley Nelson

Stanley Nelson, MD

Professor-in-Residence

Loes Olde Loohuis

Loes Olde Loohuis, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Roel Ophoff

Roel Ophoff, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

Paivi Pajukanta

Paivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD

Professor, Genetics and Genomics Home Area Director

Christina Palmer

Christina Palmer, MS, PhD, CGC

Professor-in-Residence, MS in Genetic Counseling Program Director

Jeanette Papp

Jeanette Papp, PhD

Adjunct Professor

Bogdan Pasaniuc

Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD

Associate Professor

Matteo Pellegrini

Matteo Pellegrini, PhD

Metabolic Nurse, Professor

Harold Pimentel

Harold Pimentel, PhD

Assistant Professor

Joseph Pisegna

Joseph Pisegna, MD

Professor-in-Residence

Karen Reue, PhD

Karen Reue, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Professor

Sriram Sankararaman

Sriram Sankararaman, PhD

Assistant Professor

Eric Sobel

Eric Sobel, PhD

Adjunct Professor

Debora Sobreira

Debora Rodrigues Sobreira, PhD

Assistant Professor

Marc Suchard

Marc Suchard, MD, PhD

Professor

Michael Wells

Michael Wells, PhD

Associate Adjunct Professor

Yi Yin

Yi Yin, PhD

Assistant Professor

Stephen Young

Stephen Young, MD

Professor

Noah Zaitlen

Noah A Zaitlen, PhD

Associate Professor

Affiliate Faculty

Patrick Allard

Patrick Allard, PhD

Associate Professor

Brunilda Balliu

Brunilda Balliu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Utpal Banerjee

Utpal Banerjee, PhD

Professor

Mehdi Bouhaddou

Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD

Assistant Professor

Amander Clark

Amander Clark, PhD

Professor

Luis de la Torre-Ubieta

Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

David Eisenberg

David S. Eisenberg, PhD

Professor

Jason Ernst

Jason Ernst, PhD

Associate Professor

Thomas Graeber

Thomas Graeber, PhD

Professor

Alexander Hoffman

Alexander Hoffmann, PhD

Professor

Steve Jacobsen

Steve Jacobsen, PhD

Professor

Tracy Johnson

Tracy Johnson, PhD

Dean of Life Sciences, UCLA College, Professor

Su Yon Jung

Su Yon Jung, PhD

Associate Professor

Donald Kohn

Donald Kohn, MD

Professor

David Krantz

David Krantz, MD, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

Albert Lai

Albert Lai, MD, PhD

Professor In-Residence

Huiying Li

Huiying Li, PhD

Associate Professor

Man Hing Melody Li

Man Hing Melody Li, PhD

Assistant Professor

Roger Lo

Roger Lo, MD, PhD

Professor

Lachezar Nikolov

Lachezar Nikolov, PhD

Assistant Professor

Bennett Novitch, MMSc, PhD

Bennett Novitch, MMSc, PhD

Professor

Yi-Rong Peng

Yi-Rong Peng, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Jessica Rexach

Jessica Rexach, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Marlin Touma

Marlin Touma, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Tom Vondriska

Thomas Vondriska, PhD

Professor, Anesthesiology; Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology

Jessica Wang

Jessica Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Xia Yang

Xia Yang, PhD

Professor

Xiangdong William Yang

Xiangdong W Yang, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

Jie Zheng

Jie Zheng, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

Xianghong Jasmine Zhou

Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, PhD

Professor