Faculty
Core Faculty

Valerie Arboleda, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor

Daniel Benjamin, PhD
Professor

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA
Interim Vice Dean for Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, Professor

Esteban Dell'Angelica, PhD
Professor, FEC Member/Preclinical Sciences

Eleazar Eskin, PhD
Chair, Computational Medicine, Professor

Brent Fogel, MD, PhD
Associate Professor-in-Residence

Nelson Freimer, MD
Professor-in-Residence

Michael Gandal, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Nandita Garud, PhD
Assistant Professor

Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD
Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Precision Medicine & Professor-in-Residence

Michael Gorin, MD, PhD
Professor

Wayne Grody, MD, PhD
Professor

Deborah Krakow, MD
Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor

Leonid Kruglyak, PhD
Chair, Human Genetics, Professor

Jingyi Jessica Li, PhD
Professor

Kirk Lohmueller, PhD
Associate Professor

Chongyuan Luo, PhD
Assistant Professor

Jake Lusis, PhD
Professor

Julian Martinez, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Stanley Nelson, MD
Professor-in-Residence

Loes Olde Loohuis, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Roel Ophoff, PhD
Professor-in-Residence

Paivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD
Professor, Genetics and Genomics Home Area Director

Christina Palmer, MS, PhD, CGC
Professor-in-Residence, MS in Genetic Counseling Program Director

Jeanette Papp, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD
Associate Professor

Matteo Pellegrini, PhD
Metabolic Nurse, Professor

Harold Pimentel, PhD
Assistant Professor

Joseph Pisegna, MD
Professor-in-Residence

Karen Reue, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Professor

Sriram Sankararaman, PhD
Assistant Professor

Eric Sobel, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Debora Rodrigues Sobreira, PhD
Assistant Professor

Marc Suchard, MD, PhD
Professor

Michael Wells, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor

Yi Yin, PhD
Assistant Professor

Stephen Young, MD
Professor

Noah A Zaitlen, PhD
Associate Professor
Affiliate Faculty

Patrick Allard, PhD
Associate Professor

Brunilda Balliu, PhD
Assistant Professor

Utpal Banerjee, PhD
Professor

Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD
Assistant Professor

Amander Clark, PhD
Professor

Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

David S. Eisenberg, PhD
Professor

Jason Ernst, PhD
Associate Professor

Thomas Graeber, PhD
Professor

Alexander Hoffmann, PhD
Professor

Steve Jacobsen, PhD
Professor

Tracy Johnson, PhD
Dean of Life Sciences, UCLA College, Professor

Su Yon Jung, PhD
Associate Professor
Donald Kohn, MD
Professor

David Krantz, MD, PhD
Professor-in-Residence

Albert Lai, MD, PhD
Professor In-Residence

Huiying Li, PhD
Associate Professor

Man Hing Melody Li, PhD
Assistant Professor

Roger Lo, MD, PhD
Professor

Lachezar Nikolov, PhD
Assistant Professor

Bennett Novitch, MMSc, PhD
Professor

Yi-Rong Peng, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Jessica Rexach, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Marlin Touma, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Thomas Vondriska, PhD
Professor, Anesthesiology; Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology

Jessica Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-Residence

Xia Yang, PhD
Professor

Xiangdong W Yang, PhD
Professor-in-Residence

Jie Zheng, PhD
Professor-in-Residence

Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, PhD
Professor