Human Genetics

Faculty

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

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Daniel Benjamin

Daniel Benjamin, PhD

Professor

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

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

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

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Esteban Dell'Angelica

Esteban Dell'Angelica, PhD

Professor, FEC Member/Preclinical Sciences

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Eleazar Eskin

Eleazar Eskin, PhD

Chair, Computational Medicine, Professor

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Brent Fogel

Brent Fogel, MD, PhD

Associate Professor-in-Residence

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Nelson Freimer

Nelson Freimer, MD

Professor-in-Residence

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Michael Gandal

Michael Gandal, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

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Nandita Garud

Nandita Garud, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD

Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD

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

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Michael Gorin

Michael Gorin, MD, PhD

Professor

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Wayne Grody

Wayne Grody, MD, PhD

Professor

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Deborah Krakow

Deborah Krakow, MD

Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor

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Leonid Kruglyak

Leonid Kruglyak, PhD

Chair, Human Genetics, Professor

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Jingyi Jessica Li

Jingyi Jessica Li, PhD

Professor

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Kirk Lohmueller

Kirk Lohmueller, PhD

Associate Professor

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Chongyuan Luo

Chongyuan Luo, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Jake Lusis

Jake Lusis, PhD

Professor

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Julian Martinez

Julian Martinez, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Stanley Nelson

Stanley Nelson, MD

Professor-in-Residence

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Loes Olde Loohuis

Loes Olde Loohuis, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

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Roel Ophoff

Roel Ophoff, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

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Paivi Pajukanta

Paivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD

Professor, Genetics and Genomics Home Area Director

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Christina Palmer

Christina Palmer, MS, PhD, CGC

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

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Jeanette Papp

Jeanette Papp, PhD

Adjunct Professor

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Bogdan Pasaniuc

Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD

Associate Professor

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Matteo Pellegrini

Matteo Pellegrini, PhD

Metabolic Nurse, Professor

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Harold Pimentel

Harold Pimentel, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Joseph Pisegna

Joseph Pisegna, MD

Professor-in-Residence

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Karen Reue, PhD

Karen Reue, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Professor

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Sriram Sankararaman

Sriram Sankararaman, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Eric Sobel

Eric Sobel, PhD

Adjunct Professor

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Debora Sobreira

Debora Rodrigues Sobreira, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Marc Suchard

Marc Suchard, MD, PhD

Professor

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Michael Wells

Michael Wells, PhD

Associate Adjunct Professor

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Yi Yin

Yi Yin, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Stephen Young

Stephen Young, MD

Professor

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Noah Zaitlen

Noah A Zaitlen, PhD

Associate Professor

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Affiliate Faculty

Patrick Allard

Patrick Allard, PhD

Associate Professor

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Brunilda Balliu

Brunilda Balliu, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Utpal Banerjee

Utpal Banerjee, PhD

Professor

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Mehdi Bouhaddou

Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Amander Clark

Amander Clark, PhD

Professor

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Luis de la Torre-Ubieta

Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

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David Eisenberg

David S. Eisenberg, PhD

Professor

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Jason Ernst

Jason Ernst, PhD

Associate Professor

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Thomas Graeber

Thomas Graeber, PhD

Professor

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Alexander Hoffman

Alexander Hoffmann, PhD

Professor

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Steve Jacobsen

Steve Jacobsen, PhD

Professor

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Tracy Johnson

Tracy Johnson, PhD

Dean of Life Sciences, UCLA College, Professor

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Su Yon Jung

Su Yon Jung, PhD

Associate Professor

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Donald Kohn

Donald Kohn, MD

Professor

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David Krantz

David Krantz, MD, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

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Albert Lai

Albert Lai, MD, PhD

Professor In-Residence

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Huiying Li

Huiying Li, PhD

Associate Professor

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Man Hing Melody Li

Man Hing Melody Li, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Roger Lo

Roger Lo, MD, PhD

Professor

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Lachezar Nikolov

Lachezar Nikolov, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Bennett Novitch, MMSc, PhD

Bennett Novitch, MMSc, PhD

Professor

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Yi-Rong Peng

Yi-Rong Peng, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

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Jessica Rexach

Jessica Rexach, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

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Marlin Touma

Marlin Touma, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

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Tom Vondriska

Thomas Vondriska, PhD

Professor, Anesthesiology; Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology

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Jessica Wang

Jessica Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence

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Xia Yang

Xia Yang, PhD

Professor

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Xiangdong William Yang

Xiangdong W Yang, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

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Jie Zheng

Jie Zheng, PhD

Professor-in-Residence

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Xianghong Jasmine Zhou

Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, PhD

Professor

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