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, MD, PhD

Daniel Benjamin, PhD

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

Eleazar Eskin, PhD

Brent Fogel, MD, PhD

Nelson Freimer, MD

Michael Gandal, MD, PhD

Nandita Garud, PhD

Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD

Michael Gorin, MD, PhD

Wayne Grody, MD, PhD

Deborah Krakow, MD

Leonid Kruglyak, PhD

Jingyi Jessica Li, PhD

Kirk Lohmueller, PhD

Chongyuan Luo, PhD

Jake Lusis, PhD

Julian Martinez, MD, PhD

Stanley Nelson, MD

Loes Olde Loohuis, PhD

Roel Ophoff, PhD

Paivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD

Christina Palmer, MS, PhD, CGC

Jeanette Papp, PhD

Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD

Matteo Pellegrini, PhD

Harold Pimentel, PhD

Joseph Pisegna, MD

Karen Reue, PhD

Sriram Sankararaman, PhD

Eric Sobel, PhD

Debora Rodrigues Sobreira, PhD

Marc Suchard, MD, PhD

Michael Wells, PhD

Yi Yin, PhD

Stephen Young, MD

Noah A Zaitlen, PhD
Affiliate Faculty

Patrick Allard, PhD

Brunilda Balliu, PhD

Utpal Banerjee, PhD

Mehdi Bouhaddou, PhD

Amander Clark, PhD

Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, PhD

David S. Eisenberg, DPhil

Jason Ernst, PhD

Thomas Graeber, PhD

Alexander Hoffmann, PhD

Steve Jacobsen, PhD

Tracy Johnson, PhD

Su Yon Jung, PhD
Donald Kohn, MD

David Krantz, MD, PhD

Caroline Kuo, MD

Albert Lai, MD, PhD

Huiying Li, PhD

Man Hing Melody Li, PhD

Roger Lo, MD, PhD

Lachezar Nikolov, PhD

Bennett Novitch, MMSc, PhD

Yi-Rong Peng, PhD

Jessica Rexach, MD, PhD

Paul Spellman, PhD

Marlin Touma, MD, PhD

Thomas Vondriska, PhD

Wei Wang, PhD

Xia Yang, PhD

Xiangdong W Yang, PhD

Jie Zheng, PhD

Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, PhD