People

Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD

Principal Investigator,  Professor
Department of Dermatology

 

Mai Dvorak

Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Dermatology
 

Tori Tran

Graduate Student
Biomedical Sciences

Rio Barrere-Cain

MSTP Student
Tetrad

 

Kevin Ly

Graduate Student
Biomedical Sciences
 

Henry Rodriguez Valbuena

Postdoctoral Scholar
Co-mentored with Alexis Combes

Andrea DeRogatis, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Dermatology

 

Garrett Patrick

Garrett Patrick

Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Dermatology

 

 

 

 


Lab Alumni 

Kimbery Vasquez Ph.D. (Research Specialist 2014-2016, current: Scientist at Gilead)
Kevin Chu (Research Specialist 2016-2018)
Elizabeth Leitner (Research Specialist 2016-2018, current: Research Associate at SentiBio)
Clemence Cornut Ph.D. (visiting student 2019, current: graduate school ENS, Paris)
Michelle Chu (SFSU masters student 2019-2021, current: SFSU CEETL program coordinator) 
John Leech Ph.D. (Postdoc 2017-2020, current: Senior Scientist at Pfizer)
Grace Cho (UC Berkeley thesis student 2019-2021, current: Research specialist at UCLA)
Jessica Ma (UC Berkeley summer student 2019, current: Research specialist at UCSF)
Dhuvi Karthikeyan (UC Berkeley summer student 2020, current: PhD student at UNC)
Sepideh Nozzari MS (Assoc Research Specialist 2018-2021, current: Sr. Research specialist at UCSF)
Allison Tammen (SFSU masters student 2019-2021, current: PhD student at OHSU) 
Geil Merana Ph.D. (BMS PhD Graduate 2016-2021, current: postdoc at UC Davis)
William Choi (UC Berkeley summer student 2022)
Jeanmarie Gonzalez Ph.D. (BMS PhD Graduate 2016-2022, current: CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellow)
Joy Okoro (Research Specialist 2021-2023, current: PhD student in UCSF BMS Program)
Oluwansumisola Ojewumi (Research Specialist 2021-2023, current: PhD student at Cornell University)
Miqdad Dhariwala Ph.D. (Postdoc 2018-2023, current: Asst Professor, Dept of Microbial Infection & Immunity, Ohio State University)
Antonin Weckel Ph.D. (Postdoc 2019-2024, current: Analyst, Sofinnova Partners)
Cierra Ahlstrand (RaMP Scholar 2013-2024, current: Junior Research Specialist, UCSF School of Dentistry)
Yusuf Karan (UC Berkeley summer student 2024)
Rico Carale (Research Specialist 2023-2025; current MSTP student, UPenn) 
Laura Dwyer PhD (BMS PhD Graduate student 2020-2026; current: postdoc, Massachusetts General Hospital) 
Chloe Zhang (NSF RaMP Scholar then Research Specialist 2024-2026; current: Research Specialist UCSF)