People

Meet the members of the lab.


Dr. Jack Bui, MD, PhD

Dr. Bui leads the lab’s work on cancer immunology.


Dr. Magalie Dosset, PhD

Lu Wang, PhD

Dr. Sang Van, PhD

Dylan Snyder

Alex Zheng

Evelyn Chan

Vinny Tran

Alex Van

Ashkon Siami

Jace Zahn


* = Under-represented minority

Assistant Professors / Project Scientists / Postdocs Lab


Deepak Yadav, PhD (2006-2009, Project Scientist)

Shin Morizane, PhD (2008-2009, Postdoc)

Xiaoxia Wang, PhD (2009-2012, Postdoc)

Emilie Gross, PhD (2011-2017, Postdoc)

Hui Zhang, MD (2011-2012, Visiting Scholar)

Eun-Young Song, MD (2012-2013, Visiting Scholar)

Angela Meier, MD (2016-2018, Assistant Professor)

Jerry Fong, PhD (2016-2018, Postdoc)

Ruth Seelige, PhD (2016-2019, Postdoc)

Amanda Buchau, MD (2012-2013, Assistant Professor, K08 mentor)

Huanhuan Zhao, MD (2026, Visiting Scholar)


Clinical Residents & Fellows


Catherine Nguyen, MD (2007, Pathology Resident)

Lily Jih, MD (2007, Pathology Resident)

Caron Steinmetz, MD (2009, Pathology Resident)

Sun Choo, MD (2012-2014, Pediatric Oncology Fellow)

Pilou Thirakul, MD (2013, Pathology Resident)*

Lindsey Charo, MD (2018-2019, OBGYN Resident)


Graduate Students


Timothy O’Sullivan, PhD granted in 2014

Robert Saddawi-Konefka, PhD granted in 2015

Steve Searles, PhD granted 2018

Allen Washington, Jr., PhD granted in 2019

Lu Wang, PhD granted in 2026


Masters Students


Seung-Hwan Lim, MS granted 2009

Siddharth Krishnamurthy, MS granted 2009

Semi Han, MS granted in 2011

Xi Kang, Visiting MS student 2012-2013

Beichen Liu, visiting MS student 2014-2015

Carlos Peinado, MS granted 2014*

Endi Santosa, MS granted 2016

Calvin Lee, MS granted 2017

Hrishi Venkatesh, MS granted 2018

Preston Lee, MS granted 2020

Melissa Ito, MS granted 2020

Jarrod Yee, MS granted 2021

Deepakshi Kasat, MS granted 2023

Sonali Joshi, MS granted 2023

Taian Chen, MS granted 2024

Wei-Shan Chen, MS granted 2024

Anushka Poola, MS granted 2024

Sophia Hildago, MS granted in 2025*

Dylan Snyder, MS granted in 2026


Undergraduate Students


Bright Sagoe (2009-2010, IMSD)*

Chanae Hardamon (2009-2010)*

Natalie Dang (2009-2010)

Sammi Hui (2011-2012)

Ghazi Atassi (2011)

Sumit Aurora (2010-2013)

Stephen Mah (2012)

Samaneh Kesharv (2012)

Isis Perez (2013-2015)*

Isabelle Pham (2014-2018)

Alexander Lee (2014)

Kimberly Low (2015-2016)

Prasantha Vemu (2015-2016)

Hali Dinh (2016-2019)

Jennifer Doan (2018-2019)

Isabel Mejia (2018-2019)*

Jonathan Salazar (2018-2020)*

Sue Jean Chon (2019)

Khang Nguyen (2019-2023)

Lindsey Nguyen (2019-2023)

Alena Dinh (2020-2021)

Yiwen Wang (2021-2022)

Yuanshan Li (2021-2022)

Rebecca Santiago (2021)*

Jane Tran (2021-2023)

Thien-An Nguyen (2023)

Sophia Strukel (2023-2024)

Marina Zhu (2023-2026)

Rachel Zhou (2023-2025)

Diane Dinh (2023-2025)

Yipeng Zhang (2024-2025)

Anthony Halem (2024-2025)

Lance Nguyen (2024-2026)

Cameron Magana (2025 summer)*

Nicholas Genovese (2025 summer)

Gisel Soto (2026 summer, ENLACE)*

Katya Orizaga (2026 summer, ENLACE)*


High School Students


Ivan Li (2018)

Karylle Ann Salileng (2023)*

Jiandre Linatoc (2024)*