Meet the Team

Pictured from left to right: Harrison Penrose, Courtney Tindle, Mason Hayashi, Pradipta Ghosh, Annelies Ondersma, Ella McLaren, Samuel Williams, Kennith Carpio, Kevin Perry

Full-Time Dedicated Scientists

Courtney Tindle, M.S.

Email: ctindle@health.ucsd.edu

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: In charge of all HUMANOID's services and recharges (internal, external and industry), and project and personnel management, regulatory approvals and administrative tasks.

Project Lead: Crohn's Disease; Modeling Human Lung Infections (bacteria and viruses); IBD-immune cell co-cultures; Modeling microbial infection and clearance in the gut.
Kevin Perry

Email k3perry@health.ucsd.edu

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: In charge of HUMANOID's flow cytometry and microscopy services.

Project Lead : Cancer stem cell targeted therapeutics (colon, biliary, pancreatic, gastric and esophageal).
Kennith Carpio-Perkins

Email: kcarpioperkins@health.ucsd.edu

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Infection and Immunity; Organoid isolation, culture and biobanking.

Project Lead: Host-pathogen interplay; Microbial clearance; Anti-microbial therapeutics.
Samuel Williams

Email: saw028@health.ucsd.edu

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Media Preparation, Organoid isolation, culture and biobanking.

Project Lead: Barrett's Esophagus modeling; Air-Liquid systems; Dysplasia progression.
Annelies Ondersma, M.S.

Email: aondersma@health.ucsd.edu

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Organoid isolation, culture and biobanking.

Project Lead: Mother-infant-Metabolite-transporter-Atlas; gland-gut-brain axis.
Mason Hayashi

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Confocal imaging, Organoid isolation, culture and biobanking.

Project Lead: Juvenile Inheritable Syndromes
Ella McLaren

Email: egmclaren@health.ucsd.edu

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: In charge of HUMANOID's In-vivo modeling, and Flow cytometry

Project Lead: Inflammatory Bowl Disease (IBD); Tumor-immune niche modeling; AI-based disease modeling
Ricki Zinky, MPH

Email: rzinky@health.ucsd.edukcarpioperkins@health.ucsd.edu

Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Infection and Immunity; Organoid isolation, culture and biobanking.

Project Lead: Host-pathogen interplay; Microbial clearance; Anti-microbial therapeutics.

Affiliated Scientists

Gajanan D. Katkar, Ph.D.

Email: kgajanandattatray@health.ucsd.edu

Assistant Project Scientist
Incoming Director, Agilent Center of Excellence Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Role: Lead, expertise in functional immunology
Saptarshi Sinha, Ph.D.

Email: sasinha@health.ucsd.edu

Assistant Project Scientist
Interim Director, Center for PreCSN Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Role: Lead, computational vetting of models.
Harrison Penrose, M.D., Ph.D.

Email: hpenrose@health.ucsd.edu

Gastroenterology Fellow
Physician Scientist Training Pathway

Student Trainees

Rand Ato

Email: rato@ucsd.edu

A senior in BioEngineering here at UCSD, pursuing a career in biomedical sciences. Rand has worked with humanoid for 2 years, as well as being the translational development intern at BoundlessBio, helping test potential drugs for patients with oncogene amplified cancers.

Project: Cancer stem cell targeted therapeutics, Modeling Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Iliana Pinedo

Email: ipinedo@ucsd.edu

Building a career in biomedical sciences as a student research assistant at HUMANOID.

Project: Modeling Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Lana Allos

Email: laallos@ucsd.edu

A second year Human Biology major on the premed track, with aspirations to enter the medical field in the future. Volunteering in the emergency department at my local hospital and participates in campus organizations like the National Arab American Medical Association and the Brain Exercise Initiative.

Project: Modeling Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

HUMANOID group outside

Pictured from left to right (Dec 2023): Pradipta Ghosh, Kennith Carpio-Perkins, Sophia Carpinelli, Alayna Zolot, Courtney Tindle, Kevin Perry, Annelies Ondersma, Gajanan Katkar, and Samuel Williams.

Past Members

Staff

Eleadah Vidales (2021-2023) - Immediate next position: Research Associate II at Stemson Therapeutics. Follow her on LinkedIn to know where she is now.
Vanae Goheen-Holland (2021-2022) - Immediate next position: Research Associate II at Stemson Therapeutics. Follow her on LinkedIn to know where she is now.
Gabriela V. Sanchez (2021-2021)
Ayden G. Fonseca (2020-2022) - Immediate next position: Clinical application specialist at INSIGHTEC. Follow him on LinkedIn to know where he is now.
Joshua Alcantara (2020-2022) - Immediate next position: PhD student at UC Irvine Cellular and Molecular Biosciences. Follow him on LinkedIn to know where he is now.
Jasper Lee (2020-2022) - Immediate next position: Two-year Masters program at UCLA. Follow him on LinkedIn to know where he is now.
Stella-Rita Ibeawuchi (2019-2022) - Immediate next position: Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Follow her on LinkedIn to know where she is now.
Dominik Stec (2019-2021) - Immediate next position: Graduate student, UT Austin to work on interdisciplinary biological physics. Follow him on LinkedIn to know where he is now.
Mackenzie R. Fuller (2019-2020) - Immediate next position: International English Teacher, positioned in South Korea. Aspiring graduate student. Follow Mackenzie on LinkedIn to know where she is now.
Amanraj Claire (2020-2020) - Immediate next position: Scientific researcher at Cedar Sinai. Follow Amanraj on LinkedIn to know where he is now.
Alayna Zolot
Sophia Carpinelli
Erika Miramontes
Spencer Wilcox

Trainees

Priti P. Maity, Ph.D. (2020-2021) - Immediate next position: follow him on LinkedIn

Visiting Scholars, Scientists & Affiliates

Ranajoy Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. (2019-2021), Senior Cell Biologist, Cytvia Inc (GE): LinkedIn
Dave Yu, Ph.D. (2019-2021), Vice President of Operations, Cell Applications Inc.: LinkedIn
Alex Noskov, Ph.D. (2019-2021), Operations Manager, Cell Applications Inc.: LinkedIn
Nicolas Aznar, PhD.

Student Trainees

Frances Feng
Jasmin Amezcua