Meet the Team
Pictured from left to right: Annelies Ondersma, Kevin Perry, Gajanan Katkar, Pradipta Ghosh, Sophia Carpinelli, Courtney Tindle, Alayna Zolot, Samuel Williams, and Kenneth Carpio-Perkins.
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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.
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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).
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Sophia Carpinelli
Email: scarpinelli@health.ucsd.edu
Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: In charge of HUMANOID's media preparation, QC testing, and
Project Lead: Intestinal and Lung fibrosis; Modeling tumor-immune cell co-niche; AI-based organoid imaging; Ulcerative colitis modeling.
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Alayna Zolot
Email: azolot@health.ucsd.edu
Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Laboratory and Area Safety Manager; In charge of HUMANOID's media preparation, QC testing, shipping and handling.
Project Lead: Cancer ImmunoRx and Ulcerative colitis modeling; NASH (non-alcoholic steato hepatitis).
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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.
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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.
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Annelies Ondersma
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.
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Mason Hayashi
Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Confocal imaging, Organoid isolation, culture and biobanking.
Project Lead: Juvenile Inheritable Syndromes
Affiliated Scientists
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Gajanan D. Katkar, Ph.D.
Email: kgajanandattatray@health.ucsd.edu
Assistant Project Scientist
Incoming Director, Agilent Center of Excellence Department of Cellular and Molecular MedicineRole: Lead, expertise in functional immunology
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Saptarshi Sinha, Ph.D.
Email: sasinha@health.ucsd.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar
Incoming Director, Center for PreCSN Department of Cellular and Molecular MedicineRole: Lead, computational vetting of models.
Student Trainees
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Frances Feng
Email: frfeng@ucsd.edu
Building a career in biomedical sciences as a student research assistant at HUMANOID.
Project: Modeling Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
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Jasmin Amezcua
Email: jaamezcua@ucsd.edu
Building a career in biomedical sciences as a student research assistant at HUMANOID.
Project: Modeling Lung Cancer Microenvironment and immunoRx.
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Rand Ato
Email: rato@ucsd.edu
Bioengineering: Biotechnology Student at UC San Diego Building a career in biomedical sciences as a student research assistant at HUMANOID.
Project: Modeling Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Pictured from left to right (Dec 2023): Pradipta Ghosh, Kenneth 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.
Trainees
- Priti P. Maity, Ph.D. (2020-2021) - Immediate next position: follow him on LinkedIn