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
Pictured from left to right: Harrison Penrose, Courtney Tindle, Mason Hayashi, Pradipta Ghosh, Annelies Ondersma, Ella McLaren, Samuel Williams, Kennith Carpio, Kevin Perry
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Program Role/ Specialized Tasks: Confocal imaging, Organoid isolation, culture and biobanking.
Project Lead: Juvenile Inheritable Syndromes
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
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
Email: sasinha@health.ucsd.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar
Incoming Director, Center for PreCSN Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Role: Lead, computational vetting of models.
Email: hpenrose@health.ucsd.edu
Gastroenterology Fellow
Physician Scientist Training Pathway
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
Email: ipinedo@ucsd.edu
Building a career in biomedical sciences as a student research assistant at HUMANOID.
Project: Modeling Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
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.
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.
Student Trainees