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Meet the Team

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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.

    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

    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

    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

    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.

    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.

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    Mason Hayashi

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

    Project Lead: Juvenile Inheritable Syndromes

  • Ella McLaren

    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

     

Affiliated Scientists

  • Gajanan D. Katkar, Ph.D.

    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.

    Saptarshi Sinha, Ph.D.

    Email: sasinha@health.ucsd.edu

    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Incoming Director, Center for PreCSN Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

    Role: Lead, computational vetting of models.

  • Harrison Penrose, M.D., Ph.D.

    Harrison Penrose, M.D., Ph.D.

    Email: hpenrose@health.ucsd.edu

    Gastroenterology Fellow
    Physician Scientist Training Pathway

Student Trainees

  • Frances Feng

    Frances Feng

    Email: frfeng@ucsd.edu

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

    Project: Modeling Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

  • Jasmin Amezcua

    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.

  • Rand Ato

    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

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.

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