Meet the Team

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.

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

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.

Email: hpenrose@health.ucsd.edu

Gastroenterology Fellow
Physician Scientist Training Pathway

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.