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City of Hope graduates have gone on to positions at Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Scripps Research Institute, UCLA, USC, UCSF, UCSD and UC Berkeley, among others.

Alumni lead research teams in the biotechnology industry at Wyeth, Ganaissance, ISIS, and Allergan and more.

Following is a listing of our alumni and what they are currently doing:


  • Vania Ashminova, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
  • Thomas Bane, Research Scientist, Anti-Doping Research Institute Inc.
  • Liu Bi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine
  • Victoria Buettner, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope
  • Leticia Cano, Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  • Qing Chai, Scientist, Protein Chemist, Applied Molecular Evolution, Eli Lilly & Company
  • Carmel Chan, Research Scientist, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Valerie Chavez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Cyndi Chen, Senior Research Scientist, Pall Medical, Covina, Calif.
  • Zhaoxia Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope
  • Kenneth Dery, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope
  • Ali Ehsani, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope
  • Elizabeth Eng, Scientist, Allergan Pharmaceuticals
  • Geoffrey Frank, Instructor, California State University, Northridge
  • Mausumee Guha, Research Scientist, Kalypsis, San Diego
  • Shuo Gu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
  • Bret Heale, Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Research Council, Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, Scotland 
  • Yanyan Hong, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope
  • Jie Huang, Research Scientist, Covx Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, Calif.
  • Lan Jin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University 
  • Seung-Gi Jin, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope
  • Ikuko Kijima, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Calif.
  • Julia Kirshner, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
  • Dong-Hyun Lee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  • Min-Seob Lee, Sr. Group Leader, Sequenom Inc.
  • Michael Lewis, Associate Professor, University Missouri, Columbia
  • Tracey  Li, Resident in Family Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Fresno 
  • Limin Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mayo Clinic 
  • Pingfang Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  • Ren Liu, Research Scientist, Vasgene Therapeutics Inc.
  • Ellizabeth Lobo, Senior Scientist, Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc., Paso Robles, Calif.
  • Damon Meyer, Posdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis
  • Jennifer Murray, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope
  • Michelle Navarro, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Riverside
  • Maria (Tina) Negritto, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology Department, Pomona College
  • Robert Ring, Senior Scientist, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Research
  • Saurabh Sahar, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine
  • Edward Silverman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech
  • Jing Song, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
  • Yuqing Tu, Vice President, Citibank
  • Michael Valentine, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Cleveland Chiropractic College of Los Angeles
  • Reena Vishwanath, Medical Student, Georgetown University School of Medical
  • Chen Wu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School  
  • Juli Wu, Assistant Director, Vanderbilt University
  • Peizhang Xu, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco/HHMI
  • Jung-Hoon Yoon, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Medical Branch, Sealy Center for Molecular Sciences
  • Young You, Research Scientist, University of California, San Diego
  • Ziming Zhang, Project Scientist, Chemical Genomic Center at the Burnham Institute in La Jolla, San Diego 
  • Lingwen Zhong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Roswell Park Cancer Center

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