Team


Ananda Goldrath

Principal Investigator
agoldrath@ucsd.edu
 

Ananda is a Professor in the Molecular Biology Section in the Division of Biology at the University of California, San Diego where she started her lab in 2004.  

In 2021 Ananda was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Tata Chancellor’s Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences and former chair of the Molecular Biology Section. Ananda was also a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar and a Pew Scholar.

 
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Nicole Scharping

Postdoc PhD Immunology University of Pittsburgh nscharping@ucsd.edu

Exploring relationship between tissue resident memory T cell and exhausted T cell differentiation in cancer

National Cancer Insitute F99/K00 Fellowship

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Miguel Reina

POSTDOC PhD Biomedical Sciences Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute mreinacampos@ucsd.edu

Metabolic requirements of CD8 T cell tissue immunity

Cancer Research Institute - Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow - 2020


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Maximilian Heeg 

POSTDOC MD University of Freiburg mheeg@ucsd.edu

Transcriptional regulation of CD8+ tissue resident memory T cells

German Research Foundation Research Fellowship

 

Giovanni Galletti

POSTDOC PHD BIOLOGY AND BIOTHERAPY OF CANCER VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY

ggalletti@ucsd.edu

Exploring the molecular networks regulating tissue resident memory T cells to benefit cancer immunotherapy.

CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE - IRVINGTON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - 2022

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Amir Ferry

Graduate Student B.S. Neurobiology, Georgetown University MSc. Applied Biosciences, Imperial College London amferry@ucsd.edu

Regulation of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes

Pathways in Biological Science (PiBS) Training Program

Kennidy Takehara

Graduate Student B.S. Biology, University of Washington ktakehar@ucsd.edu

 

Alex Monell

Graduate student
B.S. Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, UCSD
amonell@ucsd.edu

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Vida A. Luna

STAFF RESEARCH ASSOCIATE vluna@ucsd.edu

 
 

Allison Cafferata

Undergraduate student acaffera@ucsd.edu

Kianoosh Mempel

Undergraduate student kmempel@ucsd.edu

Natalie Zane

Undergraduate Student nzane@ucsd.edu