Directory

This provides an alphabetized list of all Principal Investigators, Affiliates, and Executive Committee members in the Beta Cell Biology Consortium.

Staff Member	Position
Kristie Aamodt
Elena Abarinov
Kristin Abraham, PhD NIDDK/NIH	Senior Advisor, Model Systems and Resources
Jonas Ahnfelt-Ronne, Pd.D
ildem Akerman, Ph.D., M.Sc. IDIBAPS	Postdoctoral Fellow
Juan C Alvarez-Perez
Luke Amer, B.S. University of Colorado - Boulder	PhD Candidate
Jacqueline Ameri, Ph.D. University of Copenhagen	Post-Doc
H. Efsun Arda, Ph.D. Stanford University	Postdoctoral Fellow
Michelle Arlotto, Ph.D
Luis Arnes, Ph.D The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York	Posdoctoral Fellow
Luc Baeyens, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco	postdoctoral researcher
Dina Balderes, M.Sc. Columbia University	Staff Associate
Eric Bankaitis, B.Sc. Vanderbilt University	Graduate Student
Delphine BARONNIER, PhD student University of Medecine, Geneva	PhD student
Ornella Barrandon, PhD Harvard University SCRB	Post-doctoral fellow
Matthew Bechard, B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Post-doctoral Fellow
Tom Becker
Marion Benazra
Eric Benedetti, B.S. Oregon Health and Science University	Senior Research Assistant
Cecil Benitez, B.S. Stanford University	Graduate Student
Jacqueline Benthuysen, B.Sc. University of California, San Diego	Graduate Student
Per-Olof Berggren Karolinska University
Anthony Beucher, Ph.D. IDIBAPS	Post-doc
Anil Bhushan, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Associate Professor
David Blodgett, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School	Postdoc
Olivier Blondel, Ph.D. NIDDK/NIH	Program Director, NIDDK
Barak Blum, Ph.D. Harvard Univeristy	Post-doc
Sarah Boetto
Robert Bonnah, Ph.D. OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY	RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Matthew Borok, BS, MA Columbia University	Graduate student
Rita Bortell, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School	Assoc. Professor
David Brafman, Ph.D. University of California-San Diego	Principle Investigator
Nuria Bramswig, M.D. University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine	Postdoctoral Fellow
Marcela Brissova, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Research Assistant Professor
Abby Buenafe, Ph.D. Oregon Health & Science University	Senior Research Associate
Corey Cannon University of Pennsylvania	Graduate Student
Peter Carolan SCRB, Harvard University
Jean-Philippe Cartailler, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Director of VCSCB Informatics
Philip Cayting
Chester Chamberlain, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco	Postdoctoral Fellow
Howard Chang, M.D. Ph.D Stanford University	Principal Investigator
Xiaochun Chen, Ph.D
Xin Cheng, Ph.D. CHILDREN''S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA	Research Associate
yong cheng, Ph.D stanford university	postdoc
Simona Chera, Ph.D University of Geneva	Post-doctoral
Sundari Chetty, Ph.D. Harvard University	Post-doctoral fellow
Nicolaj S. Christophersen Hagedorn Research Institute	Research Scientist
Geoff Clarke, Ph.D. University of Toronto	Research Associate
Dena Cohen, PhD HHMI/Harvard University	Research Specialist
Kim Cornwell, B.A. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Program Coordinator
Chunhua Dai, M.D. Vanderbilt University Medical School	Research Assistant Professor
Nicolas Damond, MSc University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine	PhD student
Avrahami-Tzfati Dana, Ph.D university of pennsylvania/Hadahhsa medical center	postdoc fellow
Danielle Dean
Marion Delous UCSF
Sangeeta Dhawan, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles	Assistant Researcher
Philip DiIorio, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School	Assistant Professor
Giselle Dominguez
Craig Dorrell, Ph.D. Oregon Health & Science University	Post-doctoral fellow
Dieter Egli, PhD New York Stem Cell Foundation	Research Fellow
Susan Elliott Stanford University	Administrative Associate
Hans-Peter Elsaesser, Ph.D. Philipps-Universität Marburg	Professor
Logan Everett, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Postdoctoral Fellow
Jorge Ferrer, M.D., Ph.D. Imperial College London	Professor, Chair in Genetics and Medicine, Section head
Nathalie Fiaschi-Taesch, PhD University of Pittsburgh	Assistant Professor
Manuel Figueiredo-Larsen, Cand. scient. Pharm. Danstem, University of Copenhgen	Research Assistent
Lydie Flasse DanStem, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen	Post-doc
Alexandra Folias UCSF	Post-Docotral Fellow
Maya Friis Kjaergaard
Judith Furth-Lavi, MSc. Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital	Lab Technician
Kenichiro Furuyama, Ph.D., M.D. University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine	Post-doctoral
Paul Gadue, Ph.D. Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia	Assistant Professor
Feorillo Galivo, PhD OHSU	Postdoctoral researcher
Rama Gangula, M.S Vanderbilt	Sr. Research Specialist
Maureen Gannon, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Associate Professor
Adolfo Garcia-Ocana, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Professor
Mike German, M.D. University of California, San Francisco	Professor
Luiza Ghila, Ph.D University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine	Post-doctoral
Rajarshi Ghosh, Ph.D. UCSF	PostDoc
David Gifford, Ph.D Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Benjamin Glaser, M.D. Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center	Head, Endocrinology and Metabolism Service
Maria Golson, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Postdoctoral Fellow
Stephanie Grainger, PhD UCSD	Postdoc
Anne Grapin-Botton, Ph.D. DanStem, Univeristy of Copenhagen	Investigator
Suzannah Green, B.A. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Program Manager
Emily Greenfest-Allen, Ph.D. University of Pennyslvania	Post-doctoral Researcher
Dale Greiner, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School	Professor
Maria Grompe, BS OHSU	Research Assistant
Markus Grompe, M.D. Oregon Health & Science University	Professor/Director
Stefanie Gross
Guoqiang Gu, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Associate Professor
Tingxia Guo
Shuangli Guo, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Research Fellow
Elin Gyllenbaeck
Jacob Hald, Ph.D. Hagedorn Research Institute	Senior scientist
Michael Hale, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	Research Scientist
Yan Hang, PhD Stanford University	Postdoctoral Fellow
Manami Hara, D.D.S., Ph.D. The University of Chicago	Assistant Professor
David Harlan, MD University of Massachusetts	Co-Director
Jin He
Matthias Hebrok, PhD University of California, San Francisco	Principal Investigator
Harry Heimberg, Ph.D. Vrije Universiteit Brussels	Investigator
Kathryn Henley, BS Vanderbilt University	Graduate student
Pedro Herrera, Ph.D. University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine	Professor
Roger Higdon, PhD Seattle Childrens Research Institute	Senior Staff Biostatistician
Barbara Hill Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Administrative Assistant
Susan Hipkens, M.S. Vanderbilt University	Senior Research Specialist
Chinh Hoang, Ph.D UT southwestern medical center	Postdoc
Hans Hohmeier, M.D., Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center	Assistant Professor
Audrey Holtzinger, Ph.D. McEwen centre for regenerative medicine	Postdoctoral Fellow
Vishnu Hosur
Michael Housley, Ph.D. UCSF	Postdoc
Jonathan Howell Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Medical Center	Assistant Professor
Sinisa Hrvatin, B.A. Harvard University	Student
Ruiying Hu Vanderbilt University	Research Assistant II
Chen Huang, MS Vanderbilt University	Graduate Student
Chad Hunter, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Postdoctoral Fellow
Signe Ingvarsen, Ph.D. Novo Nordisk A/S	Post Doc
Wei Jiang, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School & Boston Children''s Hospital	Research Fellow
Diva Jonatan
Klaus Kaestner, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Professor
Kelly Kaihara, Ph.D. University of California - San Francisco	Postdoctoral Fellow
Vasumathi Kameswaran, M.S, B.Tech University of Pennsylvania	Graduate student
Kimberly Kane, B.Sc. Vanderbilt University	Adminstrative Assistant
Jeffrey Karp, B.Eng., Ph.D. Brigham and Women''s Hospital	Associate Professor
April Kartikasari, Ph.D UCLA	Postdoctoral Scholar
Keiichi Katsumoto, Ph.D. University of Copenhagen	Postdoc
Mark Kay, M.D., Ph.D Stanford University	Professor, Head Program in Human Gene Therapy
Nora Kayton, B.S. Vanderbilt University	Graduate Student
Gordon Keller, Ph.D. McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine/University Health Network	Director/Senior Scientist
Yung Hae Kim, Ph.D. University of Copenhagen	Post-doc
Soyoung Kim
YoungJung Kim, A.B. Columbia University	MD/PhD Student
Seung Kim, M.D., Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine/HHMI	Professor, Department of Developmental Biology and Medicine (Oncology Division)
Eugene Kolker, Ph.D. Seattle Children''s Research Institute	Principal Investigator, Chief Data Officer
Gregory Ku, MD PhD UCSF	Adjunct Assistant Professor
Matt Kuhar
Phil Lacroute, Ph.D. Stanford University	Research Associate
Ryan Lauf Cincinnati Children''s Hospital	Research Assistant II
Cris Lawrence, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Senior Web Developer
Jonghyeob Lee, Ph.D. Stanford University	Postdoctoral Fellow
Rudy Leibel Columbia University
John Le Lay, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	PostDoctoral Fellow
Laurence Lemaire, Master of Biosciences University of Copenhagen	PhD student
Weida Li, Ph.D Harvard Stem Cell Institute	Postdoctoral Fellow
Yan Li
gaoyang liang
Oliver Lieven, Ph.D. The danish stem cell center Danstem	PostDoc
Muluye Liku, Ph.D.
Charles Lin, Ph.D Massachusetts General Hospital	Associate Professor
Jill Lindner, B.S., M.Ed Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Application Support Analyst
Hjalte List Larsen
Yuting Liu, PhD Boston Children''s Hospital & Harvard Medical School	Research Fellow
Jing Liu, BS Vanderbilt University	graduate student
Zarah Löf-Öhlin, M.Sc. DanStem - Copenhagen University	PhD student
Leslie Lublink Oregon Health & Science Univ.	Admin. Coordinator
Ray MacDonald, Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Professor
Hector Macias-Saldivar
Ole Madsen, Ph.D. Hagedorn Research Institute	Principal Investigator
Mark Magnuson, M.D. Vanderbilt University	Professor and Director
Melissa Mahoney, Ph.D. University of Colorado	Assistant Professor
Anant Mamidi, Ph.D The Danish Stem Cell Center (DanStem), University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Post-Doc
Elisabetta Manduchi, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Research Project Manager
Anastasia Mavropoulos, PhD University of California, San Francisco	Post-doctoral fellow
Kyle McCracken, B.S. Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Research Foundation	Graduate Student
Sean McGrath Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Research Foundation	Graduate Student
Brian McKenna, B.S. Vanderbilt University	Graduate Student
Doug Melton, Ph.D. Harvard / HHMI	Principal Investigator
Anna Method Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Research Foundation	Graduate Student
Stephen Miller, Ph.D. Northwestern University	Professor
Jeffrey Millman, Ph.D. Harvard University	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Oscar R. Miranda, Ph.D. Harvard-MIT (HST), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in BioMedical Engineering
Anna Moore, Ph.D. Masachusetts General Hospital	Associate Professor of Radiology
Ignasi Moran, - Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS	PhD student
Jorge Munura
Chris Newgard, Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center	Professor
Nikolay Ninov, Ph.D. UCSF	Postdoctoral Fellow (Canadian Diabetes Association)
M. Cristina Nostro, Ph.D. UHN	Scientist
Pia Nyeng, Ph.D. University of Copenhagen	Postdoctoral Fellow
Amit oberai, Ph.D. university of california, los angeles	postdoctoral scholar
Anna Osipovich, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Research Instructor
Felicia Pagliuca, PhD Harvard	Postdoctoral Fellow
Fong Cheng Pan, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Post doctoral fellow
Feroz Papa, M.D., Ph.D. University of California San Francisco	Associate Professor
Audrey Parent UCSF
Nisha Patel , M.S. University of California, San Diego	Graduate Student
Jody Peters, M.S. Vanderbilt University	Research Asst. III
Quinn Peterson, Ph.D. Harvard University	JDRF Postdoctoral Fellow
Neil Phillips
Joan Ponsà, Mc.Sc Imperial College London	PhD student
Alvin Powers, M.D. Vanderbilt University	Professor of Medicine
Christy Prawiro University of Copenhagen	PhD Student
Sapna Puri
Morten Rasch, Ph.D. Novo Nordisk A/S	Research Scientist
Nicolaj Rasmussen, Ph.D BCBC Antibody core	Research Scientist
Rami Rauch Stanford
Jeffrey Raum, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Research Fellow
Philippe Ravassard, PhD CNRS – UMR 7225	CNRS Group leader
Michael Ray, B.Sc. Vanderbilt University	Research Assistant III
Latasha Redmond
Bing Ren, Ph.D. University of California San Diego	Professor
Claude Rescan, Ph.D Hagedorn Research Institute	Senior Scientist
Sebastian Rieck, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Postdoctoral Fellow
Jose Rivera-Feliciano, Ph.D. Harvard University	Postdoctoral Fellow
Anthony Romer
Meritxell Rovira, PhD IDIBAPS	Postdoc
Holger Russ, Ph.D. UCSF	Postdoc
Tiziana Sanavia, Ph.D. University of Padova	Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Maike Sander, M.D. University of California at San Diego	Professor
Farida Sarangi, M.Sc. University Health Network	Research Associate
Sheryl Sato, Ph.D. NIDDK/NIH	Program Director
Karen Schachter, Ph.D Copenhagen University	Post-doctoral Fellow
David Scheel, MS University of California San Francisco	Specialist
Jonathan Schug, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Technical Director of PSOM NGSC and IDOM FGC
Donald Scott, PhD University of pittsburgh	Associate Professor
David Scoville, BS Vanderbilt University Medical center	Graduate Student
Henrik Semb, Ph.D Copenhagen University	Professor
David Serreze, BS, MS, PhD The Jackson Laboratory	Professor
Leonard Shultz, Ph.D. The Jackson Laboratory	Professor
Shrey Sindhwani , B.A.Sc Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology	Research Assistant
Ruth Singer, B.A Columbia University	Research Assistant
Phil Smith, Ph.D. NIDDK	Deputy Director
Julie Sneddon, Ph.D. Harvard University	Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael Snyder, Ph.D Stanford University	Professor and Chair of Genetics
Scott Soleimanpour, M.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Instructor
Robert Spitale
Didier Stainier, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research	Professor
Jennifer Stancill, B.S. Vanderbilt University	Graduate Student
Diana Stanescu, MD Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia/UPenn	Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow
Roland Stein, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	Professor
Andrew Stewart, M.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Director, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute; Professor of Medicine
Christian Stoeckert, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Research Professor
Doris Stoffers, M.D., Ph.D. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania	Professor
Philip Streeter, Ph.D. Oregon Health & Science University	Associate Professor
Takuya Sugiyama, M.D., Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine	Research Associate
Yen Sun, Ph.D Massachusetts General Hospital	Postdoctoral Fellow
James Surapisitchat, Ph.D. McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine/University Health Network	Postdoctoral Fellow
Lori Sussel, Ph.D. Columbia University	Associate Professor
Galvin Swift, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Cent.	Associate Professor
Karen Takane, PhD University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	Research Associate
Brandon Taylor, B.Sc. UC San Diego	Graduate Student
Jeffery Tessem, Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center	Post-doctoral fellow
Kristy Thompson
Fabrizio Thorel, Ph.D. University of Geneva Medical School	Postdoc fellow
Amita Tiyaboonchai, B.Sc. Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia	Graduate Student
Sharona Tornovsky-Babaey, MSc. Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital	Lab Technician
Benedikte Traasdahl University of Copenhagen	Laboratory technician
Pamela Uttz, -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Administrative Assistant
Charlotte Vajhoj Novo Nordisk	Lab.Technician
Joris van Arensbergen genomic programming of beta-cells	researcher
Dennis Van Hoof, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco	Postdoc
Rupangi Vasavada, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Professor
Sasidhar Vemula, Ph.D Indiana University School of medicine	Assistant Research Professor
Nicholas Vinckier, B.S. University of California, San Diego	Graduate Student
Allen Wang, Ph.D. University of California San Diego	Post doctoral researcher
Juehu Wang
grace wei
James Wells, PhD Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Medical Center	Associate Professor
Karl Willert, Ph.D University of California, San Diego	Assistant Professor
Spencer Willet, B.Sc. Vanderbilt University	Graduate Student
Curtis Woodford, B.A.Sc. University of Toronto	Graduate Student
Hannah Worchel, B.S. in Biology Vanderbilt University	Graduate Student
Matthew Wortham, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego	Postdoctoral Scholar
Chris Wright, D. Phil. Vanderbilt University	Professor/Director
Ruiyu Xie, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego	postdoc fellow
Dan Xie, Ph.D Stanford University	Postdoc
Yanwen Xu vanderbilt university
Shouhong Xuan, Ph.D. Columbia Univ. Medical Center	Postdoc.
Katherine Yang
Yu-Ping Yang, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Postdoctoral Fellow
Peng Yi, Ph.D. Harvard Univeristy	Postdoc Fellow
Ting Yin, M.Sc. University of Toronto	Research technician
Lei Ying, Ph.D., M.D CHOP	Research Associate
Mervin Yoder, M.D. Indiana University	Professor
Feng Yue, Ph.D. Ludwig Institue for Cancer Research, UCSD school of Medicine	postdoc fellow
Peter Zandstra, PhD University of Toronto	Professor
Yi Zhang, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School & Boston Children''s Hospital	Fred Rosen Professor, Dept. Genetics & Dept. of Pediatrics; HHMI Investigator
Jia Zhang, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Postdoc
YongPing Zhong
Qiao Zhou, Ph.D. Harvard University	Assistant Professor
Adrian Zumsteg