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Organization


Chief

Paul S. Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D.

Office of the Chief Staff

Kathy Calzone, Senior Research Assistant
Eileen Castiglia, Program Support Assistant
Nancy K. Dossa Sossavi, Program Support Assistant
Deborah Macdonald, Clinical Support Assistant (Contr)
Douglas O'Neal, Laboratory Technician (Contr)
John Castle Raley, M.S., Senior Research Assistant (Contr)
Tatyana Yulyevna Smirnova, Research Assistant (Contr)
Beverly Stalker, Secretary
Julie Stewart, Program Assistant
Mai T. Tran, Program Assistant
Daniel Wattendorf, Special Volunteer

Investigators

Paul S. Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D., Branch Chief
Head, Molecular Genetics Section

Research Team:
• Ogan D. Abaan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA)
Sean R. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Scientist
• Violet Maria Fernandes, Special Volunteer
• Yevgeniy Gindin, M.S., Predoctoral Fellow
• Arthur A. Glatfelter, M.S., Research Biologist
Yuan Jiang, M.D., Staff Scientist
• ChyauYueh Christopher Lau, Research Fellow
• John E. Lueders, Research Biologist
• Mark Mackiewicz, Ph.D., Research Biologist
• So Young Moon, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Robert L. Walker, B.S., Research Biologist
• Joshua Waterfall, Ph.D., Research Fellow
• Fan Yang, Ph.D., Research Biologist
Hongen Henry Zhang, Ph.D., Staff Scientist
• Yuelin (Jack) Zhu, M.D., M.S., Research Biologist
Peter D. Aplan, M.D., Senior Investigator
Head, Leukemia Biology Section

Research Team:
• Sarah Beachy, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA)
• Yang-Jo Chung, Ph.D., Research Fellow
• Liat Goldberg-cooks, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Sheryl Gough, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Masahiro Onozawa, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Zhenhua Zhang, Research Biologist
Munira A. Basrai, Ph.D., Senior Investigator
Head, Yeast Genome Stability Section

Research Team:
• Wei-Chun Au, Ph.D., Research Biologist
• Lars Boeckmann, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• John Choy, Ph.D., Research Fellow
• Sultan Ciftci, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Anthony R. Dawson, Postbaccalaureate Fellow
• Dilip A Jain, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Prashant Mishra, Ph.D., Research Fellow
Kevin Gardner, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Investigator
Head, Transcription Regulation Section

Research Team:
Jung Shin Byun, Ph.D., Staff Scientist
Jamaine S.C. Davis, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA)
• Lisa G. Eley, M.S., Research Biologist
• Natnael Debela Kenea, Special Volunteer
• Mofiyinfoluwa A Obadina, Postbaccalaureate Fellow
• Jesse Quintero, B.S., Research Biologist
• Clay Torao Wakano, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA)
• Madeline Mei Fong Wong, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
W. Michael Kuehl, M.D., Senior Investigator
Head, Molecular Pathogenesis of Myeloma Section

Research Team:
• Leslie Brents, M.S., Research Biologist
• WeiDong Chen, M.D., Research Biologist
• Yulia Demchenko, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Gina Kim, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Ashish Lal, Ph.D., Investigator
Head, Regulatory RNAs and Cancer Section

Research Team:
• Toshifumi Hara, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Matthew Fletcher Jones, Predoctoral Fellow
• Xiao Ling Li, M.D., Ph.D., Research Biologist
• Murugan Subramanian, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
Thomas Ried, M.D., Senior Investigator
Head, Cancer Genomics Section

Research Team:
• Shehla K Arastu, Special Volunteer
• Amanda Bradley, Postbaccalaureate Fellow
• Jordi Camps, Ph.D., Special Volunteer
• Eric Cardin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting)
• Buddy Chen, B.S., Information Technology Specialist
• Joseph Cheng, Senior Data Manager (Contr)
• Timo Gaiser, M.D., Special Volunteer
Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad, Ph.D., Staff Scientist
• Yue Hu, Ph.D., Research Fellow
• Turid Knutsen, Senior Research Assistant (Contr)
• Nicole McNeil, M.S., Research Biologist
• Hesed Padilla-Nash, Ph.D., Senior Research Assistant
• Diana (Yueh Hwa) Tong, Research Specialist (Contr)
• Danny Wangsa, Photographer
• Darawalee Wangsa, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA)
• Hua Claire Zou, Ph.D., Guest Researcher

Senior Scientists

Natasha J. Caplen, Ph.D., Senior Scientist
Head, Gene Silencing Section

Research Team:
• Sirisha Chakka, Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Konrad Huppi, Ph.D., Staff Scientist
• Tamara L. Jones, B.S., Research Biologist
• Suntae Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA)

Staff Clinicians

J. Keith Killian, M.D., Ph.D.

Staff Scientists

Sven Bilke, Ph.D.
Jung Shin Byun, Ph.D.
Liang Cao, Ph.D.
Head, Molecular Targets Core

Research Team:
• Zhigang Kang, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Contr)
• Yunkai Yu, Laboratory Technician (Contr)
Sean R. Davis, M.D., Ph.D.
Molecular Genetics Section
Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad, Ph.D.
Cancer Genomics Section
Konrad Huppi, Ph.D.
Gene Silencing Section
Yuan Jiang, M.D.
Molecular Genetics Section
Anna V. Roschke, Ph.D.
Head, Molecular Cytogenetics Core

Research Team:
• Ken Nakahara, Research Biologist
• Ester Rozenblum, Special Volunteer
Hongen Henry Zhang, Ph.D.

Other Groups and Programs


Molecular Profiling Core
Daniel C. Edelman, Ph.D., Head
Sven Bilke, Ph.D., Staff Scientist
Allison Gomez, Postbaccalaureate Fellow
J. Keith Killian, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Clinician
Vy Ma, Program Analyst (Contr)
Natalia Noyes, Special Volunteer
David Petersen, Research Biologist
Marbin Pineda, Research Biologist
Parvathy Retnakumar, Special Volunteer
Holly S. Stevenson, Ph.D., Research Biologist
Jennifer L. Walling, M.S., Research Biologist
Yonghong Wang, Ph.D., Research Biologist
Sequencing Core
Paul S. Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D., Head
Yuliya Kriga, Research Assistant (Contr)
Yelena Levin, Research Assistant (Contr)
Shashikala Ratnayake, Bioinformatics Specialist (Contr)
Jyoti Shetty, Senior Research Assistant (Contr)
Keyur S. Talsania, Bioinformatics Specialist (Contr)
Bao Tran, Associate Director (Contr.)
Yongmei Zhao, Bioinformatics Specialist (Contr)