Group Members

Staff

Guy Salvesen

Professor
B.Sc. University of London
Ph.D. Cambridge University

Biography: Guy Salvesen earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University in 1981. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Georgia, Strangeways Laboratory and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Medical Research Professor at Duke University, and was recruited to Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) in 1996. He is Dean of the Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences of SBP and holds an Adjunct Professorship in Molecular Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. He is on the editorial board of several journals and Co-founder of the International Proteolysis Society.

Scott Snipas

Lab Manager
B.Sc. Appalachian State University

Biography: Scott Snipas earned his bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in photography from Appalachian State University in 1991. After graduating he was hired as a lab technician for Dr. Guy Salvesen at Duke University. After five years with Dr. Salvesen at Duke, Scott relocated to SBP in 1996. He holds the title of Laboratory Coordinator in Professor Salvesen’s Laboratory. He is responsible for the orderly running of the lab, some interesting top secret research projects, and is completely indispensable.

Graduate Students

Betsaida Bibo Verdugo
Graduate Student
M.Sc. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste

Biography: Betsy is known for her proficiency with observation, intuition, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic. While studying caspase activation she has learned that once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth (or at least this week's truth). Trained by the celebrated Jedi Twins ObeConor and ObeO’Don, Betsy realized early on that the use of CRISPR/Cas9 can unleash the dark side. She will lead the fight against Genome Editing, and return the Galaxy to the true path of hard core biochemistry.

Former Lab Members

Postdocs

Anne Hempel
Present Position: Australia

Marcin Poreba
Present Position: Assistant Professor Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Paulina Kasperkiewicz
Present Position: Assistant Professor Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Mario Navarro
Present Position: Application Scientist at NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.

 Andrea D'Osualdo
Present Position: Roche

Bram van Raam
Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at BioMed X Innovation Center

Mari Enoksson Rydman
Present Position: Novo Nordisk

Gidi Shani
Present Position: unknown - where are you Gidi?

Cristina Pop
Present Position: Staff Scientist Verenium

Jean-Bernard Denault
Present Position: Associate Professor University of Sherbrooke

Marcin Drag
Present Position: Professor, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Eric Wildfang
Present Position: Toxicologist Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

Jowita Mikolajczyk
Present Position: Senior Specialist at Novartis Vaccines

Fiona Scott
Present Position: Director, Research, Neurocrine Biosciences

Ciara Ryan Kennedy
Present Position: Vice President, Head of Cholestatic Liver Disease, Shire Pharmaceuticals

Martin Renatus
Present Position: Senior Scientist I, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland

Veronika Stoka
Present Position: Department of Knowledge Technolgies, Jozef Stefan Institute

Henning Stennicke
Present Position: Corporate Project Vice President, Heamophilia, Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark

Paula Scarborough Juras
Present Position: Project Officer, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group..

Tomoko Komiyama
Passed away – we miss you Tomoko

Doctoral Students

Kararzyna Groborz
Present Position: Graduate Student in the lab of Marcin Drag at Wroclaw University of Technology

Amir Razai
Present Position: Inhibrx

Monica Gonzalez Ramirez
Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of JoAnn Trejo at UCSD

Janna Hachmann
Present Position: Consultant with VDI/VDE-IT GmbH

Goon Ho Park
Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Edward Koo at UCSD

Domenico Fasci
Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Albert Heck's Lab

Miklos Bekes
Present Position: Scientist,Neurix Inc.

Katherine Wachmann
Present Position: Medical Lead - CAR-T cell therapy, Novartis Oncology

John Timmer
Present Position: Research Investigator - Group Leader, Inhibrx

Brendan Eckelman
Present Position: Founder and Vice President of Biotherapeutics, Inhibrx

Kelly Boatright Sexton
Present Position: Associate Vice President for Research, University of Michigan

Stefan Riedl
Present Position:

Hwain Shin
Present Position: Reg CMC Manager at Novartis Pharma AG

Qiao Zhou
Present Position: Professor and Vice Chair, Pathology Department, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Long Quan
Present Position: Dermatology Surgeon, Carolinas Dermatology Group, P.A.

Alan Mast
Present Position: Senior Investigator, Blood Center of Wisconsin

Interns

Sumanth Gurram is a junior at Westview High School who has been working with the lab on a biophysics cancer project. He and his fellow researcher David Wu are examining the effects of low-frequency magnetic field exposure on nitric oxide synthases in various cancer and macrophages cell lines. The goal of the project is to increase nitric oxide and reactive nitrogen species concentrations to negatively affect cancer cell viability.