People

Principal Investigator

Naoki Yamanaka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
04/2014 -

Honors
2009 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
2012 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)
2017 Pew Biomedical Scholar
2018 NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2)

Our Team

Lewis Hun
Postdoc
07/2018 -

Daiki Fujinaga
Postdoc
03/2020 -

Mikkal Blick
Graduate Student
04/2015 -

Hannah Chu
Graduate Student
07/2019 -

Riyan Bittar
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
09/2015 -

Amritbir Kaur
Lab Assistant
09/2019 -

Gabriella Moussa
Undergraduate
02/2019 -

Corinne Karalun
Undergraduate
07/2019 -

Previous Members

Yuya Ohhara
Postdoc
09/2014 - 09/2015
(Left the lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Shizuoka, Japan)

Crystal Pontrello
Assistant Project Scientist
07/2016 - 08/2016
(Left as an Assistant Project Scientist in another lab at UC Riverside)

Roilea Maxson
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
01/2017 - 09/2018
(Left the lab as a technician and then as a graduate student at UC Davis)

Vivian Phan
Undergraduate
11/2018 - 05/2019

Ruoying Lu
Graduate Student
10/2014 - 09/2019
(Successfully defended her thesis and left for a biotech company)

Lisa Faraee
Undergraduate / Lab Assistant
07/2017 - 10/2019

Cebrina Nolan
Lab Assistant
07/2019 - 12/2019
(Left the lab as a Fulbright Scholar in Brisbane, Australia)

Naoki Okamoto
Assistant Project Scientist
09/2015 - 03/2020
(Left the lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan)