Our People
Principal Investigators

Robert Raffai, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Research Scientist
Northern California Institute for Research and Education, Inc.(NICRE)
San Francisco VA Health Care System
Surgical Residents

Thomas Sorrentino, MD
Resident (PGY-4)
General Surgery
Research Assistants

Alex Gao, BS
Research Assistant

Martin Ng, BA, BS
Research Assistant

Akiko Searles, BS
Research Assistant
Graduate Students

Reuben A. Hogan
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
University of California, San Francisco
Alumni

Andrew Birkeland, MD
Associate Professor Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, UC Davis, CA

Laura Bouchareychas, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Ching, PharmD
Senior Medical Information Specialist at Eversana, CA

Allen Chung, BA
Graduate Student in Nutritional Sciences, Columbia University, NY

Phat Duong, MD
Research Associate

Delphine Eberle, PhD
Assistant Professor
Lille University of Science and Technology

Nathalie Gaudreault, PhD
Director for Microscopy, Allen Institute for Cell Science

Michael J. Gomes
Associate Research Scientist

Matthew Harms, PhD
Director for Obesity Business Development at Amgen

Justin Hong, PhD
Scientist, Drug Delivery & Product integration, Bristol Myers Squib, NJ

Sunil Joshi, MD, PhD
Hematology/Oncology Resident
Stanford University Medical Center, CA

Roy Kim, PhD
Staff Scientist at Mitokinin Inc. San Francisco

Nikit Kumar, PhD
Scientist at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

Stanley Fu Sang Luk, PharmD
Hospital Pharmacist, Adventist Health, St-Helena, CA

N. Soledad Mochel, PhD
Assistant Professor
UC San Diego

Victor Olivas, BA
Associate Specialist
UCSF

Tuan Anh Phu, BS
Research Assistant

Jessica Posada, MD
Staff Pathologist
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Kyle Stephens, MD
Family Practice Medicine
Ventura, California

Ngan (Cece) Vu, BS
Third year medical student
Cork University School of Medicine, Ireland

David Wong, PharmD
Staff Pharmacist at Dignity Health, CA