Former Trainees

Many of the RPE Laboratory’s prior postdoctoral researchers have gone on to independent research positions. Below is a list of some past lab members:

Julian Esteve-Rudd, PhD 
Laboratory Head 
Ophthalmology 
Bayer Healthcare 
Wuppertal, Germany

Vanda Lopes, PhD
Assistant Project Scientist
Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA

Carrie Louie, PhD
Associate Director
Clinical Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory
City of Hope
Duarte, CA

Maren Engelhardt, PhD
Group Leader
Institute of Neuroanatomy
Heidelberg University
Germany

Daniel Gibbs, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosciences 
UCSD School of Medicine
La Jolla, CA

Conchi Lillo, PhD
Associate Professor 
Instituto de Neurociencias de Castilla y León 
Salamanca, Spain

Sassan Azarian, PhD 
Senior Principal Scientist 
ASOthera Pharmaceuticals
Bedford, MA

Xinran Liu, PhD
Director, Electron Microsopy Center
Research Scientist, Department of Cell Biology
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Robert Nickells, PhD 
Professor 
University of Wisconsin 
Madison, WI 

Kentaro Arikawa, PhD 
Dean, School of Advanced Sciences 
Sokendai National University 
Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan