Current and Recent Alumni
Current and Recent PhD Graduates
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Rozeta Avetisyan, PhD
Trainee with Karen Reue
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Lara Bideyan, PhD
Former trainee with Peter Tontonoz (2022)
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Anthony Jones, PhD
Graduate trainee with Ajit Divakaruni
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Jennifer Ngo, PhD
Graduate trainee with Orian Shirihai – postdoctoral fellow
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Norma Sandoval, PhD
Trainee in the Correa Laboratory
Rising Fellows
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Laura Cortes, PhD
Correa Laboratory
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Kelsey Jarret, PhD
Tarling Laboratory
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Kevin Qian, MD, PhD
Tontonoz Laboratory – MSTP Fellow
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Matthew Romero, PhD
Hevener & Pyle Laboratories
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Carrie Wiese, PhD
Reue Laboratory
Fellows to Faculty
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Melissa Lechner, MD, PhD
Former Endocrine Fellow STAR (2018)
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Tara TeSlaa, PhD
Former graduate trainee with Mike Teitell (2017)
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Claudio Villanueva, PhD
Former postdoctoral trainee with Peter Tontonoz (2012)
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Xia Yang, PhD
Former postdoctoral trainee with Jake Lusis (2006)
![Zhenqi Zhou, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/square_003000_120x120/public/images/50/screenshot-2023-08-14-94359-am.png?f=5baf10c0&itok=mVHuSBe7)
Zhenqi Zhou, PhD
Former postdoctoral trainee with Andrea Hevener (2018)
Featured UCLA STAR Program Alumni
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Mark Goodarzi, MD, PhD
Director of Division of Endocrinology at Cedars-Sinai