People
Principal Investigators

Tippi MacKenzie, MD
Professor of Surgery
Benioff UCSF Professor of Children’s Health
Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF
Co-Director, Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine
John G. Bowes Distinguished Professor of Stem Cell and Tissue Biology
Lab Members

Beltrán Borges, MD
Research Fellow

Emma Canepa, MS, CCRP
Program Manager

Marco Cordero
Visiting Graduate Student

Akos Herzeg, MD, PhD, MBA
Research Fellow

Tony Lum, MD
Research Fellow

Fareha Moulana Zada
Staff Research Associate
Lab Manager

Ernesto Rojas
M.D./Ph.D. Candidate

Roshani Sinha, PhD
Full Specialist

Kaylee Wedderburn-Pugh
M.D./Ph.D. Candidate

Atesh Worthington, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lab Alumni
- Maria Clarke, B.S., staff research associate
- Antonia Varthaliti, M.D., post-doctoral fellow
- Marta Wegorzewska, graduate student
- Ninnia Lescano, staff research associate
- Chris Derdarian, post-doctoral fellow
- Shivika Trivedi, medical student
- Catherine Tsai, medical student
- Greg Emmanuel, medical student
- Erin Jarvis, staff research associate
- Eisha Zaid, medical student
- Amar Nijagal, post-doctoral fellow
- Tom Le, staff research associate
- Geoanna Bautista, graduate student
- Andrew Tucker, staff research associate
- Michela Frascoli, post-doctoral fellow
- Mirijam Lohuis, graduate student
- Shannon Fleck, graduate student
- Giovanna Bautista, medical student
- Russell Witt, post-doctoral fellow
- Wais Moradi, staff research associate
- Emily Kreger, post-doctoral fellow
- Carlo Eikani, staff research associate
- Bowen Wang, staff research associate
- Sally Mokhtari, post-doctoral fellow
- Esther Smeets, post-doctoral fellow
- Cerine Jeanty, post-doctoral fellow
- Quoc-Hung “Key” Nguyen, post-doctoral fellow
- Charmin King, graduate student
- Linda Nguyen, staff research associate
- Chris Baker, staff research associate
- Grace Schwartz, staff research associate