Archives: GWA Team Profiles

Dr. Kate MacDonald is a cell biologist and children’s author, conducting her postdoctoral research fellowship in the Cimprich lab at Stanford. She holds a PhD in Medical Biophysics from the…

Dr. Brittany Bush is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Giardino Lab) investigating sex differences in neurocircuitry involved in sleep regulation, stress response, and reward.

Dr. Chris McGinnis is a postdoctoral fellow Dr. Satpathy’s lab studying how tumors use the immune system to metastasize – i.e., spread to distant organ sites. Chris earned his PhD…

Dr. Antonio Tomasso is postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Medicine – Department of Surgery. He is a recipient of the NWO/Dutch Research Council Rubicon grant and the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie…

Dr. Chelse Spinner is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Suzan Carmichael (Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine), with the Stanford Center for Promoting Improvement in Hemorrhage-related Severe…

Dr. Mekhala Dissanayake is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics. She received her PhD in Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill. As a public health researcher, her…

Dr. Cameron Bader is a postdoctoral scholar and immunologist in the Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation at Stanford University. His graduate studies investigated the role of the innate immune…

Dr. Brendan Ball is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Stanford University Department of Pathology, and his research involves systems biology and computational approaches to understand how cancer cells spread to…

Sophia Manukian is a rising third year in the Biochemistry program. She joined the Dixon lab where she is researching the mechanism behind a novel form of non-apoptotic cell death. Sophia…