Program Faculty

Jose E. Abdenur, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, UC Irvine
Research Interest: inborn errors of metabolism, small molecules

Rita Cantor, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA
Research Interest: statistical genetics

Stephen Cederbaum, MD
Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics, UCLA
Research Interest: urea cycle disorders

Richard Chang, MD
 Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Irvine

Tsui-Fen Chou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA

Daniel H. Cohn, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics & Human Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: skeletal dysplasias

Josh Deignan, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

Celeste C. Eno, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai

Guoping Fan, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Genetics, UCLA

Richard A. Gatti, PhD
Professor of Human Genetics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA
Research Interest: DNA repair disorders

Daniel Geschwind, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Research Interest: neurogenetics, autism

Mark Goodarzi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCLA
Research Interest: disorders of insulin resistance

Ora Gordon, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai
Research Interest: cancer

Michael B. Gorin, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology and Human Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: hereditary retinal disorders

John Graham, Jr., MD, ScD
Professor of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai
Research Interest: dysmorphology

Wayne Grody, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics & Human Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: molecular diagnostic testing

Xiuqing Guo, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA
Research Interest: mathematical genetics

Oliver Hankinson, PhD
Professor of Pathology, UCLA
Research Interest: molecular toxicology and cancer

Sung Hae (Sue) Kang, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

Deborah Krakow, MD
Associate Professor of Human Genetics & Obstetrics & Gynecology, UCLA
Research Interest: skeletal dysplasias

Kenneth Lange, PhD
Professor of Biomathematics & Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: mathematical modeling

Thomas D. Lee, MD, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

Henry J. Lin, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA
Research Interest: intestinal cancer

Gerry Lipshutz, MD, DDS
Associate Professor of Surg-Liver & Pancreas Transplantation, UCLA
Research Interest: gene therapy and cell transplantaion, arginase deficiency

Aldons (Jake) Lusis, PhD
Professor of Human Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease

Julian Martinez, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Human Genetics, UCLA

Stanley F. Nelson, MD
Professor of Human Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: whole genome sequencing and cancer genome sequencing

Elizabeth Neufeld, PhD
Emerita Professor of Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Research Interest: mucopolysaccharidosis

Christina Palmer, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Human Genetics, UCLA

Nagesh Rao, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA
Research Interest: cytogenetics

Karen Reue, PhD
Professor of Human Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: lipid and glucose metabolism

Jerome I. Rotter, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics & Human Genetics, Harbor-UCLA
Research Interest: genetics of common disease

Bianca Russell, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA

Sulagna C. Saitta, MD, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor, Clinical Genetics and Genomics, Pediatrics , UCLA

Pedro A. Sanchez, MD
Professor of Medical Genetics and Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai

Rhona Schreck, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai
Research Interest: cytogenetics

T. Niroshi Senaratne, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

Janet Sinsheimer, PhD
Professor of Human Genetics, Biomathematics and Biostatistics, UCLA
Research Interest: genetics of evolution

Susan Smalley, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Research Interest: ADHD, autism

Rebecca Stockton, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA

Kent Taylor, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA
Research Interest: genotyping and bioinformatics

Raymond Y. Wang, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Irvine

Derek A. Wong, MD
Program Director, Medical Genetics Residency, UCLA Program Director, Combined Pediatrics/Medical Genetics Residency

Liying Zhang, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA
Director, Advanced Molecular Diagnostics Service
Research Interest: Molecular Pathology, Clinical Molecular Genetics, Cancer Genetics

S. Lawrence Zipursky, PhD
Professor of Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Research Interest: drosophila