Faculty in the UCLA Intercampus Medical Genetics Training Program are responsible for mentorship and education of trainees. Most accept trainees into their laboratories. Associate Program Faculty may act as mentors with approval of the Executive Committee.
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
Daniel H. Cohn, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics & Human Genetics, UCLA
Research Interest: skeletal dysplasias
Patricia I. Dickson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA
Research Interest: mucopolysaccharidosis
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
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
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
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
Miklos Peterfy, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai
Research Interest: obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia
Leslie J. Raffel, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai
Research Interest: genetics of common disease
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
Rhona Schreck, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai
Research Interest: cytogenetics
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
Kent Taylor, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA
Research Interest: genotyping and bioinformatics
S. Lawrence Zipursky, PhD
Professor of Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Research Interest: drosophila