San Diego Nathan Shock Center

Affiliate Members

Salk Institute for Biological Studies - San Diego Nathan Shock Center - Affiliate Members

Affiliate Members


Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Nicola Allen
Associate Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory

Kenta Asahina
Associate Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair in Neurobiology

Lara Labarta Bajo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Allen Lab
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory

Shrek Chalasani
Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation Chair

Joseph Ecker
Professor
Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
Director, Genomic Analysis Laboratory
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Salk International Council Chair in Genetics

Ronald Evans
Professor and Director
Gene Expression Laboratory
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology

Daniel Hollern
Assistant Professor
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Frederick B. Rentschler Developmental Chair

Tony Hunter
American Cancer Society Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Renato Dulbecco Chair

Susan Kaech
Professor and Director
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
NOMIS Chair

Pallav Kosuri
Assistant Professor
Integrative Biology Laboratory
Hearst Foundation Developmental Chair

Kuo-Fen Lee​
Professor
Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology
Helen McLoraine Chair in Molecular Neurobiology

Pam Maher
Research Professor
Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory

Satchidananda Panda
Professor
Rita and Richard Atkinson Chair
Regulatory Biology Laboratory

John Reynolds
Professor
Systems Neurobiology Laboratory
Fiona and Sanjay Jha Chair in Neuroscience

Reuben Shaw
Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
William R. Brody Chair

Christina Towers
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Richard Heyman and Anne Daigle Endowed Developmental Chair

Geoff Wahl
Professor
Gene Expression Laboratory

Ye Zheng
Professor
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Becky and Ralph S. O'Connor Chair


University of California San Diego

Nicole Coufal
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Lisa Eyler
Professor, UCSD Department of Psychiatry
Co-director of the Neuroimaging Unit of the San Diego VA Mental Illness, Research and Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

Lisa Eyler
Professor, UCSD Department of Psychiatry
Co-director of the Neuroimaging Unit of the San Diego VA Mental Illness, Research and Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

Howard Feldman
Professor, Department of Neurosciences
Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study
Epstein Family Chancellor’s Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Dean, Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurodegenerative Research

Gen-Sheng Feng
Professor of Pathology, School of Medicine
Professor of Molecular Biology, Division of Biological Sciences

Christopher Glass
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor of Medicine

Shiri Gur-Cohen
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine

Asa Gustafson
Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

Nan Hao
Associate Professor, Molecular Biology

Chi Hua-Chen
Associate Professor, Radiology

Paul Insell
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine

Dilip Jeste
Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care
Estelle and Edgar Levi Memorial Chair in Aging
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences
Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
Director, UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging
Co-Director, IBM-UCSD Artificial Intelligence Center for Healthy Living

Gargi Mahapatra
Project Scientist, Molina Lab

Uri Manor
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
School of Biological Sciences

Maria Marquine
Associate Professor, Medicine

Linda McEvoy
Professor, Co-director of the Women’s Health Center of Excellence and Associate Director of the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Center for Life Course Research

Jerome Mertens
Associate Professor, Neurosciences

William Mobley
Professor, Neurosciences

Amy Pasquinelli
Professor, Molecular Biology

Bing Ren
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Sonia Vazquez Sanchez
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cleveland Lab
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Simon Schenk
Professor, Orthopedic Surgery

Aladdin H. Shadyab
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Robert A.J. Signer
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, Moores Cancer Center

Samuel Ward
Vice Chairman, Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery
Professor, Radiology

Daniel Whittaker
Postdoctoral Fellow, Desplats Lab
Department of Neurosciences

Jerry Yang
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Science and Engineering


Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Rolf Bodmer
Director
Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research
Professor
Development, Aging and Regeneration Program

Maria Clara Guida
Staff Scientist

Timothy Huang
Assistant Professor
Degenerative Diseases Program
Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research

Caroline Kumsta
Assistant Professor
Development, Aging and Regeneration Program
Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research

Chiara Nicoletti
Postdoctoral Fellow, Puri Lab

Karen Ocorr
Assistant Professor
Development, Aging and Regeneration Program
Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research

Xiao Tian
Assistant Professor
Degenerative Diseases Program
Center for Geriatric Disorders and Aging Research

Yu Xin (Will) Wang
Assistant Professor
Development, Aging and Regeneration Program
Center for Genetic Disorders and Aging Research

Carl Ware
Director
Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Center
Professor
Immunity and Pathogenesis Program
Director, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

Shanshan Yin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Adams Lab


Brown University

Nicola Neretti
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Associate Director for the Center on the Biology of Aging


Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Meng Wang
Senior Group Leader


Mayo Clinic

Darren J Baker
Chair, Division of Pediatric Research Laboratories, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor of Pediatrics
Co-Director of Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging at Mayo Clinic

Jörg Goronzy
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Sciences
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
Stanford University School of Medicine

Nathan K. LeBrasseur
Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Director, Robert & Arlene Kogod Center on Aging
Co-Director, Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research
Scientific Director, Office of Translation to Practice

Luis Prieto
Postdoctoral Fellow, Baker Lab

Ines Sturmlechner
Postdoctoral Fellow, Goronzy Lab

Xu Zhang
Assistant Professor


Merrimack College

Leena Bharath
Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Public Health


National Institute on Aging

Rafael de Cabo
Senior Investigator and
Chief of the Translational Gerontology Branch


Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Ana Chucair-Elliott
Associate Staff Scientist, Freeman Lab

Willard “Bill” Freeman
Professor, Genes & Human Disease Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Research Career Scientist, Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Sarah Orcañas
Assistant Professor, Genes & Human Disease Research Program


Princeton University

Laith Samarah
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rabinowitz Lab


San Diego Biomedical Research Institute

Bruno Conti
Professor
Aging and Age Associated Diseases


The Ohio State University

Maria Mihaylova
Assistant Professor
Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology


The Scripps Research Institute

Vanessa Delcroix
Postdoctoral Associate, Makarenkova Lab
Department of Molecular Medicine

Ilia Droujinine
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Medicine

Sandra Encalada
Arlene and Arnold Goldstein Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Department of Molecular Medicine
Dorris Neuroscience Investigator

Xin Jin
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience

Michael Petrascheck
Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Supriya Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Dorris Neuroscience Center

R. Luke Wiseman
Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

John Yates
Ernest W. Hahn Professor
Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology


University of California Berkeley

Peter Sudmant
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology


University of California San Francisco

Leanne Jones
Director, Bakar Aging Research Institute
Professor, Anatomy and Medicine/Geriatrics


University of Connecticut Health

Lichao Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Xu Lab

Ming Xu
Assistant Professor, UConn Center on Aging
Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences


University of Pittsburgh

Andrey Parkhitko
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism


University of Rochester

Vera Gorbunova
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology and Medicine
Co-Director, Rochester Aging Research Center


University of Southern California

Bérénice Benayoun
Associate Professor of Gerontology, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine


University of Wisconsin

Adam Konopka
Assistant Professor, Geriatrics and Gerontology


Yale University

Dibyadeep Datta
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry