“If there’s a Will, there’s a way” -Lab motto
william greenleaf, Phd
Principal Investigator (PI)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, Harvard University
PhD Applied Physics, Stanford University
Dip Computer Science, Cambridge University, UK
wjg@stanford.edu
“If there’s a Will, there’s a way.”
Administrative Assistant: Soon il Higashino (sijh@stanford.edu)
Postdoctoral Scholars
marinovg@stanford.edu
Georgi Marinov
Postdoctoral Researcher, joint: Anshul Kundaje
PhD, California Institute of Technology
BS in Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ghh@stanford.edu
Guanhua He
Postdoctoral Researcher, Berry Fellow
PhD in Molecular Biology, Princeton University
B.S. in Biological Sciences, Tsinghua University
gpw@stanford.edu
Guiping Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD in Chemistry, Harvard University
BS in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
mattkuk@stanford.edu
Matt Kukurugya
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
MS in Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
BS in Biochemistry, DePauw University
khorms@stanford.edu
Matvei Khoroshkin
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD in Bioinformatics, University of California San Francisco
PhD in Computational Biology, Institute for Information Transmission Problems
BS/MS in Biochemistry, Moscow State University
klemm@stanford.edu
Sandy Klemm
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPhil in Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge
sgorji@stanford.edu
Sayeh Gorjifard
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD in Genome Sciences; University of Washington
MS in Biotechnology (Focus: Molecular Targets and Drug Discovery), Johns Hopkins University
BA in Chemistry and Studio Art, Dartmouth College
sjessa@stanford.edu
Selin Jessa
Postdoctoral Researcher, joint: Anshul Kundaje
PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University
twang518@stanford.edu
Tong Wang
Resident (Pathology)
MD and PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania
BS in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
vinsfan@stanford.edu
Vinson Fan
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
zhifeil@stanford.edu
Zhifei Luo
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD in Cancer Biology and Genomics, University of Southern California
MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California
BS in Biological Science, Shandong Normal University
Graduate Students
bgrd@stanford.edu
Ben Doughty
PhD Student (Genetics), NSF GRFP Fellow
ScB in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Brown University
gtully@stanford.edu
Georgia Grace Tully
PhD Student (Chemistry), MPTP Trainee
BS in Chemistry, Loyola Marymount University
joccean@stanford.edu
James Occean
PhD Student (Cancer Biology), PD Soros Fellow, joint: Matt Jones (MIT)
MS in Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University
BS in Biomedical Sciences, University of South Florida
yjtan@stanford.edu
Jason Tan
PhD Student (Computer Science), NSF GRFP Fellow, joint: Jesse Engreitz
BA in Computer Science, Rice University
ldunken@stanford.edu
Logan Dunkenberger
PhD Student (Genetics)
BS in Biomedical Computation, Stanford University
odunkley@stanford.edu
Owen Dunkley
PhD Student (Bioengineering), CIHR Fellow
MSc in Experimental Medicine, McGill University
BSc in Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University
kyx@stanford.edu
Yuxi Ke
PhD Student (Bioengineering), joint: Mark Schnitzer
BS in Biological Sciences, Tsinghua University
Staff
eliu1126@stanford.edu
Eric Liu
Software Developer
BSc in Physics (minor in Data Science), University of British Columbia
sijh@stanford.edu
Soon Il Higashino
Administrative Assistant, Lab Manager, LSRP Researcher - lab queen
BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
See additional close colleagues at the Stanford RNA Medicine Program
Lab Alumni
Graduate students
Alex Trevino, PhD Student (Bioengineering) - now Scientist, Enable Medicine
Alicia Schep, PhD Student (Genetics) - now Principal Engineer, Brightline
Amy Bour, PhD Student (Bioengineering) - now Project Engineer, Flagsin Group
Anthony Ho, PhD Student (Applied Physics) - now Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Cyberhaven
Ben Ober-Reynolds, MSTP Student (Genetics) - now Resident Physician in Dermatology, Stanford Health Care
Benjamin Parks, PhD Student (Computer Science) - now Research Software Engineer, Stanford University
Betty Liu, PhD Student (Bioengineering) - Graduated 2026!
Catherine Zhang, PhD Student (Cancer Biology) - Graduated 2025!
David Moskowitz, PhD Student (Biomedical Informatics) - now Principal, MPM BioImpact
Evan Boyle, PhD Student (Genetics) - now Senior Data Scientist, Octave
Jason Buenrostro, PhD Student (Genetics) - now Esta Star Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Jeffrey Granja, PhD Student (Biophysics) - now Associate Director, Cartography Biosciences
Julia Marie Schaepe, PhD Student (Bioengineering) - Graduated 2025!
Laksshman Sundaram, PhD Student (Genetics) - now Director of Applied Research, Nvidia
Lauren Chircus, PhD Student (Chemical & Systems Bio) - now Founder, Walking Foot Data
Maxwell Mumbach, PhD Student (Genetics) - now Head of Discovery, Cartography Biosciences
Michaela Hinks, PhD Student (Bioengineering) - now Member of Technical Staff at FutureHouse
Sam Kim, MSTP Student (Cancer Biology) - now completing the MD portion of his MD-PhD
Sarah Denny, PhD Student (Biophysics) - now Director, Molecular Engineering at Scribe Therapeutics
Sarah Pierce, PhD Student (Cancer Biology) - now Postdoc, David Liu lab, Broad Institute
Warren Reynolds, PhD Student (Immunology)
Winston Becker, MSTP Student (Biophysics) - now Clinical Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Yeeun Kim, PhD Student (Immunology) - now Postdoctoral researcher at Fernando Camargo lab at Boston Children's Hospital
Postdoctoral researchers
Amy Chen - now Principal Scientist at Genentech
Anja Mezger - now Head of Facility, Genomic Applications, SciLifeLab National Genomics Infrastructure, Sweden
Bei Wei
Carlos Araya - now Head of Scientific Modeling, Invitae
Curtis Layton - now CEO, Co-Founder at Protillion Biosciences
David Zhang - now director, Microsoft
Dimitra Angeli
Eesha Sharma - now CEO, Lamar Health
Emil Marklund - now Assistant Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden
Eyal Metzl-Raz - now starting new ventures and adventures
Fabian Müller - now Assistant Professor, Saarland University, Germany
Grace Anderson
Johan Andreasson - now Director, Advanced Energy
Jordi Fernandez-Albert
Lisa McGinnis - now Director of Digital and Spatial Pathology, Genentech
Peter Frick - now Staff AI Scientist, Intuit
Vivianna Risca - now Assistant Professor, Rockfeller University
Yi Zhu - now Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
Zohar Shipony - now Associate Director, Ultima Genomics
Staff
Alexandra Orantes, Administrative Assistant
Arwa Kathiria, LSRP Researcher - now Scientist, Ultima Genomics
Beijing Wu, LSRP Researcher - now Senior Manager, Roche
Bridget Bai, LSRP Researcher - now PhD student, UCSD
Carlie McGrath, LSRP Researcher - now PhD student (Genetics), Stanford University
Derek Chen, LSRP Researcher - now Associate Software Engineer, BetterHelp
Immanuel Abdi, Software Developer - now Software Engineer, Meta
Sean Dolan, Administrative Assistant - now Site Lead of Utilities & Facilities, Mentor Technical Group
Tansu Bagdatli, LSRP Researcher - now PhD student, UC Berkeley