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DONG LAB

Our cross-disciplinary group develops neuroanatomic and neuroinformatic approaches to understand connectivity patterns in both health and disease.

DIRECTOR

HONG WEI DONG, M.D., PH.D.

hongweid@mednet.ucla.edu

ASSOCIATE ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

HOURIG HINTIRYAN, PH.D.

HHintiryan@mednet.ucla.edu

INFORMATICS DIRECTOR

ibowman@mednet.ucla.edu

PROJECT MANAGER

YEJI (ESTHER) YANG

YejiYang@mednet.ucla.edu

PROJECT SCIENTISTS

Nick Foster, PH.D.
Wet Lab Team

Keivan Moradi, M.D., PH.D.
Dry Lab Team

Sumit Nanda, PH.D.
Dry Lab Team

Jiandong Sun, PH.D.
Wet Lab Team

Qiuying Zhao, PH.D.
Wet Lab Team

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Brian Zingg, PH.D.
Wet Lab Team

WET LAB TEAM

Chunru Cao
Wet Lab Team

Lin Gou
Wet Lab Team

Mitchell Rudd
Wet Lab Team

Yian Wang
Wet Lab Team

Hanpeng Xu
Wet Lab Team

Bin Zhang
Wet Lab Team

DRY LAB TEAM

Tyler Boesen
Dry Lab Team

Adriana Gutierrez
Dry Lab Team

Darrick Lo
Dry Lab Team

Hyun-Seung (Christine) Mun
Dry Lab Team

INFORMATICS TEAM

Christian Estrada
Informatics Team

Luis Garcia
Informatics Team

Seita Yamashita
Senior Research Programmer - Informatics Team

VISITING SCHOLARS

Monica Song
Wet Lab Team

FEATURED ALUMNI

Maxwell Bay, PH.D.
R&D Analyst at The Houston Astros

Nora Benavidez, PH.D.

Kaelan Cotter
Validation engineer at Greenlots

Marina Fayzullina
PH.D. program, USC School of Pharmacy

Lei Gao
PH.D. program, Biological Physics, Structure & Design at University of Washington

Kaladhar Mummadi
Software engineer at Adobe

Samantha Serrano, MBA
Senior associate at PwC

Amanda J. Tugangui
Media & Marketing Associate at Transport Group

Suyi Wang, PH.D.
Software engineer at Amazon

Xinhai Zhang, M.D., PH.D.
Director of Autopsy and Neuropathology at Rush Medical College

Muye Zhu, PH.D.
Software engineer at Google

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