Siddhartha Jaiswal
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Faculty in Immunology
M.D., Stanford University
Ph.D., Immunology, Stanford University
B.S., Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Research Staff
Ademar Bynum
Research Associate
Alejandro Medina Enciso
Research Associate
Raja Sab Kalluru
Research Scientist
Lisa Ma
Senior Research Scientist
Lisa attended UCLA as an undergraduate, and completed her M.S. at Stanford. Throughout her professional career she has worked in protein science, cell biology, molecular biology as well as next generation sequencing. Lisa helped develop an AML cancer panel for clinical diagnoses and in the Jaiswal lab, she studies CHIP and single cell biology.
"The thing I enjoy most about working at Stanford is absolutely the people I work with: their talent, intellectual curiosity, and their willingness to help others."
Rajiv Sharma
Research Scientist
B.A., Cell and Molecular Biology (Immunology Emphasis), University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Gene Therapy & Vaccines, University of Pennsylvania
Rajiv received his B.A. in Cell and Molecular Biology with an emphasis in Immunology from the University of California, Berkeley, then earned a Ph.D. in Gene Therapy & Vaccines at the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Kathy High at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. For his dissertation research, he focused on in vivo genome editing for Hemophilia and other monogenic disorders. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Ravindra Majeti at Stanford University, where he used CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to investigate the clonal evolution of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He is interested in novel applications of molecular techniques to advance the understanding and treatment of disease.
Emily Reilly
Research Associate
B.S., Pharmacology, The University of California Santa Barbara
Prior to her time at UCSB, Emily spent several years in industry leading the pathology phase of preclinical toxicology studies, where she oversaw the successful compassionate usage study of the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy gene therapy drug ELEVIDYS. At Stanford, Emily maintains the mouse colony and provides scientific support for the Jaiswal lab, as well as overseeing specimen collection and coordination for the Research Autopsy Center with Dr. Jody Hooper.
Jake Weiss
Research Associate
B.A., Neuroscience, Pomona College
Jacob Weiss received his BA in neuroscience from Pomona College in 2022, where he studied the importance of Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans for neurodevelopment in Drosophila melanogaster in his undergraduate thesis. In the Jaiswal lab, Jacob aids in mouse colony maintenance while overseeing the wet lab aspect of a project studying the impact of CHIP on neurodegenerative diseases through the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Max Arends
Postdoctoral Scholar
Julia Belk
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dipabarna Bhattacharya
Postdoctoral Scholar
Nikolaus Jahn
Postdoctoral Scholar
M.D., Medical University of Vienna
Research Doctorate, University of Ulm
Nikolaus received his M.D. in 2013 and subsequently entered his residency program in Hematology/Medical Oncology at the University Hospital of Ulm. In the course of his clinical training, he joined the Döhner laboratory, where he focused on genomic aberrations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and obtained his doctoral degree 2017. Nikolaus is interested in the origins of aging-related hematological disorders and AML precursor states.
Shaneice Mitchell
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, The Ohio State University
Shaneice received her BS in biochemistry from North Carolina State University in May of 2013. She subsequently received a Ph. D. in Biomedical Sciences at The Ohio State University in 2019 under the direction of Drs. Byrd and Lapalombella. For her dissertation research, she developed preclinical therapies for AML by targeting tumor metabolic processes. She is currently interested in the elucidating mechanisms that drive clonal hematopoiesis (CH) and its association with cardiovascular disease (CVD), with the hopes of developing therapies to reduce CH-induced risk of CVD.
Daniel Nachun
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., Neuroscience, UCLA
Daniel received his BA in biology from Williams College in 2012, where he studied the genetics of epilepsy in Drosophila melanogaster for his undergraduate thesis. He received a Ph. D. in neuroscience from UCLA in 2018, where he studied the peripheral blood transcriptomes of patients with neurodegenerative diseases. He is interested in using and developing methods in computational genomics to understand aging disorders and immunology from single cells to large patient cohorts.
Debasmita Paul
B.Sc. (Hons) Physiology, Presidency College, Kolkata
M.Sc. Genetics, University of Calcutta
Ph.D., All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
Debasmita received her Ph.D. in Epilepsy neurobiology from the Centre of Excellence for Epilepsy and MEG resource facility, Department of Neurosurgery, AIIMS under the guidance of Prof. P. Sarat Chandra. In her thesis work, she focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the process of epileptogenesis. As part of her previous post-doctoral fellowship, she aimed to understand the diversity of cell types in the telencephalon among different species using single nuclei RNA sequencing. She is now interested in studying the association of CHIP with neurodegenerative diseases.
Isak Tengesdal
Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Students
Jk Gopakumar
Student
Jk, a Bay Area native, completed his undergrad at Pomona College where he obtained a B.A. in Neuroscience. He was also a member of the soccer and track teams at Pomona College. He is currently working in the Jaiswal lab while pursuing a medical degree.
Kameron Rodrigues
Graduate Student
Kameron graduated with his B.S. from the University of Arizona in 2014, double majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology. He worked for 3 years as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health, conducting both wet and dry lab research. Now, Kameron is a graduate student studying Computational and Systems Immunology within the Immunology program at Stanford. He is interested in researching the effects of human genetic variation on the immune system during the pathogenesis of common complex diseases. Kameron is co-mentored by Stephen Montgomery and Siddhartha Jaiswal.
Visiting Researchers
Youngil Koh
Visiting Principal Investigator
Summer Students
Rianna Farahani
Prabhdeep Kaur
Fairwin Li
Andy Xiao
Past Members
Gangpyo Ryu
Visiting Graduate Student
Herra Ahmad
Graduate Student
M.D., Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Herra is a graduate student from Germany, having recently completed her MD at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She has completed several visiting clerkships during her medical studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University in Russia, and Shanti Nursing Home in India. Her scholarly interests are in experimental research and cardiovascular medicine. She plans to complete her doctoral thesis study here in the Jaiswal Lab, which focuses on the link between clonal hematopoiesis and atherosclerosis. Herra’s goal is to become a successful cardiologist and set up a hospital in India one day.
Maggie Maurer
Research Associate
B.A., Biology, Kenyon College
Maggie graduated in 2017 from Kenyon College (B.A. in Biology), where she researched branch chain amino acid catabolism in plants. She is working in the Jaiswal lab while applying to PhD programs in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology.
Matthew Chrostek
Research Associate
Current Position: MD/PhD Student at UW School of Medicine
Hind Bouzid
Postdoctoral Scholar
Current Position: Jasper Therapeutics
David Steiner
Molecular Pathology Fellow
Clinical Pathology Resident
Current Position: Google Health
Eti Sinha
Research Associate
Current Position: Graduate Student at Cornell
Urvashi Jain
Visiting Research Scholar
M.S., Biological Sciences, BITS-Pilani University, India
B.E., Computer Science, BITS-Pilani University, India
Sara Wirth
Lab Manager
B.S., Physiology and Neuroscience, UCSD
